Skills

Ship AI Products in Production

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Ship a real AI-powered product to production and keep it live with real users — proof is usage data and a technical post-mortem, not a tutorial.

Write Clearly Enough to Persuade

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Audit your own writing for clarity and concision, then produce portfolio pieces strong enough for an experienced editor to critique live.

First App Shipped (Curriculum Complete + Public Repo)

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Complete a free coding curriculum and ship one self-contained program that solves a real problem and runs on someone else's machine — not a certificate.

Speak in Public Until It Feels Natural

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Deliver talks to real audiences — not rehearsals — until it stops feeling rehearsed, closing with a talk reviewed live by a professional speaking coach.

Ship a Design Portfolio Worth Showing

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Design and ship a real product feature through multiple iterations, then defend the decisions to an experienced designer who can challenge you live.

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.

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.

Become Researcher

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Apply research methods to real-world decisions: user research, market analysis, competitive intelligence, and synthesis. Proof is a published finding that changed a product decision or business direction — not an academic paper.

Become Data Analyst

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Take a real 10,000+ row dataset from raw to a documented, visualised answer — proof is the analysis and what it honestly cannot conclude.

Ship a Full Stack App From Scratch

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Build and deploy a working full-stack app — real auth, real database, a public URL — that solves an actual problem, not a tutorial clone.

Ship a Mobile App to a Real App Store

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Ship a working mobile app to a real app store listing, built to use at least one real device capability beyond the screen.

Run Production Infrastructure Reliably

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Automate a real, currently-manual deployment or infrastructure task into a CI/CD pipeline or infrastructure-as-code that runs without human intervention.

Become UX Researcher

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Run a real usability study with think-aloud participants on a live product, then produce a severity-ranked findings report with specific recommendations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.