Strands
Fifteen strands, each with its own ladder of six levels.
All fifteen strands
| No. | Strand | Stream | In one line | Currency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Foundations and digital self-defence | Fluent | Know what AI is, use it, and stay safe from what it enables. | Standard |
| 2 | Everyday productivity | Fluent | Hours back every week, with work that is visibly better. | Standard |
| 3 | Tool landscape and model choice | Fluent | Pick the right model and app for the job, and stay free to switch. | Fast |
| 4 | Token and cost economics | Fluent | Get the outcome at a tenth of the cost, and prove it. | Fast |
| 5 | Local and private AI | Build | Your models, your machines, your data. Nothing leaves. | Fast |
| 6 | Coding with AI | Build | From first app in an hour to systems that stay up. | Fast |
| 7 | Knowledge, memory and reuse | Build | Never solve the same problem twice. | Standard |
| 8 | Agents and multi-agent systems | Systems | Delegate to software that acts, and keep it on a leash. | Fast |
| 9 | Models: tuning, training, serving | Systems | Shape the model itself when prompting is not enough. | Fast |
| 10 | Data, privacy, regulation, safeguards | Trust | Use AI without leaking, breaking the law or getting played. | Fast |
| 11 | Business, income, the one-person company | Venture | Build an income with agents as your staff. | Standard |
| 12 | Open source | Venture | Stand on, and add to, the commons. | Standard |
| 13 | Leadership and governance | Trust | Lead the adoption, not the hype. | Standard |
| 14 | Sector tracks (applied capstones) | Applied and faculty | Prove it in your own sector, with your own work. | Standard |
| 15 | Faculty and institute standards | Applied and faculty | Teach it well, assess it fairly, keep it honest. | Standard |
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