Your own problem
Bring a problem you care about — from your work, your industry or your community. You validate it in week 2 and build it through week 20.
CAPSTONEWeeks 1–20
Capstone project
A real product, built for real people. Your capstone starts in week 1 and is defended in week 20 — it's the product you build throughout the program, not a separate exercise.
Two ways in
A curated brief
Choose one of our project briefs. Each comes with a problem context, suggested users to interview and a starter architecture — but you still own every decision.
Curated briefs
Each brief comes with a problem context, users to interview and a starter architecture. These are project directions, not graduates' finished products.
AI Knowledge Assistant
Answers grounded in a team's own documents, with citations and access control.
AI Customer Support SaaS
Triage, draft and route support conversations, with humans approving replies.
AI Document Processing
Extract structured data from invoices, contracts or forms — and flag what it isn't sure about.
AI-Powered CRM
A lightweight CRM that summarises interactions and suggests next steps.
AI Research Platform
Collect, compare and synthesise sources around a research question.
Business Process Automation
Replace a manual, multi-step back-office process with a reliable workflow.
Intelligent Booking System
Scheduling that handles rescheduling, reminders and no-shows gracefully.
What you hand in
Thirteen deliverables that show why the product exists, how well it's built, and that you understand it.
Why
- Problem statement
- User research
- Value proposition
What
- Product requirements
- Architecture
- Working application
- AI integration — where it creates value
How well
- Tests
- Security considerations
- Deployment
Show
- Documentation
- Product demonstration
- Final presentation
One rule about AI
AI goes in only where it creates value. You'll never be asked to bolt a chatbot onto a product that doesn't need one. In week 9 you write an AI value case — and a well-argued “no” passes.
Who owns the project
The code, product and idea are yours. For a company project, confidentiality and publication are agreed in the agreement.
How the capstone is assessed →Ready for your own project?
Choose a program and a start date — first a short call, then the agreement.