# Alain Chautard - Scaling Angular Certification

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Podcast: [Ditching Hourly](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ditching-hourly-660667)
Published: 2026-05-26T10:00:00+00:00
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Angular expert Alain Chautard rejoined me on Ditching Hourly to share how he scaled his certification business through partnerships and automation. Jonathan and Alain talk about turning niche expertise into a certification business, reducing support demands, using expert partners across time zones and languages, negotiating a licensing-style partnership, and what happens when a soloist plugs their business into a larger organization. 00:00 - Introduction and Welcome Back 03:24 - Creating the Angular Certification Program 07:00 - Automating Customer Support 10:04 - Scaling with Global Partnerships 12:08 - Handling Certification Interviews 15:04 - Partnerships and Business Growth 20:05 - Negotiating a Business Partnership 24:38 - Email Marketing Journey 36:51 - Exploring New Content Formats 38:51 - Mastermind Groups for Soloists Alain Chautard is a Google Developer Expert in Angular who does consulting, training, and conference/content work around the Angular framework. He created an Angular certification program after clients asked for proof of completion beyond a simple training certificate. His work now includes helping teams make architecture decisions, get up to speed with Angular, and scale the certification business through partnerships. Learn more at alainchautard.com . ---- Do you have questions about how to improve your business? Things like: Value pricing your work instead of billing for your time? Positioning yourself as the go-to person in your space? Productizing your services so you never have to have another awkward sales call or spend hours writing another custom proposal? Book a one-on-one coaching call with me and get answers to these questions and others in the time it takes to get ready for work in the morning. Best of all, you're covered by my 100%…

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