AI for Business Institute

Learning + assessment

The full programme, then the accreditation that proves it.

Every domain course in the Institute standard, plus the AIFB Practitioner assessment and one free re-sit. You learn the standard, then you are examined against it.

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What you get

9 domains, 45 criteria, one coherent standard.

The programme mirrors the framework the Institute assesses against. Each domain course works through its five criteria, so what you study and what you are examined on are the same thing.

  1. D1
    Leadership & Strategy

    Domain 1 of the AI for Business Institute practitioner standard, built on the five canonical criteria. Formulate an AI strategy that traces to business objectives; establish a taskforce with real decision rights; prioritise and resource a roadmap that removes as well as adds; publish a policy and approval route staff will actually use; and communicate, scan and review on a defined cadence.

    5 modules · 20 lessons
  2. D2
    Infrastructure & Technology

    Domain 2 of the AI for Business Institute practitioner standard. Assess a technology stack against named use cases rather than in the abstract; close the readiness gaps that stall first deployments; plan for scale where cost rises with success; evaluate tools on exit cost and adoption rather than demonstrations; and manage vendor dependency so a deprecation notice is a plan rather than a crisis.

    5 modules · 21 lessons
  3. D3
    Use Cases, Efficiencies & ROI

    Domain 3 of the AI for Business Institute practitioner standard. Find candidates by observing where processes lose time rather than by collecting ideas; prioritise on impact, feasibility, alignment and risk; measure gains against a baseline captured before deployment; build an ROI case that survives a finance review; and run a pipeline that moves pilots into production rather than accumulating them.

    5 modules · 22 lessons
  4. D4
    Project Management & Collaboration

    Domain 4 of the AI for Business Institute practitioner standard. Choose and adapt a delivery method for work whose outcome cannot be specified in advance; build assurance gates that hold when a date is under pressure; establish shared ownership in objectives rather than in meetings; apply the delivery practices specific to AI, from prompt versioning to pilot exit criteria; and govern AI investment alongside everything else the organisation funds.

    5 modules · 20 lessons
  5. D5
    Talent & Skills

    Domain 5 of the AI for Business Institute practitioner standard. Build AI competence in leadership through the challenge decisions receive; design literacy programmes that change behaviour rather than record attendance; develop role-based capability against a framework and evidence it in real work; diagnose and retain scarce AI talent; and manage the workforce dimension of AI-driven role change before deployment rather than after.

    5 modules · 20 lessons
  6. D6
    Customer & Employee Experience

    Domain 6 of the AI for Business Institute practitioner standard. Diagnose and evidence AI's effect on customer experience before acting; distinguish genuine employee experience applications from surveillance; design the controls that protect a customer in AI contact; capture feedback through mechanisms that reach the people the tool failed; and close the loop by telling users what changed.

    5 modules · 20 lessons
  7. D7
    Data Governance & Risk

    Domain 7 of the AI for Business Institute practitioner standard. Build a data governance framework that covers the whole AI lifecycle; judge data quality by representativeness rather than accuracy; assess residency and data protection where inference and logging actually occur; defend against prompt injection and treat model outputs as untrusted; and control AI agents that can act with scoped permissions, thresholds and an accessible kill switch.

    5 modules · 20 lessons
  8. D8
    Ethics & Compliance

    Domain 8 of the AI for Business Institute practitioner standard. Embed ethics across the AI lifecycle through a stage gate rather than a final review; determine regulatory obligations by classifying each system on intended use; detect bias and understand why removing a protected field does not remove it; give affected people plain-language explanations with a route to human review; and check the licence, IP and provenance of training data before use.

    5 modules · 20 lessons
  9. D9
    Performance & Continuous Improvement

    Domain 9 of the AI for Business Institute practitioner standard. Monitor live AI systems for output quality and act on leading indicators; enforce an evaluation and testing discipline built on golden datasets and regression; run an improvement and release process proven by exercised rollback and shipped changes; establish post-deployment ownership and a post-implementation review that tests the business case; and run corrective action that knows when to decommission.

    5 modules · 20 lessons

How it works

Learn the standard. Practise the decisions. Prove it.

1 · Learn

Work through each domain at your own pace. Every criterion has its own module, with worked examples of what good evidence actually looks like.

2 · Practise

Scenario questions put you in the decision rather than the definition. You see the reasoning behind the answer, not just the mark.

3 · Prove

Sit the accreditation assessment. Pass, and your certificate number is published to the public register at /verify.

The assessment

Exactly what the exam asks of you.

Accreditation is earned, not purchased. These are the standards your attempt is measured against.

Part A · 90 scored questions

120 minutes, drawn live across all 45 criteria so no two papers are the same.

Pass mark · 70%

You must also reach 60% in every single domain — a strong average cannot carry a weak one. This is an interim cut score pending a standard-setting panel.

Part B · 2,000–2,500 words

A written submission with 3–5 supporting artefacts, due within 14 days and marked by a human assessor within 15 working days.

Valid for 3 years

Your certificate number stays publicly checkable at /verify for as long as it is current.

Buying this pathway does not award accreditation. It gives you the learning and one examined attempt, plus a free re-sit if the first does not go your way.

Before you buy

The questions people actually ask.

How long do I have access?

Indefinitely. There is no renewal fee on the learning material and no expiry on your enrolment.

Can I buy one domain instead?

Yes. Every domain is sold separately at $250. The programme is the cheaper route once you want more than two. Browse individual domains.

What happens if I fail the exam?

One free re-sit is included. You only re-sit the component you did not pass, and your result is released once marking is complete.

Do you invoice organisations?

Yes. Team seats are arranged directly with the Institute rather than bought through this page. Talk to us about team access.

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Enter it at checkout. The discount is applied before payment, and a code that covers the full price enrols you without charging a card.

Full Course + Accreditation

9 domain courses · 183 lessons · accreditation exam and free re-sit

$2,000