Institutional Licensing

Training you can evidence to whoever funds it.

Good curriculum is no longer scarce, and some of it is free. What stays scarce is being able to show a funder exactly what a participant covered, prove it against the certification body’s own published objectives, and hand over the record when they ask for it. That is what this is built to do — across 154 modules and 7 career tracks written from real client deployments.

114Modules
5Career tracks
18Certification pathways
$0Cloud spend per lab
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What each side gets

Participants get a path. You get the reporting that path produces.

Your participants

  • Seven career tracks — identity & security, cloud infrastructure, endpoint management, networking, IT automation, IT service management, and getting hired.
  • Sections mapped to exam domains, so progress is measured against a credential rather than a percentage.
  • A résumé builder that compiles only what the participant has actually completed.
  • ATS review, interview preparation and live job matching against real openings.
  • Every lab completable with no cloud spend. Participants build in an environment they already have — no sandbox provisioning, no metered compute, no surprise bill landing on your budget mid-program. Seats include the full lab catalog.

Your organization

  • Seat licensing — purchase a block, assign and reclaim seats as participants come and go.
  • Progress and credential-readiness reporting scoped to your participants, exportable to CSV.
  • Activation visibility — see who has started and who hasn't, early enough to intervene.
  • Annual terms throughout. 25 seats and above are invoiced; teams of 5–24 pay by card with no procurement step.
  • 60-day non-renewal notice — tell us two months before the term ends and it simply ends. We remind you before the date; you never miss it by forgetting.
  • Direct support from the practitioner who wrote the curriculum.

Who answers, and how fast

  • One business day, by email, from the person who wrote the curriculum. Not a ticket queue and not an outsourced desk — the same person who built the material your participants are working through.
  • What that covers: access and billing, which track a participant should start, whether a certification is current, what a module does and does not prepare somebody for, and anything an administrator needs from the roster.
  • What it does not: we do not tutor individual exam questions or review anybody’s code. The curriculum is the teaching; support is about the platform and the path.
  • The honest limit. This holds because the platform is small. If volume ever makes one business day undeliverable, we will tell you before it slips rather than quietly answering slower — and the first hire will be somebody working from a written procedure, not a chatbot guessing at certification currency.

Certification pathways

Mapped to curriculum and verified against vendor sources — not aspirational lists.

CompTIA
Security+ · Network+ · A+ · Linux+ · CySA+ · AutoOps+ · SecAI+
Microsoft
SC-900 · SC-300 · MD-102 · AZ-900 · AZ-104
AWS
Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)
CNCF · PeopleCert
CKA · ITIL 4 Foundation & Specialist

Every mapping is checked against the vendor's own current exam guide, and the check runs in our build — a claim we cannot support fails the deploy rather than reaching a participant.

Seat pricing

Annual commitment, billed per seat. The smaller you are, the simpler the purchase.

Program
25 – 249 seats
$228per seat / year
$19/seat/month equivalent
Save 24% on list
  • Invoiced annually, net-30, PO field
  • Participant-level outcome reporting
  • Cohort licensing available
100 seats · $22,800/year
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Invoiced · we reply with a written scope
Workforce
250 – 499 seats
$192per seat / year
$16/seat/month equivalent
Save 36% on list
  • Invoiced annually, net-30, PO field
  • Multi-site roster management
  • Funder-ready export
300 seats · $57,600/year
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Invoiced · we reply with a written scope
System
500+ seats
$168per seat / year
$14/seat/month equivalent
Save 44% on list
  • Invoiced annually
  • Cohort licensing where budgets are per cohort
  • Named point of contact
750 seats · $126,000/year
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Invoiced · we reply with a written scope
SeatsPer seat / monthPer seat / yearHow you buy
5 – 24 · team$20$240Card, instant
25 – 249$19$228Invoice, annual
250 – 499$16$192Invoice, annual
500+$14$168Invoice, annual

Individual subscriptions are $25/month. Every band above is cheaper per seat than the one below it — a larger commitment always costs less per person, with no exceptions and no band where the ladder inverts. Teams of 5–24 purchase by card with no procurement step; a five-person IT team should not need a purchase order. 25 seats and above are invoiced annually, net-30, with a PO field. Below five seats, individual subscriptions are genuinely the better product and we would rather say so than invent a band.

