You leave with work, not a certificate of attendance.

Why a project, and not just exams

The difference between knowing a tool and having used it under pressure.

Every hiring manager we work with says the same thing: they can tell within five minutes whether a candidate has actually done the work. Not whether they know the vocabulary — whether they have made the decisions, hit the constraints and dealt with data that arrived broken.

So the project is not an assignment at the end. It is chosen in the first fortnight and carried through every module, which means each new technique gets applied to something you already care about rather than to a toy dataset.

By graduation you have a piece of work, the reasoning behind it, and a mentor’s written review of both. That combination is what gets you through a technical interview or a client pitch.

Marketing & growth

A live campaign with real budget: audience, creative, bidding and a weekly review where you defend the return. You finish with tracked CAC, a creative testing log and a one-page growth report.

Analytics & BI

A business question from a real dataset — why margin fell, which cohort churns — answered end to end in SQL and a published dashboard, plus a memo written for a non-technical manager.

Data science & ML

A model trained, evaluated and deployed, with drift monitoring and a business memo explaining what decision it improves and by how much.

AI & agentic development

A working agent or LLM application with an evaluation suite, cost controls and guardrails, running on real inputs rather than demo prompts.

Cloud & DevOps

A multi-service architecture deployed with infrastructure as code and a CI/CD pipeline, with a written cost and security review and architecture decision records.

Entrepreneurship & leadership

Your own venture: a launched store, a costed catalogue, or an investor-ready deck, data room and hiring plan reviewed against real diligence standards.

In the first two weeks you and the mentor agree the brief, the success measure and the constraints. Ambition is calibrated to the time you actually have.

Each module adds to it. You are never doing a module in the abstract and a project separately at the end.

A dedicated review session with written feedback: what holds up, what does not, what an interviewer will attack.

You leave with the artefact, the write-up and the mentor’s review, in a form you can send to an employer or a client.