Inside the AI Facilitator class day

The Certified AI Facilitator class runs one day, live online, through our authorized training providers. Five modules, and most of the day is spent on your own impediment log and retrospective notes. If you are a Scrum Master or team coach deciding whether to book a date, here is what the day contains and what happens after it.

Before the day

Bring your own material. The brief you start in the last module works on your impediment log and on the notes from your last three retrospectives, so have both to hand, sanitized so you are allowed to share them. If your employer will not let you bring real work, the class supplies a fallback dataset. Work built on it is fully admissible and is marked the same way; you declare the dataset on the cover block of your submission.

Classes are capped at 12 seats so the trainer can look at everyone’s work. Captions are on in every session, and a recording is available to you afterward for personal review.

The five modules, with the clock

The day runs six and a half hours including breaks and setup. Every Stage 1 class uses the same five modules. What differs by role is the brief in the last one.

• Where AI goes and where it must not (45 min). Your own boundary list: three tasks AI may draft, three it may assist with a human check, three it must never touch, named against your real work.
• Prompt patterns as a working library (60 min). Six reusable prompts for your own role, each stamped with the model and the date you tested it.
• Weak versus strong: reading AI output like an editor (75 min). Six matched pairs of real AI output, one weak and one strong. You name what separates them.
• Building your evaluation set (90 min). You write a rubric with three bands, then judge ten AI outputs against it with a verdict and a reason for each.
• The role brief (75 min). You start the marked submission on your own sanitized work.

For a Scrum Master the first four modules land on work you already do: preparing stand-ups and pulling the real blockers out of the noise, and reading team health from data you already have. The judgment you practice in modules 3 and 4 is what the assessor marks later.

The Team Coach brief

The fifth module is where the roles split. Product Owners take a story-splitting brief and Project Managers take a status-and-risk brief. Yours has two parts. First, take three impediments from your own log and rewrite each one so it would actually get escalated. Second, design your next retrospective using patterns you pull from the notes of your last three. You use AI for the reading and the drafting. The design choices are yours, and the assessor wants to see what you changed.

You submit a six-section pack in a fixed order: cover block, prompt set, raw AI output, final version, change log, boundary note. The change log shows what you altered in the AI draft and why. The boundary note names at least one thing you would not let AI do here, with a reason. The template is handed out in class.

After class: the mark

The pack is due 14 days after the class. It goes to an assessor who did not teach you and who never sees your name or your employer. They read it against the Stage 1 rubric, published on the credential page before you buy, and return it inside 10 working days. Extra submission time is available on request, no reason needed. Four criteria, each marked Not yet, Pass or Strong:

• Judgment. You changed the AI output and can say why. An unedited AI draft submitted as your own work lands in Not yet.
• Specificity. The pack is about your real work. Generic examples fail.
• Boundary awareness. You name at least one thing you would not let AI do here, with a reason.
• Reusability. Another Scrum Master could pick up your prompts and use them.

A pass is Pass or Strong on all four. The credential can be failed. If your first submission comes back Not yet, you get one free resubmission with written feedback. The pass rate for each stage is published once 30 submissions have been marked, and never before.

The credential

A pass earns the Certified AI Facilitator credential from the American School of AI. It is for life, with no renewal fee. You receive a printed Certificate ID and a digital badge, and anyone can check the record on the Verify a Credential page. It also admits you to Stage 2, Certified Advanced AI Coach, a two-day class. Dates come from our authorized training providers on the schedule page.

Sources: American School of AI catalogue and certification standards

Frequently asked questions

What do I need to bring to the class?

Your own impediment log and the notes from your last three retrospectives, sanitized so you are allowed to share them. If your employer forbids bringing real work, the class supplies a fallback dataset, and work built on it is marked the same way.

How is the AI-FAC credential assessed?

You submit a six-section pack within 14 days of the class. An assessor who did not teach you, and who never sees your name or employer, marks it against the published rubric on Judgment, Specificity, Boundary awareness and Reusability, and returns it inside 10 working days. A Not yet comes with one free resubmission and written feedback.

How long is the credential valid, and can employers check it?

For life, with no renewal fee. It comes with a printed Certificate ID and a digital badge, and anyone can confirm it on the Verify a Credential page, which shows the holder, the credential, the Certificate ID, the issue date and the result.