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Almost every executive brief we receive now includes some version of the phrase AI fluency. Very few of them define it, and the definitions that do appear tend to describe tool familiarity, which is the least durable part of the skill.
The candidates who genuinely operate well alongside these systems share something more specific: they are good at deciding which parts of a judgment can be delegated to a model and which cannot. They know where a confident answer needs a source, and they design their team's workflow so that verification is someone's explicit job.
That capability shows up in interviews when you ask about process rather than opinion. What changed in how your team works in the last year, what did you stop reviewing personally, what went wrong the first time you tried it. Answers to those questions separate practitioners from people who have read the same three articles as everyone else.
For clients building these roles, we recommend writing the brief around decision ownership and evidence standards rather than platform names. The tooling will change twice before the person's second anniversary. The judgment will not.
