Activate Academy
We train operators on your product, test them under exam conditions, and hand you a bench your customers can hire from.
On the call we walk through your product and agree what a certified operator has to be able to do. Then you decide if a curriculum review is worth your time.
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The gap between signing for a tool and having somebody who can use it properly is where budgets stall and renewals die.
A brand signs up and then spends months looking for someone who can actually run it. The licence sits half used while the search drags on.
Nobody on the team is fluent, so adoption stalls, the numbers never land, and the renewal turns into a conversation about price.
Operators pick the product up in production, on the client's account and at the client's cost. The vendor wears the bad first impression.
What is missing is someone who can already use the thing on day one.
Five steps, run with you. Your team reviews the curriculum and signs off the exam before any operator sees either.
We agree the scope together. What a competent operator has to be able to do in your product, and what they must never get wrong.
A five to ten day Academy intensive, written from your own documentation and reviewed by your team before we teach it.
Every track ends in a proctored exam. Pass it, or come back and sit it again.
Certified operators are made available to your customers, introduced however you prefer. The brands we staff get a digest every other week with newly certified people flagged.
We introduce you to founders and operators in our network, by name.
The whole arrangement, both sides of it.
We run a small number of tracks and go deep on each.
These are the products we are opening tracks on. Each curriculum is written with the vendor before the track opens. Nothing here is live until it is.
Vendor names identify the product a track covers. No vendor listed here endorses or certifies Activate Talent.
Marketing measurement
Attribution and media measurement for direct-to-consumer brands.
A certified operator can
Performance advertising
Paid acquisition at scale for ecommerce advertisers.
A certified operator can
Creative production
Managed creative and video production for ecommerce brands.
A certified operator can
AI video
AI video generation for social and paid creative.
A certified operator can
We are opening tracks with a small number of additional vendors. If your customers keep asking for operators who already know your product, start the conversation.
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Everyone who joins a track is already working in ecommerce operations. Every track assumes you do this for a living.
Screen and camera stay on for the exam and nothing else. That is what makes the certificate worth putting your name on.
Five to ten days depending on the product, worked against the real product rather than slides.
The course and the certification are separate. Finishing the lessons does not mean you have passed.
Certified operators go straight onto our bench and into live roles with the brands we staff.
There is no published fee. To start, all we need is one reviewer and your sign-off on the exam. We talk about commercials once we both agree the track is worth building.
No. We do not resell your product, sit between you and your customer, or take a share of licence revenue. The one thing we ask for is a referral benefit on hires that come through the track. A discount or premium support, whichever suits you.
We do. Activate Talent issues the certificate, on a curriculum built with the partner and an exam the partner signs off. We never describe anyone as certified by you unless you certify them yourself.
The exam is sat with screen and camera on, reviewed for that exam and nothing else. It applies to every candidate on every track, so a pass is comparable.
Weeks rather than quarters. Most of that time is your team reviewing the curriculum and the exam.
Not in this version. Right now the programme is vendors and the brands that hire from it. Agencies come later.
One person for curriculum review, sign-off on what the exam has to prove, and a referral benefit for hires that come through the track.
Our existing network across Latin America and the Philippines. They are already working in ecommerce and already placed with brands.
Build a certified track for your product, and put operators who can run it in front of your customers.
Become a Certified PartnerHire an operator who has already been trained and tested on the tools you have paid for.
Hire certified talentJoin the Academy, certify on a track, and get put in front of the brands we staff for.
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