Growing up gracefully
How good is your organisation at creating and maintaining effective content, efficiently? How seamlessly is AI integrated into your systems? What about your structures, tools and workflows?
The Content Maturity tool analyses where you are and gives you insights into your organisation's current content capabilities.
It's designed for consultants, agencies and organisations who believe in quality content and the great strategies, tools, structures and processes (both human and agentic) needed to ensure quality.
It informs and shapes conversations about content. It reveals where and how you need to improve. It helps make the case for funding and doing things differently.
Analyse
The tool analyses your content maturity against 29 vital aspects in 5 key areas.
Track
You'll get precise detail as well as the birds-eye view. Track results over time and slice them by multiple dimensions.
Mature
Detailed results and specific recommendations show you exactly what improvements are needed most.
Doing content well is less like making bread and more like running a bakery.
There are many things to think about: ingredients, supply chains, having the right staff, making sure the mixers and ovens are all working well, keeping the wheat farmer and the miller happy...
Insights across five key areas
The tool helps organise and report on the complexities of your content ecosystem.
Strategy
Strategy provides the direction, underpinnings and framework for all content activities.
Culture
Culture encompasses the organisational mindset: behaviours and attitudes that shape how content is valued and approached.
Operations
Operations covers the day-to-day practices, processes, and capabilities that enable consistent content delivery.
Substance
Substance focuses on the quality, effectiveness, and characteristics of content itself.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure encompasses the systems, frameworks, knowledge and foundations that enable effective, efficient content operations.
Learn
Our guides to content maturity explain what it is, why it matters and how to assess it.
What is content maturity?
Content maturity is how good your organisation is at creating and maintaining effective content, efficiently. Here's what it covers, how it's measured and how to assess yours.
Why your content problems are organisational, not editorial
Doing content well is less like making bread and more like running a bakery. Why content fixes never stick, what actually produces good content, and where to look instead.
Content audit vs content maturity assessment: what's the difference?
A content audit examines your pages. A content maturity assessment examines the organisation that makes them. What each tells you, which to do first, and why the answers need each other.
Content operating model vs content maturity: what's the difference?
Your content operating model is the system you build to make content work. Content maturity is how well that system actually works in your organisation. How they relate, why you need both, and where to start.
Content marketing maturity vs content maturity: what's the difference?
Content marketing maturity grades how well a marketing team runs its content. Content maturity is broader – it covers all of an organisation's content, not just marketing, and not just the website. Here's the difference.
How to make the case for content investment
Anecdote doesn't win budget; evidence does. How to build a persuasive case for content investment using quantified capability gaps, business outcomes – and your colleagues' own words.
How do you measure content maturity?
You can't crawl culture. Why content maturity is measured through people – scored, explained testimony from across the organisation – and how the method stays rigorous.
Content maturity is AI readiness
Organisations asking "are we ready for AI?" are asking a content maturity question. Why the same capabilities that make content good for humans make it usable, trustable and citable by AI.
Coming soon
We're developing enhanced insights and reporting features to help you track your content maturity progress over time. Get detailed breakdowns by area and aspect, plus actionable recommendations tailored to your organisation's specific needs.
We'll also be adding benchmarking, downloadable reports and data and a tailored-to-you content maturation programme.