# Competency Validation Service

*/Services/Competency_Validation_Service*

## Service Contract

**Sla**: Validation reports and credentials are delivered within 48 hours of final evidence submission.
**Input**:
- Candidate portfolio or historical evidence
- Target competency framework
- Raw assessment data
**Output**:
- Verified competency profile
- Skills gap analysis
- Validation credential
**Sla Basis**: turnaround-time
**Definition**: Evaluates and verifies an individual's skills, knowledge, and abilities against defined frameworks or role requirements to produce an objective assessment of their capabilities.
**Solves Problem**: [Unverified Candidate Skills](/Problems/Unverified_Candidate_Skills)
**Absorbs Process**: [Skills Assessment](/Processes/Skills_Assessment)
**Delivery Lenses**:
- human
- services-as-software
**Outcome Contract**: Provides a definitive, standardized verification of a candidate's skills against a defined framework, explicitly detailing confirmed competencies and identified gaps.

## Service Function Cascade

**Ai Role**: AI drives the validation pipeline by parsing candidate evidence, mapping extracted skills to target competency frameworks via multi-step evaluation, and drafting the gap analysis, with human experts stationed at a final approval gate to authorize the credential.
**Cascade**:
- Kind: Code · Note: Parses portfolios, raw assessment data, and the target framework. · Step: Ingest Candidate Evidence · Verb: ingest · Realizes: Acquire Candidate Evidence · Oversight: none
- Kind: Generative · Note: Identifies claimed competencies and proficiency levels from unstructured evidence. · Step: Extract Skill Claims · Verb: extract · Realizes: Extract Skill Indicators · Oversight: none
- Kind: Agentic · Note: Maps extracted evidence to the target framework, looping to query missing contexts. · Step: Cross-Reference Framework · Verb: evaluate · Realizes: Evaluate Competencies · Oversight: review-on-exception
- Kind: Generative · Note: Compiles the verified skills and identifies framework deficiencies. · Step: Draft Gap Analysis · Verb: draft · Realizes: Generate Gap Analysis · Oversight: none
- Kind: Human · Note: Expert reviews the synthesized profile and approves the final evaluation. · Step: Verify And Approve · Verb: review · Realizes: Approve Competency Profile · Oversight: approves
- Kind: Code · Note: Dispatches the verified profile, gap analysis, and final credential. · Step: Issue Credential · Verb: issue · Realizes: Issue Validation Credential · Oversight: none
**Realizes**:
- [Acquire Candidate Evidence](/Tasks/Acquire_Candidate_Evidence)
- [Extract Skill Indicators](/Tasks/Extract_Skill_Indicators)
- [Evaluate Competencies](/Tasks/Evaluate_Competencies)
- [Generate Gap Analysis](/Tasks/Generate_Gap_Analysis)
- [Approve Competency Profile](/Tasks/Approve_Competency_Profile)
- [Issue Validation Credential](/Tasks/Issue_Validation_Credential)
**Optimizes**:
- [Assessment Turnaround Time](/Metrics/Assessment_Turnaround_Time)
- [Framework Mapping Precision](/Metrics/Framework_Mapping_Precision)
- [First-Pass Yield](/Metrics/First-Pass_Yield)
- [Evaluation Cost Per Candidate](/Metrics/Evaluation_Cost_Per_Candidate)

## Service Wrapper Fanout

- [Evidence Intake Agent](/Agents/Evidence_Intake_Agent) — Agent

## Service Representative Offer

**Warranty**: Guarantees delivery of the finalized validation report and credential within 48 hours of final candidate evidence submission, offering a full fee credit for delayed delivery.
**Price Band**: ~$20 to $150 per candidate validation, depending on the depth of the competency framework and the level of human-in-the-loop review required.
**Pricing Kind**: UsageMeter
**Deliverables**:
- Verified competency profile
- Skills gap analysis report
- Digital validation credential
- Assessment audit log
**Delivery Mode**: The buyer initiates validation requests via a self-serve dashboard or API, candidates submit portfolios or complete assessments, and the final credential is delivered asynchronously.
**Business Function**: ProvideService
**Agent Checkout Support**:
- agentic-commerce-protocol
- stored-credential

## Service Composes Headless Saas

- [Assessment Data Feed](/Software/Assessment_Data_Feed) — ATS Integration
- [Skill Extraction Model](/Software/Skill_Extraction_Model) — ML/NLP
- [Competency Graph API](/Software/Competency_Graph_API) — Framework Ontology
- [Review Dispatch API](/Software/Review_Dispatch_API) — Task Routing
- [Credential Issuer API](/Software/Credential_Issuer_API) — Verifiable Credentials

## Service Delivery Cascade Diagram

```mermaid
flowchart TD; A[Code Ingest Candidate Evidence] --> B[Generative Extract Skill Claims]; B --> C[Agentic Evidence Intake Agent Cross Reference Framework]; C --> D[Generative Draft Gap Analysis]; D --> E{Human Verify And Approve}; E -->|Expert Approval| F[Code Issue Credential];
```

## Neighborhood

### What it addresses

- [Unverified Candidate Skills](/Problems/Unverified_Candidate_Skills) — addresses · Problems

### Composed of

- [Assessment Data Feed](/Software/Assessment_Data_Feed) — composes · Software
- [Competency Graph API](/Software/Competency_Graph_API) — composes · Software
- [Skill Extraction Model](/Software/Skill_Extraction_Model) — composes · Software
- [Credential Issuer API](/Software/Credential_Issuer_API) — composes · Software
- [Review Dispatch API](/Software/Review_Dispatch_API) — composes · Software
- [Evidence Intake Agent](/Agents/Evidence_Intake_Agent) — composes · Agents