Model 04 · The Human Advantage Framework

"AI replaces jobs" is the wrong frame — and it leads to the wrong investments, the wrong conversations with people, and a generation of deployments that quietly erode the judgement the business depends on.

This framework maps five distinct modes of human–AI collaboration — Assist, Enhance, Amplify, Substitute, Dependence — so leaders can choose, role by role and task by task, where AI belongs.

The Human Advantage Framework turns "AI strategy" from a vague tide into a portfolio of deliberate choices — showing exactly where AI lifts human performance, where it should fully substitute for repetitive work, and where the slow slide from Amplify into Dependence is the real risk to watch.

The result is a way to talk about AI inside the organisation that's grown-up, specific, and survives contact with operational reality — instead of being relitigated every six months.

Download the model doc for definitions of each mode, the warning signs that a task has slid from Amplify into Dependence, and a worked example that shows how the same role can sit in multiple modes at once.