Capstone briefs
You don't finish with a certificate. You finish with a project you can defend.
Ten challenges, each with its own difficulty. Choose one — or bring your own problem — and work it through the whole system. The brief, the deliverables and the marking change with your track.
Capstone briefs
Ten real product challenges. Your brief depends on your track.
Briefed as
The brief
A trust has funded a clinical AI copilot and expects it live in two quarters. Decide what actually ships, how quality is proven, and how clinical governance signs it off without stalling the work.
What you hand in
- + Business case with benefits model
- + Delivery plan with scope cuts and rationale
- + AI governance, evaluation and safety plan
- + Rollout, training and adoption plan
Milestones
Week 4
Problem behind the plan, with sponsor alignment
Week 8
Business case, benefits model and cost view
Week 12
Governance, evaluation and risk plan for AI work
Week 16
Rollout, adoption plan and benefits tracking
How it is marked
Evidence quality
The problem and the benefit are evidenced, not asserted.
Decision quality
Scope cuts are justified and defensible to a sponsor.
Risk and governance
Risks are named, owned and controlled proportionately.
Commercial reasoning
Cost, benefit and ROI are credible and traceable.
Communication
A sponsor could approve or reject on what you wrote.