Anyone can learn AI.
An AI-native credential — for everyone learning to direct AI.
Train on the stack companies actually use. Earn a portfolio-backed credential. Land jobs employers are hiring for now.
or compare the three paths →All paths lead to their own credentials and talent pipeline.
Operate primarily through Claude Code and ChatGPT. The AI does the heavy lifting — the skill is in directing it.
Ship real, working tools without writing production code. Internal dashboards, automations, domain-specific assistants.
Architect AI-first systems, integrate via Codex and MCP, ship production code with AI in the loop. Not autocomplete — agentic.
Every week ends with shipped work. Every program ends with a working capstone, a verified credential, and visibility to employers.
Pick your path. No GPA, no pedigree, no prior AI experience required.
Learn the actual stack companies deploy — Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, MCP. Graded on what you ship, not what you can recite.
Take a proctored, task-based exam. Earn the AI-Native credential. Renews annually.
Use your credential and portfolio when applying for AI-fluent roles. Companies are hiring for these skills now.
Postings for early-career roles are collapsing while AI-skill postings climb. The gap is opening in months, not years.
PwC tracks the wage premium for AI-skilled roles vs. comparable non-AI roles in the same field. In 12 months it more than doubled. This is not a future trend — it's already in payroll data.
Each year, the gap between AI-native and AI-ignorant compounded. 2026 is the year the credential exists.
The public meets AI. Fear and excitement begin at the same time.
Firms deploy Copilot, legal AI, ESG tools. Employees can't use them.
Layoffs in tech, consulting, and legal start citing AI capability gaps as a primary driver. "AI replacement" enters earnings-call vocabulary.
Non-programmers build real tools with AI. The gap becomes teachable.
No standard for "AI-Native" exists yet. AI is now a routinely cited driver of U.S. tech layoffs (Challenger, 2025). Columba fills the vacuum — now.
Sign up →For final-year students, recent grads, and 0–3 year professionals whose work is changing faster than their resume can prove.
Your degree got you in the room. AI fluency gets you the offer. Build the skills the job posting actually wants.
You're capable of way more than your manager asks for. Learn how to ship 3× the output and prove it.
Don't be the one who got displaced. Be the one whose colleagues come asking for help.
Foundation models — Claude, GPT, Gemini — and the editors, agent frameworks, and platforms that wrap them. The actual stack companies deploy, not classroom demos.
Every assignment is graded on what you ship inside these tools. Not what you can recite about them.
Three outcomes. All three matter to employers. None of them are theoretical.
A task-based assessment, not multiple choice. Renews annually so it stays current as the tools change.
A real artifact employers can review. Plus the recordings of how you directed AI to build it.
Your credential and capstone are what you bring to the table when applying for AI-fluent roles. Employers can verify the cert, review the artifact, and see how you directed AI — long before the interview.
Releasing soon. Every AI-Native graduate gets a public profile they can share with employers — credential, capstone artifacts, and a workflow reel showing how they directed AI. You apply; the profile is the asset that makes the application stand up.
Quick answers. More on the Paths page.
Columba is a working environment for AI-native skill. Every lesson mirrors a real production task and every rubric is grounded in shippable output. You log in, ship a real artifact, and build a credential employers can verify.
Every lesson is built around the actual tasks teams ship every day. Each one drops you into a real task with real tools — Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex — and you ship an artifact graded against a published, real-world rubric.
"Build a compliance audit dashboard from this CSV. Use any AI surface. Submit by end of session." Each brief mirrors a real production task — not a textbook exercise.
Columba runs your output against the rubric and leaves inline feedback. Pass and the next step unlocks. Fail and you see exactly what to fix.
A credential is only as serious as the standard behind it. Columba grades on three axes — the artifact, your judgment, and how you direct AI. No content libraries. No completion certificates.
Three-axis grading. Every capstone is scored on the artifact (does the work meet a published, real-world rubric), judgment (the decisions you defended along the way), and AI direction (how you scoped, prompted, retried, and corrected). The full rubric ships with every brief. Reviewers see your workflow recording before they see your result.
Your capstone lives on your dashboard from week one — drafted, reviewed, revised, shipped. Each version is checked against the rubric and surfaces notes inline, where you're working.
Every revision is preserved. You — and any employer you share with — see how the artifact evolved, not just the final cut.
As you work, Columba records every prompt, retry, edit, and correction. The recording is what employers ask to see.
Replay any session, annotate the turns that mattered, tag the recording to a capstone version. When you need to show why you went this direction, the answer is on the timeline.
The AI-Native credential compounds. Every passed lesson, every reviewed capstone version, every annotated workflow advances it. You see exactly what's left.
