bRRAInSkills

AI-Augmented Contributor Path

Unlike our other certification paths — which certify you to sell, install, operate, care for, or build on bRRAIn — bRRAInSkills focuses on making you a stronger augmented contributor. We teach how to use AI to produce excellent businesses, plans, processes, and deliverables, grounded in the proven standards the best professionals already use. The Skills path now spans core craft, focused specialties, deep professional tracks, and industry compliance — all graded by generative AI labs.

3 core levels
3 specialty certs
4 professional tracks
4 bR2bR compliance certs
3 years validity per credential

The bRRAInSkills discipline

For the individual who wants to do excellent work with AI — the practitioner, the planner, the operator, the founder. Three progressive levels that ladder from personal productivity, to repeatable excellence across plans and processes, to designing the business itself.

AI-Augmented Practitioner

Entry · Beginner

30–40 hours · $299

Fundamentals of working with AI as a daily partner. Prompt discipline, memory-grounded workflows, first-draft mastery, and the foundational standards every professional already uses: SMART goals, the STAR method, GTD, PDCA.

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AI-Augmented Professional

Mid · Intermediate

50–60 hours · $499

Produce excellent plans, processes, and deliverables with AI — grounded in PMBOK project management, Lean, SWOT, 5 Whys, BABOK business analysis, and ISO 9001 quality fundamentals.

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AI-Augmented Strategist

Advanced

40–50 hours · $499

Design excellent businesses with AI. The proven frameworks used by every top operator: Porter's Five Forces, Blue Ocean, McKinsey 7S, the Business Model Canvas, OKRs, and the Balanced Scorecard — run through an AI-augmented workflow that compounds on every decision.

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Specialty certifications

Focused, no-prereq credentials for the skills that make or break a modern augmented contributor. Stack any of these on top of the core ladder — or take them on their own.

Specialty

AI Stellar Reports & Documents

20–30 hours · $299 · No prerequisites

Produce proposals, reports, briefs, and investor docs that out-read the competition. Frameworks covered: the Minto Pyramid, SCQA, executive-summary templates, McKinsey-style slide narration — all run through an AI-augmented draft → critique → polish loop.

Specialty

AI Coding the Right Way

30–40 hours · $399 · Basic coding literacy

Ship software the way senior engineers do — only faster. Test-driven development, clean architecture, code review as a discipline, dependency hygiene, and security-by-default — all practised inside an AI-pair-programming workflow that raises quality instead of lowering it.

Specialty

AI Ideation Facilitator

20–25 hours · $299 · No prerequisites

Run brainstorms, design-thinking workshops, and product-discovery sprints that actually converge. Double-Diamond, Crazy 8s, How-Might-We statements, dot-voting, and structured synthesis — with AI co-facilitating divergence, clustering, and retro in real time.

Built on proven standards

bRRAInSkills isn't about novel AI tricks. Every course takes a proven professional framework — the ones consultants, PMOs, and operators already swear by — and teaches you how to execute it 10× faster with AI, without losing the rigor.

Personal practice
How excellent contributors work.
SMART goals STAR method GTD OKRs PDCA cycles
Plans & processes
How excellent work gets done.
PMBOK BABOK Lean / Six Sigma 5 Whys · Ishikawa SWOT · PESTEL ISO 9001
Businesses & strategy
How excellent businesses are built.
Porter's Five Forces Blue Ocean McKinsey 7S Business Model Canvas Value Disciplines Balanced Scorecard

Build it. Test it. Get graded.

bRRAInSkills labs aren’t chat prompts. They’re hands-on, generative workspaces where you make the thing — a design system, a codebase, an architecture, a PM playbook — and the in-lesson AI puts it through the wringer. Runs your commands against what you built, measures it against a rubric, and hands you an honest next-step list.

  • You build, not just answer. Ship an actual design system, repo, roadmap, or control plan. The lab is a canvas, not a quiz.
  • AI runs your work. The in-lesson agent executes commands against your artifact — “build me a hero using v1”, “ship a login flow that respects these tokens” — and shows you exactly where your system holds up or breaks.
  • Rubric-graded output. Not a thumbs-up — a breakdown. Token consistency, scale coverage, AI-predictability, composition ergonomics. Each dimension scored, each with a concrete improvement action.
  • Compounding reps. Every iteration your artifact carries forward. The rubric lifts; the AI tests harder. You walk out with an actual portfolio piece, not a completion badge.

Master your craft — with bRRAIn & any LLM

Four deep-dive professional programs beyond the three-level ladder. Each teaches how to work with AI as an operating standard, ships with generative labs, and lands a portfolio-grade artifact. Works with Claude, GPT, Gemini — because the methodology is bRRAIn-native, not model-specific.

