IC7 · Diagnostic

Where does your thinking actually sit?

When AI flattens capable people into the same register, the edge is knowing exactly where your thinking sits — and raising it on purpose. Paste a sample of your own writing — a few paragraphs of real work. The diagnostic reads it for the markers of intellectual complexity and places it on the seven-level scale, with your next move up. It runs entirely in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.

How it scores

Integrative complexity has two components, and the diagnostic looks for the surface markers of each:

Differentiation — do you hold more than one dimension or perspective in view? (Markers like however, whereas, trade-off, depends, competing.)
Integration — do you connect those dimensions under a governing idea? (Markers like relationship between, framework, therefore, reconcile, governs.)

Differentiation without integration is a list. Integration without differentiation is a slogan. IC·07 is both, directed by judgement — including the judgement to govern the AI drafting alongside you.

This is an indicative, lexical estimate, not a trained-rater score. It reads the shape of the language, not the truth of the argument — so connective words used loosely can flatter it. The real discipline of climbing the scale is what the IC7 course teaches.

IC · 07

Knowing your level is the first move.

The diagnostic shows you where the thinking flattens. The method shows you how to raise it on purpose — and keep your voice while AI does the producing.

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