Current process as of November 7, 2026
Intent Solutions runs a selective practitioner community for engineers who want to deliver dependable AI work and, if they choose, earn Claude Certified Architect (CCA): Foundations. Applying is free. This page is the whole process, in order, with what to expect at each step.
The same summary appears wherever we describe joining.
Applying is free. Requests are reviewed. Accepted members sign a mutual NDA and a User Agreement, receive a company mailbox, and use it to register for Claude Certified Architect (CCA): Foundations. The exam fee is paid by the member. Joining creates no employment relationship and guarantees no work, no certification and no partner-program standing.
In order, with the reminders and waits that apply.
Fill in the short form at learn.intentsolutions.io/request-access: who you are, what you have built, any credentials, and which track interests you. It is free. You get a receipt email within a few minutes from our agreements mailbox.
Only individuals apply here; a firm that wants to work with us starts at the firm page instead.
Every request is reviewed, with an automated first pass and the founder’s decision on anything that is not routine. We may send up to three short clarifying questions; if you do not reply, we send one reminder after five business days and keep the request on file after ten more.
If your request advances, the next email is the NDA. Requests we do not advance are kept for twelve months and then deleted.
The NDA arrives by email as an e-signature link. Sign it online; our countersignature is automatic and usually lands within minutes. A reminder goes out after five business days if it is still unsigned. There is no deadline.
The User Agreement covers your company mailbox and your use of Anthropic’s Partner Academy under our standing. It asks for your legal name and address. Sign it the same way; countersignature is automatic.
Once both documents are complete we create your company mailbox, the only account we issue, and send the welcome email: how to sign in, how to register for the exam, the invitation to the private Discord, and a link to book a conversation with the founder if you want one.
Register on Anthropic’s Partner Academy with your company mailbox (personal addresses are not accepted by the program), book the exam with Pearson VUE and pay the exam fee yourself, and claim the badge on Credly when you pass. Our start page lists the official Anthropic links.
Nobody is pressed for progress or a date; reply and sit the exam whenever it suits you.
Selective. Reviewed on the quality of your work, not on a payment.
Free to apply and free to join. No fee at any step except the exam fee you pay to the testing provider.
Not a job and not a bench. Project work, when it exists, is agreed in writing each time.
Not a certification sale. Intent Solutions does not sell partner-program membership, exam access or guaranteed certification.
Your choice to stay. Leave any time; your mailbox is closed and your data handled under our data-retention notice.
Intent Solutions is a Select Services Partner in the Claude Partner Network. That standing is ours; members use the Partner Academy under it and are described accurately, never as partners themselves.