Academy.

Builder track

Certified AI Engineer, Creative Systems

Levels.fyi lists Anthropic AI engineers from $300K to $1.2M.

Creative track

Certified Creative Technologist, Generative Media

Adobe posts the role to $250K.

8 weeksFour assessed modules, one graded deliverable each
2 tracksBuilder and creative, taught side by side on one brief
Live defenseCapstone argued before a panel of industry leaders
Sliding scaleScholarship seats. No degree required

Ranges for six AI creative roles, each from a named source: the salary report.

Builder track curriculum

W1-2
One creative pipeline, every model family

Build it once in ComfyUI, run it across the models employers actually name.

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  • ComfyUI in production: graph construction, custom nodes, and workflows a team can reuse
  • One adapter layer, many providers, zero vendor branches in the pipeline
  • Prompt portability: which directions transfer across model families, which silently degrade, how to detect drift
Deliverable: one production pipeline running across image, video, and text model families
W3-4
Evaluation, the weakest skill in the market

Employers call critical evaluation the number one gap in graduates. This is the module that closes it.

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  • Golden sets built from production briefs, not synthetic toys
  • LLM-as-judge for creative quality: calibration and agreement with the society’s expert judging panels
  • Comparative model selection: run the same brief across families and defend your pick in writing
Deliverable: an eval harness with drift alarms, plus a model-selection memo a client would accept
W5-6
Diagnosis, deployment, and provenance

Root-cause a broken output. Ship the workflow as a service. Mark what the machine made.

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  • Failure diagnosis: given a bad output, locate the failing layer (prompt, conditioning, model, seed, post) and fix it
  • Ship a workflow as an API endpoint your team can call, with caching and cost controls
  • Provenance in the pipeline: C2PA Content Credentials, licensing posture per model, and the EU AI Act marking rules that bind from August 2026
Deliverable: a deployed workflow endpoint, a diagnosed-and-fixed failure log, and signed provenance on every output
W7-8
Capstone: work with top companies

Deliver a top company’s production brief. Defend it live. Pass, and you’re certified.

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  • Production hardening: fallbacks, rate limits, incident drill on model outage mid-delivery
  • Written rationale: why this routing, these models, this budget, for this brief
  • Live defense before a panel of industry leaders, scored against the society’s published benchmark standard
Deliverable: certification and a shipped brief with your credit on it

Creative track curriculum

W1-2
Same scene, every model family

One scene, realized across the models the industry actually uses, in the node graph professionals build in.

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  • The AI production stack: image, video, voice, and edit models, and where each belongs in your pipeline
  • ComfyUI for creatives: build and adapt the node graphs studios run, no engineering degree required
  • Coverage thinking for generation: shooting ratios, when to regenerate, when to move on
Deliverable: the same scene realized across model families, with a shot log of what held and what broke
W3-4
Judgment, written down

Turn craft instinct into rubrics the benchmark can use, and defend your model picks with them.

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  • Judging AI output like a department head: blind review, written notes, defensible calls
  • Your personal rubric for character, continuity, and tone, calibrated against the society’s benchmark panels
  • Serve as a human judge on a live benchmark run
Deliverable: a written rubric, calibrated on a benchmark run you helped judge
W5-6
Consistency and clearance

Hold a character across forty shots. Then prove you have the right to deliver it.

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  • The consistency toolkit: LoRA training on your own reference set, ControlNet and IP-Adapter conditioning, style bibles that survive a model swap
  • Rights and provenance: licensing posture per model, C2PA Content Credentials, Copyright Office disclosure, and the EU AI Act marking rules that bind from August 2026
  • Digital replica consent and the 2026 SAG-AFTRA AI provisions, read the way a production actually applies them
Deliverable: a finished sequence with a character held across shots, delivered with clean rights and signed provenance
W7-8
Capstone: work with top companies

Creative lead on a top company’s brief. Defend it live. Pass, and you’re certified.

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  • Lead a mixed crew: you own the creative call, your builder counterpart owns the pipeline
  • Written rationale: why these models, these shots, this budget, for this brief
  • Live defense before a panel of industry leaders, scored against the society’s published benchmark standard
Deliverable: certification and a shipped brief with your credit on it

The founding cohort opens this fall.

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