The IQ Series is introducing community badges to recognize developers building on Microsoft IQ stack. Foundry IQ is the first. Finish all three Foundry IQ episode cookbooks, submit a GitHub issue with your proof, fill out the badge form and the digital badge is yours.
The IQ Series kicked off with three Foundry IQ episodes, each paired with a hands-on cookbook. If you've worked through all three or you're planning to, there's now a digital badge waiting for you to claim!
What the badge represents
The IQ Series: Foundry IQ badge recognizes developers who've completed the full Foundry IQ curriculum end-to-end: not just watched the episodes, but deployed the Azure resources, run every notebook, and built working knowledge bases against live data.
Earners have:
- Deployed AI Search, Azure OpenAI, a Foundry project, and Azure Blob Storage with seeded sample data
- Connected structured and unstructured sources into Foundry IQ
- Built and queried multi-source AI knowledge bases
- Grounded agent responses in permission-aware enterprise knowledge
Badges are issued by the Global AI Community, so you'll want an account there before you submit.
What the three episodes cover
Episode 1 — Unlocking Knowledge for Your Agents. Introduces Foundry IQ and the core ideas behind it. The episode explains how AI agents work with knowledge and walks through the main components of Foundry IQ that support knowledge-driven applications.
Episode 2 — Building the Data Pipeline with Knowledge Sources. Focuses on Knowledge Sources and how different types of content flow into Foundry IQ across SharePoint, Fabric, OneLake, Azure Blob Storage, Azure AI Search, and the web.
Episode 3 — Querying the Multi-Source AI Knowledge Bases. Dives into Knowledge Bases and how multiple knowledge sources can be organized behind a single endpoint. The episode demonstrates how AI systems query across these sources and synthesize information to answer complex questions.
Each episode is paired with a cookbook for you to learn hands-on and each of them reuses the same Azure deployment, so you set up once and build across all three.
How to claim the badge
Four steps, in order:
- Fork the IQ Series repo and work through all three episode cookbooks in your fork. Commit your notebooks with cell outputs saved! That's the proof of completion.
- Capture a final output screenshot for each episode. Your GitHub username or Azure resource name needs to be visible in the screenshot.
- Submit a badge request issue. The template walks you through fork URLs, screenshots, and one brief technical takeaway per episode.
- Complete the badge form. This step is required. Without the form, we can't issue the badge.
Why this badge is worth your time
The IQ Series recognizes your hands-on learning with real infrastructure, real indexed data, real agents and queries. If you're working on enterprise AI (grounding, retrieval, knowledge-aware agents), this is a concrete artifact that says: I've built this, end to end, on the actual platform.
Work IQ and Fabric IQ are coming next, and each phase will have its own badge. Foundry IQ is your head start on the full IQ Series.
👉 Start with Episodes or jump straight to the cookbooks if you prefer to learn by doing.
Questions along the way? Create and issue in the repo or drop into our Discord. The Foundry IQ team and community are there to help.
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