The AI Skill Centre · For employers
Your team is already using AI. Now you can be sure they are doing it right. The AISC Certified Workforce mark gives you verifiable proof of AI knowledge and skill in your organisation, backed by individually certified staff at every level of your organisation.
A 30 minute consultation: your headcount against the thresholds, your rollout sequence and your price.
The moment to get ahead
Three quarters of your staff already use AI in their work, and most of them worked it out for themselves. That initiative is an asset. Certification channels it into consistent, accountable practice and turns it into something you can put in front of a client.
The question is arriving from three directions at once. Procurement teams in professional services, financial services and the public sector now routinely include AI competence in due diligence questionnaires. Professional indemnity insurers are beginning to treat verified AI competence as a positive signal at renewal. And every hiring decision you make now turns, in part, on a skill most candidates self-report. In all three rooms, most organisations answer with a policy document.
AISC certification gives you a different answer: a public register entry, live at the point of enquiry, showing scope, headcount, certification breakdown and renewal date: the same record your client finds when they check independently, because it is.
The Workforce Mark
Your organisation is recognised as AISC Accredited, and listed on the public register, once your staff hold enough current certification: at least 80% at Foundation level, at least 20% at Practitioner or above, at least 2% at Governance Lead, at least 2% at Enablement Lead, and at least 2% at Board level.
Accreditation holds for 12 months from the date it is awarded. Every staff member linked to your organisation account counts automatically towards the thresholds, and your public register page shows your scope, headcount, certification breakdown and renewal date. Your Governance Lead renews the mark each year through the annual certification return, attesting that the thresholds are still met. Clients get an answer that holds for a full year, and the annual return keeps that answer honest.
While the mark is current you can display it on your website, tender documents and client communications, and anyone can check its validity and renewal date on the register.
AISC Certified
Workforce
The Workforce Mark is available on your website, tender documents and client communications while current certification is maintained. Its validity is checkable by anyone on the public register.
How it works
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A free 30 minute consultation maps your headcount against the thresholds and sets your rollout sequence. We agree in-scope staff and headcount basis with you and publish the scope on the register.
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Each staff member gets a free AI knowledge profile: a self-rated competency map across all 10 domains. You see aggregate progress across teams; individuals own their results and their certificates.
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Staff prepare at their own pace using the open learning library, which maps to every competency in the standard, or through any other provider; the assessment is independent of how they trained.
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Once you meet the thresholds, your organisation is listed as Accredited on the public register for the next 12 months. Display the Workforce Mark on your website, tenders and client communications, and renew it each year through the annual certification return.
In practice
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One line answers the AI competence question in a client tender: "Our in-scope staff are AISC Certified at Foundation or above (verified at aiskillcentre.com/register)." The client can check it independently, and clients in professional services, financial services and the public sector are increasingly treating verified AI competence as a procurement criterion. Getting there first matters.
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When your client's procurement or compliance team sends an AI due diligence questionnaire, the mark gives you an answer that points at a public register. The entry shows scope, headcount, certification levels and renewal date, and it is the same record your client would find if they checked independently, because it is.
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Insurers assessing PI risk are beginning to treat verified AI competence as a positive signal. A register-backed mark demonstrates genuine, current capability across your whole team, which is the kind of evidence that strengthens your position at renewal.
The standard
AISC certification is defined by 78 assessable competencies across 10 domains, drawn from the published open standard and examined under controlled conditions through realistic workplace scenarios. The domains run from AI foundations, data literacy and security through to value measurement, human factors and AI-enabled transformation.
Every employee
"Can this person use AI tools safely on everyday work without creating liability?"
Directing tools and verifying output in proportion to the stakes, protecting data at the point of input, recognising AI-enabled fraud and deepfakes, and escalating what they cannot assess.
Team leaders and workflow builders
"Can this person build and supervise AI-assisted workflows, with accountability for their team's outputs?"
Retrieval-grounded workflows, reusable templates with named ownership, data readiness, incident response, bias testing and managing shadow AI.
AI leads, compliance and senior management
"Can this person govern AI use across the organisation and sign off its annual competence return?"
Authoring and enforcing AI policy, supplier due diligence including EU AI Act exposure, governing people-affecting AI to the Equality Act 2010 and UK GDPR Article 22, and setting data classification and tool approval tiers.
Enterprise and executive accountability
"Can this person build enterprise AI capability, and can this director discharge the board's oversight obligations?"
The two senior levels cover operating model change, enterprise governance and board-level accountability for AI risk and strategy.
The full framework is published at aiskillcentre.com/standard.
New starters
Every new starter arrives with a different level of AI capability, and most of it is self-taught. The standard gives you a fixed baseline to onboard against: a new hire takes the three minute self-assessment in their first week, follows a personalised syllabus through their induction and sits the Foundation assessment within their probation period. Your annual licence already covers them, and by day 90 you know, rather than hope, that they can use AI safely on client work.
The same logic scales up the levels: a new team lead works towards Practitioner and an incoming AI or compliance lead towards Governance Lead, so a role's AI competence requirement is set on day one instead of discovered later. And because every certificate lands on the public register, each cohort you onboard strengthens the workforce mark you show to clients.
Takes the free AI knowledge profile: a three-minute self-rated competency map across all 10 domains.
Follows a personalised syllabus through the open learning library, mapped to the gaps the profile identified.
Sits and passes Foundation assessment. Certificate issued to the public register. Workforce Mark strengthened.
Team leads work towards Practitioner; incoming governance and compliance leads work towards Governance Lead, so roles carry their AI competence requirements from day one.
Plans and pricing
Pricing is a single annual licence for your in-scope team, with individual assessments, certificates, learning library access and eligibility for the Certified Workforce mark all included. Every plan comes with a full team dashboard, licence management and progress tracking.
View plans and pricingOur mission is to accredit 150 organisations in the safe and effective use of AI at work in the next 12 months, and the first accredited firm in every sector sets the benchmark the rest get measured against. Your route there starts with a free 30 minute consultation: your headcount against the thresholds, your rollout sequence and your price.
Individual staff can create a free AI knowledge profile at any time, without an employer account.