Six domains, versioned in public. Every competency statement carries a named author and reviewer.
Item banks, psychometrics and pass marks are set centrally. A licensee invigilates; it never writes questions.
The bar for licensees, centres and trainers — audited on schedule and unannounced, revocable for breach.
The seal, the name and the public record. Grades are conferred by the Foundation alone.
Authority runs downward and evidence runs upward. A national licensee can assess candidates and report results; it cannot alter a competency, set a pass mark, or confer a grade. That separation is the whole basis of the credential's value.
Where a body sits in this diagram determines what it may sign. Nothing is delegated informally, and no commercial relationship carries a vote.
Holds the assets and the marks, appoints the Council, and cannot vote on the content of the Standard.
The six domain chairs. Holds the final vote on every version of the Standard and on every pass mark.
50+ academics and senior practitioners, sitting in a personal capacity. Authors and reviews on a three-year cycle.
Deliver, teach and invigilate under accreditation. No vote, no content rights, no power to award.
Each domain of the Body of Knowledge is chaired. The chairs sit together as the Steering Council; three co-opted seats cover assessment science, public-sector adoption and industry practice.
How models work, what they cannot do, and the vocabulary the rest of the Standard depends on.
Instructing, iterating and critiquing model output — assessed on transcripts, not on recall.
Sourcing, provenance, verification and the discipline of not publishing what you cannot check.
Duties, liability and refusal. Mapped per jurisdiction — EU AI Act duties are mapped here.
Rebuilding real work with AI in it, and measuring whether the result is actually better.
Policy, procurement, assurance and the controls an organisation must hold to deploy responsibly.
Guards item quality, pass marks and comparability across languages and cohorts.
Keeps the Standard usable inside civil-service grading and national skills frameworks.
Senior practitioners who keep the competencies honest against how the work is really done.
Seats are shown unfilled deliberately. The chairs above are the standing structure. Members are named here only once appointed, with their terms on the record — we publish no affiliation we have not earned.
Membership & terms of referenceA full review runs on a three-year cycle, with interim change notes between. Nothing enters the Standard without a named author, a named reviewer from another domain, and a recorded Council vote.
The Standard names capabilities, never products. Members sit in a personal capacity, declare their interests on appointment and again each cycle, and recuse themselves from any decision touching an employer or client. Declarations are public for the length of a term.
Documents in preparation are listed with their status rather than hidden. Nothing here is behind a login.
Assessment outcomes, accreditation decisions and registry entries are all appealable. An appeal is heard by a panel with no involvement in the original decision, and the outcome is reported to the Board in summary each quarter.
We are appointing chairs and members for Standard v1.1. Terms run three years, are unpaid, and are published with the version they shaped.