The race to make artificial intelligence safe enough for aviation just gained a notable contender. Xcert AI, fresh off a top honor in the EASA AI Olympics, has released a platform update that pushes its technology closer to full certification readiness — and the lessons learned from working with hydrogen-powertrain developer ZeroAvia helped shape the upgrade.
EASA AI Olympics winner Xcert AI launches Xcert 1.2, advancing its platform toward aerospace end-to-end certification readiness.
Xcert AI demonstrates the real potential of trustworthy AI in aerospace: identifying gaps earlier, ensuring traceability and allowing engineering teams to focus expert attention where it matters most.”— Gabriele Teofili, Managing Director at ZeroAvia
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, October 12, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Swiss-based company announced Xcert 1.2 as the latest milestone in its drive to deliver AI that aerospace organizations can trust through the entire certification journey. The release follows the firm’s triumph at the EASA AI Olympics and builds on practical insights gained through its partnership with ZeroAvia and other clients. With this version, Xcert AI extends its reach beyond requirements management into verification and quality assurance workflows, all while keeping engineering evidence, data sovereignty and human accountability front and center.
Xcert 1.2 is designed to help engineering, certification and quality teams operate from a unified repository of requirements, industry standards, design documentation and supporting evidence. The platform enables users to generate and review structured engineering artifacts, draft test specifications, cases and procedures that are directly linked to requirements, detect coverage gaps, preserve connections to the precise sources behind every assertion, and export controlled deliverables for formal review processes.
The engagement with ZeroAvia has served as a real-world proving ground for how aerospace companies need to integrate AI: within existing engineering workflows, with strict control over sensitive information, and with outputs that human experts can examine, question and trace back to verifiable sources. Those learnings have steered Xcert AI’s development roadmap, though the company stresses the tool does not replace the judgment or responsibility of qualified engineers.
“With Xcert 1.2, teams move faster and put expert attention where it counts, without giving up traceability, data control or rigour,” said Marc-Elian Bégin, CEO and Co-founder of Xcert AI. “Aerospace doesn’t need generic AI with a thin wrapper. It needs a trustworthy platform built to accelerate certification readiness.”
For customers, the benefits translate into tighter alignment across engineering, certification and quality functions; swifter review and feedback cycles; reduced repetitive analysis; enhanced consistency and traceability; and a more transparent picture of where evidence, justification or specialized scrutiny is needed. Compliance matrices and visual status dashboards give teams an at-a-glance view of current standing, unresolved items and the next areas requiring investigation.
“Xcert AI is helping us reviewing all documents during the ZA200 development phase, and getting ready for the design freeze and the testing phase, by reviewing readiness and surfaced points that had been missed during manual editing. This demonstrates the real potential of trustworthy AI in aerospace: identifying gaps earlier, ensuring traceability and allowing engineering teams to focus expert attention where it matters most,” said Gabriele Teofili, Managing Director at ZeroAvia.”
Trust is embedded in the way Xcert AI is deployed and utilized. Aerospace organizations keep full control over their data and can choose the AI model and deployment environment that aligns with their security protocols, including secure cloud configurations or on-premises installations. All outputs are anchored in source documentation, fully traceable and auditable, while role-based permissions enable controlled collaboration. Xcert AI expedites engineering and certification tasks, but qualified experts remain accountable for every review and decision made.
Learn more or request a demonstration at https://www.xcert.ai/#contact.
About Xcert AI
Xcert AI develops trustworthy AI for aerospace end-to-end certification readiness. Its Xcert platform connects requirements, standards, procedures, evidence, verification and quality workflows through traceable, source-cited outputs while keeping qualified experts in control. Xcert AI is based in the Geneva region of Switzerland. Website: https://www.xcert.ai/.
About ZeroAvia
ZeroAvia is developing hydrogen-electric powertrain technology for aviation, targeting true zero-emission flight. Founded in 2017, the company is working to make zero-emission aviation a commercial reality for regional and short-haul aircraft. For more, please visit https://zeroavia.com/, follow @ZeroAvia on Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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Marc-Elian Bégin, CEO and Co-founder, Xcert AI | meb@xcert.ai
Gabriele Teofili, ZeroAvia | gabriele.teofili@zeroavia.com
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Why it matters: As regulators and industry bodies grapple with how to certify AI-driven systems in safety-critical aerospace applications, tools that offer traceability and human oversight could become essential infrastructure. Xcert AI’s push toward certification readiness signals a maturing market where AI is positioned not as an autonomous decision-maker, but as a support system accountable to qualified engineers.
