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- StrategyBeginnerNew
Design Critique Process for a Growth Design Team
Design a 60-minute weekly design-critique format covering: pre-read window, presenter prep template, time-boxed feedback rounds (start-stop-continue or 'I like, I wish, I wonder…
- Design Critique
- Facilitation
- Design Systems
User Interface Design and Prototyping - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Acquisition of a Bangalore D2C Cosmetics Startup
As a junior M&A analyst at BeautyCo, you must assess GlowUp's business model, financials, and market position. You need to conduct a valuation using DCF and comparable company a…
- Financial Analysis
- Valuation
- Due Diligence
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Reason about Drone Mission Plans with Probabilistic Logic
Build a small Bayesian network (around 12 nodes) capturing weather, no-fly-zone proximity, battery state, operator certification, and mission risk. Implement exact inference (va…
- Bayesian Networks
- Probabilistic Inference
- Knowledge Representation
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - ResearchBeginnerNew
Curate a Domain Lexicon for a Climate-Tech NLP Stack
You receive 5,000 policy documents and a benchmark of 200 documents with manually tagged domain terms. Curate a lexicon of ~1,500 terms with (1) canonical English form, (2) Swah…
- Lexical Resources
- Named Entity Recognition
- Spacy
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- CodeBeginnerNew
GPU Cost Dashboard for an AI Consulting Practice
Pull AWS Cost and Usage Report, GCP billing export, and Lambda Labs invoices into a single Parquet table. Implement a tagging convention (project + client + experiment_id) and a…
- Cloud Cost Attribution
- Etl Pipelines
- Data Modeling
Cloud Computing for Data and ML - StrategyBeginnerNew
Redesign TaskFlow's Pricing to Win Enterprise Customers
Using the company brief, the current-accounts dataset, and the enterprise-requirements brief provided, design a new pricing-and-packaging strategy for TaskFlow that adds enterpr…
- Pricing Strategy
- Packaging Design
- Product Led Growth
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Run an A/B Test on Two System Prompts for a Sales Email Assistant
You will (1) design the A/B test (random assignment by rep_id, 50/50 split, 2-week duration), (2) instrument three primary metrics: reply rate (event-based), average tokens per …
- Prompt Evaluation
- Ab Testing
- Metric Design
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Spec a Voice Agent for an Airline's Disruption Support Line
You will produce a 6-page voice-agent product spec covering: (1) supported intents and out-of-scope handling, (2) handoff-to-human criteria, (3) latency and confidence threshold…
- Voice Agent Design
- Intent Design
- Metric Design
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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.
- DesignBeginnerNew
Design-System Component Library in Figma for a Travel Brand
Audit the existing app across the 7 squads to inventory every variant of each component (screenshot grid). For the 12 priority components, design canonical variants using Figma …
- Design Systems
- Figma
- Component Libraries
User Interface Design and Prototyping - DesignBeginnerNew
Organize a Distributed Team Across 4 Timezones
Audit the current state via 8 interviews (4 in SF, 2 in Warsaw, 2 in Bangalore). Design 4-5 squads each owning a domain end-to-end (not split across timezones for handoff). Buil…
- Team Management
- Distributed Teams
- Communication Design
Open coursework - ResearchBeginnerNew
Comparative Usability Test of Three Checkout Flows for a DTC Brand
Build 3 clickable Figma prototypes of the same checkout (same product, same fields, same copy) in single-page, three-step, and side-drawer patterns. Recruit 9 participants match…
- Usability Testing
- User Research
- Comparative Evaluation
Human-Computer Interaction - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Commercial Due Diligence on a Seoul Direct-to-Consumer Cosmetics Brand
Working only from the materials provided, build a commercial due diligence assessment of GlowUp Cosmetics. Use the customer cohort dataset to reconstruct retention curves, lifet…
- Commercial Due Diligence
- Customer Analytics
- Unit Economics
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Inflation Hedging for a Lagos D2C Cosmetics Brand
Your task is to analyze recent inflation data, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) monetary policy, and USD/NGN exchange rate trends. Then, propose a combination of financial instrume…
- Inflation Analysis
- Monetary Policy
- Exchange Rate Forecasting
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cost Allocation for an Austin D2C Cosmetics Startup
You are a junior management accountant hired by GlowUp. Using provided financial data (sales, direct costs, overhead pools, and activity drivers), implement an ABC model to allo…
- Activity Based Costing
- Cost Allocation
- Profitability Analysis
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Backfill Architecture Decision Records for a Mainframe Modernization Program
Work entirely from the three provided materials: the architecture-channel chat log excerpt (architecture-channel-log), the consolidated architecture-review meeting notes (archit…
- Architecture Decision Records
- Technical Debt
- Stakeholder Communication
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
IFRS 16 Lease Accounting for a Renewable Energy Firm
You are a senior accountant at SunPower Renewables. The company is adopting IFRS 16 for the first time. You are given a sample lease for a wind turbine site: 20-year term, fixed…
- IFRS 16
- Lease Accounting
- Right Of Use Asset
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Fair Trade Sourcing for a San Francisco D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a junior sustainability consultant hired by GlowRoot. Evaluate the current sourcing cost, the cooperative's request (a 15% price increase), and the impact on product pri…
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Ethical Decision Making
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Plan Safe Paths for a Last-Mile Sidewalk Robot
You receive 4 hours of recorded sidewalk traversals with annotated pedestrian tracks, occupancy grids, and a map of the pilot neighborhood. Implement a sampling-based planner (R…
- Motion Planning
- Sampling Based Planning
- Cost Function Design
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Lean Transformation for a Boston D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to develop a comprehensive lean transformation plan for GlowUp Naturals' new in-house production facility. You must propose a cellular layout, implement kanban for …
- Lean Manufacturing
- Production Layout Design
- Kanban
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Automated Testing Strategy for a Fintech App
Your task is to create a detailed testing strategy document for PayFlow's mobile app. Include a test pyramid diagram, tool recommendations (e.g., Jest, Detox, Cypress), and a pl…
- Test Automation
- Ci Cd
- Test Strategy
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Audit a Hiring-Screening Model for Demographic Bias
You receive: (a) inference API access to the production model (black-box), (b) a 12,000-resume audit benchmark with self-declared gender and age-band labels (consented, GDPR-com…
- Fairness Metrics
- Bias Auditing
- Model Evaluation
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - AnalysisBeginnerNew
PIPEDA Compliance for a Toronto D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to conduct a privacy compliance audit for Glow Naturals. You must identify at least five key gaps in their data processing practices, focusing on areas such as cons…
- GDPR
- Data Protection
- Compliance Audit
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Repositioning a D2C Cosmetics Brand for Gen Z
Your task is to develop a leadership communication plan for the founder to reposition the brand. This includes a revised brand story, a key message framework for social media an…
- Storytelling
- Brand Positioning
- Audience Analysis
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Simulated Annealing for Shift Scheduling at a Hospital
You receive 6 months of anonymized shift demand data, the nurse roster (skills, certifications, contracted hours), and the labor-law hard constraints. Encode the schedule as a 7…
- Simulated Annealing
- Metaheuristics
- Constraint Handling
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