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About CredScape
CredScape is a market intelligence platform for the part of higher education that existing data infrastructure has largely skipped: micro-credentials, certificates, and non-credit continuing education.
A dean asking a reasonable question, such as who else in the province teaches this and at what price, has had no efficient way to answer it.
Non-credit market
Degree programs are well catalogued. Public reporting covers enrolment, completion, and cost in detail, and an institution planning a new degree has decades of comparable data to work from. The non-credit market has no equivalent. Offerings live on hundreds of separate continuing education websites, described in whatever vocabulary each unit happens to use, with no shared schema and no central registry.
What we built
CredScape exists to answer that question. We collect public offering information from continuing education units across Canada and the United States, normalize it into a consistent structure, classify credential forms against the Credential Transparency Description Language vocabulary, and make the result searchable and comparable. Platform catalogues from Coursera and edX broaden what can be discovered through search. How the two source types differ, and why they are treated differently in market statistics, is documented in Sources and Coverage.
Who we serve
Continuing and professional education units, institutional research offices, provosts, and academic planners. These are readers who check claims, ask how a number was derived, and are right to. Our Methodology page is written for them, and it states the corpus limitations alongside its coverage.
Who built it
CredScape was started by two continuing education professionals, which is to say by people who ran into this problem at work before they tried to solve it commercially.
One side of the company is institutional research. That work sits inside a Canadian university's provost office, supporting labour market research across program development, quality assurance and enhancement, and continuing professional education. It is the vantage point from which the gap in this market is most obvious: the questions arrive constantly, and the data to answer them properly does not exist in any one place. That experience shapes what the corpus records and how it is structured.
The other side is marketing and business development, which in practice means staying close to how institutions actually evaluate, buy, and adopt a tool like this, and making sure the product answers the question a dean is really asking rather than the one that is easiest to compute.
Two people is a deliberate shape. A credential corpus is won by sustained attention to messy source data rather than by headcount, and staying small keeps the work close to the data. It also means we say no to a lot, and that the people who answer your questions are the people who built the thing you are asking about. How the data is governed and where it lives is set out on our Trust and Security page.
The company
CredScape is operated by CredScape Market Intelligence Inc., a federally incorporated Canadian company under the Canada Business Corporations Act, registered extraprovincially in British Columbia. We are based in Kelowna, British Columbia, and application data is stored in Canada.
Get in touch: info@credscape.io
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