CBA Pro takes one competency at a time from blank page to submission-ready — matched to your own projects, written inside your regulator's character limit, reviewed and graded before an assessor ever sees it.
No card required. Everything you write on the free competency carries over when you upgrade.
It is almost never the engineering. Four things come up in every conversation we have with applicants — here is what V4.0 does about each.
The core loop
Match your experience, close the gaps, draft, review, finalize. Ranking and question generation cost nothing, so you can open a competency and see whether it is the one to write today before spending anything.
Built for your regulator
Ask a general-purpose chatbot about “competency 3.2” and it will answer without telling you which framework it used. In CBA Pro your association decides the catalog, the count, the character limits and the rubric behind every review.
APEGA
AlbertaCompetency 3.2
Finances and Budget
PEO
OntarioCompetency 3.2
Progressive Responsibility
Same code, different competency. Ask a general-purpose chatbot for “competency 3.2” and it cannot tell you which framework it answered from.
The headline promise
Every draft is a complete Situation–Action–Outcome inside your regulator's character limit — and everything the AI could not know from your own answers comes back as a bracketed placeholder for you to fill.
Situation / Action / Outcome
Writing…Situation
Action
Outcome
3 placeholders to fill
It didn't know the station name, the standard, or your measured clearance — so it didn't guess. That's the point.
Before an assessor sees it
Comments anchored inside the draft with a numbered chip at each mark, each carrying a suggested rewrite you can accept in one click — and handed to you one job at a time rather than fifteen at once.
Action
I recalculated the horizontal curve and the team decided on the transition spiral length, then carried the chosen alignment through IFC.
Reviewer comment · Individual contribution
“The team decided” hides what you did. Assessors reject examples where the applicant's own decision can't be separated from the group's.
Placeholders first, comments second — the rail hands out one job at a time.
Two verdicts
A submit-readiness letter grade that re-runs itself on your newest edits, and the 0–5 self-assessment rating you will actually put on the application — coloured against your regulator's published minimum.
Weakest section: Outcome
Graded on draft v5 · free, no credit spent
Self-assessment score
Below your regulator's minimum of 3 — the shortfall is named, not rounded up.
Each one has its own page with the detail, the demo and the reasoning behind how it works.
Pick the plan that matches your regulator's competency count. Upgrades are pay-the-difference, so nothing you write on a smaller plan is lost.
For applicants with a shorter competency list, or who want to prove the workflow out on real competencies first.
The standard 22-competency path, with Word and PDF export so your drafts leave the app submission-ready.
The full 34-competency framework with the complete final report — for anyone submitting a full CBA.
Not ready to pay? Run one full competency free.
Every step, on a real competency, with no card — and every word carries over when you upgrade.
Trusted by engineers across Canada
Sadegh Behboudian
“Using CBA Pro by CertNova Software Solutions helped me get my P.Eng. approved on the first attempt without any CBA rejections. What surprised me most was that the challenge wasn't my experience, it was how to present it properly. Having the right structure and guidance made the entire process much more manageable. Definitely saved me time and avoided the usual back-and-forth revisions.”
3 months ago
M. Ibrahim
“This was a wonderful experience. Hossein and Jenny were very helpful and prompt to reply to my emails and questions. Hossein got on a call with me before enrolling just to answer my questions. The review for my CBA questions was detailed, thorough with clear direction on what needs to be done to improve, which made it very easy for me to fix my answers. They gave me a time for looking into my CBA questions. They ended up delivering earlier than promised. Finally, they are very fairly priced. Definitely recommend their service for anyone looking to get someone to assess their CBA answers.”
1 week ago
Nahal Nobahar
“I recently used this service to review and strengthen my competency submissions for my P.Eng. application, and I had a very positive experience. Reza and the team provided detailed and thoughtful feedback on my existing drafts, helping me clearly understand what was missing and what needed improvement to meet the expectations of the P.Eng. assessment process. They didn't just correct wording, they guided me on how to better structure my responses, highlight my individual contributions, and align my examples with the required competencies. What I found especially valuable was their ability to point out gaps in my explanations and suggest exactly what kind of technical details, context, and outcomes should be included. Their feedback made it much easier to refine my responses and present my experience in a clear, concise, and professional way. Overall, this service was extremely helpful for improving both the quality and clarity of my submission. I would recommend it to anyone who is working toward their P.Eng. designation and wants expert guidance to strengthen their application.”
