Eleven platform roles. Six bRRAInSkills professional tracks. Four bR2bR Compliance Officer credentials. One universal standard.
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“You’re not going to lose your job to an AI, but you’re going to lose your job to someone who uses AI. Every job will be affected, and immediately.”
— Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, Milken Institute Global Conference
Every bRRAIn certification is developed under a single standard: Certification & Training Standard v1.0. It borrows from psychometric science, aviation-style job task analysis, and medical-licensure item-writing — and adds an AI-first twist we pioneered for this program.
Every certification starts with a Job Task Analysis — 8–15 practicing SMEs identify the tasks, knowledge, and skills that matter on the job. That becomes the exam blueprint. No task on the exam that isn’t on the job. No content in the curriculum that isn’t on the exam.
Every lesson ends with active retrieval. Every module adds a spaced-review queue built on an SM-2 algorithm. End-of-domain reviews interleave prior domains, so learners aren’t fooled by block-practice mastery. Evidence: retrieval + spacing predicts exam performance in high-stakes credentials.
Every Practitioner and Expert certification includes live role-play labs scored by Claude against a published rubric. A candidate submits a capstone transcript and gets a scored result in minutes — strengths, gaps, next steps. Human SMEs audit the AI’s work post-hoc; they don’t gate the learner.
No arbitrary “pick 70%.” Every exam’s passing score is set through a documented modified-Angoff or Bookmark procedure with a panel of 6–10 SMEs, reviewed every 24 months and after every major content refresh. Items are monitored monthly for difficulty, discrimination, and exposure.
Practitioner-level certifications include six or more graded labs in a disposable bRRAIn tenant. Objective-complete detection, not instructor opinion. Unlimited resets during training. The sandbox the learner trains in is the same one the exam uses.
The LMS is a system of record, not a content library. Every lesson, retrieval, lab attempt, and exam item emits an xAPI statement to our Learning Record Store. That record is what drives analytics, personalization, defensibility — and the credential itself.
The four disciplines below cover the bRRAIn platform itself — deployment, operations, care, and development. For professional skill credentials that travel across any LLM, see bRRAInSkills tracks. For regulator-grade audit credentials, see bR2bR Compliance Officer.
AI memory architecture, deployment, and vendor integration
Memory governance, security, and access control
Memory health, maintenance, and cognitive analytics
SDK integration, schema design, and platform architecture
Embed bRRAIn into applications; master install, auth, store, retrieve
Learn more →Enterprise integrations; schemas, adapters, non-human actors, tuning
Learn more →Multi-tenant platforms; custom ontologies, SSO, production ops
Learn more →| Role | Discipline | Related Certifications | Duration | Exam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales Specialist | bRRAInCells | Salesforce, HubSpot, MEDDIC | 15 hrs | 40 Q / 60 min |
| Installation Specialist | bRRAInCells | AWS SA, Docker, CompTIA Server+ | 20 hrs | 50 Q / 90 min |
| Implementation Specialist | bRRAInCells | PMP, Agile, ITIL | 18 hrs | 45 Q / 75 min |
| Operations Controller | bRRAInOps | PgMP, TOGAF, COBIT | 20 hrs | 50 Q / 90 min |
| Security Controller | bRRAInOps | CISSP, Security+, CISM, CEH | 20 hrs | 50 Q / 90 min |
| Access Controller | bRRAInOps | Azure AD, Okta, IAM | 15 hrs | 40 Q / 60 min |
| Maintenance Specialist | bRRAInCare | ITIL, SRE, AWS SysOps | 18 hrs | 45 Q / 75 min |
| Care Analyst | bRRAInCare | Google Analytics, Tableau | 15 hrs | 40 Q / 60 min |
| SDK Developer | bRRAInDev | Go, Node.js, OpenAPI, gRPC | 30–40 hrs | 50 Q / 120 min |
| Integration Engineer | bRRAInDev | System Design, Event-driven, LoRA fine-tuning | 50–60 hrs | 55 Q / 180 min + oral |
| Platform Architect | bRRAInDev | SOC 2 / HIPAA / GDPR, Multi-tenant SaaS | 40–50 hrs | Project-based panel review |
| AI Coding with bRRAIn | bRRAInSkills | Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, GPT-Codex | 40 hrs | Performance task + retrieval |
| AI Team Development | bRRAInSkills | Multi-agent flows, shared memory, hand-offs | 40 hrs | Performance task + retrieval |
