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Your standard took decades to build. A credential nobody can check spends it.

Your credential has value because employers keep asking for it. Everything below is written on the assumption that protecting that is the only thing that matters.

Credential meaning

Does your system confirm a number exists, or that a person earned it?

Most home-built portals answer the first question. When an employer calls to check a certificate, someone looks up a record and reads it back, which confirms the record and says nothing at all about who sat in the chair.

What a lookup returns

A record, not proof.

A certificate number, an issue date and a status. Nothing about who sat in the chair, or whether anyone checked.

See what a lookup cannot tell you

A credential is worth exactly what an employer can confirm.

What we would run

We run the program. You keep the standard.

You own the standard, the item bank and the pedagogy, and your members see your brand. Of the seven steps in a credentialing program, you keep the one that tests against your standard. We run the other six.

How identity is bound to the candidate

Yours

The standard, and the step that tests it.

  • Your standard
  • Your item bank
  • Your pedagogy
  • Your brand
Of the seven steps
  • Assessment

What we run

Everything around it.

Delivery, identity binding and issuance, which is six of the seven steps.

Of the seven steps
  • Enrolment
  • Identity
  • Training
  • Attendance
  • Issuance
  • Verification

Wherever the line falls, both sides run on the same infrastructure. The steps you keep are not a separate system bolted on, which is what keeps the chain unbroken across the handover.

Your delivery network

Every provider who delivers your standard could run on the same rails.

If a dozen training providers deliver your credential downstream, then a dozen different handoffs are deciding whether your standard survives contact with a learner. You set the standard once and then watch it get interpreted twelve ways.

Delivering your credential
  • Provider 1
  • Provider 2
  • Provider 3
  • Provider 4
  • Provider 5
  • Provider 6

One chain, one standard

It also takes work off your desk. Every verification call your team answers today is overhead you absorb for someone else’s hiring decision. When the credential carries its own proof, the employer checks it themselves and never needs to contact you.

Migration

Adopting this should not split your credential holders in two.

The risk in any move like this is a line drawn across your register: everyone certified after the change can be verified instantly, everyone before them cannot. Two tiers of the same credential, and the older tier is the one your longest-standing holders are in.

Without migration

A line across the register.

  • Certified after the changeVerifiable
  • Certified before itUnverifiable
With migration

One register, one standard.

  • Certified after the changeVerifiable
  • Certified before itVerifiable

Historical credentials can be issued onto the standard, which turns a back catalogue nobody could check into one anybody can. Decades of issuing comes forward with you rather than being left behind the line.

How credentials are issued on the W3C standard

How we work with you

Use our infrastructure your way.

Same infrastructure. Different operating model. Pick the level of involvement that matches the team you actually have.

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Your team operates more

  • You run it

    Licensed platform

    You license the platform and operate it with your own team, which means your storefront, your administrators and your content. We keep it running underneath.

    You
    • Storefront
    • Administration
    • Content
    WKT
    • Infrastructure
  • We build it with you

    Shared build

    You own the standard and the subject expertise, and most institutions do. What is usually missing is the capacity to build the courseware, produce it, and keep it current as regulation moves. Our learning designers work with your experts through interviews, storyboard, build and review gates, and your standard stays intact because you are the one holding the pen on it.

    You
    • The standard
    • Subject expertise
    WKT
    • Learning design
    • Platform
  • We run it

    Managed operation

    Administration, learner support, reporting and renewals. This is the answer to having the mandate without the team. You keep the standard and the brand, and we operate the program behind it.

    You
    • The standard
    • Your brand
    WKT
    • Administration
    • Learner support
    • Reporting
    • Renewals

WKT operates more

Your credential already means something. Let's make it provable.

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