Build your workforce pathways, start from anywhere.
Craft Services meets you at any phase of the apprenticeship lifecycle. From "we are not sure this is for us" to "we have three sites and need to scale." Four solution families, two levels of support. Tell us how to do it, or do it with us.
Most organizations are earlier in the process than they think.
That is not a problem. It is the starting point. The hardest part of apprenticeship is rarely the idea. It is knowing which role to start with, where the money comes from, who sponsors the program, and who teaches the coursework. Craft Services exists for every phase of that, not just the last one.
Find your phase.
Ten phases from first conversation to a program that runs itself. Pick yours and see what typically happens there, who needs to be in the room, and where Craft comes in.
Explore and Plan
You work out whether apprenticeship fits the roles you are actually struggling to fill. Vacancy data, turnover, and the staff you already employ get looked at together. Most of this phase is narrowing, not building.
A workforce diagnostic that names the occupation to start with, the likely funding stacks, and an honest scope for the build.
HR leadership, the hiring manager for the target role, finance, and one executive who can say yes.
Design the Program
The occupation becomes a work-process schedule: competencies, hours, wage progression, and the related technical instruction (RTI) that goes with it.
Pathway Design Toolkit if your team is drafting it. Fractional Pathway Design if you want a Craft expert drafting alongside them.
Clinical or academic subject matter experts, HR, and the supervisors who will host apprentices.
Fund and Build the Case
You find out where the money comes from. Braided funding pulls together workforce dollars, state apprenticeship funds, philanthropy, and the training budget you already have. The business case goes to whoever signs.
Braided Funding Toolkit maps the stacks available to you. Fractional Funding Execution writes and manages the applications with your team. Craft does not guarantee funding.
Finance, grants staff, HR, and your state workforce board contact.
Register and Get Approved
The program goes to the state apprenticeship agency or the Office of Apprenticeship. Standards, the work-process schedule, and sponsor documentation get reviewed and revised.
RAP Launch Toolkit for the filing itself. Fractional RAP Implementation to build and run the sponsor’s infrastructure. Sponsorship is handled at the program level, not by Craft.
The sponsor of record, HR, legal or compliance, and the state apprenticeship director.
Prepare Your Organization
Policy, wage schedule, supervisor time, and mentor selection get settled before anyone is hired. This is where programs quietly stall.
Readiness review and change management for the parts leadership has not agreed on yet. Craft does not provide your mentors.
Department leadership, HR, frontline supervisors, and labor relations where that applies.
Implement and Set Up
Systems get configured: on-the-job learning (OJL) tracking, RTI enrollment, payroll codes, and the reporting your funders will ask for later.
Craft Connect is set up for OJL tracking and reporting. The academic partner is confirmed: Pangea Learning for healthcare RTI, WGU School of Education for education RTI.
HR operations, IT, payroll, and the academic partner.
Apprentice Launch
Candidates are recruited, selected, and onboarded. Grow-your-own means a good share of them already work for you.
Launch support for selection criteria, the onboarding sequence, and the first cohort’s schedule. Craft does not employ your apprentices.
HR recruiting, hiring managers, mentors, and the apprentices themselves.
Deliver and Support
Apprentices work, log hours, and take coursework close to home. Supervisors sign off. Problems either show up early or they show up expensive.
Program support and RTI management so the academic side stays on schedule. Day-to-day case management for apprentices and mentors stays with you.
Mentors, supervisors, the program coordinator, and the academic partner.
Comply and Report
Hours, wage progression, and measurable skill gains get documented for the state, for the funder, and for your own file.
Audit-ready reporting built from the OJL record you are already keeping, with funder reporting handled alongside it.
Program coordinator, compliance, finance, and grants staff.
Measure and Improve
Completion, retention, and time-to-fill get compared against what you were doing before. Then you decide whether to add a second role or a second site.
Program review and expansion planning. Where the first one worked, the next one is faster.
The executive sponsor, HR leadership, finance, and department leadership.
Timelines are typical ranges and vary by occupation, complexity, sponsorship model, and organizational readiness.
Four solutions. Two levels each.
Level 1 gives your team the tools and the guidance to build it. Level 2 puts a Craft expert alongside your team until it is built.
Fractional means a senior Craft expert embedded with your team, part-time, for the length of the build.
Funding Solutions
Public dollars already pay for this. Most organizations never reach them.
Pathway Solutions
The program design is the part most teams underestimate.
Sponsorship Solutions
Someone has to be the sponsor. Craft makes sure they are ready.
Instruction Solutions
The academic partner is named on day one.
For the parts that do not fit a package.
Workforce diagnostics when you do not know which role to start with. Change management when leadership is not aligned. Expansion planning when the pilot worked. Strategic Consulting attaches to any solution above, sized to the work.
What Craft does not do.
Worth saying plainly, because it saves everyone time.
- Guarantee funding
- Employ your apprentices
- Provide your mentors
- Act as your RAP sponsor. Sponsorship is handled at the program level. We build and run the sponsor’s infrastructure.
- Run day-to-day case management for apprentices or mentors
It starts with a 30-minute conversation.
Tell us where you are.
Use the phase finder above, or just describe the situation.
We scope it.
You get a written recommendation with a level, a timeline, and an investment range. No obligation.
You choose the level.
Tools and guidance, or a Craft expert alongside your team.