Eight weeks.
A standard that holds.

Eight weeks on the real projects top companies hire for.

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

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

What you are graded against

The capstone is scored against the society’s published benchmark standard, not against a vendor’s marketing. No model vendor’s money touches benchmark design, task selection, or results. Read how the benchmark works, including the neutrality rule and the harness we publish with every run.

The founding cohort opens this fall.

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