Welcome

This course does not bring a case to read: it brings a job to do, and it is yours. Before opening the first lesson, think of two or three tasks in your role that repeat every week or every month and whose result you would know how to check. In the first block you will choose one, measure how you do it today and ask what data you can use. Keep your AI assistant and your logbook at hand: at the end you will present what you have done, including a case where it did not work, and say what you answer for.

What you will find

• Block 1. Framing: what job, what for and with what split. Choosing a job you already do, that repeats and that can be checked; measuring how long you take and how often you fail today, before changing anything; and deciding what the assistant may see and what it may touch. Deliverable of the week: the project sheet, with its baseline and its permissions.
• Block 2. Doing: requesting, iterating and keeping a record. A project is several chained requests: how they are ordered and how each one is checked before moving on to the next, what exits there are when the assistant gets stuck, and what is noted down about each result and each failure so that you can repeat and explain it. Deliverable of the week: the project logbook.
• Block 3. Verifying: the exam of your own project. Ten cases from your work as an exam, chosen and solved before looking; a review done by another person with your record in hand; and a risk table with who would notice each failure and what control you put on it. Deliverable of the week: the verification record and the risk sheet.
• Block 4. Presenting and signing. Ten minutes to tell the problem, what the machine does now, what you still do, the evidence against the baseline and the limits, with one failure shown. And the signature: what you checked, what you answer for and what you would delegate again. Deliverable of the week: the presentation and the signed statement.

How you will work

Each lesson opens with a short introduction and, below it, several pills: short pieces that explain a single idea and end with a case or something to do. Read them in order the first time; afterwards you can go back to the one you need.

Where you see an interactive practice, do it before reading on: it is there for you to decide, calculate or classify, and the explanation comes afterwards. It does not save what you write, so copy whatever you want to keep.

Each block ends with an exam of six questions. All the answers come with a comment, including the wrong ones: failing and reading why is part of the method.

At The Singular Academy you learn by solving real cases. If at the end of a lesson you do not know what you would do differently tomorrow, go back over it.