AI SKILLS ARE BECOMING
ECONOMIC SKILLS
THE 19KEYS STANDARD™
HIGH
LVL
AI Workforce & Economic
Mobility Academy
Licensed through partners.
Measured like a contract.
TURNKEY AI EDUCATION LAYER
FOR INSTITUTIONS YOU ALREADY RUN
HIGH-LVL EDUCATION is an AI workforce and economic-mobility platform. We license and deliver a standardized academy through organizations already serving learners, workers, entrepreneurs, and communities.
WHAT WE PROVIDE
Not another program competing for participants and grants. The specialized education layer hundreds of existing programs can write into a contract: curriculum, delivery, assessment, credentials, and outcomes.
The learner is rarely the customer. You already hold the room. We add the academy — and the evidence your funder will ask for next.
WHAT WE ARE NOT
We are not a coding bootcamp. We are not a university AI department. We do not administer your eligibility, case management, or prime award.
The opportunity is AI literacy for people who are not becoming AI engineers. How do I work with AI — not how do I build a transformer.
HIGH-LVL
YOUR ORGANIZATION
Add a turnkey AI education and credential layer to the population you already serve.
Add a turnkey AI training and credential layer to WIOA, incumbent-worker, and customized training you already run.
A defined, ethical AI literacy sequence that fits youth development and adult education — without competing with CS departments.
Train the people who are not engineers: HR, sales, operations, managers, customer service, administration.
Foundation-sponsored or municipal cohorts. You hold the relationship. We deliver the academy and the evidence.
HIGH-LVL AI Foundations is 20–30 hours. Everyone learns the fundamentals. Pathways attach different outcomes to the same intellectual property — so you are not rebuilding curriculum for every funding stream.
For workforce-development participants. Productivity, job search, and the skills existing jobs now require.
For founders and small businesses. Offers, operations, customers, and capacity without a technical staff.
For high school and youth-development programs. AI literacy as a coming-of-age skill — not a coding bootcamp.
For justice-impacted populations. Dignity-first literacy, job search, and skills that travel into work and community.
Job search, professional development, and technology pathways for people already in motion.
A nurse, an electrician, a salesperson, a returning citizen, a teenager. They need to work with AI. They do not need to build one.
What AI is, what it is not, and how to use it with judgment — built for first-time learners.
Bias, consent, privacy, and human accountability. Tools stay in service of people.
Practical workflows for writing, research, operations, and daily work across industries.
Resumes, applications, interview prep, and positioning — without replacing the candidate.
Offers, operations, marketing, and customer systems for founders and side businesses.
How to verify, protect accounts, and refuse the content designed to confuse.
Roles, skills maps, and next steps into tech-adjacent work — not a promise of overnight jobs.
Work samples, certificates, and demonstrated competencies employers can inspect.
Every graduate leaves with a HIGH-LVL AI Portfolio: evidence of what they can do with AI — not only that they sat through it.
Understands AI fundamentals, safety, and prompting. Demonstrated — not merely attended.
Can demonstrate workplace workflows. Portfolio evidence required.
Completes applied projects and a career or business roadmap employers can inspect.
Authorized to deliver curriculum under the 19Keys Standard™. The second business: train-the-trainer.
THE PORTFOLIO
AI-era credentials need a clear line between what the learner demonstrated and what they delegated to a model. That principle is built in from day one.
Not a speaking business with curriculum attached. Methodology that certified facilitators can deliver.
Attention, trust, cultural relevance, and access. The reason a room fills.
The philosophy and instructional approach. How people are taught to work with AI without surrendering judgment.
Curriculum, assessment, credentials, and certified facilitators that exist when he is not in the room.
Flagship cohorts. The standard is set in public.
Capacity without diluting the method.
He leads curriculum, masterclasses, and flagship appearances. The academy runs.
Partners write into a grant: “AI workforce training will be provided through the HIGH-LVL AI Skills & Economic Mobility Academy.” That is the destination.
HOW IT FUNDS
Federal AI workforce money is real — EDA’s AI Upskill Accelerator, Department of Education FIPSE, NSF AI-Ready America. HIGH-LVL is not inventing a category. It is a line inside one.
We do not chase the $2.5M as prime. A workforce organization wins or already holds the award. HIGH-LVL delivers a defined scope — the academy, the credential, the report.
LOS ANGELES PILOT
Los Angeles is the proving ground: WorkSource and AJCC incumbent-worker, on-the-job, and customized training; WIOA relevance; a path to recognized credentials. ETPL is not the first milestone. Evidence is.
Three to five organizations already inside the ecosystem. On the order of 25 learners × 5 cohorts. Then institutional recognition from a position of data, not aspiration. The partner package is the $50K / $250K / $1M operating architecture for that conversation.
Every cohort produces an impact packet: who arrived, what they completed, what they can demonstrate, and what changed economically.
Demographics, employment status, AI familiarity, education, career goals — collected at intake.
Attendance, module completion, assignments, engagement. Dosage that matches the contract.
Pre/post assessment, demonstrated competencies, and a portfolio that shows what the learner — not the model — can do.
Employment, promotion, wage change, business creation, revenue improvement, further education.
The packet funders buy next: people trained, completion, skill gain, placements, businesses supported.
What was issued, to whom, against which competency — so the certificate means something later.
Companies need ordinary employees trained on AI. Unrestricted revenue from that work can subsidize community cohorts.
A defined academy inside a partner’s existing program.
Annual curriculum license for organizations that deliver with certified facilitators.
Train-the-trainer under the 19Keys Standard™.
Incumbent-worker and customized training for ordinary employees — not engineers.
The foundation pays. The community attends. We deliver and report.
Municipal and state workforce initiatives. Partners hold the award. We hold the scope.
Curriculum, assessment, credential, facilitator standard, reporting framework. A standard other institutions adopt — not merely classes we run.
WHERE THIS GROWS
AI literacy is the entry. Then productivity, career mobility, entrepreneurship, financial and economic literacy, technology pathways, ownership. That is the 19Keys universe, built as an institution for the AI era.
THE FIRST YEAR
Lock the product. Run funded pilots with 3–5 institutional partners. Train on the order of 100–200 learners. Publish the first HIGH-LVL Impact Report. Certify facilitators. Expand geography with outcomes in hand — then consider becoming prime on larger awards.
BRING HIGH-LVL TO YOUR ORGANIZATION
Workforce boards, schools, employers, nonprofits, cities, and foundations: we deliver the academy, the credential, and the report. You keep the people, the site, and the award.