The Commodity Education Atlas, in full.
Everything behind the headline numbers: how the census was built, what counted, what did not, what we can and cannot claim — and the headline dataset itself.
Headline dataset
The figures below are the published headline results. Row-level records, the full taxonomy sheet and the price-per-hour workings are available to researchers, journalists and partners on request.
1,391
verified education offerings worldwide
~1%
offer structured 1:1 mentoring (the mentoring platforms list ZERO commodity-specific mentors)
0
commodity-wide professional designations exist. Still.
86%
of the market monetizes beyond the course: certificates, in-company, membership
27%
publish their learner numbers; opacity is the norm
80%
of supply is in English; Portuguese is #2 with just 7%
Price ladder observed in the market
Bands are observed ranges across verified offerings, not in.PACTA pricing.
| 1 | Free flagship content | $0 · the mass door (the model: a free university-grade industry course with 169,000 enrollments in one commodity vertical) |
| 2 | Self-paced paid course | $50–500 · realized prices, not list; builds catalog and audience |
| 3 | Certificate track | $99–850 · the 10–20h window; certificates are the #1 wrapper in the market |
| 4 | Live cohort / specialist course | $300–3,800 · 1–3 days; ~10× self-paced pricing, 85–96% completion |
| 5 | Residential school / immersion | $8.5k–17k · 1–6 weeks; scarcity + network beats production value |
| 6 | In-company delivery | the hidden engine: ~60% of professional academies sell it; B2B reaches 30–66% of revenue at maturity |
| 7 | Mentoring & advisory | the least-occupied rung: ~1% of the market; retainers and 1:1 at expert rates |
| 8 | Certification & designation | the endgame every mature vertical reaches; none exists commodity-wide |
1. Research question
How does the world learn commodities today — and where is the supply missing?
The Atlas answers this by surveying the supply side: every discoverable offering that teaches commodity trading, origination, risk, operations, logistics, legal, finance and adjacent functions, anywhere in the world, in any language.
2. Field work
1,391 offerings were verified from live pages by 34 parallel research agents across three waves in August 2026. Each wave widened the frame: wave one covered marketplaces, MOOCs and universities; wave two covered exchanges, associations, specialist academies and event academies; wave three covered books, degree programs, corporate talent programs and mentoring offers.
Every record was read from the provider's own live page. Aggregator listings, press mentions and directory entries were never accepted as a source of record.
3. Inclusion rules
In scope: the offering is purchasable or enrollable by an individual or a company; it teaches commodity-relevant content; it has a live public page describing format, and where disclosed, price and duration.
Out of scope: internal-only corporate training with no public page, one-off webinars with no curriculum, consultancy engagements sold as advisory rather than education, and pages that could not be verified as live at survey time.
4. Taxonomy
Each record is coded on provider type (marketplace, MOOC, creator platform, university, exchange, association, specialist academy, event academy, publisher, degree program, talent program, mentoring), commodity vertical, function taught, delivery format, language, country, duration and price.
Prices are recorded as realized prices where the provider publishes them, and as list prices otherwise; currency is kept as published and converted only for comparison. Price-per-hour is computed only where both price and contact hours are disclosed.
5. Coverage and limits
Estimated coverage is ~80–85% of the world's discoverable open commodity education. The remainder is mostly non-indexed, invitation-only or in languages and platforms with weak public search surfaces.
Known limits: only 27% of providers publish learner numbers, so demand-side scale is directional, not audited. Private in-company programs are systematically under-counted by design. Nothing in the Atlas measures teaching quality or outcomes — it measures supply.
6. Conflict of interest
in.PACTA operates education programs that appear in the dataset. They are counted under the same rules as every other provider. No provider paid for inclusion, placement or wording, and no provider reviewed the findings before publication.
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