4 months ago
CBA Pro is part of a full toolkit for getting your P.Eng in Canada.
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Learn moreCBA Pro is Competency-Based Assessment software for engineers applying for a P.Eng licence in Canada. It takes one competency at a time through five steps — match the right work experience, answer questions drawn from that competency's own indicators, generate a Situation–Action–Outcome draft inside your regulator's character limit, run a reviewer pass over it, and finalize — then grades the result and gives you the 0–5 self-assessment score your text supports.
V4.0 is a rebuild rather than an update. The biggest changes: a five-step workspace with one pulsing next action at all times, reviewer comments anchored to the exact words they refer to with one-click rewrites, a submit-readiness grade that re-runs itself on your newest edits, immutable version history so nothing is ever overwritten, CV import that saves nothing until you approve each record, and regulator-specific frameworks including APEGA's own official 22-competency set.
No, and it is built so that it cannot. Your CBA must be based on your own engineering experience. CBA Pro will not invent a project, inflate a role, add an outcome or claim a standard — anything it does not have from your own answers comes back as a bracketed placeholder for you to fill. You choose the evidence, supply the facts, and approve the final wording.
All twelve Canadian engineering regulators are selectable, including EGBC (British Columbia), APEGA (Alberta), APEGS (Saskatchewan), PEO (Ontario), Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba, Engineers Nova Scotia and OIQ. Your association sets the competency catalog, the number of competencies, the per-example character limit and the rubric used for review — and APEGA has its own dedicated 22-competency framework rather than a relabelled national one.
One-time pricing, no subscription: Foundation is $97 CAD for 10 competencies, Progression is $197 for 22 competencies with Word and PDF export, and Professional is $297 for all 34 with the full final report. Upgrades are pay-the-difference, so nothing you write on a smaller plan is lost. There is also a Free plan that runs one full competency end to end.
Yes. The Free plan gives you one complete competency — every step, including the reviewer pass, the submit-readiness grade and the self-assessment score — with no credit card. Everything you write on it carries over if you upgrade.
Regulators require that the experience and judgment in your CBA are genuinely yours. Using software to organise, structure, question and review your own writing is no different in kind from using a template or a mentor's feedback. What matters is that the substance is yours — and CBA Pro is built so it cannot supply substance you did not give it. Unknown facts become placeholders, never guesses.
Yes, and it is a common reason people start. Paste an existing draft into the workspace and run the reviewer pass and the grade on it, or start again from step 1 with a better-matched project. CertNova also offers a separate rejection-support service for decoding assessor comments and planning a resubmission.
Yes. A licensed P.Eng can read your finished submission line by line through Review by P.Eng — three tiers by competency count, a five-business-day turnaround target, and one complimentary meeting with your reviewer included. Buying a CBA Pro plan mints a discount code for it automatically.
CBA Pro is CertNova's Competency-Based Assessment software for engineers seeking a P.Eng licence in Canada. Each competency runs through a five-step workspace: rank the applicant's own recorded work experiences against the competency (free), answer gap questions generated from that competency's indicators and reviewer expectations (free), generate a Situation–Action–Outcome draft inside the regulator's character limit, run a reviewer pass with comments anchored to the draft text and one-click rewrites, and finalize. Every competency then receives a submit-readiness letter grade that re-runs on the newest edits and a 0–5 self-assessment score measured against the regulator's minimum, both free of charge. The applicant's association (EGBC, APEGA, APEGS, PEO and all other Canadian regulators) determines the competency catalog, count, character limits and rubric; APEGA uses its own official 22-competency framework. A hard non-invention rule means any fact the applicant has not supplied appears as a bracketed placeholder rather than a guess, so the substance of the submission is always the applicant's own. Pricing is one-time with pay-the-difference upgrades: Foundation $97 CAD (10 competencies), Progression $197 (22, with Word/PDF export), Professional $297 (34, with the full report), plus a Free plan covering one complete competency.
One full competency, end to end, free. If it doesn't make the rest of your CBA look manageable, you have lost an evening — not a submission cycle.
