The Architect Programme · Independent prep for the Claude Certified Architect – Professional exam
We’ll help you pass the Professional exam, but passing is the minimum. You’ll sharpen your judgement on real cases, in a group as serious as you are, led by a certified architect. Then you stay part of a network of agentic architects whose value compounds as its members gain experience.
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Free to apply. No card needed. We’ll email you pricing, and aim to get you started within a week.
Anthropic currently offers its certification exams only to people at Claude Partner Network organisations (certification FAQ (opens in a new tab)).
John Adeojo
Passed Claude Certified Architect – Professional in September 2026, scoring 861 (pass mark 720)
Verify on Credly (opens in a new tab)01 The vision
Agentic AI is changing how organisations work, and someone has to design the systems it runs on. The Architect Programme is for the architects who want to be those people, and for the organisations that want them.
For you
Go from using AI to designing the systems businesses rely on. Architect – Professional is Anthropic’s advanced credential, and preparing for it properly changes how you approach every system you design after it.
For your organisation
Put certified architects at the centre of your Claude practice, leading client work into production. Be the firm clients trust with the systems that matter most.
Passing is only the start. I’m building a network of architects who build agentic AI that makes a real difference: people at different firms who’ve committed to getting better at it, and who learn as much from each other as from us. The Architect Programme is the way in.
02 Your guide
I passed Claude Certified Architect – Professional in September 2026 with a score of 861. The pass mark was 720.
I know what it takes to pass: sound judgement, and the preparation to back it up.
The judgement comes from 10+ years in applied AI. I run Brainqub3, a consultancy delivering AI agent implementation and Claude enablement. I was CTO of an agentic AI startup building a deal-sourcing platform for private equity, and a lead data scientist developing AI strategy at one of the UK’s largest banks. That’s the experience I built the programme around.
I designed The Architect Programme, and I set the standard every session lead meets:
For exam prep, I built a study platform from Anthropic’s public documentation and the exam guide before I sat the exam, and used it to prepare. It’s the platform you’ll study on.
03 What you get
04 The sessions
Intensive courses cram the material into a few days, and some people pass that way. Judgement takes longer to build. Every two weeks, you bring what you’ve studied, test it against real cases and hear how other architects would make the call. You practise explaining and defending your decisions, the way a technical lead does, and that stays with you long after the exam.
The seven domains, from Anthropic’s Claude Certified Architect – Professional Exam Guide (opens in a new tab) (v1.0, July 2026):
05 No shortcuts
It takes judgement: knowing why a design works, where it breaks and what you’d trade to fix it.
Anthropic’s exam guide pitches Professional at mid- to senior-level architects with 3+ years in systems architecture, and Anthropic says its exams include scenario-based questions (certification FAQ (opens in a new tab)). You don’t get that judgement by memorising questions and answers. You get it by understanding how the pieces fit, and by seeing real systems designed, shipped and fixed. That’s what we give you: judgement from real client work, and exam prep built from the public exam guide and Anthropic’s documentation.
It’s also the only way we’ll work. We don’t have access to the real exam content. Anthropic’s certification policies (opens in a new tab) say that by taking an exam “you agree not to share, reproduce, or discuss the questions in any form, including in study groups and online forums.” So nobody here does: not us, not the sessions, not the groups, not the debriefs, not the community and not the study platform. Anything that claims to have real exam questions could put your certification at risk.
06 How it works
It’s free and takes a minute.
We email you pricing and offer you a place.
We aim to get you onboarded within a week of applying: the community, the study platform and a place in your group. Take the diagnostic, then join your group’s next session.
07 Plans
Groups of up to five
For architects preparing for the exam themselves.
Bespoke
For organisations getting five or more people certified, across one team or several.
We email pricing to everyone who applies. Enterprise plans are tailored, so we’ll talk through what you need first.
08 Enterprise
Anthropic says certification “counts toward your firm’s standing in the Claude Partner Network, and it signals to customers that your team has invested in a real Claude practice” (certification FAQ (opens in a new tab)).
Architect – Professional is the advanced credential, “built for the scale of large enterprises” (Anthropic (opens in a new tab)). It’s for the architects who lead your clients’ Claude systems into production. And every failed attempt means another exam fee and at least 14 days before a retake.
If you sponsor your firm’s Claude practice or hold its budget, an enterprise plan gives your architects a bespoke programme, led by certified architects who meet our standard and built around your teams and timelines. Your architects’ client time is the most valuable time you have, so we ask for two hours of it every two weeks and put everything you invest into making each of those hours worth more than an hour of study alone.
Anthropic sets the network’s levels (how they work (opens in a new tab)) and decides who meets them. We get your people ready for the exam.
09 Who it’s for
10 FAQ
Anthropic currently offers its certification exams only to people at Claude Partner Network organisations, and you register with your company email address. Check Anthropic’s certification FAQ (opens in a new tab) before you buy. For now, places are only for people who can sit the exam. If your organisation isn’t in the network yet, leave your email on the form and we’ll let you know when places open up to you.
