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How it works

Five stages. About three hours a week.

What actually happens between creating an account and holding a certificate — every stage, what it costs you in time, and what is expected of you.

The whole journey

Sign-up to certificate

Five steps. The first three take one evening between them; the rest is the weekly rhythm.

01

Create an account

Email or Google, under a minute. Nothing is charged and nothing is locked behind a sales call.

02

Set your stage

School, undergraduate, postgraduate or professional — plus the tracks you care about. This decides which cases you see.

03

Take the baseline

A short diagnostic across reasoning, structure and domain. It seeds your Profile Score and your first learning path.

04

Work a module

Concept, case, discussion, submission. About three hours across a week, one of them scheduled.

05

Earn the record

Scores, submissions and certificates land on your profile — verifiable by anyone you send the link to.

Inside a module

What a week actually looks like

Every module on the platform runs these five stages in this order. Nothing ships without all five.

Stage one — the concept

Twenty minutes of tightly written material covering exactly what the case will assume and nothing else. Read it or skip it; the case does not care, but it will expose you if you skipped it.

Written, not filmed — skimmable and searchable
Ends with the three things the case will lean on
Stays available afterwards under Study Resources
Time budget

≈20 minutes. Self-paced, and downloadable as a PDF once you own the course.

Stage two — the case

A real situation with the constraints and numbers the original decision-maker had. You read it, then you commit to a position in writing. The outcome stays locked until you do.

No answer key — you are scored on reasoning
Your position is timestamped before the outcome unlocks
You can revise afterwards, and the revision is scored too
Time budget

≈45–60 minutes. Self-paced, but best done in one sitting.

Stage three — the discussion

A scheduled, moderated room with peers who read the same brief. Sixty minutes, a facilitator, and a rubric that rewards evidence and revision over volume.

Fixed slots — you pick one when you start the module
Six to eight seats, deliberately small
Scored on clarity, evidence, listening and revision
Time budget

60 minutes at a fixed time. The one part of a module that is not self-paced.

Stage four — the submission

Something you build and hand in: a memo, a model, a design, a plan. Marked against a rubric published before you start, with feedback that names the gap rather than just the grade.

Rubric visible from the first minute of the module
Marked within five working days
Kept on your profile as evidence
Time budget

≈45 minutes. Deadline is one week from the discussion.

Stage five — the record

The module closes and everything it produced is banked: skill scores move, the submission is archived on your profile, and a completed track issues a verifiable certificate.

Profile Score recalculated against the new evidence
Certificate verifiable with no account required
Next module recommended from where you actually lost points
What lands

Skill deltas, the marked submission, the discussion score, and — at the end of a track — a certificate with its own verification URL.

Your path

The same method, four stages

What changes as you move up is the cases, the discussion topics and the stakes — never the method itself.

Class 8–12

School

Start with cases that make you decide rather than memorise, and your first moderated discussions.

Degree years

Undergraduate

Add business, product and data thinking on top of whatever your degree already covers.

Placement season

Postgraduate

Negotiation, strategy and discussion practice, scored the way interview panels score it.

On the job

Professional

Short courses and verifiable certificates that keep your profile moving as your role changes.

Around the module

What keeps you going

Three things that exist purely to make week seven as likely as week one.

A path, not a catalogue

Modules are sequenced for you from the diagnostic and re-sequenced as your scores move. You can always override it.

Streaks and standing

XP, levels, badges and leaderboards exist to hold a habit together in the weeks where motivation does not.

People at your stage

Groups, discussions and mentors, filtered to people working the same tracks — so the room is useful, not just populated.

Practicalities

The questions about logistics

Scheduling, marking, pace and pauses.

For a module to count in full, yes — the discussion is a graded component. You choose your slot when you start the module, and there are several a week per case. If you miss one you can rebook; nothing is lost except time.
Every mark cites the rubric line it came from, and you can request a second read within seven days. A different assessor re-marks it blind. If the two disagree materially, the higher mark stands.
Yes. Nothing gates the case behind it. People with domain experience usually skim it and go straight to the brief.
Most tracks are eight to twelve modules, so roughly a term at one module a week. You can go faster; the only hard constraint is discussion scheduling.
Nothing is lost. Your progress, submissions and scores stay exactly where they were, and the path re-sequences around the gap when you come back.
Roughly three hours a week

The first module
costs you nothing.

Create an account, take the diagnostic, and see whether the rhythm fits your week.