You never pay less by buying fewer seats. Just above a band boundary the total is held at the most the band below could cost, so a 250-seat block bills the same as a 249-seat one rather than less. Everywhere else the total is exactly the seat count multiplied by the rate above.

When you pay is a separate question from what you pay

Invoiced contracts of 25 seats and above. The per-seat price does not change with the schedule — the annual commitment is what earns the rate, and moving the cash does not move the price.

Annual
One invoice
$22,800 · once

Simplest for a program with an obligated grant. One purchase order, one reconciliation, one renewal date.

Semi-annual
Two invoices
$11,400 · ×2

Fits a fiscal year that funds in two halves, and keeps the total inside one contract.

Quarterly
Four invoices
$5,700 · ×4

For a department drawing against a quarterly allocation, or one whose approval threshold sits below the annual figure.

Per cohort
Per program
$6,000 · 25 seats

A 16-week program, priced to the program rather than to a year. For funding that budgets by cohort and does not run to twelve months.

Example figures are a 100-seat contract at $228 per seat per year. We do not offer monthly seat billing, and the reason is not reluctance: twelve invoices a year is more administrative work for your finance office, not less, and it turns one renewal decision into twelve. If a monthly cadence is genuinely the only thing that works for your budget, say so — we would rather hear it than lose the conversation to a schedule.

Which fund this comes out of

Institutions rarely lack the desire. They lack a budget line. These are the lines this most often sits on — and what each one needs from a provider before money can move.

Federal · Department of Labor

WIOA Title I

Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth funding, spent through a local workforce development board against its state Eligible Training Provider List.

What it requires: participant-level outcome reporting under WIOA §116 and §122. A board cannot spend Title I money with a provider that cannot report, however good the training is.
Federal · Department of Education

Perkins V

Career and technical education funding at secondary and postsecondary institutions. Purchasing industry-aligned curriculum and credential preparation is an allowable use category.

What it requires: alignment to recognized postsecondary credentials. Every track here names the certification domain it serves, and the gaps we do not cover are published too.
State · varies

State workforce and training grants

Incumbent-worker training funds, state apprenticeship expansion grants, and governor's reserve discretionary funds. Rules differ by state; most mirror the federal reporting shape.

What it requires: usually an ETPL listing or an equivalent state determination, plus roster and completion evidence per participant.
Employer · operating budget

Apprenticeship & incumbent worker

Registered Apprenticeship sponsors must source Related Technical Instruction — a standing, funded, recurring requirement that is frequently hard to fill for IT occupations.

What it requires: instruction that maps to the occupation's competencies, and evidence a participant completed it. No grant cycle — it is an operating line.

What we are, and what we are not

We produce participant-level reporting in the shape WIOA §116 requires — measurable skill gains and program completion, evidenced from our own records, per participant, exportable.

We do not report employment or earnings, and no honest provider does. Those indicators come from state wage-record matches. A provider supplies the identifiers the state matches on; the state computes the figure. Any training vendor showing you its own employment numbers is showing you a survey with a percentage sign on it, and a report that blurs the two is worse than no report because it invites you to rely on it. Every figure we hand you is labeled with how it is known: provider-evidenced, state-matched, or self-reported.

We are not currently listed on a state ETPL. Listing is a state determination and we will not imply one we do not hold. What we have built is the reporting a listing requires, which is the part that usually takes a provider a year. If your board is willing to sponsor an application, that is a conversation we would very much like to have.

Renewal terms, stated up front

Annual terms renew automatically so a program does not lose access mid-year to a paperwork gap. To not renew, tell us at least 60 days before the term ends — by email, from the contract contact, one sentence. No form, no call, no reason required.

We send the reminder, not you. A renewal notice goes to your contract contact 30 days before that deadline, so the date is never something your team has to carry. A notice period you were not reminded of is a trap by accident, and we would rather lose a renewal we earned than keep one you meant to end.

Late notice still counts. If it arrives after the deadline, the term renews once and then ends — we will not hold an organization to a second year it told us it did not want.

These terms apply to invoiced contracts — 25 seats and above. They do not apply to a Team purchase of 5–24 seats bought by card.

