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An Examination

AI Creative Production Proficiency

For professionals who make photo, video, voice, and music with AI — from capable operator to studio-grade director.

A closed-book, scenario-based assessment for people who do AI creative production as their job: image and photo work, video, voice, and music. It measures two things at once — what you know (training, control stacks, delivery specs, licensing) and what you actually do (the tools you run, the pipelines you keep, the economics you track), because at professional level the second is the harder half.

Fair warning: this is the most demanding of the three examinations on this site. The keyed questions assume working depth — LoRA hyperparameters, guidance distillation, loudness specs, license classes — and several are traps where the confident-sounding answer is the wrong one. The count items ask about your last quarter of real, paid work; answer from what happened, not from what you'd like to be true.

Your result places you on a five-band ladder from Spectator to Studio Director, with a twelve-dimension profile showing where you're strong — and a calibration note wherever your self-rating and your reality diverge. Add your details for a shareable result.

Before you begin

  • Closed-book and solo: no tools, docs, or search open. The point is to measure what you carry.
  • Answer the count items from real, recent paid work. There are no impressive answers, only true ones.
  • Questions and options are randomised each attempt; the parts run A to E. Stuck? Use “Skip to my score”.

The five bands

  1. C0Spectator0-14Has played with the tools; the production model isn't there yet.
  2. C1Operator15-34Competent inside hosted apps; control, training, and rights depth are thin.
  3. C2Practitioner35-59Ships real client work with real technique; gaps in training depth, efficiency, or rights.
  4. C3Production Expert60-84Custom-trained models, controlled pipelines, cost discipline, defensible rights practice.
  5. C4Studio Director85-100Full-stack across image, video, voice, and music; builds pipelines, governs rights, teaches.

For a shareable result · optional

Add your name, organization, and email to get a personal, shareable result link. Your name and organization show on the shared page; we keep your email private and never show it there. Your organization also lets your team compare results later.

59 questions · 5 parts · closed-book

Facts current as of 2026-07-08. Model versions, licenses, and platform terms shift monthly — version-pinned items (model families, license classes, regulation dates) will drift; technique-first items should hold. Grounded in current field practice across open-weights and hosted pipelines, C2PA/provenance standards, and the EU AI Act transparency regime.