| AI SDLC & Release Train | bRRAInSkills | Intake → ship gates, deterministic retros | 40 hrs | Performance task + retrieval |
| AI Augmented Systems Architect | bRRAInSkills | Policy, zones, seams, evolution | 40 hrs | Performance task + retrieval |
| PgM & PM with AI + bRRAIn | bRRAInSkills | Standalone Professional cert · PM-focused | 40 hrs | Performance task + retrieval |
| AI UI/UX Design Systems | bRRAInSkills | design-system.v1 token YAML · cross-LLM | 40 hrs | Generative-lab artefact |
| AI Engineer by Industry — 4-course series | bRRAInSkills · Industry | Construction · Mining · Manufacturing · Civil | ~160 hrs | Cohort-gated · per discipline |
| bR2bR Compliance Officer — DOD | bR2bR Compliance | CMMC v2.0, NIST 800-171, DFARS, FedRAMP | 60 hrs | 80% cut + 50% SME audit |
| bR2bR Compliance Officer — Financial | bR2bR Compliance | SOX, PCI-DSS v4, SR 11-7, NYDFS Part 500 | 60 hrs | 80% cut + 50% SME audit |
| bR2bR Compliance Officer — Healthcare | bR2bR Compliance | HIPAA, HITECH, 21 CFR Part 11, NIST 800-66 r2 | 60 hrs | 80% cut + 50% SME audit |
| bR2bR Compliance Officer — Energy | bR2bR Compliance | NERC CIP, TSA Pipeline SDs, IEC 62443, FERC | 60 hrs | 80% cut + 50% SME audit |
Skills you can’t fake are skills you can’t script. Every Practitioner and Expert certification puts you inside a live role-play with a Claude-powered persona — a skeptical Managing Partner, a combative IT ops lead, a compliance officer grilling your auth flow — and scores the conversation against a published rubric in minutes.
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.
Beyond the 11 platform roles, bRRAInSkills runs deep-dive professional programs that teach how to work with AI as an operating standard. Each track ships with generative labs, published rubrics, and the bRRAIn methodology baked in — so what you learn transfers to any LLM you point at it.
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 that every LLM respects, so Claude, GPT, and Gemini all build you screens that match the same brand.
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.
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.
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.
Same-day audits over bR2bR read sessions. Each cert is a 60-hour stack: a 40-hour shared spine on bR2bR architecture, auditor discipline, and the same-day audit motion — plus a 20-hour overlay for your industry’s specific frameworks. Built for compliance practices where AI-hallucinated regulator citations create real legal exposure: 50% SME spot-audit on every framework citation, 80% cut score, citation-verification mandatory.
CMMC v2.0, NIST 800-171 r2/r3, NIST 800-172, DFARS 252.204-7012/7019/7020/7021, FedRAMP, FISMA, 32 CFR Part 170. For DIB primes, sub-tier suppliers, and the assessors who audit them.
SOX §302/§404, PCI-DSS v4.0, SR 11-7, GLBA 16 CFR 314.4, NYDFS Part 500, FFIEC, FINRA Rule 3110, SEC Reg S-P. For internal-audit, model-risk, and second-line teams running AI-augmented controls.
HIPAA Privacy/Security/Breach (45 CFR 164.500-534), HITECH §13407, OCR Audit Protocol, 21 CFR Part 11, NIST 800-66 Rev 2, FDA AI/ML SaMD draft guidance. For HIPAA-covered entities, BAs, and clinical-AI governance leads.
NERC CIP-002 through CIP-014, TSA Pipeline Security Directives (SD02 series), IEC 62443-2-1/-3-3/-4-2, Purdue model L0–L5, FERC Orders 822/850/887, DOE C2M2. For NERC-registered entities, ICS/OT security teams, and pipeline-cyber programs.
AI hallucination on regulator-citation accuracy produces real legal exposure for any organization that ships compliance work. Every framework citation in lessons, exams, exemplars, and CE modules is tagged for human SME review; capstone scoring and credential issuance gate on a 50% spot-audit of submitted artefacts. The cert ships only when an auditor can defend it under cross-examination.
Pay per certification, or bundle up for a firm. Every price below includes the full curriculum, unlimited AI-lab reps, two proctored exam attempts, and a 3-year credential.
Any one of the 11 roles. Full curriculum, unlimited AI-lab reps, two proctored exam attempts.
Up to 3 candidates across any disciplines. Best fit for consultancies and partner firms.
Additional exam attempts beyond the two included, plus the mandatory remediation module.
Keep any credential active past its 2 or 3-year validity with continuing education plus a condensed refresher exam.
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Self-paced curriculum with live cohort sessions and hands-on labs.
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