The Standard · Function
Sales and Business Development
The Standard names 8 skills in Sales and Business Development. You can be examined on one of them, or on the function as a whole.
A badge names one skill: “Applied AI Badge: Grant Writing”. The two titles name the function: “Applied AI Specialist (Sales and Business Development)”. Learn either any way you like; no book or course is required.
The skills in Sales and Business Development
None of these can be examined today. A skill opens once its questions are approved and tested, and we will say so here.
- Grant Writing
Writes grant applications with AI that meet the call exactly and make no claim the evidence cannot back.
- Negotiation
Prepares negotiations with AI and keeps the judgement, and the relationship, human.
- Business Development
Researches and approaches prospects with AI and keeps every claim about them accurate.
- Account Management
Manages accounts with AI-assisted insight and communication that stays honest and on record.
- Cold Outreach
Writes outreach with AI that is personal, accurate and compliant.
- Sales Conversations
Prepares sales conversations with AI and never lets it promise what the product cannot do.
- Networking & Relationships
Builds relationships with AI-assisted research and follow-up that stays genuine.
- Tender & Bid Writing
Writes tenders and bids with AI that answer the specification and evidence every claim.
A credential for the whole function
Applied AI Specialist and Applied AI Strategist draw their tasks from the skills of one function. The briefs read like your own week, and the credential names Sales and Business Development on the public register. You hold both for life.
45 minutes
Applied AI Specialist (Sales and Business Development)
Practitioners responsible for the quality of AI-assisted work in their field.
This exam is not open yet. Write to registrar@straitsai.institute and we will tell you when it opens.
US$149
What it asks60 minutes
Applied AI Strategist (Sales and Business Development)
Practitioners with at least two years of experience applying AI who design team workflows.
This exam is not open yet. Write to registrar@straitsai.institute and we will tell you when it opens.
US$349
What it asks
Where to start today
- Applied AI Foundations
- Free, 5 minutes, and it covers any job. Take it now.
- Applied AI Certified
- US$49, the general credential for anyone whose job involves AI. What it asks.
- Practice
- Free, up to 50 sessions a day, once a skill in Sales and Business Development has exercises.
- Any job
- 12 skills apply to every function, whatever you do. Read the Standard.
- Learn first
- Every skill in Sales and Business Development has a book in the AI+ Library. No book is required to pass.
Nothing in Sales and Business Development can be examined today. The free Applied AI Foundations exam and Applied AI Certified are open to everyone, and both cover any job.
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No card, and no account to start. It covers any job, so it works whatever you do in Sales and Business Development.
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