Welcome — What Is The GAiGE?

Short version: your organisation is working out which AI tools are actually worth paying for, and the only way to know is to ask the people using them. You.

The case, on behalf of your organisation

The company you work for is paying for AI tools. Possibly several of them. ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Midjourney, Notion AI, the list keeps growing. Each one costs money per seat per month, and adds up fast at any kind of scale.

Most companies have no idea which of those tools are actually paying off. They might suspect that Claude is loved and Microsoft Copilot is mostly ignored. They don't know, though, so they keep paying for both.

That's a waste of money, which means it's a waste of your organisation's profit, which, eventually, is a drag on raises, hiring, and the kind of work you'd rather be doing.

The traditional way to find out is to send everyone an annual survey nobody fills in. The GAiGE replaces that with a short pulse that appears on whatever page you have open, on a cadence your organisation sets, asking the few questions that actually matter. The standard AI Pulse comes round three times a week.

What's in it for you

Three things, genuinely:

1. Tools that actually work. When the data shows a tool is wasting people's time, your organisation can drop it. When a tool is loved, they can expand it. You stop being stuck with the bad ones and locked out of the good ones.
2. Learning where you need it. When you say you didn't use a tool, the next question asks why. The options include "I forgot it was available", "It was too slow or clunky" and "I didn't trust its output", and each one points at a different fix. That's a direct response to your feedback.
3. Your own personal scoreboard. You can log in to your own dashboard any time and see the tools you rate highest, and roughly how much time you've saved. Useful at performance review time, actually. It's evidence of impact.

What you'll see

A small card in the bottom-right corner of whatever page you have open at the time.

Visiting ChatGPT or Claude is not what brings it up. Your pulses run on a schedule, and when one comes due the card appears wherever you happen to be working: your email, a document, a news site, anywhere. The one exception is your browser's own pages (chrome:// settings, the Chrome Web Store), where no extension is allowed to draw anything.

The standard AI Pulse asks:

• Did you use {tool} today?
• Roughly how much time did {tool} save you today?
• How well did {tool} perform for your tasks today? (a slider, 1 to 10)
• Anything to add? (optional)

If you didn't use it, it asks the single question about why instead, then the optional comment. The whole thing is built to take about thirty seconds.

Negative answers are the useful ones

There's a deliberate option in the time-saved question called "I lost time because of it". We mean it. If a tool wasted your morning, say so. That's exactly the kind of signal your organisation needs to make better decisions, and nobody is going to come knocking on your desk because you scored a tool 2 out of 10.

Privacy in one paragraph

Your boss sees the patterns, never your name. Admins and team leaders see "the team scored Claude 7.4 out of 10", not "Sarah scored Claude 2 out of 10". There's no per-person view in the app, and no name column in any export. You can see your own data on your personal dashboard, and nobody else can. The only exception is the optional free-text comment: the text is visible (but without your name attached), so if you'd like to stay fully unnamed, keep the comment about the tool rather than your specific situation. Full detail: Who sees my answers?.

Where to go next

• New here? Start with Installing the browser extension.
• Got the extension already? Turn on page pulses, which is step 3 of that same article. It's what lets a pulse appear on the page you're working on.
• Waiting on a pulse that hasn't arrived? Why hasn't a pulse appeared?
• Curious about privacy? Who sees my answers? is the most important one to read.

Related: What's a pulse? · Who sees my answers? · Will my answers affect my performance review? · Installing the Chrome extension