01 / The gate
A degree is still the shortest way to be taken seriously
And most people do not have one — 62% of American adults over 25 hold no bachelor's degree. The jobs that quietly assume one have not become fewer.
For learners
Learn free. Keep the proof.
Study offline, earn credentials signed under your own key, and prove them to anyone — without an account they control or a company in the middle.
The problem
You can already learn almost anything. You still cannot prove any of it.
Every course you have finished lives inside someone else's account. The certificate is a page on their website, it is true because they say it is, and it stops being true the day they decide otherwise.
02 / The promise
Dropping degree requirements mostly did not happen
Employers announced it widely. Fewer than 1 in 700 new hires actually benefited. The announcements changed; the hiring did not.
03 / The receipt
What you did earn belongs to a platform
A PDF or a profile on someone else's site. Nobody can check it without trusting them — and neither can you, once they shut down.
US Census Bureau, educational attainment, 2022. Harvard Business School Managing the Future of Work with the Burning Glass Institute, February 2024 — 11,300 large US firms, 2014–2023.
How it works
Install it, learn, and walk away with something that is yours.
Four steps. None of them registers you with anyone.
- 01
Install it
Download it on any device you own. Your account is created on the device itself: no email, no password to lose, nothing held by a company.
- 02
Learn offline
Courses download to your device. Study on a train, somewhere with no signal, on a laptop that has been offline for a week. Assessments run locally too.
- 03
Earn the credential
Finish an assessment and it is signed under a key that lives on your device. It is issued to you, not held for you.
- 04
Prove it to anyone
Share it with an employer or an institution, choosing how much evidence travels with it. They verify it without an Alexandria account, and without asking us.
What you get, and what it costs
Labeled, so you can tell what exists today from what is being built.
Free, and free in the way that matters
Available in alphaLearning is free. Earning a credential is free. Proving it to someone is free. Those three are not the parts we intend to charge for — organizations pay for hosting, integrations and support, never a learner for their own proof.
The credential is yours, not ours
Available in alphaIt is signed under a key that lives on your device. Anyone can check it without an Alexandria account, and it keeps working if this project stops existing. That is the difference between a certificate and a receipt from a company.
Works where the internet does not
Available in alphaCourses download to your device and assessments run on it. Nine languages ship today, across three continents — and adding one is translation work, not engineering work, so the list is the beginning rather than the limit.
You decide what anyone sees
Available in alphaSharing a credential is a deliberate act, and you choose how much of the evidence travels with it — answer a request for one skill and only that skill leaves, checked at both ends. Being listed where employers can find you is a separate choice you make per skill, and the app shows you the exact bytes before any of it goes.
The honest part
It is an alpha. The interface needs real design work, there is no content moderation yet, and nobody outside the project is using it in earnest. The waiting list exists because we are letting people in a group at a time rather than pretending the first day will go well.
If that makes you want to wait, that is a reasonable thing to want. You will still hear from us when there is something worth your time.