generated: '2026-08-26'
method: probed
source: >-
  https://globalcareeraccelerator.org/robots.txt, https://www.podiumeducation.com/robots.txt and a
  full STEP 0b contract-discovery sweep (OpenAPI/Swagger, GraphQL introspection, MCP tools/list,
  A2A agent card) across www.podiumeducation.com, globalcareeraccelerator.org,
  cms.prod.podedtech.com and hq.podedtech.com.
note: >-
  Podium Education publishes no machine-readable API contract, so every cross-cutting API standard
  below is asserted false on the evidence of absence rather than on a failed conformance test. The
  one positive result is a Content-Signal declaration served in the Global Career Accelerator
  robots.txt, which is a real, probed AI-preference signal.
standards:
- id: content-signal
  name: Content Signals (robots.txt AI-preference declaration)
  conforms: true
  evidence: >-
    https://globalcareeraccelerator.org/robots.txt (HTTP 200) serves
    "Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes" alongside
    "Sitemap: https://marketing.podedtech.com/sitemap.xml". Podium explicitly permits search
    indexing, AI input and AI training on the Global Career Accelerator marketing surface.
- id: openapi
  name: OpenAPI
  conforms: false
  evidence: >-
    /openapi.json, /openapi.yaml, /swagger.json, /v1/openapi.json, /api-docs, /docs and /redoc all
    returned 404 on www.podiumeducation.com; /openapi.json and /swagger.json returned 404 on
    globalcareeraccelerator.org; every path on cms.prod.podedtech.com 302s to /admin/signin.
- id: graphql
  name: GraphQL
  conforms: false
  evidence: >-
    https://www.podiumeducation.com/graphql returned 404;
    https://cms.prod.podedtech.com/graphql returned 302 to an admin sign-in.
- id: mcp
  name: Model Context Protocol
  conforms: false
  evidence: No hosted MCP endpoint is advertised on any Podium Education or podedtech.com host.
- id: a2a
  name: A2A Agent Card
  conforms: false
  evidence: >-
    /.well-known/agent-card.json and /.well-known/agent.json returned 404 on both
    www.podiumeducation.com and globalcareeraccelerator.org.
- id: oauth2
  name: OAuth 2.0
  conforms: false
  evidence: >-
    /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server returned 404 on every probed host; no OAuth
    documentation is published.
- id: oidc
  name: OpenID Connect
  conforms: false
  evidence: /.well-known/openid-configuration returned 404 on every probed host.
- id: rfc9457
  name: RFC 9457 Problem Details
  conforms: false
  evidence: No public error reference or contract exists to declare an error media type.
domain_standards:
  market: Higher education / learning technology
  shortlist:
  - 1EdTech LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability)
  - 1EdTech OneRoster
  - 1EdTech Caliper Analytics
  - 1EdTech QTI
  - Ed-Fi
  - Open Badges / Comprehensive Learner Record
  findings:
  - id: lti
    name: 1EdTech LTI
    conforms: false
    evidence: >-
      Podium runs a hosted Canvas LMS estate (github.com/Podium-Education holds a single public
      repository, a fork of instructure/canvas-lms last pushed 2026-05-18, and *.lab.podedtech.com
      certificates name per-institution Canvas instances). Canvas is an LTI platform, but Podium
      publishes no LTI tool registration, no launch URL, no JWKS and no developer key documentation
      of its own, so no LTI conformance can be asserted on Podium's behalf.
  - id: oneroster
    name: 1EdTech OneRoster
    conforms: false
    evidence: No published roster endpoint, spec, or integration documentation.
  - id: caliper
    name: 1EdTech Caliper Analytics
    conforms: false
    evidence: No published event/analytics contract.
  - id: open-badges
    name: Open Badges
    conforms: false
    evidence: >-
      Certificate transparency shows badges-dev.podedtech.com, indicating an internal badging
      service, but no production badging host resolves and no Open Badges assertion endpoint or
      issuer profile is published. Recorded as a lead, not as conformance.
  note: >-
    Reward-only dimension. Podium's market does have standards (the 1EdTech family, Ed-Fi, Open
    Badges) but Podium sells a university partnership rather than an integration product, and
    declares none of them in a machine-readable form. Nothing is invented to fill the slot.