Claude Certified Engineers who ship production systems, not demos.
A studio of engineers certified through Anthropic's Claude Certification Program. We embed in your repo and deliver agents, MCP integrations, and evaluation harnesses that hold up under real traffic. Fixed fee, six weeks, your IP.
Every tier
Associate, Developer and Architect certified
40+
Claude systems running in production
7 days
Median time to first pull request
62%
Average token cost reduction
The problem
Access to Claude is not the hard part. Everything after it is.
Any team can call the API. Very few can make the output reliable, affordable, safe, and measurable. That gap is where projects die, and it is exactly what the Claude certifications test.
70%
of LLM pilots never reach production. Prompting is not the bottleneck. Evaluation and integration are.
Enterprise AI surveys, 2025
3.4x
average token spend overrun on agent systems built without prompt caching or context engineering.
Our audit data
1 in 5
tool-using agents we review ship without any guardrail, retry policy, or human review path.
Our audit data
0
evaluation harnesses found in the majority of codebases we inherit. Nobody knows if quality regressed.
Reality check
The credentials
Every Claude certification Anthropic offers. We hold them.
The Claude Certification Program is role based: Practitioner, Developer, and Architect. Four proctored exams, each mapped to real work rather than to prompting trivia.
Claude Certified Associate, Foundations
Validates fluent, effective everyday use of Claude: prompting technique, Projects and artifacts, safe handling of company data, and advising colleagues on where Claude fits.
Claude Certified Developer, Foundations
Validates building on the Claude Platform: the Messages API, structured output, tool use, Model Context Protocol servers, prompt caching, batch processing, and agentic workflows with Claude Code.
Claude Certified Architect, Foundations
Validates designing Claude solutions end to end: use case selection, context and retrieval architecture, evaluation strategy, deployment surface, and governance for a single workload.
Claude Certified Architect, Professional
The advanced tier. Validates leading enterprise-scale Claude deployments: multi-agent systems, platform choice across the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock and Google Vertex, security review, and organisation-wide rollout.
Also held
Anthropic Academy course certificates
Beyond the proctored exams, our engineers carry the full Anthropic Academy track. It is how we stay current as Claude ships new capabilities.
Claude 101
Core Claude usage and features
Claude Code 101
Agentic coding in daily development
Claude Platform 101
Building on the API from the ground up
Model Context Protocol
Designing and shipping MCP servers
AI Fluency
Framework for effective, responsible AI work
Claude Code in action
Advanced repo and workflow patterns
Introduction to Cowork
Collaborative agent workflows
Prompt engineering
Structured prompting and long context
The exam domains
What a Claude Certified Engineer is actually tested on.
Six disciplines, tested rather than claimed. Every engineer we staff holds the full set, and every line of code they write is reviewed by a second certified engineer.
Prompt and context engineering
Structured prompting, XML scaffolding, system-prompt design, long-context strategy, and prompt caching that cuts spend without cutting quality.
Tested in: Associate and Developer
Tool use and MCP
Designing tool schemas Claude actually calls correctly, building Model Context Protocol servers, and wiring them into internal systems safely.
Tested in: Developer
Agent architecture
Multi-step agents with planning, sub-agents, memory, retries, budget ceilings, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints at the right seams.
Tested in: Developer and Architect
Evaluation and quality
Golden datasets, LLM-as-judge rubrics, regression gates in CI, and dashboards that make model quality a number your team can defend.
Tested in: Architect, Foundations
Safety and governance
Refusal handling, injection resistance, PII redaction, audit trails, and deployment patterns that clear security and legal review.
Tested in: Architect, Professional
Claude Code and developer velocity
Agentic coding workflows, repo conventions, CLAUDE.md design, and enablement so your own engineers keep shipping after we leave.
Tested in: Developer
The bench
A certified bench, many specialisms.
You get the specialist your problem needs, not whoever happened to be free. We publish roles and certification levels rather than names, because our engineers work inside client repositories under NDA.
Certified
Every engineer on the bench
Principal Agent Engineer
Multi-agent orchestration
Staff AI Engineer
MCP servers and tool design
Evaluation Lead
Eval harnesses and CI gates
Platform Engineer
Cost control and prompt caching
Applied AI Engineer
Retrieval and long context
Security Engineer
Guardrails and injection defense
Product Engineer
Copilot and assistant UX
Integrations Engineer
CRM, ERP and data systems
Claude Code Coach
Team enablement and certification prep
Data Engineer
Pipelines and batch inference
Solutions Architect
Regulated deployments
MLOps Engineer
Observability and tracing
Engagements
Fixed-scope engagements, priced before we start.
Every engagement is delivered by a Claude Certified Engineer, reviewed by a second one, and ends with the work running in your repository.
Claude Readiness Audit
Find out what is actually wrong before you rebuild.
Two weeks inside your codebase. We review prompts, tool schemas, retrieval, cost, and safety, then hand back a prioritized remediation plan with measured baselines.
Production Agent Build
One agent that does a real job. In production. In six weeks.
A complete build of a Claude-powered agent with tool use, retrieval, budget ceilings, guardrails, and a review queue. Prototype by week two, live traffic by week six.
