Credential conceptv0.1 · 19 Aug 2026

Professional Identity: 18+9

A compact professional identity that shows verified human experience and verified augmented experience side by side — without reducing the person to one opaque score.

18+9Experience signatureVerified capabilityRecruitment
The notation

Electronics Engineer Michael Laine 18+9

18

Years of verified relevant human professional experience.

+9

Years of verified development and professional use of the person's augmentation.

The first number keeps the human first. The second shows how long the worker has deliberately built and worked with an augmentation that compounds alongside their career.

Why it matters

A CV describes the past. Your + can demonstrate present capability.

Two people may both have fifteen years of conventional experience while having very different levels of augmented maturity. The notation exposes that difference without pretending that augmented years are identical to human years.

Human experience + augmented experience → a richer professional signal
Beyond years

Years alone are not enough.

Someone can operate a weak system for ten years. Another person can develop a highly capable augmentation in four. The + identity therefore needs an evidence layer beneath the visible notation.

Verified qualifications and education
Relevant human experience by domain
Augmented experience by domain
Validated task families and work instances
Human intervention and review requirements
Performance history with context and confidence
Recruitment

From résumé guessing to proof of work.

A future role could specify education, minimum human experience, relevant + experience and demonstrated capability. Candidates who meet the threshold could be given a protected, representative test task through the platform.

credential match → capability match → proof of work → human agreement

This could remove much of the repetitive technical interviewing used merely to infer whether someone can do the work. It should not remove the human decision about whether two sides actually want to work together.

Guardrail

Never turn 18+9 into a social score.

The notation is intended as a transparent experience signature, not a ranking of human worth. A person should be able to inspect, challenge and contextualize the evidence attached to their professional identity.

Rule: do not collapse education, experience, behavior, reputation and capability into one universal numerical score.

Keep the record connected.

This is one part of the living Human Capital .+ documentation. Read the other working documents to see how the ownership, economics, identity and validation pieces fit together.