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The data platform for rural workforce pathways

Your next nurse.
Your next teacher.
Already in your
community.

Rural hospitals and districts can't hire their way out of a shortage. Craft helps you grow the talent you already have — braiding the funding, naming the academic partner, and running the back office.

Surgical Technologist
Cohort 03 · Critical Access Hospital
Audit-ready
On-the-job hours1,840 / 2,000
RTI competencies14 / 16
Measurable skill gainsReported
WIOACTE / PerkinsSAEFWorkforce Pell
12/12
apprentices
hired locally
10M
Skilled jobs the country needs to fill
4 streams
Federal funding sources braided into one program
Low cost
To the employer when the funding stacks line up
Audit-ready
Funder-grade records by default, not by deadline
FOR HEALTHCARE

Allied health & nursing

When a rural hospital cannot fill a role, traveler labor eats the margin and care gets harder to reach. Craft helps you give CNAs, surgical techs, and medical assistants from the people already in your community.

Surgical TechnologistAudit-ready
Cohort 03 · Owatonna, MN
On-the-job hours1840 / 2000
RTI competencies14 / 16
with Pangea LearningExplore Healthcare →
FOR EDUCATION

Teacher & CTE pathways

Districts cannot hire their way out of the teacher shortage. Craft helps you build local registered teacher apprenticeships and CTE pathways that turn paraprofessionals and aides into credentialed educators who stay.

Registered Teacher ApprenticeshipOn Pace
Cohort 02 · Marshall County, KY
Clinical hours1000 / 1300
Competencies signed off20 / 24
with WGU School of EducationExplore Education →
One platform, every step

One platform for
the entire pathway.

Funding Sources

Connect grants, funding streams, and resources

Partners & Employers

Connect industry partners & employers to deliver opportunities

Learner Enrollment

Recruit and enroll learners into the right pathways

Training Progress

Track learning, credentials, and milestones in real time

Compliance Reporting

Ensure compliance and align funding

Workforce Outcomes

Measure impact, retention, and community return

Built for education and healthcare pathways in rural communities.

What Craft handles

A workforce program is a lot of moving parts.
We hold them together.

Most organizations do not fail to build a pathway for lack of will. They fail because the funding, the academic partner, the compliance, and the day-to-day tracking each live somewhere else. Craft brings them onto one platform.

Braided funding

We align the federal and state streams that pay for paid pathways and document the use of funds so the dollars hold up to audit.

Named academic partner

Related technical instruction is delivered by a national partner from day one, so you are not sourcing curriculum or accreditation alone.

On-the-job tracking

Learners log hours against the work-process schedule. Mentors approve in a queue. Totals roll up to the program at registered-apprenticeship standard.

Funder-ready reporting

One data model produces the WIOA, Perkins, RAPIDS, and Workforce Pell reports your funders and accreditors actually accept.

Every role, one view

Admins, learners, mentors, and reviewers each work in the same product, against the same source of truth scoped to their role.

Compliant by default

FERPA-compliant, invitation-gated, and accessible. The audit trail builds itself as the work happens, so review season is not a scramble.

Braided funding

Public dollars already pay for this. We help you reach them.

The funding to grow your own workforce exists. It is just siloed across agencies, heavily regulated, and exhausting to assemble. Craft aligns the streams into one funding model and documents the use of funds, so the money holds up when a funder asks.

WIOA
Work-based learning support for learners and measurable skill gains.
CTE / Perkins
Concentrator and completer activity across CTE pathways.
SAEF
Apprenticeship expansion. RTI and wage progression.
Title II
Educator preparation reporting for licensure pathways.
Workforce Pell
Eligibility outcomes, and the documentation the law requires.
$0
No- to low-cost to the employer when the funding stacks line up. Our nonprofit mission is to make paid pathways pencil out, not to add another line item to your budget.
One platform · Every role

The whole program,
in one record.

No spreadsheet for hours, separate LMS for coursework, and email for approvals. Craft keeps the people, the evidence, and the reporting in one place, so each step feeds the next.

  • Enroll and invite learners, employers, and reviewers. Access is invitation-gated from the first click.
  • Log hours and sign off against the work-process schedule with every action time-stamped and attributable.
  • Export for funders on demand. Re-run any reporting cycle without rebuilding the numbers.
See the Platform →
MANAGE
Active programs
All audit-ready
ACTIVE LEARNERS
248
OJL HOURS (90D)
31.4k
REVIEWS PENDING
12
Surgical Tech · Cohort 03
OJL
On track
Teacher Apprenticeship
C02
On track
Medical Assistant
Cohort 01
Onboarding
Named on day one

We bring the academic partner.

Related technical instruction is the hardest piece to stand up alone. Craft pairs each pathway with a nationally scaled academic partner — so accreditation and curriculum are solved before you enroll your first learner.

P
Pangea Learning
Allied health & nursing

A nationally scaled allied health RTI provider. Pangea delivers the related instruction and credentialing; Craft runs the funding stack, the documentation, and the reporting. One conversation, not five.

Medical AssistantSurgical TechnologistPhlebotomy TechnicianSterile Processing
W
WGU
Teacher & CTE pathways

An accredited, nationally recognized university partner for educator preparation. WGU delivers the coursework toward licensure; Craft documents the clinical hours, competencies, and Title II reporting registered apprenticeships require.

Registered Teacher ApprenticeshipPara-to-TeacherCTE Pathways

Building a pathway in another field? The platform is open to any RTI provider and employer standing up registered apprenticeships.

Craft is the only place we document standards progress. Their platform gives us the credibility we need with the DOL and the districts. A spreadsheet cannot do that.
Gina Zuberbier · Program Manager, MI Talent Together
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See Craft in action

A short tour of how a rural workforce pathway runs end to end.

FERPA-compliantInvitation-gated accessWCAG 2.2 · VPAT availableUSDOL / RAPIDS reporting
Get started

Let's build a pathway in your community.

Tell us about the role you most need to fill and the people you already have. We'll come back with a draft pathway, a funding map, and what the first 90 days look like, against your actual workflow.

A draft pathway for your highest-cost role. A funding map showing which streams can stack. A conversation with someone who has built this before.
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