Accreditation & Credibility

Benchmark Six Sigma is an Accredited Training Provider of Exemplar Global (formerly RABQSA), a globally recognized certification body and part of the ASQ (American Society for Quality) family.

Exemplar Global accreditation ensures consistent standards, credible assessments, and global acceptance — validating capability without replacing it.

Duration & Format

6 WEEKS | 9 HOURS COMMON LIVE SESSIONS | 25–33 HOURS TYPICAL TOTAL

Six weeks. Live online. Designed to fit around a working professional’s schedule.

Everyone attends a 1-hour live Foundation followed by four 2-hour live core sessions, one each week during Weeks 1–4. Between sessions, you apply what you are learning directly to your own real work in two confirmed domains.

Weeks 5–6 provide time for completion, coaching and live capstone vivas, scheduled as your work becomes ready for assessment.

Your expected total commitment

• Two standard domains: approximately 25–33 hours
• If you choose Analytics: approximately 27–35 hours, including one additional 2-hour live Analytics primer
• If you choose Business Applications: approximately 30–40 hours, including two additional 2-hour live build labs in Weeks 5–6

Business Applications uses Weeks 5–6 for supervised building rather than the standard completion period, with its viva scheduled after the build work is complete.

These workload ranges include live sessions and application work. They are current planning estimates and are being validated against the first CAIDA batches.

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Unique Value Proposition

Why CAIDA Is Different

Beyond using AI. Learn to direct it.

Most professionals are already learning how to use AI. CAIDA develops the next capability: directing AI professionally across real work.

You decide what AI should do and what should remain human. You define the outcome, provide the right evidence and boundaries, choose the route through the work, challenge weak output, test what can be trusted, and turn the result into something useful.

You remain accountable throughout.

That is the role of the Certified AI Direction Architect. “Architect” means architecting how AI is directed in your own work, not designing AI systems. Building AI solutions for others or for an organisation belongs to CAISA, the Certified AI Solution Architect credential.

A professional discipline for directing AI: DIRECT AI

CAIDA develops eight Direction Abilities, remembered as DIRECT AI:

• Delegate — decide what AI should and should not do, while ownership stays with you
• Intent — define the job, intended user, outcome and what good means
• Route — choose and sequence the route through the work
• Equip — provide the smallest sufficient set of relevant, authorised evidence, background and boundaries
• Course-correct — diagnose output, redirect intelligently and know when to stop
• Test — earn the right to rely on the result
• Apply — make the result useful at its real point of application
• Independent reuse — make successful direction repeatable by someone else

Together, the eight abilities form DIRECT AI, a practical operating discipline for directing AI across real work.

They are not eight rigid steps. They work together as an operating discipline. And CAIDA deliberately rejects a common assumption about AI capability: more prompts, more tools, more context and more iterations do not automatically mean better AI use. Better judgement does.

Real work. Demonstrated capability. Not attendance.

CAIDA is not earned by completing lessons.

You apply the Direction Abilities to your own genuine work and demonstrate them in at least two professional domains. Your applications may involve research, analytics, decisions, communication, recurring workflows or business applications.

Each domain requires a real-work capstone and a live viva. Every Direction Ability must reach the required standard.

That is why CAIDA certifies more than familiarity with AI. It records the domains in which you have demonstrated that you can direct it.

Your successful AI use becomes reusable

CAIDA does not stop when you produce a good result once.

You convert successful direction into a reusable AI Skill: a structured capability package containing the purpose, inputs, instructions, decision rules, human approval points, validation checks, safeguards and examples needed to use the approach again.

A Skill is not merely a saved prompt.

For the CAIDA credential, at least one Skill must be cold run by someone else without you guiding them. The real test of reuse is whether the capability survives when its creator leaves the room.

Responsible Direction is part of competence

CAIDA teaches a simple standard:

Test before you rely.

Asking the same AI to check its own output may be useful review, but it is not independent validation.

Responsible Direction runs through every domain and every capstone. Participants must protect authorised information, verify material claims, retain human authority over consequential decisions, avoid harmful use, disclose material AI involvement where required, and ensure AI-enabled workflows or tools have proper ownership and control.

These are not optional ethics points added at the end of the program. A serious Responsible Direction breach cannot be averaged away by strong performance elsewhere.

And every participant must be able to answer one final question:

When should this AI-enabled result not be used?

