The Standard
Most AI training has no bar.
You finish, you get a certificate, nobody checked anything.
We publish ours before you start.
The four dimensions
Every piece of work produced in an Accelerator is scored against four dimensions, each with four written performance levels described in observable terms.
Clarity
Could someone else run this without asking you a question?
Specificity
Is it about your work, or about work in general?
Safety
What happens when this is wrong?
Usefulness
Did it save you anything real?
The threshold is 3 or above on every dimension. Not an average — a floor.
Safety does not average.
A 1 on safety stops the work regardless of the other three scores. A polished, specific, useful piece of work with nobody checking it is not a pass. It's the most dangerous thing a team can produce.
Resubmission is unlimited and expected. Falling short doesn't mean failure — it means the work isn't finished, and the feedback names which dimension and why. The assessment is the teaching.
How scoring works
Work is scored on each dimension independently, with one line of evidence written against each. Not a grade — a verdict, and a named dimension when something isn't there yet.
Participants score their own work first. Applying a published standard to your own output is most of the learning; being handed a number is not. Then a person reviews it against the same anchors.
Score dimensions independently. A 4 on clarity does not buy a 2 on safety. Averaging hides exactly the failure you most need to see.
The lowest score is the one to work on — not the average. And if nothing moves after a revision, the problem is upstream, usually clarity.
What this is not
Worth saying plainly, because plenty of AI training implies otherwise.
Meeting this standard means a specific piece of work was produced deliberately and checked against published criteria. It is not a statement that someone is technically skilled with AI, qualified to advise others, or safe with it in every situation. It is not accredited and carries no continuing-education credit.
What it tells you is that the work was done to a standard and someone checked. That's a narrower claim than most training makes, and it's one we can actually stand behind.
Read the standard before you commit to anything.
That's the point of publishing it.