Every module, every film, every quiz and the whole Handbook — unlocked the moment you pay. Fifty-nine pages across seven modules, fifty-six sections and four appendices, plus two masterclass films — built from the written standards, reviewer checklists and rejection feedback of seven live program types, with no vendor, lab or client named anywhere in it.
One payment. No subscription, no expiry, and every future revision included.
Delivered as a single document plus the films, downloadable the moment payment clears. Yours permanently, including every revision we publish.
Module 0 through Module 6, from where SMEs actually sit in post-training to lasting in the industry without burning out.
Prompt, input file, rubric, skill, audit and pre-submit gates — the ones you run before you hand anything in.
A short quiz closing every module, and the comprehensive scenario-based exam across the whole Handbook.
The method on screen for every module, plus the two long-form masterclasses on rubric design and AI evaluation.
The document is versioned. When requirements shift and we update it, you get the new edition at no cost.
F1 through R4 — foundations, the full craft sequence, and the reviewer and auditor material. Nothing is held back for a higher tier.
Pre-training versus post-training and where SMEs sit. The two data schemas. How evaluations are actually run. Hill climbing and the shelf life of a task. The expert-only bar and universality. Where your time really goes.
The two voices. The attributes every prompt must satisfy. Real difficulty versus artificial difficulty, and the levers that add the real kind. Difficulty targets by program. The anti-patterns that cause rejection. Testing a prompt against a live model.
Counts, types and hard gates by program. Where files come from and what "100 percent authentic" actually means. Building complexity into the files. The answer-leakage sweep. Privacy and attestation. Naming and hygiene.
What a rubric is for, and its composition by program. The build process and criterion-level rules. Negative criteria and trap checks. Weights and criticality. Decomposing legal and professional reasoning. Metadata, sources, rationale, calibration.
When a skill is warranted and what goes in one. The reusability test. A drafting method. The QA failure modes that sink skills. Plus a short primer on programmable skills for organizations.
The two-stage review model. Structural checks versus expert judgment. The auditor mindset — second author, not proofreader. Rationale discipline. Communicating findings. The self-QA habits that get you promoted.
The landscape. Getting in, and onboarding. The rules that end contracts. Pay, throughput and protecting yourself. Working under changing requirements. Conduct. Lasting. A practical toolkit.
Published expert-tier rates for credentialed professionals run roughly $75–$200 an hour. At $150, Foundations repays itself in about two and a half hours of work — and it unlocks every module, film, quiz and the exam in one payment.
The conservative case, at entry-tier rates.
A single afternoon of expert-tier work.
Less than two hours at specialist rates.
If you bill $400 an hour, this costs you one hour of your own time.
What this is not. It is not a job, a placement service, or a promise of income. It is the written craft — the part nobody teaches and everybody is graded on. Whether it pays for itself depends on you doing the work, applying, and the market having room when you get there. We have not yet published student outcome data, because we do not have any worth publishing. When we do, we will — including the results that do not flatter us.
We invoice you directly and send your personal access link the moment it clears. Card checkout is coming shortly.
You get an acknowledgement on screen, and we send your invoice the same day — usually within a few hours.
Your personal access link arrives by email. It unlocks the Handbook in PDF and Word, every module, both films, the quizzes and the exam — along with the recommended reading order and the twelve-week learner path from Appendix D.
Reply to that email with a question about the material. A credentialed practitioner answers — that is included.
Read the whole thing. If it does not teach you something you did not know about this work, write to us inside fourteen days and we refund you in full. You keep nothing, we keep nothing, and neither of us has to pretend.
One payment of $495 unlocks the whole Handbook, permanently. We invoice you directly — no account to create, no subscription, nothing stored on file. Your personal access link arrives the moment payment clears.
Everything. The 59-page Handbook as a PDF and a Word file you keep, all eighteen modules from F1 through R4 unlocked, a video explainer and a written explainer in each one, a short quiz closing every module, and the comprehensive scenario-based exam across the whole thing. One payment, no subscription, no expiry, and every future revision at no extra cost.
No. It is synthesized from the standards, reviewer checklists, operating procedures and rejection feedback across seven program types, and no program, vendor, lab or client is named anywhere in it. We teach transferable craft. We never reproduce a client's confidential material, and we never coach anyone to game a specific platform's assessment — that is in our published Integrity Code, and it is why the training holds up.
Nobody can promise that, and anyone who does is selling you something worse than this. What we can say is that the majority of credentialed applicants are rejected for craft reasons rather than expertise, and this is the craft, written down.
None. It is written for credentialed professionals with no AI or engineering background. If you can draft a memo or build a workpaper, you can learn this.
A single formatted document you can read on screen, print, or keep open beside your work, plus two video files. No login, no platform, no subscription, no access that expires.
No. $495 once, and that is the whole relationship. We are not holding back an advanced tier, and there is no monthly fee. If we add material to the Handbook later, you get it because you already own it.