Live Learning and Direct Facilitation

Your CAIDA enrolment includes:

• a 1-hour mandatory live Foundation;
• four 2-hour live core sessions;
• live demonstrations of AI Direction in practice;
• critique of selected anonymised participant Direction Records;
• individual feedback and coaching in both confirmed domains;
• offline capstone pre-evaluation and a mandatory live viva for each domain.

Analytics also includes a 2-hour live primer at no additional fee. Business Applications includes two additional 2-hour live build labs and carries a separate supplement.

Your Own Work as the Application

Your assessed work is never a classroom simulation.

In each of your two domains, you develop one substantial application using genuine work you own or are accountable for. The work develops through four staged Direction Records, with feedback as you progress.

You finish each domain with a real deliverable and a reusable AI Skill, with before-and-after evidence where the work supports it.

Personal AI Direction Report

After enrolment, you complete a nine-question Diagnostic about your work, not about your knowledge of AI.

Your personal AI Direction Report helps identify where AI Direction may create the most useful leverage in your work. It proposes two provisional domains, plus one more worth considering.

You make the final domain choice after Foundation.

The Diagnostic is developmental guidance, not an entrance test or competence score.

Individual Feedback, Coaching and Assessment

Every participant receives:

• trainer review of Direction Records;
• detailed individual feedback in both confirmed domains;
• coaching during the application period;
• capstone pre-evaluation;
• a mandatory live viva;
• one included resubmission if a capstone is Not Yet Demonstrated.

CAIDA is deliberately capacity-limited because every participant receives individual review, coaching and live assessment.

Reusable AI Skills

CAIDA does not stop at getting a good result once.

You convert successful AI Direction into a reusable Skill containing the instructions, context, decision rules, safeguards and validation checks needed to use the approach again.

At least one Skill must be successfully cold-run by another person without you guiding them in real time.

Community and Continuing Access

You retain access to:

• completed program materials;
• the CAIDA alumni community;
• open clinics;
• your private capability profile and credential record.

Your public verification shows the domains you have demonstrated and when.

Certified AI Direction Architect Credential

The CAIDA credential is awarded after you have demonstrated the required standard in two domains.

Your credential:

• records the domains you have demonstrated;
• carries one permanent credential ID;
• can be extended later by adding further demonstrated domains;
• has lifetime validity;
• is publicly verifiable through a QR-linked online record.

There are no separate module badges or sub-certificates. Additional domains extend the same credential.

Learning Outcomes

Direct AI Professionally

Learn and apply the eight Direction Abilities of DIRECT AI:

• Delegate what AI should and should not do
• Intent define the job, outcome and what good means
• Route choose how the work should proceed
• Equip AI with the right evidence, context and boundaries
• Course-correct weak output and know when to stop
• Test before you rely
• Apply the result where it is actually needed
• Independent reuse make successful direction repeatable by someone else

These abilities work across suitable generative-AI tools rather than belonging to one platform. CAIDA is deliberately tool-agnostic.

Work at the Level of Judgment, Not Just Prompts

CAIDA takes you beyond asking AI for answers.

You learn to decide what belongs with AI, what must remain human, what evidence is needed, how the work should be structured, how output should be challenged, and what must be verified before anyone relies on it.

The goal is not more AI use. It is better-directed AI use.

Apply AI to Your Own Real Work

You develop capability through genuine work in two professional domains.

Depending on the domains you choose, your application may involve:

• research and knowledge;
• analytics;
• problem solving and decision making;
• high-stakes communication;
• recurring workflows;
• lightweight business applications.

Your credential records the domains in which you have actually demonstrated application. CAIDA develops the common Direction abilities across domains, but does not claim that competence demonstrated in one automatically proves competence in another.

Finish With Work You Can Use

Your learning produces real outputs rather than classroom exercises.

Depending on your domains, these may include research briefs, analyses, decision records, communications, redesigned workflows or working business tools.

You also convert successful direction into reusable AI Skills, with at least one Skill successfully cold-run by another person.

Build Judgment You Can Reuse

Tools will change. The Direction discipline is designed to transfer across them.

You learn to:

• decide when AI is appropriate and when it is not;
• protect confidential and restricted information;
• test claims and calculations before relying on them;
• retain human ownership of consequential decisions;
• turn successful approaches into reusable capability.

This is the part of CAIDA intended to remain useful even as individual AI products change.

Designed for Non-Technical Professionals

No programming background is required, and no prior AI experience is assumed.

You need access to a suitable generative-AI tool and genuine work you are accountable for. You may work in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot or another suitable platform approved for your environment.

Business Applications normally also requires a separate platform in which to build.

One Credential That Can Grow With You

You earn the Certified AI Direction Architect credential after demonstrating the required standard in two domains.

