The TEAF certification platform is live

The TEAF certification platform is live. It finally gives concrete backing to the five roles Book II defines — Architecture Owner, Decision Steward, AI Control Officer, Capability Owner, Compliance Liaison — instead of leaving them as definitions on paper. Here's what the platform covers today, how to get access, and what it doesn't claim to be.

What each track covers

Each role has its own dedicated track: a real curriculum — not a summary of a job description — with practical exercises built on the situations that role actually encounters inside a TEAF loop, followed by a graded quiz that closes the track. The quiz's scoring is fully deterministic: the same set of answers always produces the same score, with no room for a grader's subjective judgment to vary from one session to the next.

An attestation, not a diploma

Completing a track successfully earns a TEAF Light attestation, not an accredited professional certification. Validation happens in two steps: the candidate's own self-assessment against the practical exercises, followed by peer validation — from other candidates or practitioners already engaged in the program. That's a deliberate choice: a certification program only has value if it doesn't claim a status it hasn't yet earned, and formal professional recognition for a TEAF Light attestation remains, at this stage, something still to build.

Limited access, not open sign-up

The platform isn't reachable through public sign-up. Access is granted to candidates the organization judges relevant for the target role — typically practitioners already engaged on a TEAF mission, or about to be. Requests go through the Certifications page, where the "Request access" button leads to the site's contact form: no published email address, for the same reasons already explained elsewhere on this site. Once a candidate is selected, access to their track is free — no registration fee is charged.

One account, several roles

A candidate isn't locked into a single role. The same account can pursue several of the five tracks — useful for a practitioner who holds, or will hold, more than one hat on a TEAF engagement, which is common in smaller teams where a Capability Owner also carries part of the Compliance Liaison role. Each track is scored and attested independently of the others.

Verifying an attestation, without an account

Every attestation issued carries a unique verification code. Anyone can publicly verify that an attestation is genuine using just that code, with no account creation or sign-in required — useful for a client or partner who wants to confirm that a practitioner actually holds the attestation they display.

What changes, and what's still being built

The detailed content of each track keeps evolving alongside the collection's V2 and feedback from the first candidates — as with the rest of the certification program, there's no promise of fixed, final content. What's true as of today: the five TEAF roles finally have verifiable backing, with scoring that doesn't depend on any variable human interpretation — the missing piece that turns a role definition into an actually assessed skill.

• The TEAF certification platform is live: a real curriculum and exercises per role, a graded quiz with 100% deterministic scoring.
• What it delivers is a TEAF Light attestation, self-validated then peer-validated — never an accredited professional certification.
• Access is currently limited to candidates the organization judges relevant, on request via the Certifications page — free once selected.
• One account can pursue several of the five roles; every attestation can be publicly verified by code, with no account needed.