Intermediate Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the intermediate level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Defect-Trend Analysis and Quality Action Plan for an EV Charging Platform
Pull 18 months of defect data from Jira + the field-incident system + customer-service tickets. Categorize defects by component, severity, and root-cause taxonomy. Run statistic…
- Defect Analysis
- Statistical Process Control
- Root Cause Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Going Concern and Evidence Strategy for a UK Retailer
Individually, prepare an audit evidence strategy memorandum addressing Cotswold Home's going concern assessment for the year ending 31 March. Critically evaluate management's 18…
- Going Concern Assessment
- Audit Evidence Evaluation
- Sensitivity Analysis
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Prototype an Embedded Dashboard for an EV Charger
Define the 3 user modes (driver: 4 screens, operator: 5 screens, technician: 3 screens) and their entry conditions (NFC card type, PIN, technician key). Build a 12-screen protot…
- Embedded Ui
- Figma
- Framer
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Value a Business Software Scale-Up for Its Series B Round
Working only from the company financial fact pack and the public market-data reference provided to you, value the company three different ways and reconcile the results. First, …
- DCF Valuation
- Comparable Company Analysis
- Venture Capital Method
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Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Redesign TaskFlow's Pricing for an Enterprise Pivot
Working only from the four items in provided_materials, build TaskFlow's next pricing structure. Examine the de-identified account dataset to define meaningful customer segments…
- Pricing Strategy
- Customer Segmentation
- Competitive Analysis
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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Debug a Race Condition in a Real-Time Collaboration Service
Build a deterministic load-test harness (k6 or Playwright) that reproduces the corruption within 3 attempts on a clean local stack. Capture traces with OpenTelemetry to localize…
- Debugging
- Concurrency
- Load Testing
Software Construction - CodeIntermediateNew
Fuse LiDAR and Camera for an Autonomous Yard Truck
You receive 6 hours of synced LiDAR + 4-camera ring data from yard operations, with 3D bounding-box labels for pedestrians, forklifts, and containers. Build a late-fusion module…
- Sensor Fusion
- Lidar Perception
- Object Detection
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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.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Reason over a Climate Policy Knowledge Graph for an EU Think Tank
Design a knowledge graph schema covering regulations, member states, sectors, transposition dates, and source-document citations. Ingest a curated dataset of around 200 nodes th…
- Knowledge Graphs
- Knowledge Representation
- Rule Based Reasoning
Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Visual Search Backend for a Boutique Luxury Marketplace
You receive a catalog of 80,000 luxury items (image + sparse metadata) and a labeled query set of 300 user photos with hand-picked target items. Choose an embedding strategy (CL…
- Visual Search
- Embeddings
- Clip
Deep Learning for Computer Vision - ResearchIntermediateNew
Disease-Progression Modelling for a Neurodegeneration Biotech
You receive a curated longitudinal Parkinson's cohort (about 1,200 patients, 4-12 visits each, MDS-UPDRS sub-scores, cognitive assessments, demographics). Fit (1) a linear mixed…
- Disease Progression Modeling
- Mixed Effects Models
- State Space Models
Open coursework - PresentationIntermediateNew
Run a Cross-Team Retrospective After a Failed Launch
Design a 3-hour structured retrospective using either Liberating Structures or Norm Kerr's 'Prime Directive' framing (assume people did the best job possible with what they knew…
- Retrospectives
- Facilitation
- Incident Analysis
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Forecast Energy Demand for a Nordic Renewable Utility
You receive 5 years of hourly residential-segment demand, hourly weather data (temperature, wind, irradiance), and a calendar of public holidays. Build a probabilistic forecaste…
- Time Series Forecasting
- Probabilistic Modeling
- Feature Engineering
Applied Machine Learning - ResearchIntermediateNew
QLoRA Fine-Tune for a Customer-Support Domain Assistant
You receive 8,000 anonymized support ticket pairs (question -> agent response), the company's product documentation (around 600 pages), and a strong RAG baseline already running…
- Qlora
- Fine Tuning
- RAG
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Audit an Agentic Workflow for Safety Failures
Read the system's existing capability spec + tool-allow-list. Design 50+ adversarial inputs across categories: prompt-injection, tool-confusion, scope-escape (agent does somethi…
- Ai Red Teaming
- Agent Safety
- Prompt Injection
Multi-Agent Systems - 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
Apply Hexagonal Architecture to a Payments Microservice
Design the settlement domain in pure Kotlin (no Spring imports, no framework annotations). Define ports for: payment-network adapter (one inbound per network — SEPA, Faster Paym…
- Hexagonal Architecture
- Ports And Adapters
- Kotlin Programming
Domain-Driven Design - 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 - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Design a Custom Page-Replacement Policy for a Tier-1 Cloud Provider Simulator
Use the provided simulator (Python harness wrapping a C++ page-cache model) and the team's 3 anonymized workload traces (web-cache, key-value store, batch analytics). Implement …
- Memory Management
- Page Replacement
- Benchmarking
Operating Systems - DesignIntermediateNew
Author a SOC 2-Ready Incident Response Playbook for Kestrel Pay
Using the Kestrel Pay company dossier and the current pinned-message 'playbook' (both provided), author a four-phase playbook — Prepare, Detect & Analyze, Contain/Eradicate/Reco…
- Incident Response
- NIST Sp 800 61
- Security Governance
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Design Prompt Versioning and Observability for a Coding Assistant
You will (1) design a prompt-registry data model (versions, owners, environments, change log) and implement it in Postgres + a small Python SDK, (2) instrument the assistant to …
- Prompt Versioning
- Observability
- Pii Scrubbing
LLM Application Development - StrategyIntermediateNew
Digital Product Strategy for a SaaS Scale-up
You are a product manager at TaskFlow. Your task is to create a product strategy for the next 12 months. Analyze the current product, identify gaps for enterprise needs, and pro…
- Product Strategy
- Roadmapping
- User Research
Smart Services and Digital Products - ResearchIntermediateNew
Safety-Test a Customer-Service Agent for Adversarial Prompts
You receive a sandboxed instance of the agent (a tool-using LLM that can read account balances and open support tickets — both mocked). Design a red-team suite of at least 80 pr…
- LLM Agents
- Red Teaming
- Adversarial Prompts
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement Model Predictive Control for a Delivery Robot
You receive a kinematic bicycle model of the robot, a published track layout, and 30 minutes of recorded waypoint trajectories. Implement a nonlinear MPC controller using acados…
- Model Predictive Control
- Optimal Control
- Robotics Simulation
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