Later, you can add further domains to the same credential as your work evolves. The credential remains lifetime valid, while Practice Updates provide a separate indication of current practice

Topics Covered

Topics Covered

CAIDA runs as one six-week batch that mixes all six domains. Everyone takes Foundation and the four live core sessions together, then applies the method in two domains of their choice. All six domains are peers: no prerequisites between them, no fixed order, and any pair permitted.

Foundation (mandatory — one live online hour, immediately before your Week 1 session)

• The complete discipline of directing AI — DIRECT AI: Delegate, Intent, Route, Equip, Course-correct, Test, Apply, Independent reuse. The eight abilities are taught as one interacting loop, not eight rigid steps, with a trainer demonstrating a full direction cycle end to end.
• The six Responsible Direction red lines that govern everything after it, with worked examples of how each one fails a capstone: test before you rely, protect confidential data, keep consequential decisions human.
• The six domains in enough depth to choose, then your domain decision: you confirm or change your provisional pair by the Monday after your Week 1 session.
• An automatically scored knowledge check (80% to pass, with every Responsible Direction question correct) and one reassessment opportunity. Foundation scores never appear on your credential.

The common core — four live sessions, with the whole batch together

• Week 1 — Demonstrate and begin: a live demonstration of directing patterns on real work, then guided application to your own, and your first application task set.
• Week 2 — Critique and improve: anonymised participant Direction Records dissected against the rubric, ability by ability — where the intent was clear, where the testing failed.
• Week 3 — Stretch and prepare: whole Direction Records critiqued end to end, harder patterns, reusable-Skill development and capstone preparation.
• Week 4 — Confirm and consolidate: capstones due by the end of the week, at least 72 hours before your viva.
• Weeks 5–6 — Vivas and completion, scheduled when your evidence is ready, plus the Business Applications build labs.

Each case is carried from one domain into another, so you learn the ability, not just the example.

Then your two domains, proposed by your AI Direction Report and confirmed by you after Foundation:

Domain 1 — AI Direction: Research & Knowledge

• Frame research questions and evidence standards, direct deep research with a defensible source strategy, and work through long documents with full traceability.
• Synthesize and reconcile conflicting evidence, get up to speed on unfamiliar domains, and build reusable Skills — from the Evidence-Backed Research Brief to the Get-Up-To-Speed Tutor.

Domain 2 — AI Direction: Analytics

• Move from a real business question to defensible insight: metric definitions, data readiness and provenance, method and assumption choices, and interpretation that separates what the data shows from what you infer. A two-hour live primer on the Tuesday after launch levels entry data literacy first.
• Validate and reproduce every material calculation, tell the analytical story visually, and build Skills like the Performance & Variance Analyzer and Insight-to-Action Brief.

Domain 3 — AI Direction: Problem Solving & Decision Making

• Frame and decompose real problems, explore cause hypotheses with evidence, generate genuine options, and set decision criteria before scoring — with AI as a rigorous thinking partner, never the decision-maker.
• Red-team your own conclusion with premortems and adversarial challenge, then produce a decision record that survives scrutiny — with Skills like the Cause Hypothesis Explorer and Premortem & Scenario Challenger.

Domain 4 — AI Direction: Influence & High-Stakes Communication

• Define what your audience must understand, trust, decide or do; build message architecture before drafting; and keep an authentic voice that sounds like you at your best.
• Adapt one message across stakeholders, channels and live conversations — ethically, with verified facts — using Skills like the Storyline Architect and Stakeholder Message Adapter.

Domain 5 — AI Direction: Workflow & Productivity Systems

• Find the recurring work worth redesigning, map its real current state, and divide the work deliberately between human and AI — eliminate first, orchestrate last.
• Handle exceptions, approvals and sensitive information; measure the before and after; and build systems like the Inbox or Request Triage System and the Meeting-to-Actions System that keep the time reclaimed.

Domain 6 — AI Direction: Business Applications

• Scope and build small working tools — trackers, dashboards, approval flows — without becoming a developer, including the judgment of when not to build. Two live build labs in weeks 5 and 6 give you supervised construction time.
• Design data, rules and permissions; test exceptions and misuse; deploy, hand over and own the tool, so it survives you stepping away.
• Scope stays within four conditions:
  • you build, own and maintain it alone;
  • its users are named individuals;
  • it runs safely without a governance artefact;
  • you can restore the manual process if it fails.

Beyond that is CAISA territory.

