The only tool built for both parts of the IEDC EDP exam — 182 practice questions with AI explanations for the written section, and a guided project plan builder with expert-calibrated feedback for the oral.
You have to pass the written exam before you're allowed to sit for the oral — and the oral is where candidates are most often caught unprepared.
Two hours and fifteen minutes, drawn directly from the IEDC manuals. Twenty questions from each of your five topics — four required manuals plus the elective you selected on your application.
You submit a project plan in advance, then defend it before three EDP-certified graders for 45 minutes. They assess the plan, then ask about everything around it — the entrepreneurs you didn't name, and the problems you haven't solved yet.
Take a look at the actual tool — no mockups, no marketing screenshots. This is exactly what you'll use to study.
Work through all five sections of IEDC's ELED Project Plan template with AI feedback on each one — calibrated against the plan IEDC circulates as its own exemplar. Drafts save automatically. Export a clean PDF when it's ready to submit.
Review each of the five sections as you write it, or run a full-plan review that weights coherence — whether your action steps recur in funding and timeline, and whether your metrics actually measure your objective.
Feedback checks the things strong plans do: bounded objectives, named partners and data sources, honest acknowledgment of gaps, and policy advocacy that most candidates omit entirely.
Autosaves to your account so you can iterate over weeks. Export as a formatted PDF that matches the IEDC template when you're ready to attach it to your application.
"The highest-leverage improvement is to the objective statement itself. 'Increase the number of businesses in Phillips County' is a lagging outcome that takes years to manifest and is nearly impossible to attribute to a single plan. Rewrite the objective around what you will actually do in twelve months." Actual feedback from the plan builder
One license covers your entire EDP journey — most candidates take 1–2 years, and your license lasts 2 years from the day you activate it.
Coordinating a cohort? Contact us about bulk licensing at $99/seat.
Join economic developers preparing for both parts of the IEDC EDP certification.