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Department

Business & Management

Build businesses, plans and teams that real people check.

Programs

Finish every path in a Program, then pass a blind review of your final project to earn Honors.

How standing works

Permanent and earned only from verified work. Never bought, applied for or handed out. Separate from the weekly team league.

  1. Member

    Joined any path in this Department.

  2. Varsity Letter

    5 verified outcomes here, each checked by 3 different people.

  3. Honors

    Complete a Program, then pass a blind review of its final project by Faculty you didn't choose.

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Faculty

People who check others' work in this Department.

No Faculty in this Department yet. Seats fill as people verify work here.

IntermediateFREE

Zero to Founder

From idea to $10,000 in monthly recurring revenue. Verified at every outcome.

Entrepreneur
6 required + 4 opt52w
AdvancedFREE

Engineering Leadership

From individual contributor to engineering leader. Verified at each level.

Teams
3 required + 4 opt52w
IntermediateFREE

Earn a Professional Certification That Counts

Industry certifications with verified proof at every outcome. Free resources only.

SkillsLearning
3 required + 13 opt24w
IntermediateFREE

Personal Finance Mastery

From zero financial literacy to professional analyst. Every milestone verified with real statements and exam results — not self-assessment.

Skills
7 required + 5 opt104w
IntermediateFREE

Become a Product Manager

From first user interview to shipped product. Every milestone proven with a public artefact — not a JIRA ticket.

Teams
1 required + 6 opt52w
IntermediateFREE

People Manager Toolkit

The operating system for people managers. Pick the modules that match where your team is today.

Teams
0 required + 12 opt48w
AdvancedFREE

Org Operations & Process

For the people who make organisations actually run. Documented systems over heroic effort.

Teams
0 required + 7 opt36w
BeginnerFREE

From Idea to First Launch

The pre-revenue founder playbook. Validate, build, and ship to strangers — before you worry about revenue.

Entrepreneur
2 required + 5 opt24w
AdvancedFREE

Scale — $10K to $1M ARR

From early traction to a real business. Two revenue milestones required; the scaling strategy is yours to choose.

Entrepreneur
2 required + 8 opt104w
IntermediateFREE

Go-to-Market Playbook

Five GTM capabilities that compound. Pick the ones your business needs now — each stands alone.

Entrepreneur
0 required + 6 opt36w
IntermediateFREE

Business Model Mastery

Eight business models, each with a different proof standard. Build the one that fits your market — then prove you built it.

Entrepreneur
0 required + 7 opt52w
BeginnerGrades 6-12FREE

Money Basics

For grades 6–12: earn it, track it, grow it

Skills
0 required + 5 opt20w
AdvancedUndergraduateFREE

Prove Your Business Strategy Chops

Analyse a real company. Defend your recommendation to people who know the industry.

Skills
2 required + 3 opt32w
AdvancedUndergraduateFREE

Prove Your Operations Management Chops

Map a real operation. Find what breaks under pressure. Redesign it.

Skills
0 required + 5 opt28w
AdvancedUndergraduateFREE

Prove Your Marketing Management Chops

Talk to real customers. Audit a real brand. Design a campaign grounded in evidence.

Skills
1 required + 4 opt30w
AdvancedUndergraduateFREE

Prove Your Corporate Finance Chops

Build a real financial model. Value a real company. Defend your assumptions.

Skills
2 required + 4 opt36w
AdvancedUndergraduateFREE

Human Resources Management

Design the systems that make teams work — reviewed by practitioners who use them.

Skills
0 required + 5 opt32w
AdvancedUndergraduateFREE

International Business

Analyse a real market entry decision with real data — then defend it.

Skills
0 required + 4 opt30w
ExpertPostgraduateFREE

MBA Core Competencies

Strategy, finance, operations, and people — applied to a real organisation.

Skills
0 required + 5 opt52w
AdvancedFREE

Robotics & Embedded AI

Build a robot that senses, thinks on-device and acts on its own.