Design Single course

AI UI/UX Design Systems

Take any design — a Figma file, a competitor screenshot, a rough sketch — and convert it into a production-grade token system, component library, and composition rubric. The result is a design standard every LLM respects, so Claude, GPT, and Gemini all build you screens that match the same brand.

Learn more → ~32 hrs · Generative lab final
Delivery Single course

PgM & PM with AI + bRRAIn

The bRRAIn way of running programs and projects with AI in the loop at every stage — intake, ideation, scoping, decomposition, delivery, and retros. Learn the workflows, standards, and prompts that automate every deliverable, and the handoff patterns that keep practitioners, managers, and directors aligned in real time.

Learn more → ~40 hrs · Generative lab final
Engineering 4-course series · stacked certification

Professional AI Software Engineer

The same practices the bRRAIn team uses internally to build bRRAIn — Claude Code in concert with bRRAIn, policy-driven execution, and architecture that the AI can actually hold in context. Every course ends in a generative lab with a working artifact you keep.

Course 01
AI Coding with bRRAIn
Claude Code + bRRAIn memory as a first-class loop. Context, commands, and verifiable output.
Course 02
AI Team Development
Multi-contributor workflows where agents and humans share the same memory + standards.
Course 03
AI SDLC & Release Train
Ideation → shipped, with gates, rubrics, and deploy choreography an AI can actually run.
Course 04
AI Augmented Systems Architect
Design systems that an AI can reason about end-to-end — policy, zones, seams, and evolution.
Learn more → ~160 hrs total · Stacks to Platform Architect-equivalent credential
Industry 4-course series · per discipline

AI Engineer, by Industry

The same 4-course Professional AI Software Engineer framework, mapped to specific engineering disciplines. Same spine — coding, team flow, SDLC, architecture — with industry-specific standards, vocabulary, control systems, and review checkpoints baked into every lab.

Course 01
AI Coding with bRRAIn — industry edition
Discipline-specific tool chains, CAD/modeling integration, and standards-aware prompts.
Course 02
AI Team Development — field + office
Multi-disciplinary team flow — site ops, design, review, compliance — on shared memory.
Course 03
AI SDLC & Release Train — for physical delivery
Intake → commissioned, mapped to how industry-specific projects actually ship.
Course 04
AI Augmented Systems Architect — industry
System design where AI + humans hold a shared operating picture across the project lifecycle.
Available disciplines
AI Construction Engineer AI Mining Engineer AI Manufacturing Engineer AI Civil Engineer + your discipline — request a fit
Learn more → ~160 hrs per discipline · Cohort-gated

AI+bRRAIn Augmented Compliance Officer

Compliance audits that took weeks now finish in a single day. The auditee opens a read-only bR2bR session to the compliance firm’s bRRAIn — full audit-trail visibility into logs, decisions, provenance, and controls — and the certified AI+bRRAIn Augmented Compliance Officer drives the audit with their bRRAIn as co-pilot. Industry-specific certifications train the control frameworks, evidence rubrics, and bR2bR session protocols for each regulated domain.

Auditee
Customer bRRAIn
Opens read-only session, scope-locked to the audit window.
Auditor
Compliance Firm bRRAIn
Certified Compliance Officer drives the audit with AI + framework rubrics loaded.
Outcome
Same-day findings
Attestation-ready report with provenance, gaps, and remediation steps.
Certification Government & Defense

DOD & Government Contracting

Lead same-day CUI and control-family audits for DOD prime- and sub-contractors. Evidence-map the auditee’s bRRAIn against DFARS clauses, score CMMC posture by level, and generate the attestation package. Covers FedRAMP Moderate/High delta reviews where the customer runs a bRRAIn on a regulated cloud.

CMMC 2.0 L1–L3 NIST 800-171 NIST 800-53 DFARS 7012 FedRAMP FAR Part 52
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~60 hrs · bR2bR protocol lab + simulated audit
Certification Financial Services

Financial Services

Walk banks, broker-dealers, RIAs, fintechs, and payment processors through single-day SOX ITGC, PCI-DSS, and supervisory-framework reviews. Score the auditee’s bRRAIn against model-governance expectations, AML/KYC controls, and consumer-protection obligations — with every finding tied back to an immutable log entry.

SOX / ITGC PCI-DSS 4.0 SR 11-7 Model Risk GLBA NYDFS Part 500 FINRA 3110 AML / BSA
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~60 hrs · bR2bR protocol lab + simulated audit
Certification Healthcare

Healthcare

Run single-day HIPAA Security Rule, HITECH, and payer/provider-specific audits. Certified officers verify PHI access scoping, business-associate flow, breach-notification pathways, and AI-in-clinical-decision safeguards directly from the auditee’s bRRAIn logs — with evidence-mapping to HHS audit protocol.