That’s what it’s for. Nobody can honestly promise you a pass, so we won’t. What you get is two hours with a certified architect every two weeks in a group of up to five, the session packs, the study platform for exam prep and a one-to-one debrief at the end.
A qualified architect who meets our standard. Every session lead has passed the Professional exam and keeps the certification current, has designed and shipped real systems into production, and has held a technical leadership role. They’re also trained in how the programme runs, and watched leading a group before they take one. You’ll know who leads your group before you pay.
Do the free courses: they work well alongside this. They give you the material at your own pace. What you pay for here is a practitioner’s judgement and experience, in a small group, building the judgement the exam tests, with exam prep built in.
No. We don’t have access to the real exam content. I sat the exam like any other candidate and agreed to keep it confidential, so nothing from it is in the platform, the sessions, the session packs or the community. I built the platform from Anthropic’s public documentation and the public exam guide before I sat the exam. It’s open source, so anyone can check how it was built. We accept changes to it, including other people’s contributions, only when they cite a public source. We won’t confirm or deny what’s on the exam.
Places are limited: every group is five people at most, and each session lead can only run so many groups. If they’re all taken, we’ll offer you one as soon as a suitable place comes free.
Now. We aim to get you onboarded within a week of applying. Your three months run from your first session, so the best time to start is about three months before your exam. If yours is further off, tell us your date and we’ll hold your place until nearer the time.
You decide how much you study. Set your exam date and the hours you have each week, and the roadmap fits around them. On top of that, there’s a two-hour session every two weeks.
Tell your session lead beforehand. We expect you at every session, but if you miss one, you still get its session pack: the case studies, the trade-offs and the answers to your group’s questions, written up as study notes. Send your questions in beforehand and we’ll cover them.
You still get your debrief: 30 minutes with your session lead, one to one, to plan your way to a pass. If you sat the exam and didn’t pass, you also get another 30 minutes with one of our session leads before your retake. That applies if you joined at least 5 of your group’s 6 sessions and sat the exam during your three months or within four weeks of them ending (terms (PDF, opens in a new tab)). We work from the public exam guide and your mock exam results, never from what the exam asked. You keep your group’s session packs, the community and the study platform, so you can keep studying.
Yes. Your community access doesn’t end with your 3 months, or when you pass. Members keep sharing AI news, what they’re building and what they’re learning long after the exam.
We email pricing to everyone who applies. Applying is free and doesn’t commit you to anything. Enterprise plans are tailored to each organisation, so we’ll talk through what you need first.
Yes. We can invoice your company for your place. If your organisation wants to get five or more people certified, ask about an enterprise plan.
We create a bespoke programme for your people: sessions led by certified architects who meet our standard, built around your teams, time zones and exam dates, with groups sized to suit you.
No, only Architect – Professional. Foundations is a separate exam with different content, so it would need its own prep.
No. It’s independent exam prep from Brainqub3. See “About The Architect Programme” below.
Who makes it. The Architect Programme is independent exam prep from Brainqub3, a trading name of DATA-CENTRIC SOLUTIONS LTD. Anthropic did not make, endorse, sponsor, approve or review it, and nothing on this site is a statement by Anthropic. Pearson VUE and Credly aren’t involved either.
No real exam content. Our study platform, including its diagnostic, practice questions and mock exams, was written by Brainqub3 from Anthropic’s public documentation and the public exam guide, before our founder sat the exam. It’s open source. It does not contain, and is not based on, questions or scenarios from the real exam, and we accept changes to it only when they cite a public source. We don’t have access to Anthropic’s exam content. It’s confidential, so we don’t discuss it in sessions, session packs, groups, debriefs, the community or the platform’s repository.
The certification. Claude Certified Architect – Professional is issued by Anthropic to individuals who pass its proctored exam. Buying a place doesn’t give you a certification, exam registration or an exam discount, and it doesn’t guarantee that you’ll pass. Nor does it change your organisation’s level in the Claude Partner Network: Anthropic sets the levels and decides who meets them. The exam is open only to people at Claude Partner Network organisations, who register with a company email address. Check Anthropic’s Certification FAQ (opens in a new tab) before you buy.
Our founder’s credential. John Adeojo holds the Claude Certified Architect – Professional certification as an individual (earned 29 September 2026, valid until 29 September 2027; verify on Credly (opens in a new tab)). Brainqub3, the company, is not certified.
Trademarks. Claude and Anthropic are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC. We use them only to identify the certification that The Architect Programme prepares you for.
11 Apply
We aim to get you started within a week of applying, in a group of up to five.
Free to apply. No card needed.
Getting five or more people certified? Choose “Enterprise” on the form.
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We’ll email you pricing, and we aim to get you onboarded within a week. If your exam date changes, every email has a link to update it.
We’ll be in touch to talk through an enterprise plan for your organisation.
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We’ll email you@company.com when places open up to you, and about nothing else.
