The AcademyIntermediate
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.
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.
- Internalize the Five Core BeliefsStart at the foundation every methodology choice traces back to. Name each belief and spot its violation in a real org. (Practitioner Certification Module 1.)
- Master the 8 Value Path stagesAudience 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.)
- Make the Four Unified Views and Three-Org Model fluentExplain how the four views eliminate fragmentation and how Customer/Operations/Finance map onto them — the operating frame you'll coach clients through. (Module 3.)
- Conduct the Four Conversations without compressionProbative, Qualifying, Value, Closing/Options. Surface a Desired Future State through questions, let value set the anchor, build three-option architecture. (Module 4.)
- Build your methodology-coach agentOn 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.
- Pass the certification + earn your listingTake 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.
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