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Who is it for?

Master's and PhD students, and early researchers.

What does it cost?

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Someone who knows the field. Code and results get checked against your repo first.

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

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Paths

ExpertPostgraduate

MBA Core Competencies

Strategy, finance, operations, and people — applied to a real organisation.

Skills
0 required + 5 opt52w
ExpertPostgraduate

Cloud Architecture

Design systems that survive real failure modes. Trade off consistency against availability with documented reasoning.

Skills
0 required + 3 opt32w
ExpertPostgraduate

Prove Your Software Engineering Chops

Engineering at scale is not about writing more code. It is about making decisions that hold up.

SkillsTeams
2 required + 4 opt40w
ExpertPostgraduate

Mental Health & Counselling

Clinical mental health training is supervised from the first session to the last.

Skills
2 required + 3 opt52w
ExpertPostgraduate

Neuroscience Foundations

The brain is anatomy before it is mechanism, and mechanism before it is cognition. Build in that order.

Skills
1 required + 4 opt44w
ExpertPostgraduate

Genetics & Biotechnology

Modern genetics is computational before it is wet. The data is public, the tools are free. Your proof is what you understand about the output.

Skills
2 required + 3 opt44w
ExpertPostgraduate

Engineering Management

Engineering management requires understanding what engineers actually build and why projects fail. ProjectLibre is free. Defend your analysis to a manager who has lived through the failure modes.

Skills
1 required + 3 opt36w
AdvancedPostgraduate

Curriculum Design & EdTech

Curriculum design requires prior teaching experience to do well. Design real curricula, measure real outcomes.

Skills
0 required + 4 opt36w
AdvancedPostgraduate

UX Research & Design

Research. Prototype. Validate.

Skills
2 required + 3 opt36w
ExpertPostgraduate

AI Research 1: Backprop from scratch

Your own autodiff, proved correct by tests, then one honest ablation.

Skills
1 required + 1 opt6w
ExpertPostgraduate

AI Research 2: Small GPT and loss curves

Train two model sizes, read the curves, and say what changed and why.

Skills
1 required + 1 opt6w
ExpertPostgraduate

AI Research 3: LoRA fine-tune and published evaluation

Fine-tune an open model cheaply, then publish an evaluation anyone can repeat.

Skills
1 required + 1 opt6w

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 and Publish a Research Paper

3 milestones · 24 weeks

Conduct original research and publish a paper in a peer-reviewed journal or conference.

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Make Your First Open Source Contribution

3 milestones · 6 weeks

Get a pull request merged into a public GitHub repository with 100+ stars.

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Master Statistics for Data Analysis

5 milestones · 10 weeks

Apply descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, regression, and A/B test design to real datasets — every milestone requires working with real data and documenting the decisions,…

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Operate as a Staff Engineer

5 milestones · 20 weeks

Staff Engineer is the most misunderstood title in the industry. Many companies hand out the title for tenure or as a retention tool, without the person ever doing Staff-level…

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Master Rust (Beginner to Systems Project)

0 milestones · 12 weeks

Write, test, and publish a Rust project that demonstrates ownership, lifetimes, and safe concurrency.

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Build a Distributed System

0 milestones · 16 weeks

Design and implement a distributed system with consensus, fault tolerance, and observable performance characteristics.

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Master System Design (Senior Level)

0 milestones · 12 weeks

Design 10 production-grade systems from scratch, covering scalability, reliability, and trade-offs — peer-reviewed by senior engineers.

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Ship a Design System in Production

0 milestones · 14 weeks

Build and document a component library used by at least one production product — tokens, components, and usage guidelines.

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Self-Designed MBA (4 Practitioner-Reviewed Deliverables)

0 milestones · 52 weeks

Design and complete a self-directed MBA across at least four core disciplines (strategy, finance, marketing, operations) — not by logging what you read, but by producing four real…

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Deliver a Strategy Presentation with Expert Q&A

0 milestones · 4 weeks

Present a strategic analysis or recommendation to a live audience of at least three people with relevant business or sector experience, and field substantive questions and…

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Conduct a Supply Chain Audit

0 milestones · 10 weeks

Map the end-to-end supply chain for a real product or service — tracing materials, suppliers, logistics, and distribution — and identify at least three specific vulnerabilities or…

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