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What you'll prove

Who is it for?

Anyone looking for a new job or a promotion.

What does it cost?

Paths, proofs and checks are free. The Arena adds a team and weekly challenges for $12 a month. Join the Arena

Who confirms my work?

A manager, client or colleague who saw the work. Code and live sites get checked first.

Who sees it?

You choose. Adults can share a public link. Work by anyone under 18 is always private.

LiveProof-of-Work · Oct–Nov: every verified proof counts. 16 days left

Programs

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Paths

Advanced

Become an AI Engineer

From zero to shipping AI products that real people use.

Skills
5 required + 1 opt24w
Advanced

Prove Your Data Science Chops

Learn data science free. Build real projects. Show them.

SkillsLearning
6 required52w
Intermediate

Become a Product Designer

From first Figma file to paid design work. Every outcome proven with shipped output — not a portfolio PDF.

SkillsCreative
5 required + 2 opt52w
Intermediate

Become a Product Manager

From first user interview to shipped product. Every milestone proven with a public artefact — not a JIRA ticket.

Teams
1 required + 5 opt52w
Expert

Quant Modeling

Forecast, backtest and manage risk — tested on data the model never saw.

Skills
2 required + 4 opt20w
Intermediate

AI at Work

Prove real AI wins at work, confirmed by your manager

Skills
0 required + 5 opt12w
ExpertPostgraduate

AI Research 5: Capstone

Reproduce one paper, extend it, write it up and defend it.

Skills
1 required12w
AdvancedUndergraduate

Robotics 9: Capstone

An autonomous robot task, demoed live and defended.

Skills
1 required9w
AdvancedUndergraduate

Psychology 1: Introduction to Psychology

How psychologists study the mind, and what they have found.

Skills
1 required14w
AdvancedUndergraduate

Psychology 2: Research Methods

Design studies that can answer a question, ethically.

Skills
1 required10w
AdvancedUndergraduate

Physics 1: Mechanics

Motion, forces, energy, momentum and rotation, with calculus.

Skills
1 required + 1 opt14w
AdvancedUndergraduate

Physics 2: Electricity and Magnetism

Charges, fields, potential, magnetism, induction and Maxwell's equations.

Skills
1 required + 1 opt14w

Outcomes

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Ship AI Products in Production

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Ship a real AI-powered product to production and keep it live with real users — proof is usage data and a technical post-mortem, not a tutorial.

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Write Clearly Enough to Persuade

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Audit your own writing for clarity and concision, then produce portfolio pieces strong enough for an experienced editor to critique live.

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First App Shipped (Curriculum Complete + Public Repo)

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Complete a free coding curriculum and ship one self-contained program that solves a real problem and runs on someone else's machine — not a certificate.

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Speak in Public Until It Feels Natural

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Deliver talks to real audiences — not rehearsals — until it stops feeling rehearsed, closing with a talk reviewed live by a professional speaking coach.

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Ship a Design Portfolio Worth Showing

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Design and ship a real product feature through multiple iterations, then defend the decisions to an experienced designer who can challenge you live.

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Become Product Manager

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Write and ship a real product spec with measurable success criteria, then defend the prioritisation and metrics decisions in a live PM review.

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Become Sales Professional

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Build and work a real sales pipeline to a closed deal — documented stages, discovery calls, and a close reason — not a simulated exercise.

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Become Researcher

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Apply research methods to real-world decisions: user research, market analysis, competitive intelligence, and synthesis. Proof is a published finding that changed a product…

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Become Data Analyst

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Take a real 10,000+ row dataset from raw to a documented, visualised answer — proof is the analysis and what it honestly cannot conclude.

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Ship a Full Stack App From Scratch

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Build and deploy a working full-stack app — real auth, real database, a public URL — that solves an actual problem, not a tutorial clone.

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Ship a Mobile App to a Real App Store

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Ship a working mobile app to a real app store listing, built to use at least one real device capability beyond the screen.

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Run Production Infrastructure Reliably

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Automate a real, currently-manual deployment or infrastructure task into a CI/CD pipeline or infrastructure-as-code that runs without human intervention.

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