
Academy.
Certified AI Engineer, Creative Systems
Levels.fyi lists Anthropic AI engineers from $300K to $1.2M.
Certified Creative Technologist, Generative Media
Adobe posts the role to $250K.
Ranges for six AI creative roles, each from a named source: the salary report.
Builder track curriculum
W1-2One creative pipeline, every model familyBuild it once in ComfyUI, run it across the models employers actually name.
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Build it once in ComfyUI, run it across the models employers actually name.
- ComfyUI in production: graph construction, custom nodes, and workflows a team can reuse
- One adapter layer, many providers, zero vendor branches in the pipeline
- Prompt portability: which directions transfer across model families, which silently degrade, how to detect drift
W3-4Evaluation, the weakest skill in the marketEmployers call critical evaluation the number one gap in graduates. This is the module that closes it.
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Employers call critical evaluation the number one gap in graduates. This is the module that closes it.
- Golden sets built from production briefs, not synthetic toys
- LLM-as-judge for creative quality: calibration and agreement with the society’s expert judging panels
- Comparative model selection: run the same brief across families and defend your pick in writing
W5-6Diagnosis, deployment, and provenanceRoot-cause a broken output. Ship the workflow as a service. Mark what the machine made.
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Root-cause a broken output. Ship the workflow as a service. Mark what the machine made.
- Failure diagnosis: given a bad output, locate the failing layer (prompt, conditioning, model, seed, post) and fix it
- Ship a workflow as an API endpoint your team can call, with caching and cost controls
- Provenance in the pipeline: C2PA Content Credentials, licensing posture per model, and the EU AI Act marking rules that bind from August 2026
W7-8Capstone: work with top companiesDeliver a top company’s production brief. Defend it live. Pass, and you’re certified.
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Deliver a top company’s production brief. Defend it live. Pass, and you’re certified.
- Production hardening: fallbacks, rate limits, incident drill on model outage mid-delivery
- Written rationale: why this routing, these models, this budget, for this brief
- Live defense before a panel of industry leaders, scored against the society’s published benchmark standard
Creative track curriculum
W1-2Same scene, every model familyOne scene, realized across the models the industry actually uses, in the node graph professionals build in.
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One scene, realized across the models the industry actually uses, in the node graph professionals build in.
- The AI production stack: image, video, voice, and edit models, and where each belongs in your pipeline
- ComfyUI for creatives: build and adapt the node graphs studios run, no engineering degree required
- Coverage thinking for generation: shooting ratios, when to regenerate, when to move on
W3-4Judgment, written downTurn craft instinct into rubrics the benchmark can use, and defend your model picks with them.
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Turn craft instinct into rubrics the benchmark can use, and defend your model picks with them.
- Judging AI output like a department head: blind review, written notes, defensible calls
- Your personal rubric for character, continuity, and tone, calibrated against the society’s benchmark panels
- Serve as a human judge on a live benchmark run
W5-6Consistency and clearanceHold a character across forty shots. Then prove you have the right to deliver it.
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Hold a character across forty shots. Then prove you have the right to deliver it.
- The consistency toolkit: LoRA training on your own reference set, ControlNet and IP-Adapter conditioning, style bibles that survive a model swap
- Rights and provenance: licensing posture per model, C2PA Content Credentials, Copyright Office disclosure, and the EU AI Act marking rules that bind from August 2026
- Digital replica consent and the 2026 SAG-AFTRA AI provisions, read the way a production actually applies them
W7-8Capstone: work with top companiesCreative lead on a top company’s brief. Defend it live. Pass, and you’re certified.
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Creative lead on a top company’s brief. Defend it live. Pass, and you’re certified.
- Lead a mixed crew: you own the creative call, your builder counterpart owns the pipeline
- Written rationale: why these models, these shots, this budget, for this brief
- Live defense before a panel of industry leaders, scored against the society’s published benchmark standard
The founding cohort opens this fall.
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