Open-standards credentials your recipients can take anywhere.
Credostar exists because proof of someone’s hard work (a degree, a license, a course completion, a professional certification) still travels through PDF attachments and inbox archaeology from 2010. The credentials people earn deserve infrastructure as durable as the achievement itself.
We are building Credostar as the digital credentialing platform we wished existed: open standards from day one, no per-seat fees, no vendor lock-in, and a clear path from template design through public verification.
The story
From Thinqzo to Credostar.
We started Thinqzo to tackle problems that have stuck around far too long. Credostar is our answer to one of them: how organizations issue, manage, and prove credentials at scale.
Why credentials
Every certification body, learning team, compliance program, and event organizer we talked to had the same pattern: design certificates in one tool, mail merge in another, deliver via email, and pray nothing breaks. Verification mostly meant calling the issuer.
W3C Verifiable Credentials and OpenBadges 3.0 had quietly become production-ready in the meantime. Nobody was using them the way they were meant to be used. So we built the platform that does.
Why open standards
The dominant credentialing platforms use proprietary formats. That ties every credential to one vendor’s tooling and one vendor’s rules.
W3C VC and OpenBadges 3.0 put the cryptographic proof inside the credential itself. Anyone with a compliant verifier can validate a Credostar credential through any compliant tool. That is the design we picked for the long term.
What we believe
The principles that shape the product.
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Open standards first
Every credential we issue is a W3C Verifiable Credential and an OpenBadges 3.0 badge. The cryptographic proof lives inside the credential, so any compliant verifier can validate it.
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Portable by design
Your templates, your recipients, your credential history. All exportable in open formats, all the time. Lock-in is a design choice we deliberately did not make.
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Built for the buyer
We sell to compliance officers, certification directors, learning leaders, and event organizers. The product is shaped by what they actually need to ship credentials at scale, not by what looks impressive in a demo.
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Small team, full attention
We are a focused team building one product. Design partners get direct access to the people writing the code, not a tiered support queue.
The team behind it
Built by the team at Thinqzo .
Thinqzo is the company we started to tackle problems that have stuck around far too long. Credostar is our first commercial product. We are a small, focused team shipping every week.
Visit ThinqzoAn open letter from the team
Read the full open letter on why we built Credostar and what design partners can expect from us.
Read the open letterBe one of our first design partners.
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