Credentials are useful only when they answer a real procurement, hiring, audit, or delivery question. Pick the pressure first.
AIDA, AIMA, and AIFA give candidates a verifiable PSF foundation before a deeper credential decision is needed.
Start with AIDA →MSPs and consultants should capture the launch pack first, then decide whether Integrator status is the next proof layer.
Get MSP launch pack →Use the team programme when leadership needs a roster, completion report, and shared production-AI vocabulary.
Plan team rollout →If the question is whether a deployment is production safe, begin with a DSA evidence scope against the published PSF.
Start DSA scope →The public pages below answer the common search terms, then route visitors into the actual PAI credential path that fits the work.
For managers, risk owners, compliance teams, and AI leads.
Open guide →For evidence review, PAI-8 maturity, and assurance work.
Open guide →For safety, governance, audit, and control responsibilities.
Open guide →For builders and operators responsible for production safety.
Open guide →PAI Coach teaches adjacent scenarios, wrong-answer traps, and domain reasoning across the foundation and specialist MCQ pathways. The live credential attempt stays timed, randomized, and separate from the AI tutor.
Mastery preparation first. Credential attempt second.
For CPAP, CPAA, Certified AI Integrator, and Production Safe assessment, the problem is not another lesson. The problem is knowing what proof to gather, how to frame it, and what to show first.
Build proof first. Submit with confidence.
How exams are developed and refreshed. Design process, item review, and pass standards are documented in Exam development. The public PSF text, incidents, Lab output, free foundation credentials, and Studio access remain open. Advanced credentials, portfolio assessments, and organisational programmes support the review work that keeps exams current. Governance and independence: Governance · Independence.
Start here when you need a shared PSF vocabulary. Foundation credentials are free, immediately issued, and verifiable on the public registry.
The practitioner credential for professionals who deploy, monitor, and operate AI agents in production. As organisations move from AI pilots to always-on agentic systems, agent operators are the practitioners keeping those systems safe, reliable, and aligned: the CAOP is their professional benchmark.
PAI-8 is the organisational companion to the PSF: an audit framework for governance, risk, data stewardship, oversight, incident response, audit trail, and vendor controls. Organisations can self-assess against PAI-8, then commission independent review when external proof is required.
Auditor credential
CAIA
Certified AI Audit & Documentation Specialist. Qualified to conduct formal PAI-8 assessments for organisations.
View CAIA →Role-specific evidence for practitioners who need to show depth in a production AI discipline. Scenario-based, PSF-mapped, and registry-verifiable.
For professionals who assess organisations against PAI-8. Tests maturity determination, evidence sampling, and findings communication.
Evidence-based credentials for experienced practitioners. Submit real production AI work, assessed against PSF criteria by a PAI assessor.
Organisation-level proof that your team can deploy AI in accordance with the Production Safety Framework.
Apply on behalf of your organisation. Includes team credential support, organisational review against published requirements, and programme documentation suitable for procurement conversations.
| If you are... | Start with | Then advance to |
|---|---|---|
| An AI engineer or ML practitioner | AIDA | CAOP, CAAE or CLOE → CPAP |
| An agent operator or AI workflow manager | AIDA | CAOP → CPAP |
| A manager, PM or delivery lead | AIMA | CAIG → CPAP |
| A security or safety engineer | AIDA | CAIS → CPAP |
| A governance, legal or compliance professional | AIMA | CAIG → CAIA |
| An AI auditor or risk assessor | AIMA | CAIA |
| A voice AI or telephony engineer | AIDA | CVAE → CPAP |
| A principal engineer or architect | CPAP | CPAA |
| An organisation or AI consultancy | CAI Integrator application | N/A |
All credentials map back to the public PSF and PAI-8 standards · Verifiable on the PAI public registry · Assessment fees are published on each pathway page