Skills
3 required + 3 opt24w
ExpertFREE

Quant Modeling

Forecast, backtest and manage risk — tested on data the model never saw.

Skills
2 required + 4 opt20w
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Become Product Manager

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Write and ship a real product spec with measurable success criteria, then defend the prioritisation and metrics decisions in a live PM review.

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Become Sales Professional

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Build and work a real sales pipeline to a closed deal — documented stages, discovery calls, and a close reason — not a simulated exercise.

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Become Leader

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Run a structured leadership self-assessment against real situations where you fell short, then close the gap under review from someone who has led teams.

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Become Content Strategist

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Audit a real content ecosystem against criteria you define in advance, then execute the keep/update/remove decisions and show the measurable result.

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Become Marketing Specialist

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Run a real marketing campaign with a numeric goal set before launch, then report the actual result against that target — not a vanity metric after the fact.

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Become Financial Analyst

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Build a fully integrated three-statement financial model for a real company, with a documented forecast and named assumptions a reviewer can challenge.

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Become Negotiator

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Take a real, high-stakes negotiation from a documented BATNA and target outcome through to a recorded result — what you conceded, what you gained.

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Map and Change Complex Systems

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Map the causal structure of a real system you interact with — its loops, delays, and stocks — and use that map to explain and change its actual behaviour.

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Solve Hard Problems Systematically

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Log how you actually solve hard problems for two weeks, diagnose your dominant failure pattern, then prove you've changed it under a live case-study review.

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Make Better Decisions Under Pressure

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Reconstruct five real decisions that went worse than expected, name your dominant process failure, then prove you've corrected it against new live cases.

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Run Interviews That Hire the Right Person

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Rate your last five real interviews against question quality, listening depth, and bias — then prove the specific weakness is fixed under observation.

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Plan and Ship Projects on Time

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Reconstruct three real projects — plan versus what actually happened — diagnose the planning failure behind each gap, then prove it's fixed on a live project.

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Communicate Technical Work to Any Audience

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Audit your own technical writing for audience fit and actionability, then prove the fix by explaining real technical work live to a non-technical audience.

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Operate at the Edge of Your Capacity

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Log every interruption and dropped ball for a week to find where your operating system actually breaks down, then rebuild it and prove it holds under real load.

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Solve Problems Nobody Else Noticed

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Collect real evidence about a problem nobody else has framed correctly, separate fact from assumption, then ship a tested solution built on what you found.

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Grow Startup

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Document a real business's starting revenue or user count and attribution method, then grow it over 6 months with results attributable to real channels.

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Lead Across Functions Without Authority

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Diagnose the structural cause of a real cross-team collaboration failure, fix it, and measure the before/after change in how often it recurs.

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Build a High-Signal Team Communication Culture

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Name the specific, evidenced communication failures on a real team, fix the structural gap behind them, and measure the change.

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Build a Hiring System That Works

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Audit a real hiring process against time-to-hire, offer-acceptance, and retention data, then fix the specific failure modes and show the improved numbers.

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Run Tight, Predictable Sprints

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Build a real multi-sprint baseline for completion rate and cycle time, diagnose the specific root cause of missed commitments, then prove the fix in the data.

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Manage Stakeholders at Every Level

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Take a real, live stakeholder misalignment — diagnose whether it's an information, priority, or constraint gap — and resolve it to a documented outcome.

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Improve Team Accountability

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Measure what a real team actually commits to versus completes, diagnose the specific accountability failure pattern, then show the corrected completion rate.

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Improve Knowledge Sharing

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Diagnose the dominant knowledge gap costing a real team time, then build and prove adoption of an actual knowledge system — not a wiki nobody opens.

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Improve Decision Cadence

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Diagnose which decision-cadence failure is slowing a real team down, fix it with a structural change, then show decisions moving faster with the same rigor.

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