Hire and govern against a vendor-neutral standard.
CAIS™ is the personnel credential enterprises use for AI hiring, leveling, governance, procurement, and regulator-facing workforce competence. Verify any holder in the Public Verification Registry. Map your AI workforce to ISO 42001 Clause 7.2 evidence. Stop guessing whether your AI hires can actually build, defend, and operate the systems they propose.
Five enterprise use cases.
Each use case is supported by a published playbook in the Standards Library, plus enterprise-grade tooling for scale.
AI hiring that doesn't lean on resumes.
Reference CAIS™ in your AI role JDs. Require CAIS AI Essentials™ as the workforce-literacy baseline. Require CAIS AI Practitioner™ for roles delivering applied AI work. Require or prefer CAIS AI Team Architect™ for senior AI implementation leads. Verify candidates in the Public Verification Registry as part of background check.
- JD language reference card
- Verification webhook for ATS
- Credential-to-role mapping playbook
Leveling against a defensible standard.
Use the CAIS™ pathway as inputs to your engineering ladder. CAIS AI Essentials™ for baseline AI literacy across the org; CAIS AI Practitioner™ for individual contributors delivering applied AI work; CAIS AI Team Architect™ for staff / principal / lead roles installing AI systems across teams. Sec/Gov by request for regulated environments.
- Engineering ladder reference
- Promotion-readiness checklist
- Internal calibration session template
AI governance your board can defend.
Map your AI workforce to a credential that is publicly governed, externally citable, and aligned to NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, and OECD principles.
- Board-deck reference
- AI risk committee playbook
- External audit briefing
AI vendor selection with a competence test.
Require CAIS-certified leads on AI vendor proposals. Verify vendor team standing in the Public Verification Registry. Build clauses for credential maintenance into contracts.
- RFP language template
- Vendor competence clause
- Ongoing standing audit cadence
Clause 7.2 evidence, packaged.
CAIS provides direct competence evidence for ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 7.2 (Competence) and Annex A.4.6 (Human Resources). ~78% alignment to the normative body.
- Alignment Dossier (Edition 1.0)
- Bulk verification CSV export
- Auditor-handoff package template
Regulator-facing workforce evidence.
EU AI Act Article 4 (AI literacy) and high-risk system deployment require demonstrable workforce competence. CAIS is the personnel credential that produces that evidence.
- EU AI Act mapping
- Documentation templates
- Annual workforce review cadence
Join the employers referencing the standard.
Recognized employers commit publicly to referencing CAIS in their AI hiring and leveling. Recognition is granted by the Standards Council and listed in the Engagement Map. No fee.
Reference employer.
Public commitment to reference CAIS in AI role JDs and hiring rubrics. Listed in the public Engagement Map. No fee. No exclusivity.
Operating partner.
Reference + active integration: ATS verification webhook configured, internal leveling mapped to the CAIS™ pathway. Joint communication on outcomes.
Strategic partner.
Operating + governance integration: a named representative on the Employer Advisory Group; quarterly briefings with the Standards Council; co-authored use-case playbooks.
Verify your AI workforce at scale.
For HR onboarding, contractor vetting, ISO 42001 evidence packaging, and quarterly workforce review. Open API. Read access free.
Bulk lookup, JSON in.
Submit up to 500 credential IDs per request. Returns full registry record per ID — credential, status, capstone, CPE, sanctions, defense brief.
Content-Type: application/json
Auditor-ready, CSV out.
Optional CSV export for auditor handoff. Includes credential, capstone deployment timestamp, CPE last-affirmed date, sanction history. Suitable for ISO 42001 evidence packaging.
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Bring CAIS into your AI hiring program.
A 30-minute briefing with the Standards Council enterprise team — JD language, recognition pathway, bulk verification, ISO 42001 dossier walkthrough.
Stop guessing. Start verifying.
Every CAIS holder is in the public registry registered, defensibly bound, and continuously measured. Reference the standard. Verify the holders. Build the workforce against it.