An earlier draft called this a Certified Partner programme. That was premature: there is no certification standard and no monitoring regime to back the word (audit finding #35). Partners are qualified against the criteria below, and the criteria are public so that a customer can check them.
What a partner does
- Setup. Metadata extraction, runner installation, CI wiring, dbt test hygiene so that automated invariant synthesis has something clean to read.
- Remediation. Fixing the semantic model, the dbt models or the prompt after a finding — the work we cannot do ourselves under developmental separation.
- Definition ownership support. Helping the customer’s Business Definition Owner resolve
INDETERMINATEfindings inside the 48-hour SLA.
What a partner never does
- Author or adjudicate EvalQA invariants, run the sequestered benchmark, or sign a bundle.
- Present an EAL-1 self-run as verified evidence, or use the word “certified” about anything we produce.
- Receive a success fee, referral fee or revenue share tied to whether an agent passes.
Qualification criteria
| Criterion | Standard | How it is checked |
|---|---|---|
| Warehouse depth | Demonstrated production delivery on Snowflake or Databricks; dbt in daily use | Two reference engagements, spoken to |
| Practitioner qualification | At least two staff pass the same 50-item battery our reviewers sit | Proctored; results held by us |
| Independence | No commercial relationship with the customer’s agent vendor that would create a conflict on remediation advice | Written disclosure per engagement |
| Retest discipline | Every remediation is followed by an EvalQA retest bundle referencing the original | Bundle lineage |
| Data handling | Works under the customer’s evidence mode and DPA; no side channels | Contractual; access logs |
Qualification is reviewed annually and can be withdrawn. The list of qualified partners is published here when the first one qualifies; today it is empty, and we would rather show an empty list than a borrowed logo.
Commercials
Partners bill customers directly for setup and remediation on their own terms. We do not take a cut, and they do not take one from us. Where a partner introduces a customer, the customer pays the published price; the introduction changes nothing.
Tooling partners
We integrate with what data teams already run — dbt, GitHub Actions, Snowflake, Databricks, OpenTelemetry — and publish the interfaces on the integrations page. Integration is not partnership and implies no endorsement in either direction.
Design partners
Customers in the first cohort are design partners, which is a different thing: they buy the sprint at the published price and help falsify the thesis.