From sign-up to scorecard in under a week.
4 steps. Sign up, audit the test site manually, submit your findings, get a verifiable credential. The site blocks crawlers and AI agents on purpose — that's what makes the credential mean something.
- 01
Sign up
Sign in with Google. We email you the brief and the live test-site URL. The URL is not on the public internet — only signed-in candidates receive it, and the site is closed to crawlers and AI agents at the network level.
- ▪No credit card or payment required
- ▪Test-site URL is server-only — never indexed, never linked
- ▪You can choose to keep your tier private from sign-up onward
- 02
Audit manually
Open the test site in your browser and audit it. The site blocks Screaming Frog, Sitebulb, Ahrefs Site Audit, GPTBot, ClaudeBot and the rest at the network level — by design, to prevent AI-assisted cheating. You audit the way real auditors do when the tools fail.
- ▪Allowed: your browser, Inspect, View Source, Network panel, Console
- ▪Not allowed: external crawlers, audit suites, AI agents, scripts
- ▪Time: 1–2 hours for Apprentice, 5–8 hours for Guru
- 03
Submit your findings
Paste your findings into the submission form. Free-form. Each issue gets one line — what it is, where you found it. Specific findings score; generic claims don't.
- ▪Paste from Notion, Google Docs, Slack, your audit doc
- ▪One finding per line, with location + observation
- ▪Patterns count once across pages — list the pattern, not 18 instances
- 04
Earn your credential
Submissions are scored against a private master answer key by an AI grader using a published rubric. Your scorecard returns inline in seconds. You get a verifiable badge URL you can share publicly, privately, or both.
- ▪Scoring takes seconds — no waiting list, no review queue
- ▪Verifiable badge URL at /badge/[code], suitable for CV or LinkedIn
- ▪Public registry listing is opt-in; the badge URL works either way
Now you know the process.
Sign up, get your brief, and pick a tier to aim for.