SPM·STANDARDS
INSTITUTE

THE INSTITUTE / CERTIFICATION FOUNDATION

Trust built on
demonstrated competence.

The SPM Standards Institute is being developed as an independent professional trust layer for the people who govern human–AI work.

Broader program in developmentStrategic vision v0.3 · Working checkpoint

THE PUBLIC PROMISE

Can this person
govern the work?

A credential should mean that its holder demonstrated independent competence to govern bounded human–AI work under the applicable SPM standard.

The proposed assessment examines intent, boundaries, orchestration, evidence, judgment, recovery, verification and disposition. It is practical, open-book and tool-enabled.

A candidate may recover from mistakes and still demonstrate competence. Fabricated evidence, concealed material failure and deliberate false completion block a passing outcome.

PROPOSED GEN-1 CREDENTIALS

A common foundation.
Role-specific competence.

The current working design separates the base qualification from professional role credentials.

FOUNDATION

SPM Core Qualified

The base qualification in managing work through the SPM control loop. The proposed validity period is six months.

Working eligibility: adults 19+. Training is optional; assessment determines the outcome.

PROFESSIONAL ROLE

Certified SPM <Role>

Assessment against a published, versioned role standard, with explicit scope, competencies and authority boundaries.

Role catalogue and assessment availability will be published as the program is validated.

THE PROPOSED PROCEDURE

From application
to a verifiable credential.

This is the proposed full programme. Every stage has a distinct purpose. Registration, acknowledgement or payment does not constitute a qualification. The initial pilot record was assessed by an AI assessment orchestrator, without a human signatory, a second assessor or a deployed Besu registry; its record states this.

  1. 01

    Apply and establish identity

    A private candidate account records the application, appropriate identity checks and a versioned acknowledgement of the protocol and role boundaries.

  2. 02

    Demonstrate the work

    A calibrated assessment environment presents practical scenarios. An assessment orchestrator records the candidate’s decisions and evidence.

  3. 03

    Human assessment

    An authorized human assessor determines PASS, REMEDIATE or FAIL with reasons. An independent second assessor reviews critical overrides. A trainer does not final-assess their own trainee.

  4. 04

    Registrar checks

    Following PASS, the registrar checks identity, assessor authority, record completeness, credential identifiers and the pinned standard versions.

  5. 05

    Issue and verify

    An issued credential receives a permanent verification record. The planned private Besu registry supports public read-only status verification; private assessment evidence remains separate.

  6. 06

    Maintain professional trust

    Expiry, recertification, reasoned appeals and controlled suspension or revocation keep the credential’s current status inspectable.

THREE DISTINCT OBJECTS

Protocol rights.
Professional qualification.
Credential integrity.

Open-source licence

Defines the rights and obligations for using and sharing the released protocol materials. The public package must identify the applicable licence.

Institute credential

Attests to demonstrated competence against a versioned standard. Actual authority to act remains with the relevant organization, account or mandate.

Certification mark

Identifies a current Institute-issued credential. Mark-use conditions and verification procedures form part of the certification program design.

CURRENT AVAILABILITY

Certification pilot:
requests and public verification.

You can submit a certification request and search the public certificate register by number or name. An initial SPM Core pilot credential is listed. Each record identifies the assessed scope, assessment mode, status and expiry. Broader programme procedures and professional-role assessments remain in development.

The Institute’s legal issuer, final operating procedures, qualified assessor cohort and public release terms remain launch decisions. The pilot register makes no accreditation claim, and the protocol licence remains pending.

Request the certification pilot ↓

CONTACT / CERTIFICATION PILOT

Ask a question
or request certification.

Choose what you need, tell us who you are and write a short message. The form records your request. Assessment and issuance are handled through the pilot process; submitting does not itself award a credential, an enrolment or a place on an assessment. No confirmation email is sent automatically.

A few sentences. At least 10 characters.

We store what you submit in a private database and use it only to reply to you. To have it removed, send a new message and say so. A published contact address will follow with the Institute domain.

CERTIFICATE REGISTER

Check a
certificate or a name.

Enter a certificate number, or the name of a certificate holder, to see the recorded qualification, status and expiry. Search is automatic; during the pilot, Institute operators add and maintain the entries. A result is the recorded register entry only, not an independently verified external qualification claim. A name appears here only if its holder agreed to be listed.