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Certification

Certified means assessed on production work.

Not a course, not a badge, not a two-day workshop. An assessment of what an engineer can actually do when the system is real and somebody is depending on it.

It is also how you apply to work here. We hire only from the certified list, so this is the front door rather than a step after one.

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01  ·  Curriculum

Four parts, none of them theoretical.

Roughly six weeks alongside delivery work, not instead of it. Engineers pay for certification themselves, and we refund it in full on the day they pass.

  • 01

    AI-native ways of working

    Holding architecture and judgement while agents do production work. What to delegate, what to check, and what never to delegate.

  • 02

    The 10x Factory methodology

    How scope, architecture, review and handover change shape when delivery runs an order of magnitude faster.

  • 03

    The delivery platform

    Hands-on with the proprietary platform every engagement runs on, including where it is unreliable and why that matters.

  • 04

    Production assessment

    The final gate is real delivery under review. An engineer either shipped something to our standard or they did not.

02  ·  Who it is for

Our engineers. And, increasingly, yours.

Every 10x Factory engineer is certified before they are put on an engagement. We also certify client engineers directly. On several engagements that was the highest-value thing we did, and the client ended up needing fewer of our people.

That is the intended direction. A capability you have to keep renting is not a capability.

  • Experienced engineersSubstantial production background. This is not an entry route into engineering.
  • Client engineering teamsRun as a cohort inside an existing engagement, against your own codebase.
  • Delivery leadsA shorter track focused on scoping, review and handover rather than build.
  • Re-validated, not renewedCertification is re-assessed when the tooling moves, not on a billing calendar.

03  ·  How it runs

From application to certified.

  1. 01

    Technical conversation

    Ninety minutes with two of our engineers, about systems you have owned and what went wrong with them.

  2. 02

    Methodology and tooling

    Structured work through the methodology and the delivery platform, against a real codebase rather than an exercise.

  3. 03

    Supervised delivery

    Production work on a live engagement, reviewed by a certified engineer throughout.

  4. 04

    Certified

    Granted against that delivery, and re-validated as the tooling changes.

You pay for certification yourself. We refund it in full when you pass, so the cost falls on the outcome rather than on the attempt.

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