A degree says what your students studied. Cadra shows what they can do with AI.

Score a cohort on the tasks industry hires for, then give every student a plan and the time to act on it.

Illustration: a sample Cadra report cycling through a student capability profile, a per-student roadmap, a cohort baseline, and term-over-term movement.

Employers are hiring for AI capability. Transcripts don't show it.

Every graduate now claims AI fluency. Almost none can prove it.

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Claims outrun proof

Students list AI tools on a CV. Employers have no way to tell who actually works well with them.

02

Coursework isn't the job

Assignments are graded on the output. Industry cares how the work got done, with what judgment.

03

The gap surfaces too late

Most students discover what they're missing during placement season, when there's no time to fix it.

EU AI Act, Article 4: organisations must ensure AI literacy in their workforce. Graduates who can demonstrate it are easier to hire.

"AI skills" is not one skill.

Building AI systems and working with AI are different jobs. Cadra scores them separately.

TRACK 01 · BUILD THE AI

Build the AI

CS, Data Science, and Engineering students heading into AI Engineer, ML Engineer, Data Scientist, and Data Engineer roles.

Can they build and ship an AI system that holds up?

How they design the system, evaluate it, handle cost and latency, debug it, and tie the build to the business constraint.

RETRIEVALEVALSCOSTAGENTS
Scenario Build a retrieval system over a document set, expose it as an API, and produce an evaluation framework before deployment.
TRACK 02 · WORK AI-NATIVELY

Work AI-natively

MBA, business analytics, commerce, and ops-track students heading into analyst, operations, sales, and product roles.

Are they measurably better at the work because of AI?

How they frame the problem, check what the AI gives back, decide when not to use it, and how good the decision is for the time spent.

STRUCTUREVERIFYJUDGMENT
Scenario Turn an incomplete dataset and a business question into a recommendation a manager could act on.

One cohort is judged on what they can build. The other on how well they think with AI in the loop. A single generic test measures neither well.

It runs across a semester, not in one sitting.

Baseline

Students work through tasks built for their track, and Cadra records how they got there.

RECORDED AS THEY WORK

Roadmap

Each student sees where they are strong and where they are short, with training aimed at what they got wrong.

PER STUDENT

Build

Students build real things they can show. A second score at the end shows what changed.

REAL WORK

Evidence your placement office and your employers can both use.

THE STUDENT GETS
01

A capability profile they can show

Scored against the rubric the industry hires on, and backed by the work itself.

THE INSTITUTION GETS
01

Cohort benchmark

Where the cohort stands by track, early enough in the year to act on it.

THE STUDENT GETS
02

A clear roadmap

What to fix, in what order, with enough runway before placement season to actually fix it.

THE INSTITUTION GETS
02

Curriculum signal

Which gaps are systemic and worth teaching, and which are individual and worth coaching.

THE STUDENT GETS
03

Placement readiness

Capability that stands up in an interview, built on tasks modelled on the real job.

THE INSTITUTION GETS
03

Movement you can show

Re-baselining across a term produces a before and after, so progress is visible.

SAME EVIDENCE · TWO READERS

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