Preparing your workspace…
The Standard
Four levels, one honest test, and everything we publish about how the grading works. This is the page we’d want to read before trusting any certification.
The CAI ladder
CAI-1 and the CAI-2 tracks lead the way in; the higher rungs roll out as the standard grows.
The assessment
Not questions about the work — the work itself. A campaign brief to produce, a messy dataset to fix, a set of support tickets to resolve. Each candidate gets a parameterised variant, so no two exams are identical.
You work in a Certavant AI Workspace — a sanctioned AI chat panel plus an editor and file attachments. The workspace captures your entire process: every prompt, iteration, and verification step.
An AI grader scores your work product and your process against the same blueprint we published before the exam. No hidden criteria.
The AI grader recommends; a qualified, named human examiner reviews the work and evidence and makes the final call. Every decision is logged, and every adverse one can be appealed to a fresh human re-grade.
You get a public verify page at cert.education/v/… carrying your credential and the actual graded work as evidence.
Open-AI by design
An exam that bans AI tests whether you can do the job the slow way, alone. Nobody does the job that way anymore. So we did the opposite: we let you use AI, and we grade the things that actually separate good AI work from bad.
Memorisation doesn’t help you here. Prompting a model to write your answer doesn’t either, because a fluent wrong answer fails a rubric that checks whether the work is actually right. Letting you use AI isn’t a loophole. It’s what makes the exam an honest test of the job.
Transparency commitments
Most certifications ask you to trust the badge. We’d rather show our work.
Competencies, task types, scoring criteria, and the pass standard before you sit.
Per credential, updated over time.
How closely AI grading agrees with expert human graders.
A named examiner on every logged and auditable decision.
A fresh human re-grade for adverse decisions, with overturn rates published.
Published methodology, independent decisions, and a paper trail you’re allowed to inspect.
Credentials that stay current
The tools, models, and good practices all turn over fast. Every CAI credential carries an expiry, and renewal is a short, assessment-only refresh — you re-prove the current skill, not re-take the whole course. A live credential means current capability.
Challenge exam
If you already do this work well, take the same graded, open-AI assessment without the coursework in front of it. Pass, and you hold the same credential. An existing AI badge from another provider qualifies you to go straight to the challenge exam.
For employers
You’re not trusting a logo. You’re reading the evidence.
Verified
CAI-2Graded evidence
Signed by a named human examiner · Appealable
Every Certavant credential is a public page at cert.education/v/… showing the level, track, issue and expiry dates, current validity, and — where the holder makes it visible — the graded work behind it.
The launch list
We publish competencies, task types and scoring criteria before anyone is graded against them. List members see them first.