The Academy Intermediate

Become a Value-First Practitioner

What you'll build

A methodology-coach agent on valuefirstagent.com configured with the Five Core Beliefs, the 8 Value Path stages, and the Four Conversations — that takes a real relationship and returns its Value Path stage plus the right next conversation. The credential (certificate property on your Contact) is the recognition; the agent is the proof of mastery.

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The live cadence

How the live thing runs for this path.

Cohort-paced — the credential runs as a facilitated cohort with a defined start, backed by weekly Office Hours. Until a cohort is scheduled, runs Office-Hours-paced with the certification exam as the gate. LAUNCHES AS WAITLIST/APPLY.

There is no live cohort scheduled for this path yet. Apply below to join the waitlist — and you can join the weekly build clinic any week in the meantime.

The build, step by step

What you'll do, in order.

  1. Internalize the Five Core Beliefs Start at the foundation every methodology choice traces back to. Name each belief and spot its violation in a real org. (Practitioner Certification Module 1.)
  2. Master the 8 Value Path stages Audience through Champion — Path TO Value and Path OF Value. Learn each transition trigger and the signals that a relationship is ready to progress. (Module 2.)
  3. Make the Four Unified Views and Three-Org Model fluent Explain how the four views eliminate fragmentation and how Customer/Operations/Finance map onto them — the operating frame you'll coach clients through. (Module 3.)
  4. Conduct the Four Conversations without compression Probative, Qualifying, Value, Closing/Options. Surface a Desired Future State through questions, let value set the anchor, build three-option architecture. (Module 4.)
  5. Build your methodology-coach agent On valuefirstagent.com, build the agent that encodes what you learned: feed it a relationship, it returns the Value Path stage and the right next conversation. Configuring it correctly IS demonstrating mastery.
  6. Pass the certification + earn your listing Take the practitioner exam (the gate). On a pass your certificate property is written to your Contact and you become eligible for the Collective practitioner directory — the cohort hands you off to valuefirstcollective.com.

Where the build becomes real

You build it on valuefirstagent.com.

build a methodology-coach agent: input a relationship, output its Value Path stage and the next of the Four Conversations.

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You're building. Here's where it goes next.

Join the conversationBring your build into a community of people doing the same work. AI-Native Humans is the wide-open place that conversation lives.ainativehumans.org(opens in a new tab)

And then, the rest of the path:

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