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We're sharing V2 publicly for the same reason we shared V1: every company needs a frame

By Wade Foster · Co-founder & CEO at Zapier, YC & Mizzou Alum · 2026-04-10 · thread · Today we released our new AI Fluency Rubric

Tier B · TL;DR
We're sharing V2 publicly for the same reason we shared V1: every company needs a frame

Claim

Today we released our new AI Fluency Rubric. We use it for every hire, focusing on what they’ve actually built. Last May we open-sourced our first rubric. Hundreds of companies used it to screen candidates and develop teams.

Mechanism

We evaluate these across Mindset, Strategy, Building, and Accountability. Every department, every hire.

Conditions

Holds when: the operating context matches the post's stated frame (team shape, stage, tooling, buyer type).

Fails when: the practice is lifted into a different stage or buyer context without reworking the underlying mechanism.

Evidence

"We're sharing V2 publicly for the same reason we shared V1: every company needs a framework for this, and most don't have one yet."

— Wade Foster, LinkedIn, 2026-04-10

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Counter-evidence

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