The practitioner credential for your AI framework.
Every government adopting AI governance asks the same question: how do we know the people implementing this are qualified? CAIS answers that question with a vendor-neutral, practitioner-governed credential aligned to the four global rulebooks. Every domain is citable, auditable, and publicly governed under bylaws.
Vendor-neutral. Practitioner-governed. Independently mapped.
The four foundational frameworks for AI governance — NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, the OECD AI Principles — converge on a common requirement: workforce competence. CAIS is the personnel credential built to satisfy that requirement.
No platform has a stake.
CAIS is constitutionally vendor-neutral. The credential references AI principles and patterns, never specific platforms. Holders demonstrate competence with whatever tools their work requires.
Authority sits with the profession.
The Standards Council is composed of practitioners, academics, and ethicists — not vendors and not government. Bylaws are public. Term limits enforced. Conflicts of interest disclosed.
Independently crosswalked.
Every CBK domain is mapped to NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, and OECD AI Principles. Crosswalk dossier is published. Updated annually as frameworks revise.
Three reference patterns. Each citable.
CAIS is referenced in three patterns by governments engaging with the standard: as a workforce-strategy reference, as a procurement clause, and as a regulatory competence requirement. Each pattern has a published model template.
Workforce strategy reference.
Reference CAIS in national or sectoral AI workforce strategies as a practitioner-level competence benchmark. Example: "Public-sector AI roles at the practitioner tier and above shall demonstrate competence equivalent to CAIS Tier II or higher."
Procurement clause.
Embed CAIS as a vendor-team competence requirement in AI procurement. Example: "AI vendor proposals shall identify the named CAIS holder responsible for technical lead, with credential ID verifiable in the GAISB Public Verification Registry."
Regulatory competence requirement.
Require demonstrable AI competence for regulated activities — high-risk AI deployment, AI-mediated public services, AI in regulated sectors (finance, health, energy). CAIS is one citable evidence path among several.
Aligned to the four global rulebooks.
Every CBK domain is independently mapped to clauses in NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, and the OECD AI Principles. The full crosswalk dossier is in the Standards Library.
NIST AI RMF 1.0
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. CAIS competencies map to all four functions — Govern, Map, Measure, Manage — with subcategory-level citation.
EU AI Act 2024/1689
Europe's AI law in force across 27 member states. CAIS aligns with high-risk system obligations (Articles 8–15), AI literacy (Article 4), human-oversight competence.
ISO/IEC 42001:2023
The international management-system standard for AI. CAIS provides direct competence evidence satisfying Clause 7.2 and Annex A.4.6 (~78% normative alignment).
OECD AI Principles
The 38-nation OECD agreement on responsible AI. Every CAIS topic is traceable to at least one of the five values-based Principles and the policy recommendations.
Where the standard is in active engagement.
GAISB collaborates with a distinguished network of universities, community colleges, and accredited private learning institutions through its Global ATP Network (Authorized Training Partner Network).
Active engagements · 2026
Engagement is documented outreach. Formal recognition — by letter, treaty, regulation, or framework reference — is listed separately when issued, with the originating instrument referenced.
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A 45-minute working session with the Standards Council government-affairs team — alignment review, crosswalk walkthrough, reference template assistance. No fee. Confidential.
Reference the standard. Verify the holders.
Vendor-neutral. Practitioner-governed. Independently crosswalked. Open registry. Public bylaws. Citable everywhere.