AI Fluency Academy
DESIGN BRIEF R2 · DELIVERABLE 05
THE BRIDGE

The one moment we hand a learner to someone else.

Some learners choose to sit the independent Applied AI Institute exam. The Academy's job is to send them across cleanly, frame the relationship honestly, and step back. This is where the firewall becomes visible, and where bad design could undo years of credibility work. Three screens, Academy side only.

SCREENS  3
INSTITUTE STYLED  Indigo, distinct
ACADEMY KNOWS  Nothing of the result
This is us
Claret, Newsreader, parchment. Warm, editorial, a school of practice. We taught the method.
This is them
Indigo, Space Grotesk, near-black. A certifying body. Whenever they appear here, they look unmistakably separate.

Two organizations, one careful handoff. Never one product with two skins. Sharing too much visual DNA at this moment is exactly the failure the firewall exists to prevent.

aifluency.academy / readiness
AN HONEST READINESS CHECK
Where you are, plainly.
Modules completed4 of 6
"Most candidates who pass the independent exam have completed all six modules."
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Readiness check

An honest reflection of where the learner is in the curriculum and how that maps to exam readiness. Not a promise. Not a sales tool. The language is plain: "You have completed 4 of 6 modules. Most candidates who pass the independent exam have completed all six." It tells the truth even when the truth is "not yet."

TONE
Candid, never a guarantee. "Most who pass," not "you'll pass."
STILL ACADEMY
Fully in claret. The Institute has not entered the frame yet.
LEARNER CHOOSES TO PROCEED ↗
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The handoff

A PAGE · NOT A MODAL

The moment of departure. The learner is leaving the Academy to begin an exam process at a separate organization. The brief is explicit: make this visible with a deliberate page that explains the relationship, restates the firewall, and offers a clean external link. Not a modal. Not a subtle hyperlink. A page that signals you are crossing a boundary.

aifluency.academy / leaving-for-the-institute
AI Fluency Academy

You're about to leave us for the exam.

We taught you the method. We do not grade the exam. From here you are in the hands of an independent certifying body, and that independence is exactly what makes their credential worth holding.

CROSSING TO A SEPARATE ORGANIZATION
The Applied AI Institute

An independent examining body. Open to anyone, no course required. You will create an account with them and schedule your exam.

Continue to the Institute ↗
appliedai.institute · opens their site in a new tab
SPLIT DOWN THE MIDDLE
Warm claret above the dashed line, near-black indigo below it. The boundary is drawn, not implied.
FIREWALL RESTATED
"We taught the method. We do not grade the exam." said once more, at the exact moment it matters most.
CLEAN EXTERNAL LINK
A real outbound link to their site, labeled honestly. No embedded Institute flow pretending to be ours.
DAYS OR WEEKS LATER, THEY RETURN ↺
aifluency.academy / welcome-back
Welcome back.
We hope the exam went well. However it went, your method is still yours, and so is everything you practiced here.
KEEP YOUR FLUENCY SHARP
› Revisit: Verifying what you can't see› A vertical track opens soon
No score shown here. We don't see your result, and we don't ask.
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Return after the exam

↺ Reflects decision D2

What a learner sees in the Academy after sitting the exam elsewhere. The Academy does not know whether they passed, since that data lives at the Institute. But the learner is back, and the Academy welcomes them rather than pretending nothing happened. Per your decision D2, it collects nothing: warm welcome, no "how did it go?" field, the strongest firewall posture.

If you ever revisit D2: swapping to "optional opt-in" would add a single skippable "How was it?" field here. The rest of the screen is unchanged.
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