Academy Certifications
Validate your expertise with free certifications.
Why Get Certified?
Validate Your Skills
Prove your expertise in AI perception management with a recognized credential
Stand Out to Employers
Demonstrate specialized knowledge in the emerging field of GEO and AI brand management
Win Client Confidence
Show clients you have verified expertise in optimizing their AI visibility
Certification levels and rollout standard
Every current Academy certification exam is live now, with server-side grading, credential issuance, and public verification. New tracks should stay out of this list until their final assessment, practical brief, and certificate flow are ready.
Every current Academy track now has a final assessment, server-side grading, credential issuance, and public verification.
Passed exams issue a credential ID and verification URL so employers, clients, and partners can confirm status.
Will validate client reporting, before/after proof, ROI narrative, recurring retest cadence, executive summaries, and renewal-quality evidence standards.
Available certifications
Every current Academy track includes a live final exam, server-side grading, credential issuance, and public verification.
GEO Certified
6 lessonsLive nowCertified in Generative Engine Optimization methodology
Skills you'll demonstrate:
- Build prompt matrices by intent, provider, market, persona and competitor set
- Score AI answers for mention, recommendation position, sentiment, citations and hallucinations
- Diagnose root causes across entity clarity, content extractability, authority sources and technical access
- Turn findings into citation-ready content briefs, technical fixes and authority-building priorities
LLM Certified
6 lessonsLive nowCertified in Perception Management
Skills you'll demonstrate:
- Understand the fundamental mechanics of how LLMs form and express brand perceptions
- Identify and quantify perception gaps between brand reality and AI outputs
- Master the interpretation and improvement of key perception metrics
- Detect, document, and strategically correct AI hallucinations
Citation Certified
9 lessonsLive nowCertified in AI Citation Authority building
Skills you'll demonstrate:
- Diagnose why AI answers cite competitors, directories or outdated sources instead of the brand
- Build citation-ready pages with visible facts, source context, proof and freshness signals
- Use schema, internal links and page structure to clarify—not fake—entity meaning
- Create third-party authority and original research assets that retrieval systems can trust
CI Certified
5 lessonsLive nowCertified in AI Competitive Intelligence
Skills you'll demonstrate:
- Build competitor prompt matrices by category, comparison, problem, persona and objection intent
- Score share of voice, recommendation position, sentiment, source usage and message drivers
- Separate real competitor advantages from content/source gaps that can be fixed
- Create a weekly AI competitive war room for agency and executive reporting
Brand Certified
6 lessonsLive nowCertified in Brand Perception Management
Skills you'll demonstrate:
- Understand the interconnected nature of perception across all channels
- Build systematic approaches to social signal monitoring and optimization
- Transform reviews into strategic perception assets
- Develop efficient, signal-focused media monitoring workflows
Multimedia Authority Certified
3 lessonsLive nowCertified in YouTube and video optimization for AI discovery
Skills you'll demonstrate:
- Understand how AI systems read and process video transcripts instead of visual content
- Master Entity Density to build semantic networks in your audio content
- Learn the difference between keyword-stuffing and entity-based SEO for video
- Implement the RAG-Ready Checklist for all your video content
PDO Certified
4 lessonsLive nowCertified in Private Data Optimization for Gemini and AI assistants
Skills you'll demonstrate:
- Understand how Gemini uses RAG to safely access private data without training public models
- Master the Layout Parser optimization for documents and spreadsheets
- Implement Context Packing strategies for maximum AI comprehension
- Apply Thread Hygiene to Gmail and Chat for accurate project summarization
Agentic Commerce Certified
4 lessonsLive nowCertified in UCP and robots.txt strategy for AI commerce
Skills you'll demonstrate:
- Classify AI bots using the Training Bot vs. Search Agent taxonomy
- Implement the Traffic Light System for strategic robots.txt management
- Understand why blocking all bots destroys your GEO visibility
- Master UCP structured data for AI-enabled commerce
GEO Analytics Certified
6 lessonsLive nowCertified in measuring and reporting AI visibility
Skills you'll demonstrate:
- Build a reliable prompt and provider measurement model
- Score AI answers for mention, preference, accuracy, sentiment, citations and competitors
- Create client-ready dashboards and monthly reporting narratives
- Model GEO impact with conservative business proxies
Local GEO Certified
6 lessonsLive nowCertified in Local AI Optimization
Skills you'll demonstrate:
- Build local AI prompt baselines by service, urgency, neighborhood and trust intent
- Optimize GBP, reviews and local entity facts for AI recommendations
- Create citation-ready local service and location pages
- Govern multi-location evidence without thin duplicate pages
AI Crisis Management Certified
6 lessonsLive nowCertified in AI Reputation Crisis Management
Skills you'll demonstrate:
- Inventory AI reputation risks across prompts and providers
- Build crisis monitoring and alert thresholds
- Execute a 48-hour evidence-led response plan
- Repair public sources and corrective facts without amplifying harm
Industry GEO Specialist
6 lessonsLive nowCertified in vertical-specific GEO strategies
Skills you'll demonstrate:
- Build vertical trust models before publishing content
- Design SaaS, regulated, local, ecommerce and multi-location GEO playbooks
- Use safe claim language in YMYL and regulated sectors
- Create repeatable vertical prompt matrices and evidence standards
AI Agent Optimization Certified
6 lessonsLive nowCertified in optimizing for autonomous AI agents
Skills you'll demonstrate:
- Understand how agentic discovery differs from assistant answers
- Make websites easier for agents to navigate, parse and compare
- Expose trust, policy and verification signals agents can use
- Prepare conversion and booking paths without weakening safety
404 Recovery Certified
6 lessonsLive nowCertified in strategic 404 recovery for GEO and SEO
Skills you'll demonstrate:
- Distinguish harmless 404 noise from high-value recovery opportunities
- Diagnose why AI systems, users, crawlers, and legacy links request URLs that no longer exist
- Build a prioritized recovery backlog using backlink, log, search, analytics, and AI-answer evidence
- Choose between 301 redirect, page recreation, canonical consolidation, or intentional 404/410 with a repeatable decision tree
How to Get Certified
Choose a Track
Select the certification path that matches your goals
Complete Lessons
Work through all lessons at your own pace
Pass Assessment
Demonstrate knowledge with a track-level final exam
Get Certified
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Certificate Features
Public Verification
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Start with the GEO track or any specialist exam when you are ready. Each current track includes a final assessment, issued credential, and verification page.