AI Summoner Rank
AI Summoner Rank
If someone who can program is a wizard who casts magic by combining spells of their own, then someone who does the same with AI is a summoner.
8 questions place you in one of seven ranks (L0 to L6), from Novice to Grand Summoner, and show your estimated position (top %) among AI users.
8 questions, about 2 minutes. Your answers never leave your device.
Why "Summoner"?
Someone who can program is a wizard who casts magic by combining spells of their own.
Someone who achieves the same with AI is a summoner: instead of writing the formulae, they call familiars and have them do the work.
This diagnosis was built from that definition. It expresses how well you wield AI as a summoner's rank.
Seven Ranks
The Seven Ranks
The higher the rank, the more you hand to AI, the more it runs as a system, and the more other people use what you built. The sigil grows more intricate with each rank. Each picture is one example familiar of that rank; there are 72 cards in all.
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L6 · GRAND SUMMONER Grand Summoner Master Summoner · Power to change the world share is estimated A grand summoner who passes the summoning arts to others and spreads them through the world. About this rank and the role at the top -
L5 · ARCHSUMMONER Archsummoner High Summoner · Commanding agents share is estimated A high summoner who commands many familiars at once and leads them as a host. About this rank and how to reach the next -
L4 · BINDER Binder Binder of Pacts · Integration and automation share is estimated A binder who ties familiars to tools and rites so they keep working on their own. About this rank and how to reach the next -
L3 · EVOKER Evoker Shaper of Works · Making deliverables An evoker who gives shape to documents and code together with familiars. About this rank and how to reach the next -
L2 · SUMMONER Summoner Caller of Familiars · Daily use A summoner who calls familiars every day and entrusts them with work in words. About this rank and how to reach the next -
L1 · APPRENTICE Apprentice Apprentice Summoner · Trying it out An apprentice who opens the gate now and then to put a question to a familiar. About this rank and how to reach the next -
L0 · NOVICE Novice Unbound · Not yet using AI One who has not yet opened the summoning gate. About this rank and how to reach the next
How It Works
How the diagnosis works
- The 8 questions cover frequency, how you use it, how you instruct it, integration, automation, who uses the results, how you verify, and how you choose among AIs.
- Your rank is decided by the combination of answers. The result screen shows what to do next to move up.
- Your position among AI users is an estimate based on published surveys. Population shares for L4 and above have no official statistics, so they are this service's estimates and are marked "estimated" on screen.
- This is a self-assessment. It is not a qualification or a certification.
- PwC Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey 2026 (Shares for L0 to L3. 48 countries, about 50,000 respondents. 36% did not use AI in the past year, 19% once to a few times, over 20% daily. 10% use AI agents daily.)
- U.S. Census Bureau, March 2026 survey (For reference. About 55% of U.S. workers use AI at work.)
- The denominator for top-% and population shares is people who use AI (64% of workers, excluding the 36% who did not use AI in the past year). Statistics for all workers are rescaled by 64%.
- Figures for L4 to L6 are this service's estimates, since no official statistics exist. The PwC finding that 10% of workers use AI agents daily is used as an upper bound.
- The card art was produced with an image-generation AI (OpenAI), not drawn by hand. Text and frames are composited by this service.
Creator
Creatorthe person who made this diagnosis
PRIMAL GRAND SUMMONER (L6 Grand Summoner)
Author of AI Summoner Rank and Takt AI Console. I publish the things I build together with AI and grow them as people use them.
Things I have built with AI and released
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AI Summoner Rank
Eight questions rate how well you wield AI and give you a summoner's rank and a familiar card (this site).
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Takt AI Console
A Mac app for launching, directing and approving Claude Code across several projects from one place. The early-access release is free.
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Anisongs MCP (BYO-AI)
Connects the anime-song database "Anisongs" to Claude and ChatGPT through the MCP standard, so you can build anime-song playlists just by asking in everyday words.
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Anisongs app
The iPhone and Android app for the anime-song database "Anisongs". Receive playlists assembled by AI and export them to Apple Music or YouTube Music.
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Anisongs Web
A comprehensive database of anime songs covering works, tracks and artists (Japanese).
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Forfans LLC corporate site
Building the future with fans through the power of entertainment. The company that operates this diagnosis (Japanese).
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