Scholar listings are backed by a finished program, shipped paid AI work, and a passed oral exam. Founder and faculty listings are the people who built the program, run its exam panel, and hold their own work to the same standard.
Practitioners specialize across five verticals: home services, small businesses, restaurants, DTC and Shopify brands, and contractors. Filtering by vertical arrives with the first graduating cohort.
Amber McCollum is the founder of AI Certified and co-founder of the Active Income Network. She is self-taught, and she built this program the same way she teaches it: by directing AI through real work, from the sixteen-module curriculum and its animated explainers to the platform itself. She builds AI systems for real businesses and teaches practitioners to do the same, because her mission is impact: when a person learns to earn active income with these skills, the change reaches past their own life and into the lives around them. She sits on the faculty panel for every credential this program issues.
The first certified practitioners will appear here as they finish the program. If you want to be one of them, start with the program.
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