# What being a WIRE Method Practitioner means. Source: https://thewiremethod.com/standard Site: The WIRE Method Tagline: AI that works inside the business. Founder: Richard Batt Contact: hello@thewiremethod.com This Markdown companion is generated from the prerendered page for AI crawlers. The standard # What being a WIRE Method Practitioner means. Every credential needs a standard. A standard is what stops a certification from drifting into ceremony. The standard below is the same checklist Richard Batt signs builds off against on client projects, written down so practitioners and the people who hire them can read it before any money changes hands. ## Why we publish the standard A written standard does three things at once. It tells applicants what the bar looks like before they apply. It tells employers and clients what they are buying when they hire a practitioner. And it stops the credential from quietly inflating, because the bar is anchored to a published document instead of one person remembering what good looked like last year. The standard is reviewed twice a year and the change log is public on this page. Practitioner level ## The Practitioner Standard, in full. A WIRE Method Practitioner is signed off against six requirements. Five are about the build that ends the cohort. The sixth is about how the build is reviewed. - The chosen process is documented in enough detail that a new hire could run it on day one without a verbal handover. - A written baseline measurement was taken before any tool was touched. Hours, throughput, error rate or response time, depending on the work. - A working automation is running against a defined success metric, not a feature list. The metric was set inside Step Two of the WIRE Method, before the build started. - A handover document exists, with a named owner and a written review cadence. The handover passes the Bus Test: if the builder left the project tomorrow, the team could keep the build running. - Two weeks of output review are evidenced. Every output produced in the first fortnight has been read by a named human, with corrections logged and the prompt or trigger updated where needed. - The build has survived an unannounced live review by Richard. The review is conducted as a real client review, on the real running build, with no rehearsal. Master level ## The Master Standard, in addition. A WIRE Method Master is graded against a separate teaching standard on top of the Practitioner standard. The Master credential is the right to teach the method to other people, and the bar is set accordingly. - Three live builds previously delivered as a Practitioner have been formally case-reviewed against the Practitioner Standard. - A live teach-back has been delivered to Richard and a peer cohort, walking a small audience through one of the four steps and producing the named output for that step. - The candidate has been observed running a WIRE audit conversation with a real prospect or team, in person or on a recorded call. - The candidate can name and explain every named pattern in the framework, with at least one example from a build they have personally delivered. ## How the review is run. Every sign-off review is conducted in the same shape, regardless of the cohort. The review is a real client conversation, not a presentation. 1. **Documents read first**. Richard reads the handover document, the baseline note and the success metric in full before the live session. The session itself does not cover paperwork. 2. **Live walkthrough**. The practitioner walks Richard through the running build on the real system, in real time. Test data is allowed; rehearsal is not. 3. **Bus Test conversation**. The practitioner answers a series of bus-test questions: if you stepped away tomorrow, what breaks first; what happens at the end of the month; what happens at the end of the quarter. 4. **Sign off or gap analysis**. If the build meets the standard, the credential is awarded that week. If it does not, the practitioner receives a written gap analysis with the specific items to close, plus the right to re-present at the next cohort at no charge. ## Change log The standard is reviewed every six months. Material changes are listed below with the date and the reason. Minor wording changes are not listed unless they alter the bar. - **April 2026**: First public version of the Practitioner Standard. Six-item Practitioner bar. Four-item Master bar. ## For people hiring a WIRE Method Practitioner. If you are hiring or contracting a WIRE Method Practitioner, you can verify their certification in the public directory. The directory lists name, year of certification, and (where the practitioner has opted in) the sectors they have worked in. The credential expires after twenty-four months unless the practitioner re-attests against the current standard.