If you bought Team seats by card

Cancel any time, yourself, in the same place you bought it. There is no notice period and nothing to email us about — you signed up online in ninety seconds and you can stop the same way. Your seats run to the end of the year you paid for.

The 7-day money-back guarantee covers it. Within 7 days of the first payment, full refund, no reason required — the same terms as an individual subscription, because it is the same kind of purchase: self-serve, by card, with no contract and no procurement. A team spending $1,200 on a card deserves at least the protection a single person spending $25 gets.

The 60-day notice above exists for invoiced contracts because a program's access should not lapse over a paperwork gap on a purchase order. Applying it to a card purchase would be the opposite — a notice period on something you can cancel with a button.

Serving multilingual communities

What is true today, and what is being built.

Available now
English

All 154 modules, every career tool, and the full institutional reporting layer.

In build
Español es-419

Latin American Spanish — the locale the certification exams themselves use, not Castilian. Compass first, then the MSP track.

In build
Português pt-BR

Brazilian Portuguese, on the same schedule and the same community-review process.

We will not switch a language on until a native speaker who works in IT has reviewed it. A half-translated pathway is worse than an English one, because it hides where it stops being accurate. If your program serves a language community, tell us — programs with real demand and a reviewer decide what ships next.

Which exams your participants can sit in their own language

Read off each vendor's current exam page. This decides what a pathway can honestly promise.

CertificationEnglishEspañolPortuguês
CompTIA Security+✓✓✓
CompTIA Network+✓✓✓
Microsoft AZ-900✓✓✓
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner✓✓✓
CompTIA Cloud+ (vendor-neutral)✓——

The counterintuitive one is the last row: the only genuinely vendor-neutral cloud certification is the least accessible, offered in English and Japanese alone. Both vendor clouds are more available to a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking participant than the neutral option — which is why our cloud path maps to AWS and Microsoft rather than to Cloud+.

What we will not do

The constraints are the offer.

We do not claim participants are "certified." We say what they have prepared for, and nothing beyond that.

We do not report skills our curriculum does not teach. That is enforced in software, not by policy — our build fails if any part of the system claims a skill the curriculum cannot support.

We do not name customers who have not agreed to be named. This page describes what is offered, never who has bought it.

Questions people actually ask

Answered here so nobody has to email to find out.

What does the free tier actually include?

Six complete modules and every tool on the platform — Career Navigation, ATS Check, the résumé builder, interview preparation. No card, no trial that expires into a bill. One full module is published with no account at all, at /sample-module.

Are the exam fees included?

No, and we say so everywhere. CompTIA, Microsoft, AWS, Cisco and CNCF administer their own exams and those fees are theirs. We prepare people for the objectives; we do not issue any certification and never claim to.

How do you know a certification is still current?

Every entry is checked against the vendor’s own exam page, and the ones with expiry dates say so on the card. The full map lists 24 certifications, the 17 a track actually prepares you for, and what each one is missing — including a credential that retires in February 2027.

Which track should somebody start with?

If they know which certification they want, the track that names it. If they do not, MSP & Financial Governance — help desk is the most common first IT job and the honest route is support first, then specialize. Compass exists for anyone starting from no computer experience at all.

Can we cancel, and what happens if we do?

Individual subscriptions cancel from account settings in one click, with no retention screen and no phone call. Institutional terms are annual with a 60-day non-renewal notice, and we remind you before the date so nobody misses it by forgetting.

What happens to a participant’s data when they leave?

Progress, notes, display name, avatar, self-reported background and any parsed résumé skills are cleared — on deletion and on the retention sweep, both reading one list so the two cannot drift apart. Failures are reported rather than swallowed, because a deletion that silently leaves data behind looks exactly like one that worked.

What about participants under 18?

Compass engages guardian protections automatically: consent before the account exists, no advertising identifiers, no third-party tracking, and a published deletion schedule. A guardian can stop new progress being recorded or delete the record entirely, from their own account, without emailing anyone.

Do you guarantee anyone a job?

No. There is no placement rate, no salary figure and no timeline anywhere in our material, and our build fails if somebody tries to add one. Entry-level hiring is genuinely hard right now and we would rather say so than sell around it.

Tell us about your program

How many participants, what outcomes you report on, and who you report to. We will tell you plainly whether this fits — including when it doesn't.

Or email info@fairleyholdings.com · 704-269-9046