A standard worth having. For AI operations.

Something significant is being built for professionals who operate AI in the real world — not in theory, not in training decks, but in production, in consequence, in Australia.

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Phase 2 Validation Study · Open now · Anonymous · 7–9 minutes

64 Tasks
mapped
8 Duty
areas
10+ Industry
sectors
1st Australian
standard

What CAIOP stands for

Coalition-governed

Not owned by a vendor. Not imported. Built and governed by Australian organisations with equal voice and shared accountability.

Outcome-validated

Credentialed against real business results — not exam scores alone. Cost efficiency. Risk reduction. Measurable, published impact.

Continuously alive

A standard that learns from the field — updated by real deployment data, aligned with Australian law, impossible to make irrelevant.

The professionals operating AI in Australia deserve a credential that reflects what they actually do — not what an overseas exam committee decided they should know.

Phase 2 Research Open

We documented the role.
Now we need you
to validate it.

We have conducted a national occupational analysis of the AI Operations Professional in Australian workplaces — 64 tasks, 8 duty areas, and a regulatory framework no international credential addresses.

If you work in AI operations, implementation, governance, or adoption in Australia, your experience is the data we need most.

Answer 28 questions about your real work — tasks, skills, regulation, credentialing
7–9 minutes · anonymous by default · skip anything you prefer not to answer
Findings published publicly in Q3 2026 and submitted for accreditation
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