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CE Shield · Live

Which credential isworth your time?

Career intelligence and CE compliance for rehab clinicians. Every credential is scored through the career lenses that apply to it, five in all, against a curated citation library, so a therapist can see what a certification is actually worth before paying for it.

RoleFounder, design and engineering
StackNext.js, Supabase, Vercel
StatusLive at ceshield.com ↗
The field143 credentials. One question.

Rehab clinicians spend thousands on certifications with little evidence about which ones pay back.

Clinical lensScored on six dimensions.

Weighted toward patient outcomes, caseload reach, and billing. Each dot is one credential.

Business lensSame credentials, new frame.

Cash-pay viability and pricing leverage reorder the field. The dots you just watched are the same ones.

Research lensMost fall out of frame.

A PhD is poor return for a clinician and transformative for a researcher. One rubric can’t tell the truth about both.

Research lensThe five that lead.

Every score links to its evidence. Below, the working model: move the weights yourself.

Working model · real CE Shield data

Re-weight the matrix.Watch the ranking move.

This is the scoring model from the live product, running in your browser. Change a lens, move a weight, or filter by discipline. Select any credential to open its dossier.

Discipline

Every credential, by composite score

Clinical lens · higher is better

Hover or use arrow keys for details. The ringed dot is the open dossier.

Lens weights

Shares renormalize to 100%.

Top 12

Change vs. the lens’s default weights

    Evidence depth vs. score

    Citations on a log scale. Depth of literature and value are different questions.

    Scores and citation counts from the CE Shield dataset. Weights you set here are not saved.

    What I built

    Honest byconstruction.

    I designed, wrote, and shipped every layer: the scoring model, the evidence library, the data visualizations, and the compliance tools.

    Two evidence frames
    Clinical intervention vs. career outcome.Clinical lenses read trial and review literature on the intervention. Career lenses read placement, demand, and pay. Mixing them would flatter the wrong credentials.
    Independence
    No money from certifying bodies.Scoring is independent, the methodology is public, and the conflict-of-interest statement is published.
    Privacy
    PII never leaves the database.Row-level security on every user table. Public clinician CVs read through SQL views that expose only safe columns.
    Search surface
    A dossier for every credential.Statically generated pages with the full citation library, cross-lens scores, and per-dimension justifications.
    Compliance
    State CE tracking that does the math.Per-state rule sets with mandatory categories and caps, course logging, certificate upload with OCR autofill, and a renewal countdown.
    Daniel J. Green, PT, DPT · Chicagodgreen10@chicagobooth.edu