About — UpSkillZone
UpSkillZone, Inc. is a 2026 Delaware C-corp. The platform issues outcome-based credentials for AI engineering roles and charges employers per verified hire — not per click, not per applicant, not per seat.
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Traditional certificates fail because they are unfalsifiable assertions on a PDF. A bootcamp completion badge tells a hiring manager that someone paid tuition and watched the videos. It does not tell them whether the candidate can ship a retrieval pipeline that survives an adversarial eval. The market knows this, which is why most certificates trade at zero in the actual hiring loop.
Verifiable credentials change the contract. Each claim on the credential is bound to an artifact — a graded Job Twin submission, a mentor-calibrated rubric score, a signed VC payload — and any third party can check the cryptographic proof without contacting us. The credential keeps verifying even if the platform shuts down, because the public keys live at a stable JWKS endpoint and the proof is self-contained.
The full chain is mechanical: entrance assessment gates into enrollment; enrollment opens Job Twin simulations; submissions go through mentor calibration with a kappa floor; passing work mints a W3C VC in Open Badges 3.0 form; opt-in talents surface in the public skills directory; an employer hire generates an Ed25519 hire attestation; ninety days later the employer signs a 90-day outcome attestation that closes the loop and triggers the credit clause. Every link in that chain is a signed object on the ledger.
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The pitch is easier to write than the practice. Where we haven't earned the claim, we won't make it.
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Mira Aguilar
Founder, Engineering
Eight years on retrieval and evaluation infrastructure at two large search companies. Most recently ran the team behind the offline eval harness that gated their model-launch process.
At UpSkillZone she owns the modular monolith, the Ed25519 issuer-key custody story, and the JWKS endpoint that makes credentials verifiable offline.
Daniel Okafor
Founder, Mentor Network
A decade as staff engineer and engineering manager at three AI-first startups, hiring and onboarding ML practitioners against role-specific rubrics.
At UpSkillZone he runs mentor recruiting, calibration set design, and the Cohen's kappa remediation queue documented in the mentor agreement.
Reach the founders directly at founders@upskillzone.com. We answer in writing.
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