Between sessions: application in both confirmed domains. Each domain gets one live application, built through staged Direction Records due 48 hours before the next core session, with Week 4’s due alongside your capstone. Most of your commitment sits here: roughly 8–12 hours per domain across the batch, including capstone and viva.

Your capstone is a real deliverable, assessed on all eight abilities against a four-level scale: 0 Not evidenced, 1 Developing, 2 Demonstrated, 3 Strong. To pass:

• every ability must reach at least Demonstrated;
• your domain’s Apply floor — its real-use requirement — must be met;
• no Responsible Direction concern may remain unresolved.

Work assessed as Not Yet Demonstrated gets specific feedback and one included resubmission. If it still falls short, you receive an individual development plan and can re-demonstrate the domain in a later batch, without repeating Foundation or the core.

Target Audience (Professional Roles, Experience Level)

• Who CAIDA Is ForCAIDA is designed for professionals whose work involves understanding information, analysing data, making decisions, communicating with others, improving recurring work or creating lightweight business tools.It is relevant across roles such as:
  • operations and functional management;
  • consulting and business analysis;
  • finance;
  • quality, Lean Six Sigma and Business Excellence;
  • HR, sales and marketing;
  • project and product management;
  • training and education;
  • entrepreneurship and independent consulting.

  You do not need to work in technology. CAIDA is about directing AI in work you already understand and are accountable for.

  It is particularly natural for Lean Six Sigma and process-improvement professionals because the Problem Solving & Decision Making domain extends familiar disciplines of framing, evidence, alternatives and validation into AI-assisted work.

Prerequisites (Required/Recommended Knowledge)

• What You NeedNo programming background, technical AI background or prior AI experience is required.You do need:
  • basic digital fluency;
  • access to at least one suitable generative-AI tool, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot;
  • genuine work that you are accountable for and can use during the program.

  A free AI plan may be sufficient where it supports the work you need to do. Your organisation’s rules on approved tools and information use always apply.

  Employment is not required. Consulting, freelance, entrepreneurial, nonprofit and other genuine accountable work can qualify. A purely fictional classroom case cannot satisfy the real-work requirement.

  What Your Chosen Domains Require

  Because CAIDA is applied to real work, each domain needs something concrete to work on:

  • Research & Knowledge: documents or sources you are permitted to work with
  • Analytics: a real dataset you are authorised to use, or an appropriate sanitised extract
  • Problem Solving & Decision Making: a live problem or decision you own or materially influence
  • Influence & High-Stakes Communication: a genuine upcoming communication for an identifiable audience
  • Workflow & Productivity Systems: a recurring workflow that will actually run during the batch
  • Business Applications: a real user, authorised data and a suitable platform in which to build

  For example, Analytics explicitly requires access to a real authorised dataset and, where restricted, a sanitised or representative extract identified before Week 1. CAIDA Domain Application Spec 2… Business Applications requires real use by another person and a build platform beyond the AI tool. CAIDA – 25th October 2026

  You Choose Your Domains After Foundation

  You enrol in CAIDA, not in individual domains.

  After enrolment, the Diagnostic proposes a provisional pair of domains, plus one more worth considering. After Foundation, you confirm or change your two domains before application begins.

Recommended Prior Courses (if applicable)

None required — Foundation assumes nothing.

Interactive Components (Practice projects, Case studies, Quizzes)

• • Live demonstrations and cross-domain cases: see the Eight Direction Abilities applied to different kinds of professional work.
  • Application on your own work: develop one substantial application in each of your two confirmed domains through four staged Direction Records.
  • Live critique: selected anonymised participant records are examined with the batch, so you learn from work across different domains.
  • Individual feedback: every submission receives a trainer check, and every participant receives detailed feedback on at least one submission in each confirmed domain.
  • Real-work capstones and live vivas: your capstone is pre-evaluated by the trainer and confirmed through a mandatory live viva.
  • Reusable Skills: convert successful AI Direction into reusable capability. At least one Skill must be successfully cold-run by another person.
  • Foundation knowledge check: confirm your understanding of DIRECT AI and Responsible Direction before progressing through the program.

Support Services (Forums, Technical Support, Post-training guidance)

• Trainer guidance: receive feedback and coaching as you develop your applications and capstones.
• AI tool guidance: work in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot or another suitable generative-AI tool available to you and permitted by your organisation.
• CAIDA Academy: access your submissions, feedback, learning materials, assessment records and credential information in one place.
• Peer and alumni access: learn alongside professionals from different functions and industries, with continuing access to the alumni community and open clinics after certification.
• Session recovery: live participation is central to CAIDA. One common-core session may be recovered through the approved recording if unavoidable; Foundation and required domain-specific sessions remain live-only.
• Continuing access: retain completed materials, open-clinic access and credential verification after the program.

