Kosher Education for the Whole Kosher World

KIA built the AKO Mashgiach Course to create a single, high-quality, universally recognized training standard for mashgichim, so that a mashgiach trained in London, Mexico City, or Houston all receive the same foundational education, to the same standard, and agencies everywhere can trust that credential.

We teach kosher at every level. People keeping kosher at home, kitchen and foodservice staff, mashgichim, and the agencies that certify them all train with us.

The institute writes the courses, sets the exams and keeps the record of who has been trained, so an agency can confirm a credential before it puts somebody to work.

We build the software agencies run their supervision on, from the establishments they certify to the mashgichim they send out.

And we publish free material for anybody who wants it: a kosher library, a dictionary of kosher terms and a produce inspection course that costs nothing.