Ledger-verified credential

Train with the operator who built governed AI, and runs it in production.

Governed AI training for the builders, engineers, and security officers who will own it, from a free readiness check to a private enterprise cohort. You leave with a business case you can defend to a board, and a credential anchored to a forensic ledger no one can quietly edit.

Start with the free readiness assessment, or a call. We talk first, then scope what fits your team.

This is not a slide. It runs in production today.

The Academy is taught on the same control plane it teaches. Every week, the platform checks its own course content against a canonical rate table, raises a classified drift event, and seals the result to a forensic ledger. You are trained on a system that governs itself, and shows you the entry.

Forensic ledger · self-governance Illustrative
Advisory Weekly content freshness checkcourse rates vs canonical table #0247
Sealed Human-approved, no auto-rewriteapprover + reason captured #0248
Illustrative entries. The mechanism is real and runs in production: records are append-only, content is computed and human-gated, never silently rewritten. Every credential resolves against the live ledger. Verify a credential ›
SBA Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business certified

Taught by William J. Storey III, the operator who built the platform.

A Service-Disabled Veteran and DoD federal contractor who served as an Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO), where "prove it to the auditor" was the daily standard. Not a slideware consultant.

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned SDVOSB DoD contractor · ISSO Built & runs the platform
Ways to train

Start where you are.

A free readiness check, the individual credential, or a private cohort for your team. Prefer the economics at your own pace? The self-paced course is always open.

Free

Readiness Assessment

$0

Result in minutes

Your team's AI control profile, anchored to the same governance ledger the cohort teaches.

  • Enterprise AI Control Readiness profile
  • Anchored to the governance ledger
  • No commitment, no sales call required
Individual credential

Governed Runtime Practitioner

$2,500 founding cohort

Six weeks, live · earned not attended

The live, assessment-based credential: a passed exam, graded labs, and a capstone you present and defend.

  • Six-week live cohort
  • Exam + graded labs + defended capstone
  • Verifiable ID in the public registry
Flagship · for teams

Private Enterprise Cohort

$25,000 / cohort

Up to 10 people · additional seats $1,950

A live, private cohort taught on the working platform, over four weeks. Your team keeps the governed course.

  • Live instructor-led, on the live platform
  • The governed course, yours to keep
  • 12 months of governed content updates
  • Ledger-anchored verifiable certificates
Self-serve · Digital products

Templates, workbooks & playbooks

From $29 · start today. Career-transition and consulting-practice tools from the Academy's digital products line — the AI Governance Role Matrix is free.

Not training — a review

Governed Architecture Review

Have your own AI system read by the person who built the control plane. An independent, ISSO-grade look at where it can exceed authority, where the human gates are missing, and whether every action leaves evidence you can defend. From $500.

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Who this is for

The people held responsible for AI, once it is in production.

Your team can tell you what the models do. This builds the capability to prove how each decision got made, and show an auditor the record.

01

Risk, compliance & governance leaders

You answer to auditors and regulators. You need evidence, not a status field.

02

AI, responsible-AI & data leaders

You are accountable for behavior and spend across teams and models.

03

ISSOs & security leads

You own the risk when AI acts. You need enforcement at runtime, and a record.

04

Teams moving AI to production

You are shipping agents that call APIs and move data, and need the control plane.

What the private cohort includes

Delivered over four weeks
$25,000 per cohort · up to 10 people
  • Live instructor-led sessions on the GIA platform
  • The full governed course asset, yours to keep
  • 12 months of governed content updates included
  • Gated session recordings for the whole team
  • Ledger-anchored verifiable completion certificates
  • Member portal access for every participant
What you leave with

Three things you can use the week you finish.

01

A governed business case

The economic model: what enterprise AI really costs, where the spend hides, and how to defend the number to a board.

02

The operator's playbook

How to gate high-stakes actions, codify policy your systems actually follow, and catch a runaway before it runs.

03

A ledger-verified credential

A completion credential anchored to the GIA forensic ledger. Not a PDF someone can forge. A record anyone can check.

A credential that verifies, not one that claims.

Anyone can print a certificate. Yours resolves against an append-only forensic ledger by public code. Not a claim. A check.

A hiring manager, a client, or an auditor enters the code and gets back a record they can trust, because it cannot be quietly edited after the fact.

  • Independently verifiable by a third party, no login required.
  • Anchored to the same ledger that governs the platform in production.
  • Tamper-evident: any change to a past record breaks the chain.
Verified on ledger Example
CredentialGoverned AI · Cohort
Holderverified by code
Ledger ref#GIA-0248
StatusIntact · unaltered
Enter a credential code at the public verify page to check any holder against the live GIA ledger.
The spine

Eight governed modules, anchored in runtime governance.

Runtime control is the spine: gates, human-approval holds, and a forensic ledger. Economics is the pillar that proves it pays. The through-line: governance saves money, and you can show the record.

01Mental Models for AI FluencyWhat is this thing actually doing?Light
02The Economics of TokensHow does AI actually cost money?Heavy
03Model Selection as an Economic DecisionWhich model, for which job, at what cost?Heavy
04TCO & ROI ModelingWhat does this really cost, and is it worth it?Heavy
05Budgeting, Forecasting & FinOpsHow do I not blow the budget?Heavy
06Governance as an Economic ControlHow does governance save money, not just cost it?Heavy
07Risk, Compliance & the Regulatory Cost CurveWhat does compliance cost, and non-compliance?Medium
08Production Reality: Patterns & Failure ModesWhat breaks, and how do I catch it?Medium

How the cohort runs.

Small by design. We start with a call, not a cart. If it is a fit, your team joins a working group solving the same problem you are, on your own stack.

Start with a call
4 wk
Live, instructor-led
10
Seats per cohort
12 months
Governed updates
Ledger
Verified credential
Governed Intelligence Architecture

Bring a real problem. Leave with a governed answer.

Start with the free readiness assessment, or book a 20-minute call to walk your profile and scope a cohort.

Questions? operations@aceadvising.com