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Certified AI Adoption Leader

Run AI adoption for a whole organization, and leave with proof you can show a hiring manager.

3 daysLive online
9Modules, most of them on your own work
3 + 3Pieces marked, three results each
For lifeNo renewal fee

Who it is for

You are today Holders of the Certified AI Integration Manager credential
After the class Run AI adoption for a whole organization, and leave with proof you can show a hiring manager.
Prerequisite A pass in Certified AI Integration Manager (AI-IM) admits you.

What you will do

  • Score AI use cases and write down why you would kill the weak ones
  • Decide whether an idea can be built and whether the data is ready
  • Build the safety checklist a legal team asks for
  • Set up and run a network of early adopters who help their teams
  • Build a scorecard that separates use from real impact
  • Write and present the executive business case

The three days, module by module

This class is built around the decisions an AI adoption leader makes most often. It is not one-on-one coaching. 825 of the 1,170 taught minutes are spent working on your own material. Each module below shows its taught minutes and its hands-on minutes, so anyone can check the arithmetic.

  1. 1
    The job, and the trap inside the title Sort ten real job postings with the same title into three piles: apply, do not apply, ask first. 60 min
  2. 2
    Taking in, sorting and scoring AI use cases, and the roadmap page Build a form for taking in AI ideas, with named fields, and a scoring model where some things count more than others. 150 min
  3. 3
    Can it be built, and is the data ready Take one use case and write the questions a go or no-go decision needs. 120 min
  4. 4
    Testing AI output for a whole organization Build your test set for one task: 20 real examples, each with the answer you expect. 180 min
  5. 5
    Safety controls a legal team can check Build the safety checklist a legal team asks for, in six parts, for one use case: where the data may and may not go, how prompts and outputs are logged, who and what gets access (AI agents get only the access they need), where a person checks the work, the kill switch, and which named standard the vendor is checked against. 150 min
  6. 6
    A network of early adopters, and how they help their teams Design a network of early adopters for one organization, people who help their own teams use AI well. 150 min
  7. 7
    Measuring adoption with real numbers Build a scorecard with two tracks: one for whether people are using AI, one for whether the business is better off. 120 min
  8. 8
    The executive business case Map the five people your case has to get past, what each one loses if it is funded, and the one sentence that answers that loss. 120 min
  9. 9
    The 90-day plan, the pilot card and the portfolio Put the 90-day adoption plan together in the room from what you built in Modules 2 to 8: named owners; a pilot card in the second of the plan's three 30-day windows, whose stop number is the day-60 checkpoint; dated stop conditions; the safety items you sent on to legal, security or compliance, listed as things the plan depends on; an honest section on people, money and tools, with the sponsor named; and the roadmap page. 120 min

How you earn it

Attendance does not earn the credential. Your own work does.

  1. 1 Attend the live class Three days, live online.
  2. 2 Hand in your own work Within 14 days of class, built on your own material.
  3. 3 A marker who did not teach you marks it Against the marking guide you can read before you pay, back inside 10 working days. It can be failed. One free resubmission.
  4. 4 Your credential, for life A printed Certificate ID and a digital badge. No renewal fee.

What the marker looks for

Three pieces, each marked with one of three results: Not yet, Pass, Strong. The full marking guide opens below.

Not yet Pass Strong
Piece A: the 90-day adoption plan Whether someone who was not in the room could actually run it.
Piece B: the test set Whether it would catch a real drop in quality.
Piece C: the executive business case, presented Whether a person who controls budget would fund it.

What you leave with

A 90-day adoption plan
A test set for AI output
A business case

What you hold when you pass

Certified AI Adoption Leader badge
AI-AL
Issued by the American School of AI
A digital badge and a printed Certificate ID, verifiable, and yours for life

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Certification Standard v1.0

Certified AI Adoption Leader AI-AL

What the class covers

  1. The job, and the trap inside the title
  2. Taking in, sorting and scoring AI use cases, and the roadmap page
  3. Can it be built, and is the data ready
  4. Testing AI output for a whole organization
  5. Safety controls a legal team can check
  6. A network of early adopters, and how they help their teams
  7. Measuring adoption with real numbers
  8. The executive business case
  9. The 90-day plan, the pilot card and the portfolio

What you hand in

You hand in three pieces. Each one comes in the same six parts: a cover note, the prompts you used, what the AI first gave you, your final version, your list of what you changed and why, and your note on what you kept AI away from. Piece A is the 90-day adoption plan for your own organization, with the three-session help plan row, the pilot card in the second 30-day window and the roadmap page. It is marked on whether someone who was not in the room could run it. Piece B is your test set (20 real examples, each with the answer you expect) plus a check that the AI has not gotten worse. It is marked on whether it would catch a real drop in quality. The marker also takes three items from your set and writes three bad answers: one confidently wrong, one correct but missing something it had to include, and one that sounds right and cannot be checked. The marker scores them with your own scoring sheet, exactly as you wrote it. If two or more get through, the piece comes back Not yet. Piece C is the executive business case, presented live to the class and recorded, with the written case, the one-page ask and the one-page map of the five people it must get past. It is marked from the recording on whether a person who controls budget would fund it. Twelve checks in all, four per piece. The cover note says whether the work is built on your own material or on the practice organization we supply. Both are marked the same way. The marker never sees your name or your employer. Your hand-in is due 14 days after the last day of class and comes back within 10 working days. Some things land at Not yet automatically, and they are listed here next to the marking guide: a test set in which every example passes on the first run, a business case with a single point number and no range, any claim about what a legal, security or compliance team would accept, and an unedited AI draft handed in as your own work. Work that still has confidential details in it (employer names, customer names, personal data, internal system names), or that is missing one of the six parts, is sent back unmarked. That does not use up your free resubmission. If you appeal, a second marker reviews the piece within 10 working days.

