25 Founding Certified Partners

Shape the Future of
AI-Native Development.

We're selecting 25 consultants to become the first CRAFT Method Founding Certified Partners. You'll co-build the AI-native development method, deliver it to real engineering organisations, and earn a permanent credential that future Certified Partners will never have.

Free CRAFT Method access. 100% of client revenue — forever. The "Founding" badge never expires.

AI-native development is where agile was
in 2002

Wide open. No dominant method. Engineering organisations are adopting AI tools — buying licenses, running pilots, hoping for magic — with zero structured framework for how developers should actually work with AI. ~90% of engineering teams use AI tools, but only 32% have formal AI governance (Cortex 2026).

No Measurement Exists

No CTO would make a hiring decision without data. But they're making AI adoption decisions without any way to measure their engineering org's AI readiness.

Teams Don't Agree

The CTO thinks context engineering is "sorted." The senior dev scores it 25/100. That's not a disagreement — that's two different realities inside the same company.

The Window Is Now

The question isn't whether AI-native development needs a method — it's whether you'll be one of the 25 Founding Certified Partners who shaped it, or one of the thousands who adopt it later.

Who Is This For

Built for Practitioners Who Already Deliver

Experienced consultants, coaches, and tech leaders who already help engineering teams — and want a structured AI-native development method to multiply their impact.

Engineering Consultants & Coaches

You advise CTOs and engineering leaders on development practices. AI is reshaping how code gets written — and you need a framework to guide the transition.

Agile Coaches & Transformation Leads

You've led agile transformations, DevOps adoptions, or engineering culture change. AI-native development is the next evolution of your practice.

DevOps & Platform Engineers

You build the systems that enable developer velocity. AI tools are changing what "developer experience" means — and you can lead that shift.

AI & Developer Tooling Consultants

You implement AI coding tools but lack a holistic method that addresses the human and process side. CRAFT Method bridges that gap.

Technical Training & L&D Leaders

You build learning programs for engineering teams. AI fluency is the most urgent skill gap — and you're the expert on closing it.

CTO-as-a-Service & Fractional CTOs

You lead engineering strategy for multiple companies. A certified method gives you a repeatable framework across every engagement.

Why Founding Certified Partner

An Advantage That Never Expires

Founding Certified Partners get a deal that will never be offered again. Future Certified Partners will pay licensing fees and revenue share.

Zero Cost — Permanently

No license fees. No revenue share. No annual subscription. You keep 100% of every euro you earn from clients, forever.

Permanent "Founding" Badge

Future partners will be Certified Partners. Only you carry the "Founding" distinction — permanently. First movers in the AI-native development method.

CRAFT Assessment — Your Lead Gen Weapon

A proprietary 125-question diagnostic that measures AI-native development maturity across 5 practices. Run the assessment, surface the gaps, close the engagement.

Built-In Referral Network

25 partners with complementary expertise and geographic reach. Cross-refer clients, share learnings, and grow together as a trusted network.

Co-Author the CRAFT Book

Your real-world insights, case studies, and practice expertise will shape the definitive reference on AI-native development. Your name, your work, published.

Podcast Episode + Host Opportunity

Get a dedicated episode featuring your expertise — and become the recurring host for your practice. Promoted with paid ads for visibility and authority.

Five Practices. One Complete Method.

Every Founding Certified Partner is trained across all five practices. You deliver the complete CRAFT Method — not a fragment of it.

Curate

Curate the context AI agents consume. Codebase intelligence, AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md standards, context governance, and developer-tool onboarding.

Refine

Refine specs before AI generates code. Spec completeness, predicate-form acceptance criteria, AI-augmented edge cases, and requirements traceability.

Architect

Architect within governed patterns. Pattern libraries, ADRs, multi-agent code review, agentic CI/CD, and architecture evolution.

Fortify

Fortify against AI-introduced risk. SAST/DAST/SCA at AI velocity, AIBOMs, slopsquat defense, and ISO 42001 / EU AI Act compliance automation.

Test

Test before AI ships. AI test generation, mutation testing, blocking quality gates, DORA-aligned deployment quality, and feedback loops.

AI-native development is already a niche. Each Founding Certified Partner masters the full framework — and brings their unique industry experience, regional knowledge, and delivery style to every engagement.

How It Works in Practice

A repeatable framework that turns assessments into workshops, workshops into transformations, and clients into advocates.

1
Assess

Run the CRAFT Assessment with your client. A 125-question diagnostic that reveals their AI-native maturity across all 5 practices — with data, not guesswork.

2
Workshop

Deliver a 2-day CRAFT workshop. Deep dive into the results, map the gaps, and build an improvement roadmap together with the client.

3
Plan

During the workshop, identify which practices need work first. Build a prioritised improvement roadmap across all 5 practices with clear milestones.

4
Transform

Deliver the full CRAFT transformation — embedded pair programming, coaching, and mentoring until the method is how they naturally work.

5
Grow

More Certified Partners = more assessments = more workshops = more cross-referrals = more revenue for everyone in the network.

What Founding Certified Partners Get

Everything you need to deliver AI-native development engagements — method, tools, content, credibility, and community.

Founding Certified Partner — Permanent

Future partners will be Certified Partners. Only you will carry the "Founding" badge — permanently. First movers in a new discipline.

Complete Method Access — Free

Full CRAFT framework, program materials, facilitation guides, and templates for your chosen practice. No license fees, ever.

Dedicated Podcast Episode

A permanent content asset tied to your personal brand. Your expertise, your story, promoted to the CRAFT community.

CRAFT Assessment Tool

Proprietary 125-question diagnostic that measures AI-native development maturity across 5 practices. Your lead generation weapon.

