AI without literacy, without reskilling and without governance does not scale productivity: it scales risk.
The CriterIA© Observatory measures twice a year which public AI-governance signals related to the EU AI Act can be seen from outside in a sample of Spanish organisations: SMEs and the wider business fabric, large companies, universities and schools, and public administrations. The Index is calculated only from the signals that the CriterIA© Radar observes automatically on corporate websites. What organisations declare voluntarily and anonymously in the CriterIA© 7, and the analyses they request with Huella de IA©, are recorded and published separately and never enter the Index. No organisation is named.
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REGULATION (EU) 2024/1689 · ARTS. 4 AND 50 · FIRST EDITION ON 20·10·2026
Data capture under way · closes 15 October 2026
observations in the capture for the first edition, presented on 20 October in Madrid with AEEN
Figure for the period under way: it changes every few minutes. The last closed edition, which is the auditable one and is never recalculated, is shown below.
No percentage is published below one hundred observations: with fifteen, a single change moves the result by tens of points. It is an editorial rule, not a statistical one, and reaching one hundred does not turn a convenience sample into a representative one. We would rather be late than publish a figure that would not survive a question.
Exclusive preview · closed report figure
Of the 761 organisations with a conversational channel detected on their website, 742 give no notice that whoever answers may be an automated system. That is 97.5 %. Article 50(1) obliges the provider of the system to ensure the person knows they are talking to an AI: the signal is observed in the public channel, without prejudging who must remedy it.
This measures absence of public signal, not non-compliance: Article 50(1) obliges the provider of the system to design it so that it informs, and detecting a conversational channel does not prove that an AI answers it. The remaining figures, and the breakdown by the four sectors, are published with the first edition, presented on 20 October 2026 in Madrid with AEEN, with the sample closed on 15 October.
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Methodology
Without literacy, reskilling and governance, AI can stop being a productivity tool and become a source of errors, uncritical dependence, poorly supervised decisions and loss of trust. It is what we have been arguing for more than two years and what the CriterIA© seal verifies: it trains the organisation's people, verifies seventy-nine points across eight dimensions and three pillars and issues a seal anyone can check without going through us. This indicator measures the public signal of the third; the other two are not visible from outside.
The distinction matters more than the figures: what an organisation declares about itself and what is observed from outside are not the same thing.
Media, analysts or researchers? The data may be cited freely with attribution: «Criterion Index©, EstratégicaMente».
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The CriterIA© 7 tells you where you stand on Articles 4 and 50. Your answer is added anonymously and in aggregate to the Observatory’s self-reported comparison. It does not enter the Index, which is based exclusively on externally observable signals.
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Three routes feed information into the Observatory, but only the Radar’s own sweep enters the Index. Huella de IA© and CriterIA© 7 are recorded and published separately, and each percentage is calculated on its own base. The fourth door brings no data. It is the one that explains why this Index measures only part of the problem.
Door 1 · CriterIA© Radar
External observation, without asking for anything. A crawler reads each organisation’s public pages: home page, assistant paths, legal notice, privacy and cookies. It respects robots.txt and stops when the site forbids it. Ingestion requires at least two readable pages; if it does not get them, the observation is discarded: it does not count as non-compliance, it counts as not observed. Each reading is labelled solid, minimal or limited according to the pages read, and limited readings are read again before each close.
Currently provides practically the whole sample
Door 2 · Huella de IA©
A complementary tool, not a data source. You enter your domain and get, for your own website, the analysis the Observatory runs on all of them: which signal is missing, on which page it was looked for, what the provision says and —what hardly anyone will tell you— whether that obligation is yours or your provider’s. It does not enter the Index: its purpose is to let each organisation see itself, and to serve as a test bench for the Radar itself. It is at huella.estrategicamente.info.
The most demanding engine of the three · does not enter the Index
Door 3 · CriterIA© 7
What you declare. Seven questions on Articles 4 and 50. A self-declaration only indicates exposure, never compliance: saying that your chat shows a notice does not prove that the notice is there. Only external observation proves that.
Never enters an observed indicator
Door 4 · What enters through no door
Adopting AI with judgement rests on three pillars, and this Index can see only one. Literacy: people knowing when not to believe the answer. Without it, the tool does not help to decide; it decides. Reskilling: redesigning jobs around what the person contributes. Without it, AI does not free up work; it hollows it out. Governance: which systems exist, who supervises each one and what trace is left. It is the only one of the three that leaves a public signal, and it is the one we measure.
The other two are verified with the CriterIA© seal, not from outside
And one rule that orders all of the above: each observation keeps the version of the detector that produced it. If the detector changes, new observations are not compared with old ones as if nothing had happened. A published edition is never recalculated; if a defect is found in the measuring instrument, the edition is withdrawn with a public erratum and a stated reason, and the original figures are kept intact.
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The CriterIA© 7 tells you where you stand on Articles 4 and 50. Your answer is added to the CriterIA© Observatory anonymously and in aggregate, in the declared contrast. It does not enter the Index: that figure comes only from what can be observed from outside.
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Real errors, real impact and the judgement to decide. Every month, cases from companies and education: what failed for lack of literacy, reskilling or governance, what it cost and what would have prevented it. The first report goes out on 20 November 2026.
Technology hardly ever fails. What surrounds it does.
Nobody knows when not to believe the answer. The tool does not help to decide: it decides.
Jobs are not redesigned around what the person contributes. AI does not free up work: it empties it.
Nobody knows which systems exist, who oversees each one or what trace remains of what was decided.
Where we look
Internally, every case carries its source, date, evidence and classification. We anonymise any sensitive information and check every regulatory statement against the version and date of the rule before publishing it.
The report does not feed the Índice de Criterio©: the index measures what can be seen from outside; the report tells what is already happening inside.
Every edition ends with that question. Receive the report every month from 20 November, tell us about a case you know or check where you stand on Articles 4 and 50.
What to send us: a real AI error in a company or an educational institution, what it cost and what evidence exists. Where: at estrategicamente.info/en/send-a-case. No case is published without being anonymised.
If after reading it you need to review it with us, there is the CriterIA© Business Session, 45 minutes.
We do not analyse the AI that is announced. We analyse the AI that is already happening in organisations.
Who reviews this
A measurement that is published and cited cannot be reviewed only by whoever produces it. The Monitoring and Oversight Committee of the CriterIA© Observatory, made up of top-level professionals in law and regulation, business schools and universities, AI education and literacy, people and reskilling, public innovation and technology governance, and the digital economy, reviews the methodology and its limitations before each edition and records whether or not it endorses it. Disagreements are recorded in named minutes, and the minutes are published. Members who send no observations are recorded as “no observations received”, never as in agreement.
It is constituted by written adherence before 30 September 2026, and its membership, with the conflict-of-interest declarations of all its members, is published with the first edition.
First edition · 20 October 2026 · Madrid, with AEEN
The usual objection is that SMEs lack the resources. We are also measuring those who have them. The breakdown by segment is published with the first edition, not before.
Four blocks, four separate series: universities and business schools, large companies and consultancies, SMEs and the rest of the business fabric, and public administrations. An SME follows Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC: fewer than 250 employees; the block also includes organisations with no headcount data, and says so. Each block has its own index, and the overall Index is calculated on the joint population, not as an average of the four.
Analyses that cannot be completed due to crawler blocking are excluded from the calculation and do not count as non-compliance.
Presentation of the first edition
Tuesday 20 October, 12:00–13:30, at Next Educación (C/ Núñez Morgado, 5 · Madrid) and live online. Free of charge. The first edition of the Criterion Index© is published in the room, with the sample closed on 15 October.
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