Defensible documents for accredited CE providers

This course claimed 4.0 CPE credits. The formula says 1.0.

For NASBA-registered CPE sponsors. Send one course and ProveStead maps it against the Standards by locator, recomputes every credit, and hands back the audit-ready evidence file — a receipt on every claim, an honest refusal where the proof runs out. (Headline above is from our on-the-record demo run — fictional provider, real engine.)

NASBA just revised the Standards. The 2026 edition takes effect August 1, 2026 — and programs existing as of July 31, 2026 must comply by November 1, 2028. Find out today where your catalog stands.

Grounded only in your corpus Aligned to a named standard Cite-or-refuse, every claim Accreditor-ready evidence file
Five questions

Five questions a reviewer will ask. The audit answers all of them, in writing.

An audit is just these questions with a deadline. Each one maps to a section of the evidence file you get back.

1 Does your credit math recompute under the word-count formula? Standard 7.02.6
→ Credit recomputation, §3
2 Do your review questions clear the floor — and do they all count? Standard 5.01.2.1
→ Assessment matrix, §5
3 Does every advertised objective have content behind it? Standards 3.01 · 8.01.1
→ Objectives map, §4
4 Can you produce completion documentation, five years back? Standards 9.01–9.02
→ Documentation & provenance, §8
5 Which edition of the Standards is your catalog aligned to? 2026 effective dates
→ Coverage map, §2
The proof

One real run, three findings the provider hadn't flagged.

● Live demo · synthetic course

We put one course to those five questions — a fictional "2026 Annual Federal Tax Update" self-study course, run against the August 2026 NASBA Standards. Three of the answers came back wrong. Every number below recomputes from the materials.

Standard 7.02.6 · credit math
4.0 1.0

Recommended credit overstated

The course claims 4.0 CPE credits; the prescribed word-count formula recomputes to 1.04. Nearly three credits short — every input shown for hand-checking.

Standard 5.01.2.1 · review questions
6 / 12

Question floor not met

At 4.0 credits a self-study program needs 12 scored questions. It carries 6 — a deficit of six, surfaced before the auditor finds it.

Standard 3.01 · objective coverage
1 gap

A promise with no content

Objective 4 promises Form 1099-DA digital-asset content that no module delivers. Caught twice — by the map, and by the engine's refusal to write it.

Read the full evidence file →   See all three sample audits →

The standard is a catalog, not code: the same engine maps a course against whichever accreditor catalog applies — NASBA, IACET, ACCME, CLE, or ASWB. Two of the samples run on real, publicly-listed CPE courses (identities withheld).

Start free

See a real finding on your own course — before you pay anything.

Send one course. We run the mechanical coverage lane — the deterministic part of the engine — and send back the findings on your catalog, not our demo — within one business day. No card, no commitment. If you want the full evidence file — the rebuilt module, the assessment matrix, the readout call — that's the Readiness Audit.

The scan is free because we're confident it finds something. If it comes back clean, you've lost nothing — and you're more audit-ready than most of your peers.

Try the 30-second instant preview Or send a course for the full free scan →

For NASBA-registered CPE sponsors with a self-study catalog. One free scan per provider.

Cite-or-refuse

A receipt on every claim. A refusal where the proof runs out.

The same engine that backs its covered claims with citations to your materials will not bluff on the gap. That's why the receipts can be trusted.

● Grounded — decision: cite

The standard deduction rises to $15,750 for single filers and $31,500 for married filing jointly, with an additional $1,600 for taxpayers 65 or older or blind.[3]

[3] → module_1_individuals · §1.1 Inflation adjustments · retrieval 0.529. Every sentence resolves to a chunk of the provider's own corpus.
● Gap — decision: refuse

“INSUFFICIENT CORPUS: the sole mention of Form 1099-DA is a single learning-objective bullet. No substantive course section on 2026 digital-asset broker reporting appears anywhere in the provided materials.”

Engine output, condensed — the verbatim refusal appears in the sample evidence file, §7. The engine declined to fabricate the missing section, then offered to ground it once a source is added. Refusal, surfaced calmly, is the feature.
How it works

Three moves, from your materials to a defensible file.

No content leaves your corpus. The standards catalog is a point-and-cite record — locators and our paraphrase, never the accreditor's body text.

Ingest

Your corpus, scoped to you

Upload a course. It's chunked, embedded, and locked to your owner ID alone — no cross-client retrieval, ever.

Map

Coverage against the standard

A mechanical pass checks every requirement by locator — credit math, objective-to-content, question floors — at zero inference cost.

Prove

The evidence file

Findings, objective↔locator maps, an assessment matrix, grounded rebuilds with citations, and a full provenance log — export-ready.

One engine, many catalogs

Built for NASBA today — generalizing across the CE field.

A standard isn't bespoke code; it's a point-and-cite catalog of locators the same recompute-and-receipt engine maps against. NASBA is the fully-built flagship. Four more accreditors are in active build — each one's credit model already runs in the engine, with its requirement locators being verified against the published standard before any audit ships.

Flagship · live

NASBA

CPE for accountants · 67-record August 2026 Standards · word-count credit recompute.

In build

IACET

CEUs under ANSI/IACET 1-2018 · contact hours ÷ 10.

In build

ACCME

Physician CME · AMA PRA Category 1 Credit · participation minutes ÷ 60.

In build

State CLE

Legal CLE · per-jurisdiction 50- or 60-minute credit hour.

In build

ASWB ACE

Social-work CE · contact minutes ÷ 60.

Your materials

Your course content is yours. We built the engine that way on purpose.

Sending proprietary courses to an outside tool should give you pause. Here's exactly how yours is handled — it's an engineering property, not a promise.

Scoped to you

Owner-isolated, always

Every course is locked to your owner ID alone. There is no cross-client retrieval, ever — the architecture can't reach another provider's corpus, and yours can't be reached.

Never training

Not used to train anything

Your materials are used to audit your course and nothing else. They don't train models and they aren't pooled, resold, or repurposed.

Deleted on request

Gone when you say so

Retention and deletion terms are set in the engagement letter before anything is sent. Ask for deletion and your corpus and its index are removed.

Pricing

Scan one course free. Audit the catalog that matters. Stay ready by subscription.

Most providers don't have one course to fix — they have a catalog. The package is priced so the whole catalog costs less per course than auditing them one at a time.

Coverage scan
Free

One course, the mechanical coverage map, the real findings on your own catalog. No card. Start here →

Single Readiness Audit
$1,500founding

One course, full evidence file: coverage map, credit recomputation, objective and assessment maps, grounded rebuild of one module.

Find-something promise: if the audit doesn't surface a material finding, you don't pay for it.

Catalog package
from $1,200/course

The whole catalog audited, priced per course and falling with size — $1,700 at 5+, $1,400 at 10+, $1,200 at 20+. One evidence file per course, one engagement. The real starting point for a working catalog.

Stay audit-ready
$99–699/mo

The catalog kept aligned to the live Standards between renewals, priced by size. Flagged courses brought back into alignment per the rebuild. Never reconstruct under deadline again.

Founding-cohort pricing. The first providers in lock the $1,500 single-audit rate; it rises to $2,500 once the first cohort is full. The free scan is the way in.

The find-something promise applies to a single Readiness Audit. We can make it because the 2026 edition moved the goalposts on every catalog built before it — there is almost always something to find.

See where your catalog stands.

Send one course. We'll run the free coverage scan and send back the findings — what the new edition changed, before it's a finding at audit. No card, no commitment, and your findings come back within one business day. For NASBA-registered sponsors; founding-cohort pricing while it lasts.

Prefer email? Write info@provestead.com and attach one course.