The Automation Report. How much of your company is automated.

A company-wide report on AI and automation: how it is used and governed, what it costs, what it delivers and where the gaps are. Benchmarked against your peers. Issued by kn0w for your board. Your next lead investor can rely on it.

For FinTech and HealthTech companies, 50 to 500 staff, in Australia and the United Kingdom.

kn0w Score

Systematic · 51 / 100

Report 000142 · AU FinTech

Issued
Issuer kn0w
Report 000142
Issued 2026-05-23
Version v2.3

The missing line.

Your investors ask whether the company does more with the same staff. Your board asks what the AI spend is buying. The accounts show the spend. They don't show what's automated or whether it works. The report adds that line.

LineWhere it sitsStatus
RevenueIn the accountsCounted
HeadcountOn payroll, in the accountsCounted
What runs the work, and what it costsSpread across function budgetsNot reported

Six readings. One score. One place among your peers.

The readings come from recorded sessions with you and your six function heads: Technology, Compliance and Risk, Operations, Finance, Growth and Revenue, Customer Success. They cover the AI and automation running your company's core work, across all six functions.

Full methodology

Six readings, one kn0w Score.

The six readings are weighted into the kn0w Score, 0 to 100. Every reading, and the score, lands in one of four bands: Embedded, Systematic, Early-stage or Minimal.

MeasureReadingBand
kn0w Score51Systematic
Workflows58Systematic
Tools71Systematic
Skills38Early-stage
Oversight34Early-stage
Spend42Early-stage
Outcomes63Systematic

Placed against your peers.

Same sector, same country, 50 to 500 staff. No placement is read from fewer than five companies.

47th percentile

Example · AU FinTech, 50 to 500 staff · 23 companies

The score places the company on the 0 to 100 scale. The percentile places it against its peers. Two measures, read separately.

How a report is issued.

Seven sessions produce the report. Three Quarterly Reviews and the Annual Report follow it.

How it works, in full
  1. 1

    Sessions

    A written form, then a recorded session with the CEO and each function head. 10 to 12 minutes for the CEO, 45 for each head.

  2. 2

    Readings

    Weights are fixed for each methodology version and applied to every report under it. The same answers give the same reading.

  3. 3

    Issue

    Every report carries a four-part identifier. That version never changes. Corrections are versioned, never silent.

  4. 4

    Review

    Three Quarterly Reviews, then the Annual Report. An Interim Report on a material change, commissioned separately. Movement is stated against a named methodology version.

Read Report 000142 before you commission yours.

Report 000142, issued for a fictional AU FinTech company. This is the Board Summary, the part its board reads first.

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Board Summary

Issuer kn0w
Report 000142
Issued 2026-05-23
Version v2.3

The finding to act on

Oversight is over-read by 18 points, concentrated in two automations.

kn0w Score Systematic · 51 / 100
Weakest reading Oversight · 34
Recoverable annual productivity A$747,000

What must happen · 90 days

Issued, not advised.

Your board reads it. Your next lead investor can rely on it.

For your board

The kn0w Score is the number you cite to your board and to investors. The Board Summary carries the score and its band, the weakest reading, the widest gap between the picture the company drew of itself and what its functions run, recoverable annual productivity, and three required actions, each owned by a function. The full report maps findings to the published regulatory expectations for your sector and country.

For your next lead investor

The lead institutional investor in your next priced round can rely on the report, where that investor meets the minimum investment stated in it.

Issued by kn0w

Every report is issued by kn0w. The parties permitted to rely on it are named inside it.

One fee covers the report, three Quarterly Reviews and the Annual Report.

A$24,000, fixed before the first session. It does not move with the findings. A$24,000 at each anniversary, fixed when you commission.

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The Report

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Three Quarterly Reviews

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The Annual Report

Every report carries three required actions. kn0w sells nothing to complete them.

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Automated. Not assumed.

Read the report. Then decide.