Performance-based
The exam is real work, not a quiz. You produce the kind of thing the job actually asks for, and you’re graded on the result — not on what you can recall.
Performance-based AI certification
The AI certification you earn by doing the work.
Real work products, made with AI, graded to a published standard — and every credential shows exactly what you produced.
Launching soon · CAI-1 “AI Foundations” is free
Four levels, from fluent to architect.
CAI-1 and the CAI-2 tracks lead the way in; the higher rungs roll out as the standard grows.
See the credential ladder
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Verified
CAI-2AI Practitioner — Marketing
Graded evidence
Campaign brief — product launch
Open
Verification log — seeded errors
Open
AI collaboration transcript
Open
Signed by a named human examiner · Appealable
Evidence-embedded
Every credential is a public page carrying the actual graded work inside it. It isn’t a claim that you can do the work; it’s the work itself.
Vendor-neutral
The skill is using AI well, not memorising one product’s menus. Certavant certifies competence that transfers across the tools you use.
A different signal
Certificates were built for a world before AI. We rebuilt them for this one.
The old way
Watch the videos, pass a multiple-choice quiz.
A certificate that proves you showed up.
“No AI allowed” — a test for a job that no longer exists.
Locked to one vendor’s tools.
The Certavant way
Do the real work, graded against a published rubric.
A credential that shows what you produced.
AI allowed and expected. Using it well is the test.
Works across the tools you already use.
How it works
From “I use AI” to proof, in four steps.
Learn by doing.
Short, hands-on lessons — no lecture videos — that build straight toward the exam task.
Perform under exam conditions.
Sit the exam in a workspace with AI in hand. Produce a real work product while the workspace captures your whole process.
Get graded — and signed off.
AI grades your work against a published rubric, and a named human examiner reviews and signs every credential decision.
Share your evidence page.
Your credential becomes a public page with the graded work embedded, ready for an employer to inspect.
Who it’s for
Two front doors. One standard.
For individuals
Turn “I use AI” into proof an employer can inspect.
- A credential that doubles as a portfolio of your real work.
- Certified for the role you actually do — not generic AI trivia.
- Start free with CAI-1.
For teams
You bought the AI tools. Do you know who can actually use them?
- Verify real capability, not course completions.
- Assign tracks, set due dates, watch a dashboard fill in.
- A verifiable record of your workforce’s AI literacy.
Trust, made inspectable
We publish the things a certification is usually afraid to show.
Certavant is built to the standards serious certification bodies use — published methodology, independent decisions, and a right to appeal.
Exam blueprints
The competencies, task types, and pass standard for every credential, before you sit it.
Pass rates
Published per credential, so you know what the bar really is.
Reliability statistics
How closely our AI grading tracks expert human graders.
Human sign-off
A named examiner signs every credential decision. No black box.
Appeals
A documented right to a fresh human re-grade, with our overturn rate published.
The launch list
Be first through the door.
We’re building this in the open. Join the list and you’ll see the standard take shape before anyone sits an exam.
- Launch-day notice. You’ll know the moment CAI-1 opens.
- Founding-member pricing, locked in. Our best launch pricing on the paid ladder.
- Exam blueprint previews. The competencies and scoring criteria, before anyone is graded against them.
- Research briefs. What we learn about grading AI work, as we learn it.