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Capstone: AI Solution Designer

Bring the whole path together on a real problem. Frame it with a measured baseline, choose the simplest approach that works, design the architecture and data, test the riskiest part, model the cost and value, review the risks, plan the pilot and operations, and make the case honestly. You finish with a complete AI solution design.

7 lessons · 19 hr · Free

You will learn to

  • ▸Turn a vague wish into a problem statement with a measured baseline and success measures
  • ▸Choose between a rule, classic machine learning, a model call, RAG, a workflow and an agent, and justify the choice
  • ▸Design an architecture, a latency budget and a data-readiness plan, and record the decisions
  • ▸Build a cost and value model with a sensitivity analysis and design a pilot with stop criteria
  • ▸Plan a staged release, an operating model, monitoring and a runbook
  • ▸Write a design document and a one-page brief, and defend them under hard questions

Before you start

  • ·Best taken after the Stage 1 and Stage 2 courses on this path, and at least one Stage 3 course
  • ·A real problem to work on, from your own work or a community you can interview. Use non-confidential details only
  • ·Everything runs locally. Calls to the Claude API are optional for your spike

Syllabus

  1. 01Framing the problemProblem statements, baselines, scoring ideas and defining success.1 hr 30 min
  2. 02Choosing an approachThe ladder from rules to agents, build versus buy and choosing a model.1 hr 30 min
  3. 03Architecture and dataFour reference designs, the components, latency budgets and data readiness.1 hr 30 min
  4. 04Costs, return and planningA cost and value model, sensitivity analysis and pilot design.1 hr 30 min
  5. 05From pilot to productionStaged release, the operating model, keeping quality and adoption.1 hr 30 min
  6. 06Communicating and leadingDesign docs, one-page briefs, honest demos and the mental models to keep.1 hr 30 min
  7. 07Capstone project: your AI solution designDesign a complete AI solution for a real problem and present it.10 hr