How it works

The credential lifecycle, start to signed.

Seven steps from evidence submitted in your platform to a portable, verifiable credential the learner owns. No new tools for learners to adopt — the work stays inside your community.

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1

Meet learners where they are

Connect it to where your community already meets — Circle, Notion, Thinkific, or wherever your programs run. You define the credential and the conditions that earn it — modules completed, prerequisite badges held.

2

Learner submits evidence

The learner completes the submission without leaving the community. RecWorks collects only what's needed to review, issue, and deliver the credential — name, email, and the evidence your criteria ask for, such as a reflection or a file.

3

Review — or auto-issue

A reviewer evaluates the evidence against your criteria, or issuance runs automatically for completion-based recognition. Multi-condition logic is evaluated before anything is signed. For organizations with scoped reviewers, submissions route by tag — read from your platform's API where it's exposed (Circle, today), or from an uploaded roster.

4
The pivot

Signed OBI 3.0 credential

The credential is issued as an Open Badges 3.0 / W3C Verifiable Credential, cryptographically signed and issued in your organization's name, with a published issuer identity (did:web) any verifier can check.

5

Delivered by email

The learner receives the credential directly. It's theirs to keep — portable, and independent of any single platform or vendor.

6

Publicly verifiable page

Every credential has a public verification page anyone can check against the cryptographic signature — no login, no learner account, nothing to install. The signed credential itself is portable and belongs to the learner.

7

Added to LinkedIn in one click

Learners add the credential to their LinkedIn profile in one click — name, issuer, date, and verification link filled in — or share it as a post. Recognition travels with the person, wherever their work takes them next.

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