How it is marked

Not yet Pass Strong
Piece A: the 90-day adoption plan

Marked on whether someone who was not in the room could actually run it. Four checks. Could a stranger run it: every action names the role that owns it and a date or a week, the first two weeks are written out action by action, and wherever the plan waits on a decision, it names who makes it and by when. The early adopter network: how the early adopters are chosen and by whom, a written description of their job, how often they meet, at least two things one of them may decide alone, how the network itself is measured, and the three-session help plan with a measure of changed behavior that is something other than finishing the training. Order and stop conditions: you defend the order, with a dated checkpoint and at least one stop condition given as a number; every safety item you sent to legal, security or compliance appears as a dated dependency with a named recipient and what happens if it is late; and the day-60 checkpoint is the pilot's go or stop point, with the number that means go and the number that means stop. Honest resourcing: time from named roles in hours or days per week, money and what it buys, tools and access, and one thing that will not get done because these people are doing this instead. Strong adds any one of these: a handover list, what an early adopter gets in return, a stated condition for stopping the whole program with the roadmap page for what follows day 90, or the resource most likely to be refused and what you do then.

Piece B: the test set

Marked on whether it would catch a real drop in quality. Four checks. The right answers: at least 20 examples, each with the input, the answer you expect and where that answer came from; at least five checked by a second person, with any disagreement written down. Coverage: the set includes, and labels, at least three kinds of hard case (an unclear one, an incomplete one, one where refusing or asking is the right answer, a rare but costly one, one that looks ordinary and is not), and it says how the examples were chosen. Your scoring sheet: a written scheme with named things to score and defined levels, used by a second person on at least five examples with the agreement written down, and a stated pass line. The check for a drop in quality: how often it runs, how many examples are re-run, the line it must not cross, who owns it, the first three things they do when it is crossed, and what triggers an extra run. A set in which every example passes on the first run is Not yet on Coverage. A set that lets two or more of the marker's three planted bad answers through is Not yet. Strong adds any one of these: a blind spot you name yourself, an example taken from something that actually went wrong, the change you made after the second scorer disagreed, or a way to tell whether the AI got worse or the inputs did.

Piece C: the executive business case, presented

Marked from the recording, on whether a person who controls budget would fund it. Four checks. The ask: an amount, the decision, who makes it and the date it is needed by, said in the first two minutes and again at the end, with the same numbers in the slides, in what you say and on the one-page ask; the one-page map names the five roles the case must get past, what each one loses if it is funded, and one sentence for each. Where the numbers come from: every number traces to a named source, assumptions are labeled as assumptions, at least one number is given as a range with the reason, and any saving is counted after the cost of review and rework is taken out. Risk and the no-go: at least three risks specific to this proposal, each with a trigger, an owner and a response; one condition under which you would say do not fund it; and the cost of doing nothing, in the same terms. Holding up under questions: every question gets an answer, an honest statement of what you do not know and how you would find out, or a stated reason to come back to it later, and every number in an answer matches your materials. Strong adds any one of these: what a partial yes buys, what would have to be true for your main number to be wrong, the risk the room would underestimate, or a position you changed under questioning, with the reason.

How it is issued

You attend the three-day live online class. Within 14 days of the last day you hand in three pieces built on your own material: the 90-day adoption plan, the test set, and the business case you presented to the class, with its recording, written case, one-page ask and the one-page map of the people it must get past. A marker who did not teach you reads them against the marking guide on this page. Each piece gets one of three results, Not yet, Pass or Strong, on each of four checks, and all three pieces must pass. You can fail. If a piece comes back Not yet, the marker names the check it missed and writes the reason, and you get one free resubmission within 14 days of the result.

Issued by the American School of AI. Delivered by our authorized training providers. The credential carries a printed Certificate ID and a digital badge.

Anyone can confirm it on the Verify a Credential page by entering the Certificate ID printed on the certificate. The credential is for life, with no renewal fee.
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How the Certified AI Adoption Leader credential works.

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Who is this credential for?

People who have passed Certified AI Integration Manager and want to run AI adoption for a whole organization. Most people who reach this credential came in as project, delivery, program or portfolio managers, Scrum Masters, agile coaches, Product Managers or Product Owners.

Do I need a PMP, CSM or SAFe® credential to enroll?

No. A pass in Certified AI Integration Manager (AI-IM) is the only requirement.

Who issues the credential, and who teaches the class?

The American School of AI writes the standard, has your work marked by an independent marker, and issues the credential with a printed Certificate ID. It does not run classes.

How is it marked?

Three pieces, all built on your own material: the 90-day adoption plan, the test set, and the executive business case you present to the class on Day 3, which is recorded. A person who did not teach your class marks them against the marking guide on this page (the checklist the marker uses) and never sees your name or your employer.

What happens if I do not pass?

Your hand-in is due 14 days after the last day of class and comes back marked within 10 working days. If a piece lands at Not yet, the marker names the check it missed and writes the reason, and you get one free resubmission within 14 days of the result.

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