42 of 60 lesson tasks passed. Each one is a real artifact in your work history, graded against a published, real-world rubric.
70% · ON TRACK
v0.3 shipped, two review passes accepted. One revision left before final sign-off and credential lock.
75% · REVIEW STAGE
Twelve sessions captured. You've labeled four — those become the highlight reel employers see on your public profile.
48% · LABEL MORE
Toggle your profile public and hiring partners see the version of you Columba has verified — credential status, capstone artifacts, the workflow reels you chose to feature. The work is the application. Sample profile shown — illustrative.
Send this URL with your application. A hiring manager opens it and sees the credential, three featured capstones, and a 90-second workflow reel — proof you can do the work before the first interview.
Toggle the whole profile off while you're learning. Share a private link with one recruiter. Or flip public and enter the pipeline the moment your credential lands. Every workflow reel is yours to redact, label, or hide.
One pipeline. Three shapes of AI-native skill. Build with code, judgment, or no-code surfaces — and ship work that's verifiable from day one.
Capstones are reviewed in public on Columba. Companies watch how learners direct AI as they ship. The board below is a representative sample — names and scores illustrate the format, not real graduates.
Train, hire, certify, and keep your workforce current — in one contract.
Our enterprise team will reach out within one business day.
Beta · launching July 2026
Most vendors sell you one of these. Columba bundles all four — because AI capability isn't training, or hiring, or compliance. It's all of it, kept current.
Enroll early-career employees in Builder, Professional, or Developer. Same standard as external grads — applied to the people you already have.
One searchable pipeline — students, working professionals, and career-switchers across every track. We give you what an interview can't: rubric-graded artifacts, capstone projects shipped to production standards, and recordings of exactly how each candidate directs AI. Hire on evidence, not on a polished resume.
Set proficiency bars by role. Track in real time. Get alerts before lapse. One dashboard for AI readiness across the org.
A bank's "AI-Native Credit Analyst." A law firm's "AI-Native Associate." You set curriculum and standards; Columba builds it on the same credential infrastructure.
The Continuum pillar is a live readout of where every team sits against the bar you set — refreshed as people train, certify, and renew.
The bar moves the moment the stack does. A new model, a new MCP capability, a new agent surface — the day it ships, we add it to the program and update the proficiency bar your team is measured against. Continuum stays current automatically; your team never trains against last year's tools.
Status legend — 80%+ Current · 60–79% Needs Renewal · <60% Action Required
Six steps from defining what "AI-Native" means at your company to a live, ranked feed of credential-verified candidates ready to interview.
Pick the role. Specify the AI tasks that matter — drafting, dashboards, agentic delegation. Define the proficiency thresholds.
Columba's curriculum team converts your spec into graded tasks, rubrics, and a portfolio brief — on our credential infrastructure.
Your cert appears in the Columba catalog, tagged with your brand. Anyone in the network can attempt it.
Candidates complete the graded tasks and submit portfolio work. Every workflow is recorded.
A live dashboard of everyone who's attempted your cert — score, portfolio, full AI workflow. Filter, shortlist, reach out.
No cold sourcing. No guessing if a candidate can use AI. The cert already proved it.
A standing pipeline, refreshed each time someone in the network completes your cert. Names and scores below illustrate the format, not real candidates.
Set the bar per function. Track every employee against it. Different roles need different AI fluency — Continuum encodes that.
SAMPLE CONFIGURATION · MID-MARKET PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FIRM · CONFIGURABLE PER CUSTOMER
Existing research has already measured the productivity delta. Columba operationalizes it across your workforce.
Speed lift on scoped tasks — GitHub / MSR 2025
Quality lift with GPT-4 — HBS / BCG 2024
Issues resolved by novice agents — Stanford / MIT
Of gap between high- and low-ed workers, with AI
Different orgs use different combinations of pillars. Here's how three archetypes typically configure.
All four pillars in own tenancy. "AI-Native Credit Analyst" custom cert. Hundreds of seats per year through training.
Pipeline-first. Reserved seats in every Developer program. Continuum for engineering. No training of existing staff yet.
Training-heavy. Send entire associate class through Professional Path. Custom "AI-Native Associate" cert. Continuum for compliance.
From a single squad to a multi-region rollout, every engagement is scoped to the team you actually have. Pick the pillars that fit, set the proficiency bar that matters, and we'll build the plan around it — including tailored hiring funnels for non-standard role shapes.
A measurable shift in capability across your org — within one quarter. Across four pillars, all at once.
Short answers. Longer ones in the MSA. Send us your security questionnaire and we'll fill it.
Tell us who you are. We'll email you when your path is live so you can start training.
Pick what fits today. The next page is short — name, email, and an optional note about the role you want to train into.
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