Certification Earned

You earn the Certified AI Direction Architect (CAIDA) credential after demonstrating the required standard in two domains.

The credential requires:

• completion of the nine-question Diagnostic;
• a passed Foundation assessment;
• required live attendance, subject to the published recovery rules;
• a Demonstrated capstone and mandatory live viva in each of two domains;
• authentic, accountable real-world use in at least one capstone;
• at least one reusable Skill successfully cold-run by another person;
• no unresolved Responsible Direction, authenticity or verification concern.

Once awarded, you hold the designation Certified AI Direction Architect.

Value to Employers (Efficiency, Cost Reduction, Quality Improvement)

CAIDA is designed to create value through better-directed AI use in real work. The actual impact depends on the work selected, the tools available and the organisation’s operating conditions.

Operational Efficiency

Participants may use CAIDA to:

• reduce effort in recurring work such as reporting, review preparation, meeting follow-through and routine analysis;
• shorten selected research, analysis and drafting cycles while retaining validation;
• standardise successful approaches through reusable AI Skills;
• redesign recurring workflows with clear ownership, exception handling and measurement.

Where the Workflow domain is chosen, improvement is measured against the participant’s own baseline rather than a claimed average.

Cost Reduction

Potential cost benefits may come from:

• using an existing suitable AI platform rather than being tied to a specific provider;
• reducing avoidable rework through clearer intent, better evidence and earlier validation;
• turning successful approaches into reusable Skills that others can run;
• building bounded internal tools in the Business Applications domain where that is appropriate.

A free AI plan may be sufficient for some work, but CAIDA does not promise that no additional licence or platform will ever be needed. Business Applications normally requires a separate build platform.

Quality Improvement

CAIDA develops practices such as:

• research with material claims traceable to evidence;
• reproducible analysis with independently checked calculations;
• decisions with assumptions, alternatives and challenges made visible;
• communication checked for factual accuracy, audience fit and reputational risk;
• human ownership of consequential decisions;
• explicit limits on when an AI-assisted result should not be used.

Responsible Direction is non-compensable: a capstone that crosses a red line cannot pass until the issue is satisfactorily corrected.

These are built into the assessment standard rather than treated as optional good practice.

Career Goals (Roles you can aim for post-certification)

CAIDA does not qualify you for a single new occupation. Certified AI Direction Architect is a business capability that can be practised within many professional roles, rather than a technical job title.

The capability can be relevant to career directions involving:

• AI adoption and transformation;
• business analysis and decision support;
• operational excellence and process improvement;
• research and insights;
• workflow and productivity improvement;
• internal consulting;
• functional leadership;
• responsible AI enablement and capability development.

Examples may include roles such as AI Adoption Lead, Digital Transformation Lead, Business Analyst, Decision Support Specialist, Operational Excellence Leader, Process Improvement Manager, Internal Consultant, Research & Insights Lead, or Team AI Capability Lead, depending on the person’s prior experience and organisational context.

CAIDA strengthens the ability to direct and apply AI in such work. It does not by itself guarantee a new role, promotion or employment outcome.

Bundled Programs (Packages or pathways that include this course)

Suggested Sequence

• 1. 1. See CAIDA in action, if you wish. Join the optional Free Live Awareness Session to see the method demonstrated before you enrol.
     2. Enrol in CAIDA. Choose a Saturday or Sunday batch. You enrol in the program, not in individual domains.
     3. Complete your Diagnostic. Nine questions about your work produce your personal AI Direction Report and a provisional pair of domains, plus one more worth considering.
     4. Attend Foundation and confirm your domains. Foundation introduces DIRECT AI, Responsible Direction and all six domains. You then confirm or change your two domains before application begins. This sequence is canonical: enrolment comes first, then Diagnostic, Foundation and final domain confirmation.
     5. Apply CAIDA to your own work. Complete the four live core sessions while developing real applications in both confirmed domains, followed by your capstones and mandatory live vivas.
     6. Earn the CAIDA credential. Once both domains and all credential requirements are demonstrated, you become a Certified AI Direction Architect.
     7. Add domains later if useful. Additional domains are completed through a later running CAIDA batch and added to the same credential, extending your demonstrated scope.

