Show the work behind your certificate

When you finish a course or pass a certification exam on GraphAcademy, you receive a certificate with a public share URL. It shows what you completed, when, and how long it took you. It says you did the work, but not what the work looked like.

Certificates can now carry proof of work: a link you choose, displayed on the certificate itself, pointing to whatever you built or wrote along the way.

What is proof of work?

Proof of work is a link to public evidence of what you produced from a course. It appears in a panel on your certificate page, next to the share and print actions, where anyone viewing the certificate can see it.

The link can point to almost anything that demonstrates the skill:

• A blog post you wrote about what you learned
• A repository with the project you built
• An article or tutorial you published elsewhere
• A community post where you answered questions or shared a solution

You can add a short note, up to 280 characters, to give the link context. "The graph data model and Cypher behind my import pipeline" tells a viewer more than a bare URL ever could.

Adding a link to your certificate

You only need a minute, and you can do it any time after you complete a course.

1. Open your certificate page. You can reach it from your account, or from the certificate URL you saved or shared when you finished the course.
2. Sign in with the account that earned the certificate. The editing controls only appear for the certificate's owner.
3. In the Proof of work panel, choose Add proof of work.
4. Paste the link, add a note if you want, and save.

The certificate page updates immediately, so anyone you share it with sees the link straight away. You can edit or remove the link at any time from the same panel.

Why write about what you built?

A certificate confirms you completed the material. A blog post demonstrates you can apply it, and that is what sticks in a reader's mind.

Writing about a project also forces the kind of reflection that turns a tutorial into a skill. Explaining why you modelled the graph the way you did, or which Cypher query you rewrote three times, is often the moment the concepts really click.

If you have completed a course and want something to show for it, write the post first, then link it as proof of work. Your certificate becomes the summary, and the post becomes the substance behind it.