How we vet
Andagna Certified means four gates, all passed.
The acceptance bar is the top 10% of applicants. We publish the rubric because trust is the product — a buyer should be able to inspect exactly what the badge on a profile means.
Stage 1 · 3–4 hours
Top quartile advances
Technical assessment
Role-specific, scored against a versioned rubric. Full-stack candidates build a working feature against a spec; ML candidates train and evaluate a model on a held-out dataset; analysts produce a dashboard from raw data. No multiple-choice shortcuts.
Stage 2 · 45 minutes
CEFR B2 or better
English proficiency
Client-facing remote work runs on written and spoken English. Candidates complete a structured written exercise and a live conversation covering technical topics in their own domain.
Stage 3 · Scenario-based
Rubric score 80%+
Remote-readiness
Async communication, tooling discipline, timezone handling, status reporting. We simulate a week of remote client work compressed into structured scenarios. Many strong engineers fail here the first time — it is a skill, and ADITA's bridge training fixes it.
Stage 4 · 60 minutes
Unanimous assessor pass
Live product review
The candidate walks two assessors through a real product they built and deployed — for ADITA graduates, their sprint product. They defend architecture decisions, trade-offs, and what they would change. Résumés don't survive this; builders do.
Three archetypes
Every certified engineer is one of three archetypes.
Production work needs more than "developers." Each Andagna engineer is certified into one archetype — so you hire the outcome, not the job title.
Builder
The Builder
Builds AI-powered product features — LLM, retrieval, and agent-based capabilities turned into working functionality.
Integrator
The Integrator
Connects AI capabilities into real software systems — models, data pipelines, and APIs integrated into production apps.
Scaler
The Scaler
Deploys and operates systems in production — reliability, monitoring, performance, and cost efficiency at scale.
Failed a gate?
Candidates can retake after completing targeted bridge training at ADITA. The badge stays meaningful, and nobody is locked out permanently — the pipeline feeds itself.