Apprenticeship marketplace · Verified skill credentials
Sanaa Guild matches learners to master tradespeople, logs what an apprentice can actually do against a competency rubric, and turns a finished apprenticeship into a portable credential an employer can check.
Built for electricians, carpenters, mechanics, tailors and CNC operators — and for the training centres and employers who need to know what a person can do.
FIG. 01 Four trades, one record of what the hands can do.
01 — The problem
Vocational skill transfers informally and invisibly. That failure costs three groups of people at once, and it is the same failure each time: there is no record.
A CV says “three years with a master electrician.” It does not say which distribution boards the applicant can terminate unsupervised, or whether they have ever been assessed. Hiring becomes a guess, so employers default to the credential they can read — a degree.
A master craftsperson takes on an apprentice, absorbs months of slower work and wasted material, and has no structured way to be paid for the teaching, no agreement worth the paper, and no way to be found by the learners who need them.
A saturated white-collar market pushes graduates toward the trades, where they find no rubric, no entry route and no way to show progress. Meanwhile the shortage of verified skilled trades sits right next to the unemployment queue.
02 — The solution
Master–apprentice learning is not broken. It is undocumented. Sanaa Guild adds the missing layer: a published program, a shared rubric, dated evidence, and a signed-off credential at the end.
The apprentice watches the task performed correctly and can describe the sequence, the hazards and the tolerances.
Works alongside the master on live jobs, handling prep, setting out and second-pair-of-hands steps.
Completes the whole task with the master present. Photo or video evidence is attached to the rubric line and dated.
Completes the task unsupervised to the standard written into the program, and is assessed against it.
Can bring another person to L3 on the same competency. This is the rung that turns an apprentice into a master.
03 — What is in the platform
We do not add another course catalogue nobody finishes. Every part of Sanaa Guild exists to make real workshop learning legible, enforceable and portable.
A master sets out the trade, the competencies covered, duration, intake size and workshop location. Learners see the actual syllabus before they apply.
Each program is broken into named competencies with a written standard for each rung. Nobody argues about what “good” means, because it is written down first.
Completion produces a credential the learner owns and can share anywhere — with the competency list, the evidence count and the assessing master attached.
An employer enters a credential ID and sees exactly what was assessed, when, by whom, and at which rung — not a logo and a promise.
A structured apprentice–master agreement with milestones. Funds are held in escrow and released as competencies are signed off, so the arrangement is real on both sides.
Training centres and NGOs run funded groups through the same rubric, with cohort dashboards, attendance and per-competency reporting for the funder.
Employers post for the skill, not the job title: “can commission a three-phase board at L4.” Credential holders match against the line item.
04 — How it works
Five stages, the same for every trade on the platform. Durations are set by the master in the published program, not by us.
The learner applies to a published program. The master reviews, runs a short practical or interview, and accepts or declines.
Both sides sign the apprenticeship agreement: competencies, hours, obligations and milestones. The placement fee and any funded stipend enter escrow.
Work is logged against rubric lines with dated photos, video or job sheets. The master confirms each rung as it is reached.
A final practical assessment against the rubric, signed by the master and a second assessor from the training centre or guild panel.
The credential is issued to the learner with a public verification ID, and the profile becomes visible on the competency-filtered job board.
05 — The credential
A Sanaa Guild credential is not a certificate of attendance. It lists the competencies assessed, the rung reached on each, the evidence count behind it, and who signed it off — all resolvable from a single verification ID.
FIG. 02 Illustrative credential layout. Holder field intentionally blank; identifier and counts are sample values.
On outcomes: a credential is designed to evidence what a person can do to an employer who asks. It is not a licence, not an accreditation, and not a guarantee of employment or income.
Ask about employer verification06 — Inside a program
Sample structure for an electrical installation apprenticeship, shown to illustrate the format masters publish in. Hours and evidence targets are set by the master.
Safe isolation procedure, lock-off, proving dead, and the paperwork that has to exist before a tool is picked up.
Target rung L5
Load calculation, cable sizing and volt drop worked through on real jobs rather than on paper alone.
Target rung L4
Setting out, bending, fixing and dressing containment to a standard that survives inspection.
Target rung L4
Board layout, termination, labelling and the discipline of leaving work someone else can read.
Target rung L4
Instrument use, systematic diagnosis, and recording results in a form the next person can trust.
Target rung L3
Certificates, as-built notes and client walkthrough — the part that separates a tradesperson from a helper.
Target rung L3
Sample program structure, shown for format only. Actual modules, hours and target rungs are written by the publishing master.
07 — Pricing
No subscription for learners, no listing fee for masters. Sanaa Guild is paid on completed placements, employer verification access, and program licensing.
$60one-time
Charged on a completed apprenticeship, not on applying.
$200per year
Check any credential, as many times as you hire.
$2,500per program
From. For training centres, NGOs and funded placement schemes.
Prices shown in USD and indicative for launch. Escrow and payment processing fees, where they apply, are shown before any agreement is signed.
08 — Where we are
Sanaa Guild is a new platform. We would rather show you an empty table with honest definitions than a full one we made up. These fill in as real apprenticeships complete.
Every rung on every competency has a written standard before an apprentice is accepted onto the program. Evidence is dated at upload. Final assessment needs two signatures — the teaching master and an independent assessor — and both are named on the credential.
We do not publish placement rates, salary figures or partner names until they exist and the people involved have agreed to be named. We are not an accrediting body and we do not issue trade licences. Completion evidences skill to an employer who asks; it does not promise a job.
The platform is being designed around the way skill already transfers in working shops, with curriculum and assessment rigour drawn from engineering and education faculty practice rather than invented from scratch.
Whether you are looking for a master, holding skills nobody has written down, or hiring for work that has to be done properly — start here.