     Related Pathways

     CAIDA and CAISA
     If your objective is to design and build AI solutions for other people or for an organisation, CAISA – Certified AI Solution Architect is the peer credential. It is a different craft, not a higher level of CAIDA.

     CAIDA and Lean Six Sigma
     For Lean Six Sigma and Business Excellence professionals, CAIDA can complement existing improvement capability by adding structured AI Direction to real work. The Problem Solving & Decision Making domain is particularly relevant where the work involves problem framing, evidence, alternatives, trade-offs and decisions.

Return on Investment (Salary increase potential, Recognition)

Build Capability While Working on Work You Already Have

CAIDA is designed around a six-week batch for working professionals. Your expected total commitment is approximately:

• 25–33 hours with two standard domains;
• 27–35 hours if one domain is Analytics;
• 30–40 hours if one domain is Business Applications.

These ranges include live sessions and application work. They are current planning estimates and are being validated against the first batches.

Much of that application time is spent on your own genuine work rather than separate classroom exercises. Your assessed applications may become research, analysis, decisions, communications, redesigned workflows or working business tools that you actually need.

Recognition Backed by Demonstrated Work

CAIDA is not awarded for attendance alone.

Your credential records the domains in which you have demonstrated AI Direction capability. Public verification shows those completed domains and dates, and the certificate links to the authoritative online record through its QR code.

The designation Certified AI Direction Architect therefore represents assessed application in real work, not simply completion of an AI course.

Potential Value During the Program

Depending on your domains and the work you choose, CAIDA can help you aim to:

• reduce effort in recurring work and measure the before-and-after where appropriate;
• produce research and analysis that can withstand scrutiny;
• strengthen decisions through explicit evidence, alternatives and challenge;
• improve high-stakes communication;
• redesign a recurring workflow and run it in practice;
• build and hand over a bounded business tool for real use.

These are potential workplace benefits, not guaranteed financial or career outcomes. The canonical standard specifically requires productivity, time-saving, promotion, employability, income and business-impact claims to be presented as potential rather than assured results.

Before You Enrol

Calendar: Sunday batch

• Sun 25 Oct: Foundation, 2:30–3:30 PM IST, followed by Week 1, 3:30–5:30 PM IST
• Tue 27 Oct: Analytics primer, 7:30 PM IST, if you confirm Analytics
• Sun 1 Nov: Week 2
• Sun 8 Nov: No session
• Sun 15 Nov: Week 3
• Sun 22 Nov: Week 4
• Sun 29 Nov and Sun 6 Dec: Weeks 5–6, completion and vivas; Business Applications build labs

Next Saturday batch: Foundation and Week 1 begin 21 Nov 2026.

Your commitment. Expect approximately 25–33 hours with two standard domains, 27–35 hours with Analytics, or 30–40 hours with Business Applications. These estimates include both live sessions and your own application work and are being validated against the first batches. The curriculum specifically requires the product page to show realistic total commitment, not merely classroom hours.

Domain choice. You enrol in CAIDA, not in individual domains. After enrolment, your Diagnostic proposes a provisional pair. You confirm or change your two domains after Foundation. If suitable work for two domains is not available during the batch, the application component can be deferred without penalty.

Fees.

• Standard CAIDA enrolment: INR 52,700 + GST
• Business Applications supplement: INR 15,500 + GST, payable only if you confirm that domain after Foundation
• One free transfer to a later batch is permitted

The Business Applications supplement is separate because that pathway includes two additional live build labs.

Live attendance. Foundation is live-only. Of the four common-core sessions, one may be recovered through the approved recording if unavoidably missed. Required domain-specific sessions follow their published rollover rules.

Certification is by demonstration. Completing the sessions does not automatically earn CAIDA. Each of your two domains must meet the required assessment standard. A capstone may be assessed Not Yet Demonstrated, with an included resubmission route.

Business Applications. This pathway uses Weeks 5–6 for live build labs rather than the standard completion period. Its capstone is due at the end of Week 6 and the viva follows shortly afterwards.

Analytics and Business Applications sessions. The Analytics primer and Business Applications build labs are live requirements and cannot be recovered through recordings.

Capacity. Enrolment is capacity-limited because CAIDA includes individual feedback, coaching and live assessment.

Platform requirement. Most domains require only a suitable generative-AI tool. Business Applications normally also requires a separate platform in which to build.

Capacity Limits

Capacity is limited because every participant receives individual feedback, coaching, offline capstone pre-evaluation and a mandatory live viva. Enrolment in a batch may close before it looks full, depending on the mix of domains confirmed, so enrol early to secure the next batch rather than the one after.

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