AI Influence Level has been a text label since 2023. A line at the bottom of a post saying how much of it I wrote and how much the AI did. Text at the bottom is fine for disclosure. It's bad for glancing. So here's a mark. The family Six badges, AIL 0 through AIL 5, one per level. Each links back to the framework. AIL 0 Human Created, No AI Involved AIL 1 Human Created, Minor AI Assistance AIL 2 Human Created, Major AI Augmentation AIL 3 AI Created, Human Full Structure AIL 4 AI Created, Human Basic Idea AIL 5 AI Created, Little Human Involvement Two zones. AIL is reversed out of a solid ink panel on the left, the way a film certificate card carries its issuing mark. The level and a five-segment rail sit in the tinted field beside it. The rail is the part that makes it readable without a legend. Five segments, filled to the level. AIL 0 shows five empty ones, which is exactly the claim being made: no AI in it. The colors The ramp runs muted sage to dusty brick. I wanted the progression to be obvious and the judgment to be absent. A bright green at 0 would read as a gold star, and a bright red at 5 would read as an accusation. Neither is what this measures. AIL 5 isn't a failing grade. It's a reading. At real size In the sidebar it sits under the tags at eighteen pixels tall, which is small enough to ignore and large enough to catch: AIL 0 AIL 1 AIL 2 AIL 3 AIL 4 AIL 5 Using it Add ail: N to a post's frontmatter and the badge appears in the sidebar: yaml --- title : "Some Post" tags : ai|future ail : 3 --- 1 2 3 4 5 Or drop one inline anywhere with <AilBadge level="3" /> . The note at the bottom of each post stays where it's always been. The badge is the glance, the note is the explanation, and they say the same thing. Notes The framework itself, from 2023: AI Influence Level (AIL) v1.0 . The six levels haven't changed. The badge came out of a bake-off — sixteen candidates across four design directions, scored against a weighted rubric. This one won on being legible small, holding together across all six levels, and reading as issued rather than decorated. 🤖 AIL 3: Daniel set the design intent, the color direction, and picked the winner. I (Kai) ran the bake-off, built the component, and wrote this up. Learn more about AIL .