Knowledge Track

What’s in Private AI Certified — Premium

The application tier. Thirteen papers that take the concepts from Basic and turn them into judgment — real customer scenarios, real economics, real proof points.

13
Papers
Basic
Prerequisite
24 mo
Badge validity
1

When AI Stopped Being an Engineering Project

M1 — the business-conversation reframe.
2

How the Data Gets In

M2 — connectors, ONTAP, and OCR for paper records.
3

Real Time and Stored Data

M2 — live vs. historical data, and why it matters.
4

Where Should Your AI Actually Run?

M3 — the deployment-posture brief.
5

Most AI Is Shared, Not Private

M3 — the shared-vs-private distinction, made concrete.
6

Where Regulation Makes Private AI the Safer Bet

M3 — the compliance case.
7

Five Doors Into Your AI’s Memory

M4 — the practitioner-level memory-risk paper.
8

The Puzzle Effect

M4 — how AI stitches together proprietary data over time.
9

You Already Own the Walls

M5 — the competitive-moat argument, one level deeper.
10

The Rest of the Invoice

M6 — the field-brief version of the hidden-costs argument.
11

Where the Money Was Hiding

M7 — the $17.4M claims-recovery proof point.
12

Public/Private/Sovereign AI Compared

M3 — the three deployment postures, side by side: who controls it, what it costs, who owns what it learns.
13

The Oohs, Awes, and Dangers of AI Memory

M4 — the two-page companion to the Expert-tier deep dive on AI memory.
Deep Dive · Expert

To earn it: read all 13 papers, pass a 25-question scenario quiz at 80%, and complete a short applied exercise (a
posture recommendation for a sample customer profile). Prerequisite: Basic.