Beginner Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the beginner level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- StrategyBeginnerNew
Plan a Self-Improving Sales-Research Agent
Build the v0 agent: given a company URL, it gathers 5 fact bullets (recent news, headcount range, tech stack hints, hiring patterns, a recent leadership change) and drafts a 4-l…
- LLM Agents
- Agent Design
- Experimentation
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Estimate and Schedule a 16-Week Custom CRM for an Agency Client
Read the 22-page SOW (statement of work). Decompose into a 3-level work-breakdown structure (~80-110 leaf tasks). Estimate each leaf using 3-point (optimistic/most-likely/pessim…
- Estimation
- Scheduling
- Work Breakdown Structure
Software Project Management - CodeBeginnerNew
Optimize Wind-Turbine Layout with a Genetic Algorithm
You receive a wind-speed-and-direction time series for the lease area, the polygon boundary, a minimum inter-turbine spacing constraint, and a Jensen wake model. Implement a rea…
- Genetic Algorithms
- Metaheuristics
- Constraint Handling
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Lead Glow Naturals' Shift to Selling Hotels and Spas
Using the company dossier and the employee readiness survey results provided to you, design a six-month change management plan that lets Glow Naturals begin selling to hotels an…
- Change Management
- Organizational Development
- Kotter Model
Open coursework Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- StrategyBeginnerNew
Build a Credible ESG Governance Framework for Glow & Green
You are a junior ESG consultant engaged by Glow & Green. Using only the de-identified company case file (gg-case-file), the investor ESG demand memo (investor-esg-memo), the cus…
- ESG Frameworks
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Governance Design
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Wireless Security Audit and Hardening for a Telco's Public Wi-Fi
Your analysis task is built entirely on three provided materials: the 80-access-point configuration inventory, the 30-day authentication (RADIUS) log extract for those same acce…
- Wireless Security
- Wpa3
- Eap
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Build a Reproducible Pricing Analysis for a DTC Skincare Brand
You receive 24 months of order-line data (around 480,000 lines), a Shopify-style customer export, and a discount-code log. Build a Python pipeline that produces: SKU-level price…
- Data Wrangling
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Cohort Analysis
Applied Data Analysis and Practical Data Science - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Field-Screen EV Charging Partners for Numbat's Nordic Push
Treat this as a field investigation of publicly observable site networks. Using the provided Numbat capability brief and the candidate-sites dataset, build a partner-selection f…
- Partner Screening
- Alliance Strategy
- Competitive Analysis
Open coursework - Browse challenges
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
Migrate Glow Naturals to Dynamics 365 Business Central
Your analysis task is to turn the documented situation in the 'Glow Naturals current-state file' (CASE-001) into a defensible migration blueprint, using the legacy data sample i…
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Business Process Mapping
- Data Migration
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Fraud Risk Assessment at a Fast-Growing Jakarta Fintech
Working in a team of 3-4, build a fraud risk register covering at least eight fraud risks across revenue recognition, expected credit loss estimation, management override, and r…
- Fraud Risk Assessment
- Analytical Procedures
- Data Analytics
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Diversification Strategy for a Regional Brewery Chain
Your task is to identify and evaluate three diversification opportunities for Prairie Brews: (1) launching a line of non-alcoholic craft beverages, (2) opening a chain of beer-t…
- Diversification Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Market Research
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Tax Strategy for a Copenhagen D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to research the EU VAT rules for cross-border e-commerce, including the One Stop Shop (OSS) scheme. You must evaluate the tax rates in Denmark, France, Italy, and S…
- Tax Analysis
- EU Vat
- Cross Border Ecommerce
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.
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Model Bogotá's Bike-Share Network as a Graph for Overnight Rebalancing
Using only the supplied station directory, the aggregated origin-to-destination trip table, and the operations brief, build a directed weighted graph where each station is a nod…
- Graphs
- Networkx
- Shortest Path
Open coursework - ResearchBeginnerNew
Evaluate a Generative AI Image Tool with a Within-Subjects Study
You will write a study protocol, recruit 20 participants (a Discord callout is fine), counterbalance the two conditions, and run 45-minute sessions over Zoom. Collect three meas…
- Experiment Design
- User Study
- Within Subjects Design
Human-Computer Interaction for AI Systems - DesignBeginnerNew
Validate a Signed Construction-Permits Requirements Document
Using the requirements excerpt (req-doc-excerpt), the anonymized permits dataset (permits-dataset), and the intake notes from the first case-handler session (intake-notes), conv…
- Requirements Validation
- Executable Scenarios
- Gherkin
Open coursework - PresentationBeginnerNew
Storytelling Visualization of an Autonomous Vehicle Test Campaign
You receive aggregated test results: 12,000 test runs across dry, wet, and snow conditions, with metrics for disengagement rate, near-miss count, and route-completion percentage…
- Data Storytelling
- Audience Adaptation
- Chart Design
Data Visualization - StrategyBeginnerNew
Omnichannel Roadmap for a Barcelona Cosmetics Brand
Working only from the materials provided, produce a twelve-month omnichannel transformation roadmap for Glow Barcelona. Read the company dossier (glow-barcelona-dossier) to esta…
- Digital Transformation
- Omnichannel Strategy
- Change Management
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Image-Quality Triage Tool for a Tele-Radiology Network
You receive 10,000 chest-X-ray images with multi-label quality flags (rotation, clipping, motion). Train a small multi-label CNN that outputs a per-flag probability and a single…
- Medical Imaging
- Classification
- Convolutional Neural Networks
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design a Talent Retention Strategy for a Renewable Energy Firm
Working only from the three materials provided to you — the exit-interview record, the monthly turnover and headcount tracker, and the market compensation benchmark sheet — anal…
- Retention Analysis
- Turnover Metrics
- Compensation Benchmarking
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Hedging FX Risk for a Sydney D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a risk management consultant hired by GlowSydney. Analyze the company's FX exposure using provided data on forecasted USD payables and AUD receivables. Recommend a hedgi…
- Fx Hedging
- Derivatives Pricing
- Financial Modeling
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
UX Redesign of a Government Digital Services Portal
Focus on three citizen journeys: (1) Registering a new address (Ummeldung), (2) Requesting a parking permit, (3) Booking an appointment at the Bürgerbüro. For each: create a use…
- User Experience Design
- Web Development
- Requirements Engineering
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Designing Spotify's Post-Profitability Payout Policy
Build a 3-year forecast of Spotify's free cash flow to equity and surplus cash position under base and downside cases. Benchmark payout ratios, buyback yields, and net leverage …
- Payout Policy
- Fcfe Modeling
- Peer Benchmarking
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Platform Launch Strategy for a Lisbon D2C Cosmetics Startup
You are a digital strategy consultant hired by Brilho. Your task is to develop a 12-month platform launch strategy. Constraints: limited budget (€500k), a team of 10 engineers, …
- Platform Design
- Network Effects
- Business Modeling
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design a Hybrid Sales Strategy for GlowUp Naturals
Design a six-month sales strategy that takes GlowUp Naturals from selling only direct-to-consumer to a blended model adding retail partnerships and business-to-business corporat…
- Sales Planning
- Negotiation
- CRM
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