# AI Expert

> Free AI engineering training and certification: context engineering, production RAG, agents, evals, security and LLMOps, with drills, labs and real incident files.

AI Expert is a free training and certification site for AI engineers. Seven programs (LLM Foundations, Context Engineering, Production RAG, Agents and Orchestration, Evaluation and Observability, AI Security and Safety, LLMOps and Architecture) cover what separates a demo from a production system.

Each module has a short, sourced briefing, spaced-repetition drills, 'demo or production?' judgement calls and a written production scenario scored on a rubric. In-browser labs let learners feel token costs, chunking, hybrid retrieval and judge calibration; 18 real incident files show what broke in shipped AI products. Final exams issue certificates with public verification codes. AI Expert is its own authority, not an accredited body, and the certificates say so.

Who it's for: Software engineers, data scientists and ML engineers moving into AI product work, and tech leads who review AI designs

## What it does

- Seven programs, 28 modules, 252 drills and 35 production challenges
- Labs: token cost calculator, chunking workbench, hybrid retrieval with BM25 and rank fusion, LLM judge calibration
- 18 real, sourced AI incident files
- A library of 79 hand-picked papers, guides, courses and tools
- Week-by-week study plans by background, goal and hours
- Certificates with public verification codes, and the AI Architect credential

## Questions

### Is AI Expert free?

Yes. Every program, lab, drill, exam and certificate is free for now.

### Is the certificate accredited?

No. AI Expert issues certificates on its own authority; they list exactly what was completed and anyone can verify them.

### What does it teach?

Context engineering, production RAG (hybrid search, query rewriting, reranking, retrieval evaluation), agents with scoped tools and explicit state, evaluation, AI security and LLMOps.

### Can I try it before signing up?

Yes. Programs, briefings, labs, incident files and the Library are open to everyone.

## Links

- [Open AI Expert](https://aiexpert.anvil.app/)
- [About AI Expert](https://aiexpert.anvil.app/about)
- Made by [Arkvital](https://arkvital.com), Montreal, Canada (arkvital@outlook.com)

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