Become a Certified Agentic Research Specialist
Deliver AI-empowered research with rigor and scale, without giving up traceability you can trust.
Two Courses One Certification
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What is a Certified Research Specialist?
It's a credential for researchers who can put AI to work across the research process and know when to trust it, challenge it, or redirect it. Brilliant Experience grants it to signify a unique set of skills that empower people who do research with AI.
Get ready for faster workflows, deeper understanding, and a more strategic role for you and for research in your organization.
Build Your Foundation
Hands-on learning with industry-leading SaaS tools: AI prompting, AI-moderated interviews, AI analysis, and synthetic users.
AI for Customer Research
Practical AI Integration
Embed AI in Your Research Workflow
Learn how to integrate AI in your research workflows and make it a reliable, everyday research partner that delivers results you can count on.
Agentic AI for Research
Autonomous Workflows for Continuous Learning
Move beyond SaaS tools with the skills to build custom agents and multi-agent workflows that are rigorous, transparent, and built to scale without relying on any single tool.
Imagine Your Team with AI Superpowers
When you want your team to learn in a private setting, so you can discuss real situations and solutions more openly, we will deliver these courses just for you.
Your team will develop a shared understanding of best practices, AI-empowered opportunities in the field, and the tools that are most useful in your environment.
Most researchers start out curious, cautious, excited, or overwhelmed by the pace of AI-driven change.
Certified Agentic Research Specialists are confident:
Evaluating industry-leading SaaS tools to meet your needs
Scaling research across languages and markets
Evaluating AI outputs with rigor
Making AI-assisted research transparent and defensible
Knowing when to trust, challenge, or redirect AI
Orchestrating agents
Building custom workflows
Step 1: AI for Customer Research
Build a research pipeline as you evaluate and test leading SaaS tools. Connect AI prompting and agentic patterns, AI-moderated interviews, AI-powered analysis, and synthetic users for research.
Step 2: Agentic AI for Research
Build custom agentic workflows that you and your team can trust. Learn how to build AI agents, and multi-agent systems, develop evaluations, ensure observability, and create your own research-based synthetic users.
Trusted by Researchers, Teams, and Leaders Navigating AI
REAL RESULTS
Join the hundreds of researchers, designers, product professionals, marketers, and engineers who do research in companies like Meta, Microsoft, IKEA, Canva, Pinterest, Amazon, and Deloitte who have completed our programs.
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“A month ago I thought I could NEVER trust AI for synthesis or interviews. Now I know AI can do a great job—if you approach it correctly… and sometimes AI-moderated interviews might even be a BETTER choice.”
Jenny, User Research Consultant
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“This course debunked the myth that researchers are becoming obsolete.”
Neha, Senior UX Researcher
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“An incredible overview of cutting-edge UX research technology — and how to actually harness it with smart strategy and prompting.”
Alex, Director of User Research
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“John does an excellent job guiding you from traditional research methods to a future where AI tools don’t just enhance your process — they fundamentally evolve your efficiency, impact, and role as a researcher.”
Betsy, Human Centered Strategist
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"The course was a valuable sampler on using AI end-to-end across research projects, and it helped me further reframe my perspective on AI—from seeing it as a potential competitor to embracing it as a powerful collaborator."
Becky, Head of Research Design
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"AI for Customer Research offered guidance on how to think critically about these tools, when (and when not) to use them, and how to integrate AI in a way that actually supports good research."
Len, Senior Researcher
Brilliant AI Research Training
FAQs
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Our AI research courses are designed for researchers, designers, product managers, and anyone who works with — or benefits from — customer insights.
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No. Our foundational course, AI for Customer Research, assumes no prior AI knowledge.
Our advanced course, Agentic AI for Research, is designed for practitioners already comfortable using AI in their research process.
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You can join one of our Lightning Lessons, free, live sessions where we introduce and demonstrate core ideas.
You can also download our complimentary AI Research Primers, concise guides that provide a grounded starting point on key AI research topics.
All resources are available on John Whalen’s Maven profile here. -
Complete both courses — AI for Customer Research and Agentic AI for Research. They run as live cohorts on Maven and can be delivered privately for teams
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We deliver both courses in the Certified Agentic Research Specialist program privately for organizations to encourage shared learning.
You can also arrange for your team to take their courses through the ongoing Maven cohorts if scheduling is a challenge.
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Yes. We offer team and group discounts for organizations enrolling multiple participants in the same cohort. It’s a great way to build shared language, accelerate adoption, and strengthen AI research capability across your team.
Contact us to learn more about group pricing options.
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Most learners begin with AI for Customer Research, our foundational program that teaches essential AI skills for analysis, prompting, synthesis, and synthetic users.
If you're already using AI regularly and want to design agentic, autonomous workflows, then Agentic AI for Research is your next step. -
Both programs are designed as 4-week cohort-based courses, with a blend of live instruction, hands-on practice, and optional deeper exploration.
Everything is structured to fit alongside full-time work, with recordings available if you miss a session.
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As AI reshapes the research landscape, teams need researchers who can go beyond execution.
Our programs help you:Move into more strategic, influential roles
Support faster product cycles
Become an orchestrator of insights systems
Future-proof your skills in an evolving field
Become a Certified Research Specialist
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