Rubrics

This page shows you how to open Rubrics and read the quality standard your teammates measure their work against — and how to see how they’re scoring over time.

In short

• A rubric is the standard your teammates use to judge their own work — the same handful of qualities checked every time, so good stays good.
• You’ll find it under Knowledge → Rubrics.
• Rubrics power the quality side of how teammates review each other’s work before calling something done.
• Today the rubric is read-only — a built-in standard you can look at, not one you type up yourself yet.
• Useful when you care about consistent content, brand, and quality across everything your team produces.

What a rubric is, in plain words

A rubric is the scorecard your teammates grade against — the short list of qualities that matter, checked the same way every time. Think of the checklist a good editor keeps in their head: is it accurate? does it stay on point? does it actually finish the job? A rubric writes that down so it’s applied evenly, whether it’s the first draft of the week or the fiftieth.

You’d want one whenever consistency matters: every social post on-brand, every research note thorough, every reply to a client clear and complete. The rubric is what keeps the quality bar from drifting as your team does more work.

Rubrics are about quality, not approvals. Deciding what actually gets sent is a separate, you-controlled step — see Approvals.

Open and read your rubric

Go to Knowledge → Rubrics

From the sidebar, open Knowledge, then choose the Rubrics tile. It opens the rubric your team grades against.

The Knowledge hub — Rubrics sits alongside Business knowledge, Skills, and Memories.

Read the qualities being checked

Under The rubric you’ll see the handful of qualities every piece of work is measured on, each with a one-line description. This is the standard — it’s the same for all your teammates.

The rubric: the named qualities your teammates grade each piece of work against.

Check the scores over time

Scroll to Scores to see how your team is doing — an average and a per-role breakdown, with small bars for each quality. If your teammates haven’t done scored work yet, you’ll see a friendly “No scores yet” message instead of made-up numbers.

Scores roll up as your teammates complete work — overall and per role.

The Rubrics page has three parts, top to bottom:

1. The rubric — the named qualities every piece of work is graded on. Always shown; it’s the standard.
2. Scores — real averages once your team has done scored work, broken down overall and by role. Empty and honest until then.
3. Curated cases — real finished tasks the standard was applied to, so you can see the rubric in action rather than in the abstract.

You’ll know it’s working when Scores shows real numbers and Curated cases lists tasks your teammates have actually finished — not placeholders.

How rubrics connect to quality and reviews

The rubric isn’t just a poster on the wall — it’s the standard behind the promise that your teammates check each other’s work before calling it done. When one teammate drafts something and another reviews it, the rubric is the shared yardstick they use, so “good enough” means the same thing every time. That’s why the page is read-only first: the standard stays steady so reviews stay fair.

For the full picture of who reviews whom and how that quality check fits into getting work done, see Guardrails and reviewers and How work flows.

Defining your own rubric is not a Portal action yet. Today the rubric is a built-in standard you read, not one you type up — there’s no “Create rubric” button, and the page never shows invented scores. If you need a stricter check for a specific kind of work, the place to set that today is your teammate’s quality checks on the Guardrails and reviewers page.

What if it isn’t working?

1. Rubrics tile missing? It lives inside Knowledge in the sidebar — open Knowledge first, then the Rubrics tile.
2. “No scores yet”? That’s expected on a fresh workspace — scores appear once your teammates finish real, reviewed work. It’s honesty, not an error.
3. No curated cases? Same reason: cases are real finished tasks, so they show up after your team has completed some work.
4. Numbers look low? They reflect real graded work; ask the relevant teammate in Chat what it found hard, or check the reviewers set on Guardrails and reviewers.

Still stuck? See Getting help.

FAQ

Can I write my own rubric?

Not from this page yet. The rubric is a built-in quality standard you can read; it isn’t something you type up in the Portal today. To tighten the checks for a particular teammate, set its quality checks on the Guardrails and reviewers page.

Why are the scores empty?

Because your teammates haven’t completed scored work yet. AImetier won’t show made-up numbers — scores fill in as real, reviewed work gets done, so an empty page just means “nothing graded yet.”

Does a low score stop work from going out?

No. Rubrics are about quality, not permission. Nothing leaves your workspace without your OK — Ask before sending is ON — and you give the final OK on Approvals, separately from any score.

Is a rubric the same as a skill?

No. A skill is a how-to a teammate follows to do a job; a rubric is the standard the finished work is judged against. One is the recipe, the other is the taste test.

Next steps

Guardrails and reviewers

Set who reviews a teammate’s work and the quality checks it must pass.

How work flows

See how drafting, review, and your final OK fit together.

Skills

Browse the how-tos your teammates follow to do a job well.

Memories

See what your teammates have learned and kept across conversations.