MCP and Tool Integration
Give Claude safe hands on your internal systems.
Model Context Protocol servers and tool layers connecting Claude to Salesforce, SAP, Snowflake, Jira, or your internal APIs. Scoped, permissioned, and audited.
Eval and Guardrail Harness
Stop shipping model changes on vibes.
Golden datasets, judge rubrics, regression gates in CI, red-team suites for prompt injection, and a quality dashboard your leadership can read.
Certification Enablement
Get your own engineers certified on Claude.
A hands-on track that prepares your team for the Associate, Developer, and Architect exams using your codebase as the training ground, plus agentic coding workflows and repo conventions.
Embedded Certified Engineer
A certified engineer inside your repo, every month.
A dedicated Claude Certified Engineer on a quarterly basis. Standups, architecture reviews, continuous delivery, and a monthly roadmap session with your team.
Capabilities
The Claude surface area we work across.
Not a menu of buzzwords. Each of these is something a certified engineer on our bench has shipped into production.
Process
Six weeks from kickoff to real traffic.
The same rhythm on every build. You always know what week you are in and what evidence lands at the end of it.
Week 0
Scope
One production outcome, one success metric, access provisioning, and a written eval rubric.
Week 1
Embed
Repo, CI, Slack, standups. A certified engineer opens their first pull request inside seven days.
Week 2
Prototype
A working Claude workflow on your stack against your real data, behind a feature flag.
Weeks 3 to 5
Harden
Tool integration, guardrails, caching, eval gates in CI, cost ceilings, and audit logging.
Week 6
Production
Live on real traffic with tracing, review queue, and quality metrics reporting daily.
Handoff
Transfer
Runbook, eval suite, and pipelines in your repo. Your team trained. IP fully yours.
Comparison
A certified bench versus the alternatives.
| Certified engineers | Generalist dev shop | Staffing agency | In-house hire | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude expertise | Certified engineers only | Generalists learning on you | Varies by contractor | One hire, one perspective |
| Certification held | Associate, Developer, Architect | None verified | Rarely verified | Depends on the hire |
| Primary output | Production code in your repo | A demo that stalls | Billable hours | Depends on ramp |
| Evaluation practice | Eval harness from week one | Rarely included | Not in scope | Built eventually |
| Time to first PR | 7 days | 3 to 4 weeks | 2+ weeks | 58 days to hire |
| Cost model | Fixed fee per engagement | Change orders | Hourly, open ended | $250k+ per year |
| IP ownership | 100% yours | Often vendor platform | Mixed | Yours |
Outcomes
What changes after a certified team takes over.
62% lower spend
“They rebuilt our prompt layer with caching and structured outputs. Same quality, a fraction of the bill, and now we can actually forecast cost.”
VP Engineering, logistics platform
6 weeks to production
“We had a demo for nine months. A certified engineer embedded on a Monday and we were serving real customers by the end of the quarter.”
CTO, Series B SaaS
94% eval pass rate
“The eval harness is the thing that changed how we work. Model quality became a number in CI instead of an argument in a meeting.”
Head of AI, healthcare payer
Industries
Where our certified engineers work.
B2B SaaS
Product teams shipping Claude-powered features enterprise buyers will approve
Financial Services
Banks, asset managers and insurers under SOC 2 and SOX constraints
Healthcare
Payers and providers building HIPAA-safe assistants and document workflows
Legal
Contract review and privilege-aware research systems with full audit trails
Logistics and Operations
Agentic automation across legacy systems of record
Public Sector
Isolated deployments with strict data residency and review requirements
Pricing
Fixed fee. No hourly billing, no change orders.
You approve a number and a scope before week one. If we misjudge the effort, that is our problem to absorb.
Audit
from $9k
2 weeks
Understand exactly where your Claude implementation leaks quality, safety, or money.
- Full prompt and tool review
- Cost and latency baseline
- Safety and injection review
- Prioritized remediation plan
- Live readout with your team
Build
Most bookedfrom $30k
6 weeks
One production Claude system, shipped by certified engineers, running on real traffic.
- Dedicated certified engineer
- Agent, tools and retrieval build
- Eval harness wired into CI
- Guardrails and audit logging
- Runbook and team handoff
- Fixed fee, no change orders
Embedded
from $12k / mo
Quarterly
A dedicated certified engineer inside your team, continuously shipping and mentoring.
- Dedicated engineer in your repo
- Standups and architecture reviews
- Monthly roadmap session
- Certification track for your engineers
- Priority on new Claude capabilities
FAQ
Questions we get before every engagement.
It is Anthropic's role-based certification program, delivered through Pearson VUE. There are four proctored exams: Claude Certified Associate Foundations, Claude Certified Developer Foundations, Claude Certified Architect Foundations, and Claude Certified Architect Professional. Each runs 120 minutes and maps to a real role rather than to prompting trivia.
Next step
Put a Claude Certified Engineer on it.
Tell us what you are trying to build with Claude. You will get a scoped plan, a fixed price, and a dedicated certified engineer, usually within two business days.