Your students can code. That's no longer enough to get hired.
Graduates leave able to build — but employers now want proof they can work on a real team, and the junior jobs that used to provide it are being taken over by AI. Blacksmith Experience adds the missing experience, so your students graduate hireable — and you have the placement numbers to show for it.
For coding bootcamps, universities, and training programs that place graduates into tech.
A verified Level 1–5 certificate, backed by a real GitHub history.
You did your part. The market moved the finish line.
For years the deal was simple: learn to code, get a junior job, and grow into a real engineer on the job. That first job was the bridge from school to a career. Today, AI does the work juniors used to do — so companies stopped hiring them. The bridge is gone. Your graduates can build real things, but there's no entry-level job left to turn their skills into experience. Talented people get stuck: they can't get hired without experience, and can't get experience without a job.
They learn to build real things.
Real team. Real sprints. Real proof.
Hired — with experience to show.
The bridge from school to a career used to be the first job. AI removed it. We rebuild it — so your graduates don't fall into the gap.
A graduate who can't get hired is your reputation on the line.
Placement is the promise every program makes — to students, to parents, to the next cohort deciding where to enrol. When skilled graduates stall, that promise erodes, no matter how good your teaching was. The gap isn't something more curriculum can close, because the missing piece was never knowledge. It was the job that used to come next.
Add the experience the market now demands — without building it yourself.
Blacksmith Experience is the step between your classroom and a real job. You keep your curriculum; we add the part employers now require: real engineering experience, and proof of it.
Your students join a real engineering team. Eleven AI specialists — manager, lead, reviewers — run real work cycles on real code.
They do the work, not exercises. Real tasks, code changes, code reviews, and kickoff calls — the actual rhythm of a job.
They leave with proof. A verified Level 1–5, backed by a GitHub history any employer can check.
You change nothing in your program. It runs alongside or after your course as the final, missing step.
What a student walks away with
A real track record — shipped code on real software, on their own GitHub.
A verified level — Level 1 to senior, tied to the exact work that earned it.
The confidence of having done the job — not just studied it.
Something employers trust — proof they can work, not just a certificate.
Everything you need to run it for a whole cohort.
Cohort seats
Enrol your students in groups — by class, term, or program. Onboarding is one link, not a setup project.
An institution dashboard
See every student's level, progress, and the evidence behind it — so you know who's on track and who needs a nudge.
Verifiable, co-branded credentials
Each graduate gets a shareable profile employers can check on GitHub — carrying your name alongside ours.
Outcomes data you can use
Real placement signals and competency levels you can put in front of prospective students and funders.
Better outcomes — and the proof to show them.
Graduates who get hired
They leave with the real experience and confidence the market now screens for.
A real differentiator
"Graduate with experience, not just a certificate" — a promise few programs can make.
Proof, not claims
Verifiable levels and outcomes you can stand behind with students, parents, and funders.
The entry-level door is closing in real time.
Employment of software developers aged 22–25 has fallen about 20% since late 2022, while older engineers held steady or grew.
Stanford Digital Economy Lab, 2025New-grad hiring at the 15 largest tech firms is down more than half since 2019 — new grads are now about 7% of their hires.
SignalFire State of Tech Talent, 2025Give your graduates the experience the market is asking for.
Let's set up a pilot for your next cohort. We bring the engineering team; you bring the students.