AIPF™ Certifications: Build & Scale with Confidence
Welcome to the official certification pathway for the AI Product Framework™ (AIPF™). Designed to empower individuals and transform organizations, our progressive certification levels validate your expertise in navigating the complexities of AI product development from pilot to production.
Whether you're just starting your journey or aiming to lead enterprise-wide AI transformation, the AIPF™ certification program provides a clear path to generating substantial business value.
Our Certification Levels: Designed for Organizational Impact
The AIPF certification pathway is structured to build expertise progressively, ensuring that each level provides tangible value to both the individual and their organization.
AIPF Associate™ (AIPF-A™)
Goal: Establish a universal baseline understanding of the AI Product Framework, fostering common language and aligned thinking across all teams engaged in AI initiatives.
Target Audience: Any professional involved in AI projects – including business stakeholders, entry-level product managers, data scientists, engineers, analysts, and project managers – who needs to understand the end-to-end AI product lifecycle.
Key Skills Validated: Foundational knowledge of the AI Product Framework's structure, the AI Operating Model™ (AIOM™), core AI/ML concepts, and the critical differences in AI product development.
Value to Your Organization: Breaks down silos, accelerates onboarding for new team members, and reduces miscommunication by ensuring a shared mental model for AI productization.
Format: Accessible online learning modules, followed by a knowledge-based assessment.
Outcome: Digital badge, foundational recognition.
Investment in Your Expertise: While there is no certification fee for the Foundational AIPF Associate™ (AIPF-A™ ) Certification, it requires a significant investment of your time and effort. This certification is designed to equip you with essential skills for confidently building and scaling AI and generating real business value. Your dedication demonstrates a commitment to professional growth and mastering an industry-leading approach to AI product management.
AIPF Certified Professional™ (AIPF-CP™)
Goal: Certify individuals capable of actively applying the AI Product Framework's principles and practices to drive AI initiatives and solve complex challenges within their organizations.
Target Audience: Mid-level Product Managers, Data Scientists, AI/ML Engineers, Technical Leads, and Solutions Architects responsible for leading or deeply contributing to AI product development.
Key Skills Validated: Practical expertise in defining AI strategy, executing rigorous AI discovery (including risk assessment for Value, Usability, Feasibility, Viability), and understanding the principles of scalable AI delivery and ML Ops.
Value to Your Organization: Identifies certified practitioners equipped to implement the framework, ensuring projects move efficiently from strategy to impactful delivery, and guarantees team members can proactively mitigate unique AI risks.
Format: In-depth online cohort-based learning, practical exercises, followed by a more rigorous application-based exam.
Outcome: Digital badge, enhanced professional recognition, entry to a professional community.
AIPF Master Practitioner™ (AIPF-MP™)
Goal: Recognize elite leaders and experts capable of driving organizational adoption, optimization, and governance of the AI Product Framework at an enterprise level.
Target Audience: Senior Product Leaders, AI Leadership (VPs/Directors of Data Science, Analytics, Engineering), AI Architects, Consultants, and Change Management Leaders.
Key Skills Validated: Advanced proficiency in strategic AI leadership, organizational change management for framework adoption, ethical AI governance, scaling complex AI systems, and continuous improvement of AI product lifecycles.
Value to Your Organization: Provides internal experts who can steer complex AI portfolios, drive systemic framework adoption, and optimize MLOps pipelines, ensuring long-term reliability and adaptability.
Format: Advanced, application-based program, including a capstone project demonstrating real-world application, peer review, and/or an interview.
Outcome: Elite digital badge, inclusion in an exclusive Master Practitioner directory, access to advanced community and thought leadership events.
