Intermediate Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the intermediate level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Negotiation Protocol for Trading Agents
Choose a negotiation framework (alternating-offers Rubinstein, monotonic concession, or auction-based) and justify against the freight use case. Implement a simulator in Python …
- Agent Negotiation
- Game Theory
- Multi Agent Systems
Multi-Agent Systems - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Real-Time Order Pipeline for a Fintech Payments Platform
You receive a synthetic Kafka stream of around 500 transactions per second, a static merchant dimension table (about 80,000 rows), and a daily FX rate snapshot. Design an end-to…
- Streaming Data
- Kafka
- Stream Processing
Data Engineering and Big Data Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
Parallelize a CFD Solver with MPI Across 256 Cores
Profile the serial solver to identify the hot loops (likely: pressure-Poisson solve, advection step, BC update). Decompose the domain via 2D block-structured partitioning. Imple…
- Mpi
- Cpp Programming
- Domain Decomposition
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Three-Year Succession Plan for a Family Manufacturer
Working only from the materials you are given — a confidential company dossier describing the firm, its history, ownership, and finances; an anonymized summary of interviews wit…
- Succession Planning
- Governance Design
- Family Dynamics
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Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- ResearchIntermediateNew
Emerging-Tech Scouting Sprint for a Family-Office Innovation Fund
Working from the provided seed company list, founder-interview guide, readiness-scoring rubric, and thesis-memo template, run a structured scouting sprint for both sectors. For …
- Emerging Tech Scouting
- Innovation Management
- Venture Thesis
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Competitive Strategy for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up Moving Upmarket
Your task is to develop a competitive strategy for TaskFlow's enterprise push. Analyze the competitive landscape, identify key differentiators, and propose a positioning strateg…
- Competitive Analysis
- Product Led Growth
- Enterprise Sales
Marketing Strategy - CodeIntermediateNew
Forecast Intraday FX Volatility for a London Liquidity Desk
You receive 18 months of tick-level mid-quote data for six FX pairs plus a calendar of scheduled macro events. Resample to 1-minute bars, engineer realized-volatility features, …
- Time Series Forecasting
- Feature Engineering
- Model Validation
AI and Quantitative Finance - CodeIntermediateNew
Actor-Critic for Energy-Storage Dispatch
You receive 3 years of hourly day-ahead price data and a Python simulator that models state of charge, round-trip efficiency, and a 1-day price forecast with documented uncertai…
- Actor Critic
- A2c
- Deep Rl
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Marketing Analyst
Plan and measure campaigns that grow the business. Funnel analytics, attribution, segmentation, and the rigorous measurement that lets marketing defend its budget at the leadership table.
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Recover a Red-RAG Enterprise Implementation Mid-Flight
Pull 7 months of project artifacts (Jira, status reports, change requests, meeting minutes, time-tracking). Interview 6 people across the delivery team + 3 from the client side.…
- Project Recovery
- Estimation
- Scope Management
Software Project Management - StrategyIntermediateNew
Global Marketing Campaign for a Sustainable Fashion Brand in 3 Markets
Your task is to analyze cultural values in Japan (collectivism, high-context), Brazil (high power distance, relationship-oriented), and Germany (individualism, low-context) usin…
- Cross Cultural Marketing
- Cultural Analysis
- Global Strategy
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Counterfactual Explanations for an Insurance Pricing Model
You receive a trained LightGBM regression model (premium in GBP), the feature schema (28 features, 14 mutable from the customer's side), and 500 sample quotes. Use DiCE (Diverse…
- Counterfactual Explanations
- Dice Ml
- Interpretability
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Optimize UHNW Client Portfolio for Tax Efficiency
Analyze the client's current portfolio (provided in a data sheet) and identify tax-inefficient holdings. Recommend a reallocation across jurisdictions (Switzerland, Luxembourg, …
- Tax Optimization
- Asset Allocation
- Cross Border Compliance
Open coursework Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
Why Ewance
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Digital Transformation Roadmap for a Family-Owned Manufacturing Firm
After reviewing the provided company profile and stakeholder interview transcripts, deliver: (1) Digital maturity assessment using an established framework (e.g., MIT/Deloitte D…
- Digital Transformation
- Digital Business Models
- Project Management
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Design an Empirical Study of Pull Request Review Throughput
Using the provided pull request dataset and the stakeholder brief, design and run an empirical software-engineering study on review throughput. State three falsifiable hypothese…
- Empirical Software Engineering
- Software Analytics
- Statistical Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Capacity Planning for a SaaS Scale-Up's Customer Support
Your task is to forecast ticket volumes based on enterprise growth projections, analyze current support capacity and performance, and propose a staffing plan that meets SLAs. Su…
- Capacity Planning
- Queuing Theory
- Workforce Management
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Rebuilding Trust After a Toxic Culture Scandal at Cedar Pay
Using only the materials provided, produce a six-month culture transformation program for Cedar Pay. Begin by diagnosing root causes from the employee pulse survey ('employee-pu…
- Organizational Culture Diagnosis
- Change Management
- Employee Engagement
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Train a Multimodal Classifier for Medical Triage
Pick a fusion architecture (early fusion via cross-attention, late fusion via score combination, or a unified multimodal encoder like FLAVA/CoCa). Train on the 14,000 pairs with…
- Multimodal Fusion
- Cross Attention
- Pytorch
Multimodal Machine Learning - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a PETs Strategy for an EU AI Act Use Case
Map the underwriting use case to applicable PETs across the data-lifecycle stages (training, evaluation, inference, monitoring). For each, document: privacy property gained, acc…
- Pets Strategy
- Differential Privacy
- Federated Learning
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Adapt Machine Translation to a Niche Domain
Pick an open MT base (NLLB-200 or a strong open M2M model). Build a parallel corpus of around 8,000 sentence pairs from the company's bilingual safety standards. Fine-tune on th…
- Machine Translation
- Domain Adaptation
- Transformers
Natural Language Processing - CodeIntermediateNew
Roll Out mTLS Across 80 Microservices with Istio
Install Istio (current LTS) in ambient mode where possible, sidecar mode where ambient is not yet supported by the service. Phase 1: enable PERMISSIVE mTLS namespace by namespac…
- Istio
- Mtls
- Kubernetes
Service Mesh and Microservices Networking - ResearchIntermediateNew
Planning Under Uncertainty for a Last-Mile Delivery Fleet
Build a simulator of the 50-block area with stochastic travel times conditioned on weather and time-of-day. Implement value iteration (for a small state space), MCTS (Monte Carl…
- Planning Under Uncertainty
- Markov Decision Processes
- Monte Carlo Tree Search
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Restructuring a Regional Retail Chain for Digital Survival
Your team's task is to conduct a comprehensive restructuring analysis: evaluate each store's performance (using provided financial data), recommend which stores to close, conver…
- Financial Analysis
- Portfolio Restructuring
- Change Management
Corporate Strategy - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Simulate Hospital Bed Allocation for a Healthtech Decision Support Pilot
You receive 12 months of anonymized admissions and discharges data plus ward layouts (medicine, surgery, ICU, geriatrics) and a small set of clinical transfer rules. Build a dis…
- Discrete Event Simulation
- Simpy
- Policy Comparison
Decision Support Systems and Decision Analysis - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Valuing Rivian's Convertible Bond Refinancing Decision
Pull Rivian's most recent convertible note prospectus from EDGAR and replicate its terms (coupon, conversion ratio, call schedule, maturity). Build a binomial lattice or Black-S…
- Derivatives Valuation
- Convertible Bonds
- Binomial Lattice
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