Portfolios
Stages
College Applications
Build the portfolio colleges and universities ask for.
Group challenges, every week. Team up, do real work, climb the league.
What you get
- 1. Team up and climb — Your team ranks in a weekly league.
- 2. Get checked sooner — Your proof moves up the line.
- 3. A Trophy Case to show — One link with all your checked work.
How it works
- 1. Pick a challenge. Team up with 2 friends.
- 2. Do the work. Upload your proof.
- 3. Three real people check it. Your team climbs.
$12/month. Cancel anytime.
- Start or join a team
- Weekly league
- Enter Proof-of-Work
- Related Program: Varsity High School Program
- Related Program: Varsity Language Program
Paths
Zero to Founder
From idea to $10,000 in monthly recurring revenue. Verified at every outcome.
Language Fluency Path
From zero to near-native fluency. Every milestone proven with real humans, not app streaks.
Find and Use Your Public Voice
Five ways to build a public voice. Pick the ones that fit your goals — each stands alone and compounds with the others.
Community Leadership
Build proof of how you've helped others. The credential that no degree can replicate.
Academic Achievement Path
From first research paper to PhD. Real academic credentials at every outcome.
Deep Reading & Knowledge Path
Build an autodidact's reading habit. From 12 books a year to a self-designed MBA.
Civic Impact
Build verifiable proof of how you made your community or world better.
Applied Innovation Lab
Discover. Build. Deepen. Scale.
High-School Research Publication
Ask a real question, run the study, and submit it for peer review.
Outcomes
Build Community
4 milestones · 12 weeks
Launch a real community space and grow it past the point where sign-ups alone would count — proof is 10 members still actively participating three weeks in.
Coordinate Volunteers
4 milestones · 12 weeks
Recruit and coordinate 5+ unpaid volunteers on a real initiative to completion — no financial incentive, no authority to compel attendance.
Run Event
4 milestones · 12 weeks
Plan and run a real community event with named volunteers who confirmed their roles in advance — nobody involved can be ordered to help.
Improve Volunteer Retention
4 milestones · 12 weeks
Establish an honest baseline of who returns for a second volunteer initiative and why others don't, then show the measurable change in return rate.
Improve Campaign Delivery
4 milestones · 12 weeks
Deliver a volunteer-led advocacy, civic, or community campaign — not a commercial marketing campaign. Proof requires a non-commercial campaign context, volunteer team, and a community impact metric (not revenue or conversion KPI).
Get Your First 10 Paying Customers
3 milestones · 8 weeks
Sign 10 real customers who pay for your product or service.
Validate a Business Idea
3 milestones · 6 weeks
Run experiments to confirm real demand before building.
Make Your First Hire
3 milestones · 10 weeks
Define the role, recruit, and onboard your first employee.
Grow Your Product to 1,000 Users
4 milestones · 16 weeks
Scale from 25 strangers to 1,000 core-action completions — entirely through distribution, not feature-building. Every milestone requires measuring completions of the core action, not signups or page views.
Get Into an Accelerator
3 milestones · 12 weeks
Get accepted into YC, Techstars, or a top-tier accelerator program.
Find Product-Market Fit
3 milestones · 20 weeks
Reach a 40%+ 'very disappointed' score on Sean Ellis test with real users.
Build and Exit
3 milestones · 104 weeks
Build a product to a point of acquisition and complete a successful exit.
Launch Your First Product Publicly
5 milestones · 8 weeks
Ship your product to strangers — people who find it without being personally invited — define a specific success metric before building, and publish a public retrospective with real numbers.
Write and Publish a Research Paper
3 milestones · 24 weeks
Conduct original research and publish a paper in a peer-reviewed journal or conference.
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, not just the calculations.
Reach French A1
4 milestones · 8 weeks
Introduce yourself, handle simple exchanges, and understand slow clear speech in French. Unlike app-based learning, every milestone requires proof of real human communication — not a score on an app.
Write a Research Proposal (High School)
0 milestones · 5 weeks
Pick an answerable question, review 8+ real sources, and write a dated plan with hypothesis, method, analysis and ethics.
Run an Original Study (High School)
0 milestones · 8 weeks
Run your planned study, keep an honest log, analyse it with the planned test, and defend the results and their limits.
Submit Research for Peer Review (High School)
0 milestones · 6 weeks
Submit your paper to a real peer-reviewed student journal or judged science fair and answer the reviewers point by point. Acceptance is not required.
Master Technical Writing (5 Published Pieces)
0 milestones · 12 weeks
Research, write, and publish 5 technical articles or documentation pieces that get real readership and positive feedback.
Deliver 10 Public Talks (Any Venue)
0 milestones · 24 weeks
Deliver 10 prepared talks at meetups, conferences, or public events — recordings or attendance sheets as proof.
Get First Paid Writing Client
0 milestones · 6 weeks
Land and deliver a paid writing engagement — content, copywriting, or ghostwriting — with invoice paid.
Build a Writing Habit (365 Consecutive Days)
0 milestones · 52 weeks
Write and publish at least 200 words every day for 365 consecutive days — public log or newsletter as proof.
Publish First Short Story
0 milestones · 10 weeks
Write and publish a short story in a literary magazine, anthology, or reputable online publication.