HIPAA Security HIPAA Privacy HITECH HHS OCR Protocol HITRUST CSF 21 CFR Part 11 SAMHSA 42 CFR Pt 2
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~60 hrs · bR2bR protocol lab + simulated audit
Certification Energy & Critical Infrastructure

Energy

Audit utilities, ISOs, oil & gas operators, and renewables portfolios against bulk-electric-system and pipeline cybersecurity mandates in a single day. Certified officers interrogate the auditee’s bRRAIn for OT-IT segmentation evidence, incident-response drills, and EPA/DOE-adjacent environmental-governance records.

NERC CIP 002–014 TSA Pipeline SD NIST 800-82 (ICS) IEC 62443 API 1164 DOE RMF EPA & Env. Controls
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~60 hrs · bR2bR protocol lab + simulated audit

All four programs include the shared bR2bR protocol + evidence methodology core. Stack multiple industries for a multi-domain credential. Enterprise compliance firms — license the cohort →

Why get certified?

Become the 10× contributor

Every proven professional framework you already knew — now executed at AI speed. Proposals, plans, and strategies that previously took weeks become multi-day outputs with the same rigor.

A credential employers trust

bRRAInSkills ladders against standards your industry already recognises — PMBOK, BABOK, Lean, Porter, Canvas. Display your badge on LinkedIn; land in the certified-professional directory.

Graded by generative AI labs

Every credential in the Skills path — core ladder, specialty, professional track, and bR2bR compliance — ends in a hands-on lab where you ship a real artifact and an in-lesson AI grades it against a published rubric with concrete next steps.

Paths & bundles

Individual certification

$299–$499 / certification

  • LMS course access (lifetime)
  • 2 free exam attempts
  • Digital badge on pass
  • Stacks with any other Skills credential
Start with Practitioner

Corporate licensing

Custom

  • Team-wide enrollment with volume discounts
  • Role-specific curation (finance, PM, ops, founders)
  • Team admin dashboard
  • Priority support & dedicated success manager
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Frequently asked questions

How is bRRAInSkills different from bRRAInCells, Ops, Care, or Dev?
The other disciplines certify you to sell, install, operate, care for, or build on the bRRAIn platform itself. bRRAInSkills certifies you as an AI-augmented contributor — it's about how you produce excellent plans, processes, and businesses, using AI. The other tracks build the system; Skills builds the operator using the system.
What credentials are included under the bRRAIn Skills certification path?
Every credential on this page is part of the Skills path: the 3-level core ladder (Practitioner → Professional → Strategist), 3 specialty certs (Stellar Reports, AI Coding the Right Way, AI Ideation Facilitator), 4 professional tracks (AI UI/UX Design Systems, PgM & PM with AI + bRRAIn, the 4-course Professional AI Software Engineer series, and the 4-course AI Engineer by Industry series), and the 4 bR2bR Compliance Officer certifications (DOD & Government Contracting, Financial Services, Healthcare, Energy). All carry the same 3-year validity and all are graded through the same generative-AI-lab system.
Do I have to take the core path before a specialty, program, or compliance certification?
No. The three-level core ladder has its own prerequisites, but everything else in the Skills path — the three specialty certs, the four professional tracks, and the four bR2bR compliance certs — is no-prereq (or needs one step of basic literacy for the coding-adjacent ones). Stack however maps to your role.
Do I need any technical skills?
No. bRRAInSkills is designed for any knowledge worker — consultants, PMs, analysts, finance pros, founders, ops leaders, compliance officers. If you already use established frameworks (SMART, PMBOK, OKRs, Porter, Canvas, NIST, HIPAA, NERC CIP), you'll recognise the standards being taught; we just layer AI onto them.
What professional standards does bRRAInSkills teach?
At the practitioner level: SMART, STAR, GTD, PDCA. At the professional level: PMBOK, BABOK, Lean / Six Sigma, SWOT, 5 Whys, Ishikawa, ISO 9001 fundamentals. At the strategist level: Porter's Five Forces, Blue Ocean, McKinsey 7S, Business Model Canvas, Value Disciplines, OKRs, Balanced Scorecard. The compliance track additionally teaches CMMC / NIST 800-171 / SOX / PCI-DSS / HIPAA / HITRUST / NERC CIP / IEC 62443 depending on which industry certification you take.
Where did the Monetization Master certification go?
Monetization Master moved into the bRRAInCells path, where it now belongs alongside Sales, Installation, and Implementation Specialist — the discipline that covers how organizations actually earn on bRRAIn. It’s still free and included for everyone in the Cells track.
Are there discounts for students or non-profits?
Yes. Contact certifications@brrain.io with proof of status for a 50% discount on any level or the bundle.
How long does a credential last?
Each Skills certification is valid for 3 years. Renewal requires passing the updated exam or completing a refresher course — typically a weekend.

Ready to become a 10× augmented contributor?