Standards is not deployed by guesswork. The academy teaches the data model, the agents and going live, then checks that it stuck. Every track ends in an exam, and every exam awards a badge.
It is all online, at your own pace, and free at all three levels. What it costs is the time you put in.
The badge is not an image emailed to you. It is a verifiable record, with its holder, its track and its date.
Three moves, in that order. The third is the one your clients care about.
Short modules, online, picked up whenever you want. No slot to book, no session to wait for.
A quiz at the first level, a practical case at the second, a defence at the third. The difficulty follows what the level allows you to do.
A public record with your name, the track, the date and its number. A client can check it without asking you.
You come in through the first one. The next two open the partner program, and the right to deploy under your own name.
20 questions, 30 minutes, 80 % to pass. Two retakes included.
The Referrer level, and the right to present Standards to clients.
40 questions, then a graded case study: a schema to deliver for a trade drawn at random, 48 hours to hand it in.
The Integrator level, the directory, and resale pricing.
An oral defence in front of two Standards engineers. You present a real installation and answer for your choices.
The Publisher level, and the right to train your own teams.
The same for everyone, at every level. They are here because an academy that hides its marking scheme is not one.
The quiz is a platform form. The paper is a record. The badge is an attribute, and its verification page a public view. So you learn the platform on the platform.
It is the same mechanism Lilycare already uses to collect and check the documents in an income-protection file. A form, typed answers, a check, a status. An exam asks for nothing more.
One useful consequence: the day you want to run your own exams for your teams or your clients, you will already know how, and you will have nothing to buy.
Four modules, twenty questions, and the badge right after. It asks for no prerequisite and costs nothing.