Referral Network

25 partners with complementary expertise. A global network of trusted practitioners who cross-refer clients — and grow together.

100% Revenue — Forever

Zero revenue share, permanently. You keep everything you earn from client engagements. Future Certified Partners will pay — Founding Certified Partners never do.

Senior Certified Partner Auto-Entry

After 12 months, Founding Certified Partners automatically advance to Senior Certified Partner — skipping the standard path entirely.

Global Community

Monthly partner calls, private community, quarterly summits. 24 fellow Founding Certified Partners navigating the same AI-native transformation journey.

What We Ask

This is not a finished product looking for salespeople. This is a method being forged by practitioners. Your input matters.

2-3 Pilot Engagements

Deliver the CRAFT framework to real engineering teams during the founding year. You bill the client — we provide the method.

2-Day Certification Program

Complete training on the CRAFT framework, assessment, and delivery process. Online or in Porto. This earns you the Certified Partner credential.

Monthly Partner Calls

Join the community call to share learnings, discuss cases, and shape the method together.

Structured Feedback

Tell us what works, what doesn't, and what's missing. Your real-world experience evolves the framework.

The Founding Deal
Method Access Free — Permanent
Revenue Share 0% — Permanent
Founding Certified Partner Permanent — never expires
Time Investment ~40 hours across 12 months
Post-Year 1 Level Auto-enters Senior Certified Partner
Exclusivity Required None — work with any method
Your only cost is time. And that time is spent delivering paid work to your own clients, using a structured method instead of improvising.

The Founding Journey

You're not onboarding into a finished product. As a Founding Certified Partner, you're co-building the method from Day 1.

PHASE 1

Welcome & Onboarding

Welcome call with Luis. Get full access to the CRAFT framework, research, draft materials, and the Founding Certified Partner community.

PHASE 2

Co-Build the Method

Work sessions with Luis and your founding cohort. Review the framework across all 5 practices. Challenge it. Add your real-world expertise. Shape the playbooks, templates, and delivery guides together.

PHASE 3

Design the Program

Co-design the CRAFT workshop and assessment delivery flow. Define the facilitation approach, exercises, and scoring interpretation. Build it so any Certified Partner can deliver it.

PHASE 4

Pilot with Real Clients

Run the CRAFT Assessment + deliver the workshop with 1-2 of your existing clients. Real feedback, real data. Debrief with the cohort. Iterate the method based on what you learned.

PHASE 5

Refine & Scale

Polish the method based on pilot results. Record your podcast episode. Contribute your case study to the CRAFT book. Begin growing your CRAFT practice.

ONGOING

The Founding Network

Monthly partner calls. Method updates. Podcast recordings. PR opportunities. A permanent seat at the table as CRAFT grows from 25 Founding Certified Partners to thousands of Certified Partners.

Your First-Year Economics

Your only cost is time. And that time is spent delivering paid work to your own clients.

What You Invest
Financial 0€
Time ~40 hours across the year
Clients 2-3 pilot engagements with your own clients
Contribution Feedback and case study data
What You Get Back
Workshop Revenue 2-3 workshops at 15K€ each = 30K€-45K€
Lead Generation CRAFT Assessment = pipeline full of qualified leads
Referrals Cross-referrals from 24 fellow founding partners
Brand Assets Podcast + book = permanent credibility
Potential: 30K€-90K€ + brand + pipeline

You're Not Joining a Program.
You're Building a Movement.

CRAFT is not a certification factory. It's a global network of Certified Partners — AI-native development practitioners who share method, language, and commitment to helping engineering organisations work with AI effectively.

The Data Moat

Every CRAFT Assessment adds proprietary data points. Better benchmarks mean more valuable assessments. More valuable assessments attract more partners. The moat deepens every day.

"Your client scores 35 on Context vs. industry median of 52" — this insight is only possible with scale.

The Referral Engine

Partner in London finishes an engagement → refers a Berlin client to a founding partner nearby. 25 partners across geographies and industries create organic cross-referral.

No referral commissions. Social norms, not market norms. Partners refer because they trust the network.

The Franchise Model

Like EOS Worldwide — which scaled from founder to 200+ implementers serving 200,000+ organizations — CRAFT is a transferable system. Documented, standardized, teachable, measurable.

McKinsey's strength is the individual consultant. CRAFT's strength is the transferable system.

The Revenue Opportunity

A single client journey — assessment, 2-day workshop, practice transformation, quarterly re-assessment — generates recurring revenue year after year.

The CRAFT Assessment is the door opener. The workshop is the accelerator. The transformation engagement is where the real value is created.

Who Is Behind CRAFT Method

LG
Luis Gonçalves
Creator, CRAFT Method
Portugal

20 years helping Fortune 500 companies transform — SAP, Nordea, Hilti, Metro. Faculty at Porto Business School. 5 published books, 3 of them Amazon bestsellers.

He built a complete software platform — 11 integrated products, hundreds of thousands of lines of code — with AI as his only team member. That experience crystallised what works and what doesn't when developers work with AI at scale.

The patterns were clear: organisations that standardise context, requirements, architecture, flow, and testing for AI get 10x results. Those that don't get chaos. That became CRAFT Method.

20+
YEARS
5
BOOKS
3
BESTSELLERS
11
PRODUCTS BUILT

"I built 11 products with AI as my only engineer. The method that emerged isn't theory — it's what actually works when you ship production code with AI every single day."

"Every engineering consultant, agile coach, and CTO advisor is experiencing the same shift. The difference is whether you face it alone or alongside 24 other practitioners building the method together."

There will be no second Founding Certified Partner cohort.

When the 25 spots are filled, this invitation closes permanently.

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