The apprenticeship platform for the AI era

Keep learning. Keep thinking. Keep thriving.

shyfts.work helps employers build early-career capability through skills assessment, mentor support, real case studies, and certified training.

The challenge

Learning loses useful friction.

Routine work once taught people how systems, problems, and decisions really work. When AI removes every hard step, people can become fast without becoming capable.

shyfts.work keeps the learning value of doing the work.

Old learning path

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AI-shortened path

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The platform

A collaborative digital trainspace.

  • Employers use shyfts.work to build early-career capability inside their teams.
  • Mentees, mentors, and HR work from one shared development path.
  • The platform links assessment, practice, feedback, and training.

shyfts.work makes apprenticeship practical at company scale.

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The mentoring model

Mentoring rests on three pillars.

Assess

SFIA + RISE Compass

Mentees and mentors start with a shared view of current capability. SFIA maps technical skill. RISE Compass shows how people think, decide, create, and work with AI.

Practise

Mentor-shaped case studies

AI drafts role-based case studies. Mentors shape them, assign them, and review how mentees think, explain, and solve the problem.

Strengthen

Recall training

Regular guided practice helps people rebuild core skills and first-principles thinking. Recall links learning back to real work and mentor feedback.

Assess → Practise → Strengthen → Review

The pillars form one loop: assess, practise, strengthen, review.

Technical craft

SFIA maps the technical craft.

  • SFIA helps mentees describe the technical skills used in IT roles.
  • It shows what someone can do now and what the next level requires.
  • It gives mentors and HR a clear language for technical development.

SFIA provides the map for technical growth.

Example mentee skill profile

  • StrategyL5
  • ChangeL4
  • DevelopmentL6
  • DeliveryL4
  • DataL3
  • SecurityL4
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Levels 1–7

Sample distribution, not live data.

Human value with AI

RISE Compass protects human value.

  • RISE Compass looks at 12 human skills across four types of work.
  • It measures how people design, reason, decide, automate, explore, and plan.
  • It makes AI independence visible: can the person check, explain, and improve the work?

RISE develops the human skills that matter most with AI.

Knowledge Application

  • Design
  • Orchestrate
  • Review

Sensemaking & Decision

  • Reason
  • Evaluate
  • Judge

Transactional Execution

  • Translate
  • Automate
  • Monitor

Exploration & Creativity

  • Explore
  • Originate
  • Plan

AI independence matters

Practise in context

Case studies bring back the hard parts.

  • AI drafts role-based case studies to create useful work challenges.
  • Mentors shape the case, assign it, and review the mentee's thinking and evidence.
  • Mentees practise technical skill, judgement, and clear explanation in context.

Case studies turn assessment into proof.

  1. 1.AI drafts a case

  2. 2.Mentor shapes the challenge

  3. 3.Mentee submits a response

  4. 4.Mentor reviews thinking and evidence

  5. 5.Development actions are added to the next step

Certified RISE training

Recall trains the cognitive muscle.

  • Recall is a certified RISE training programme: recall.work.
  • It gives mentees regular guided practice in core skills and first-principles thinking.
  • Mentors connect Recall learning to case studies and development goals.

Recall makes “back to basics” a regular part of modern work.

Learn about Recall
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Insight and independent thinking

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The path forward

Start with IT. Expand with proof.

  • shyfts.work begins with IT because the change is here first.
  • The same model can then move into Legal, Marketing, and Finance.
  • Each function keeps its own skills and cases while using the same mentoring loop.

shyfts.work helps organisations grow people who can work well with AI—and think well without it.

ITLegalMarketingFinance

Next functions after the IT model is proven.

Annual employer licence

Price shyfts.work for the people taking part.

shyfts.work is priced by the number of active early-career employees in your programme. Mentors and HR are included, so your team can focus on development—not user fees.

Starts at A$12,000 a year, excluding GST, for up to 50 active employees.

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Your estimated annual licence

A$21,000

For 100 active employees

A$210 per active employee / year

Discuss this cohort

Your estimate is based on the active employees you plan to develop in the first year.

Bring shyfts.work into your organisation.

Choose the path that fits your role. All new organisations are reviewed before access is granted.

For employers

Build capability inside your team.

Give mentees a clear development path with assessments, mentors, case studies, and certified training.

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For education providers

Certify your training with RISE.

Submit a programme for RISE certification. Once certified, employers can find and assign it through shyfts.work.

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