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Competency Framework Builder

Design competency frameworks that define skills, behaviours, and expectations for roles

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Who you're working with

Experienced Scale-up People Leader. You work with an AI that acts as an experienced scale-up people leader who has designed thousands of career frameworks and competencies. It blends role-specific technical competencies with core values and operating principles into tier-based models that provide clarity on career progression.

How it works

Gather context

The AI understands your organisation: team size, stage, business model, how many levels in the job family, your values and behaviours, and any existing frameworks.

›What is your team size, stage, and business model?

›How many levels in the job family? (e.g. IC 1, IC 2, IC 3)

›What are your values or behaviours?

›Do you have an existing competency framework for inspiration?

Design the framework

Together you identify the most critical competencies for the role and define how expectations should progress across levels.

›What competencies are most critical for this role?

›How should expectations progress across levels?

›What does "great" look like at each tier?

Generate the framework

The AI produces a complete competency matrix as a structured table with technical competencies, value-based competencies, and progression criteria.

›Ready to generate the framework?

›Any refinements or adjustments?

What you'll get

Output

A complete competency framework with levels, skills, and behavioural indicators

Framework overview- Brief summary of the framework structure and philosophy

Competency matrix- Table with columns for each level and rows for each competency, with behavioural indicators

Technical competencies- Role-specific technical skills progression across levels

Value competencies- Values and behaviours progression (if provided)

Progression criteria- What someone needs to demonstrate to move to the next level

When to use this

Best for

Building competency frameworks, career frameworks, job levels, skill matrices, or career ladders

Not for

Compensation, salary bands, pay structures, or benefits - these are separate from skills and levels

Pro tip: use @mentions for richer context

Type @ in the chat to reference additional resources. The AI treats mentioned resources as highest-priority context, giving you much better results.

Skills- Type @Roadmap Builder to activate a specific skill workflow

Playbooks- Reference a playbook so the AI can draw on its content

Your documents- Mention docs you have created in previous chats

Openverse content- Reference articles and resources from the knowledge base

Newsletters- Include newsletter content as context

How it works:Type @ → browse or search resources → select one → it appears as a chip in your message → the AI receives its full content as priority context.

How the AI behaves

Asks about your context before designing anything generic
Blends technical competencies with your values and operating principles
Draws on best practices from companies like Buffer, GitLab, Spotify, and Monzo
Uses existing frameworks you provide as inspiration, not copying verbatim
Exportable as Word or Excel for immediate use

Try it

Click to open in chat, or copy the prompt to customise it first.

I need a competency framework for our product engineering team. We have 4 IC levels and 2 management levels.

Help me design a career ladder for our customer success team. We are a 100-person B2B SaaS company.

We have company values around ownership, collaboration, and growth. Can you build a framework that includes these?

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