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Train your people. Raise your score.

AI governance training that makes your people safer with AI. Workforce Capability is worth 20 points, and every course moves a specific control.

Foundations in every tier From $49 a course CPE, CLE, SHRM pathways
Academy dashboardRegional CPA firm · 120 staff
Workforce 18 / 20
91%Foundations
78%Role tracks
12Reviewers certified
1Practitioner
AI Acceptable Use for Everyone+3 · W1, W3
Reviewing AI Output+3 · W4
AI Oversight for Leaders & Boards+2 · W5
The path

Foundations to Practitioner.

Start everyone at the same place. Go deeper by role, then by industry. Credential your governance lead.

Foundations

Every person, every tier. Two short courses and the acceptable-use acknowledgment.

Role tracks

Leaders, managers, reviewers, operations. Included at Growth tier and above.

Vertical tracks

CPA, law, insurance, RIA, healthcare. Your regulators, your client questionnaires.

Practitioner

14 to 16 hours plus a graded practical. Your documented AI governance lead.

Catalog · launching in phases from October 2026

Nine courses. Every one moves points.

Foundations2 × 50 min

AI Governance Foundations

What AI governance is and is not, the five domains in plain English, and how the AboveBoard Score works.

Moves W1, W3 · included in every tier
Foundations50 min

AI Acceptable Use for Everyone

What you may and may not put into AI tools, approved tools, verifying output, when to escalate.

Moves W1, W3, D1 · included in every tier
Role track2 × 50 min

AI Oversight for Leaders & Boards

Fiduciary framing, the questions boards ask, reading an AboveBoard report, a quarterly oversight agenda.

Moves W5, G5 · Growth tier and above
Role track2 × 50 min

Managing AI in Client Work

Approving use cases, supervising AI-assisted work, quality sampling, client questions and disclosures.

Moves W2, O1, O2, T4 · Growth tier and above
Role track2 × 50 min

Reviewing AI Output

Reviewer certification. Verifying citations, numbers and facts, bias checks, and a graded practical.

Moves W4, O1 · Growth tier and above
Role track2 × 50 min

AI Vendors, Data & Security

For operations and IT. Vendor terms, no-training clauses, DPAs, SSO, retention and DLP for AI tools.

Moves D2 to D5, O5, O6 · Growth tier and above
Vertical tracks50 to 100 min

AI Governance by Industry

CPA firms, law firms, insurance agencies, RIAs, healthcare practices. Your rules, your templates, your answer bank.

Moves G6, T1, T2, T7 · Established tier or à la carte
Stewardship50 min

AI Environmental Stewardship

Choosing vendors on published commitments, right-sizing models, measuring usage, answering ESG questionnaires.

Moves E1 to E3, E5, E6 · Stewardship Endorsement
Credential14 to 16 hrs

AboveBoard Practitioner Certificate

All five domains plus the reviewer practical. Qualifies the holder as the firm's documented AI governance lead.

Moves W8 · $795 or included at Established tier

Credit: NASBA CPE registration in progress, target Q1 2027. State CLE filings (FL, TX, GA, NY) and SHRM/HRCI credit target Q4 2026. Credits are not offered until accreditation is granted.

How completion feeds your score

Points, not participation trophies.

Eight Workforce controls, each worth up to 3 raw points, scaled to 20. Completion records export straight into your evidence vault.

Firms using their own LMS receive SCORM and xAPI packages.

W1Coverage90%+ of staff trained
W2Role-specificTracks by role
W3AcknowledgmentCaptured in-course
W4ReviewersCertification passed
W5LeadershipAll partners trained
W6RefreshAnnual, tracked
W7Safe channelNamed contact
W8CredentialPractitioner held