The Life of a Credential: From Published Standard to Verified Record

A credential from the American School of AI passes through six steps, and every one of them is written down before you pay. A published standard. A live class. A submission built on your own work. An independent assessment. A credential that does not expire. A public record. The class is short. The assessment sits after it, and it can be failed. Here is the whole path.

It starts with a published standard

Each credential begins as a public document. Before you register you can read what it assesses, how the class is timed with the hands-on minutes marked, and the rubric an assessor will hold your work against. The standards are at /standards/, and each credential page carries its own: Certified AI Facilitator, Certified AI Product Manager / Product Owner and Certified AI Project Manager at Stage 1, Certified Advanced AI Coach at Stage 2, and Certified AI Integration Manager at Stage 3. The standard is the contract. The class teaches to it and the assessment is drawn from it, so nothing happens on class day that you could not have read the week before.

A live class on your own material

The American School of AI does not run classes. Our authorized training providers deliver them, live online, with a cap of 12 seats. Stage 1 is one day. Stage 2 is two days. Stage 3 is three days. Dates and providers are listed on the schedule.

Most of the day is spent working on your own material. The Stage 1 day runs five modules:

• Where AI goes and where it must not (45 minutes)
• Prompt patterns as a working library (60 minutes)
• Weak versus strong: reading AI output like an editor (75 minutes)
• Building your evaluation set (90 minutes)
• The role brief (75 minutes)

That is 300 hands-on minutes out of 390, and the material is yours. A Scrum Master brings the impediment log and a Product Owner brings the backlog. A Project Manager brings last month’s status report. If your employer will not let you bring real work, a fallback dataset is provided and marked the same way. Captions are on in every session, and a recording is available to you afterward for personal review.

The submission and the independent assessment

The credential is decided after class. Within 14 days of the last class day you submit a pack in six fixed sections: a cover block, your prompt set, the raw AI output, your final version, a change log, and a boundary note. The Stage 1 brief depends on your role. A Team Coach rewrites three impediments from their own log so each one would get escalated, then designs the next retrospective. A Product Owner splits one story that is too big to move and rewrites the acceptance criteria on two of the pieces. A Project Manager rebuilds one status report and sweeps their own risk log for what is missing.

An assessor who did not teach your class reads the pack. They never see your name or your employer. They mark against the published rubric and return the result inside 10 working days. Each criterion lands in one of three bands: Not yet, Pass, or Strong. At Stage 1 there are four criteria. Judgment: you changed the AI output and can say why. Specificity: the work is about your real job. Boundary awareness: you named something you would not let AI do here, with a reason. Reusability: another person in your role could pick up the prompt and use it. A pass is Pass or Strong on all four. An unedited AI draft submitted as your own work lands in Not yet.

The credential can be failed. If it is, you receive written feedback and one free resubmission. Each stage’s pass rate is published once the first 30 submissions have been marked, and never before that.

A credential for life, and a record anyone can check

Pass, and the American School of AI issues the credential. It is yours for life. There is no renewal fee and no expiry date. You receive a certificate with a printed Certificate ID and a digital badge.

Anyone can check it. An employer or a client enters the Certificate ID at /verify/ and sees the holder, the credential, the Certificate ID, the issue date and the result. No account is needed. That public record is the reason the assessment is strict. A credential that cannot be failed would tell the person checking it nothing.

What comes after Stage 1

The same lifecycle repeats at each stage, with a longer class and a larger submission. Any Stage 1 credential ($495) admits you to Certified Advanced AI Coach, two days at $1,195. A Stage 2 pass is the only gate into Certified AI Integration Manager, three days at $2,495. Nobody skips Stage 1. Most people in the Stage 3 room hold a PMP, CSM or SAFe® credential, and none of those is required. Stage 3 prepares you for the roles employers post as AI Enablement Lead and AI Adoption Lead. Bought together, the three stages are six days and $3,495, which saves $690. The full set is on the certifications page.

Sources: American School of AI catalogue and certification standards

Frequently asked questions

Is there an exam at the end of the class?

No. There is no test center and no timed exam. You submit a pack built on your own material within 14 days of the last class day. An assessor who did not teach you marks it against the published rubric and returns it inside 10 working days.

What happens if my submission lands in Not yet?

You get written feedback naming what fell short, and one free resubmission. The credential can be failed, which is what makes a pass mean something to the employer who checks it.

How long is the credential valid, and how is it checked?

It is for life, with no renewal fee. Anyone can enter the printed Certificate ID at /verify/ and see the holder, the credential, the issue date and the result. No account is required.