Kahuna Launches AI-Powered Certification Management for Frontline Workers

CertIQ automates credential verification to improve workforce readiness visibility

Mar. 19, 2026 at 1:27pm

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Kahuna Workforce Solutions, a leading frontline workforce readiness platform, has announced the launch of CertIQ, an AI-powered certification management module built to help frontline organizations automate credential verification, reduce compliance risk and improve real-time visibility into workforce readiness.

Why it matters

Many operational leaders in highly regulated industries struggle to answer the critical compliance question of whether employees' certifications are current. CertIQ aims to address this challenge by bringing certification capture and verification directly into the flow of frontline work through mobile data collection and AI-powered document extraction.

The details

CertIQ replaces manual certification tracking with a mobile-first workflow that captures, verifies and maintains current credential data where work actually happens. Employees can use their mobile devices to capture certification documents, while AI-powered document extraction reads the credential, matches it to role requirements and pushes clean certification data into enterprise systems automatically. This gives resource managers, compliance leaders and operations teams more timely visibility into who is qualified for a role before a shift is staffed, a crew is deployed or an audit issue escalates.

  • CertIQ was commercially launched on March 19, 2026.

The players

Kahuna Workforce Solutions

A leading frontline workforce readiness platform trusted by enterprise organizations.

Jai Shah

The chief executive officer of Kahuna.

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What they’re saying

“We have talked to hundreds of operational leaders across highly regulated industries, and the certification problem is not just administrative, but a compliance gap created by systems that were never designed for how frontline work actually happens.”

— Jai Shah, Chief Executive Officer

What’s next

CertIQ is now available as part of the Kahuna platform, which also includes Skills Manager and Ladder solutions to provide a more complete, real-time picture of workforce readiness across the frontline.

The takeaway

CertIQ aims to address the persistent challenge of maintaining up-to-date certification data for frontline workers, helping organizations in highly regulated industries reduce compliance risk and improve operational readiness through automated credential verification and real-time visibility.