Portfolio-based AI learning: people prove they can do real work with AI, and someone who hires them can see it.
SkaFld Trailhead is piloting. It is not generally available yet. skafldtrailhead.com
The problem
AI training is mostly lectures and prompt tips. Learners finish without evidence they can do real work with AI, and employers cannot tell who can.
Plans
SkaFld Trailhead for Schools
For high schools and districts: a semester, seven modules, a local employer's brief
SkaFld Trailhead for Teams
For employers: a team of 6 to 15 builds an AI playbook from its own work in six weeks
Resold by SkaFld.Elite.
SkaFld Trailhead for Workforce
For workforce boards and funders: cohorts of job-seekers placed with hiring partners
At a glance
- Where it runs
- In the browser, at skafldtrailhead.com.
- Pilot
- Piloting with El Segundo Unified School District.
- The coach
- Guide is the AI coach. It guides and checks the work, and never writes it or scores it. People score the portfolio.
- What learners leave with
- Students can earn an AI-Ready Certificate. Teams leave with a scored AI playbook.
How the work moves
- 01
Enroll
A sponsor sets up a cohort, consent and roles; learners join.
- 02
Brief
A sponsor's real problem becomes the cohort brief and the bar for good work.
- 03
Learn
Modules built on worked cases; learners invent the rule before each lesson.
- 04
Build
Each module adds a page to the portfolio, tried first without AI, then with it.
- 05
Coach
Guide checks every page against the bar and pushes learners to reason.
- 06
Score
Trained raters or the sponsor score the work; Guide never gives the final score.
- 07
Certify
Certificate or before-and-after result; portfolios shared with hiring partners.
- 08
Report
Cohort outcomes for districts, employers and funders.
