Research you can defend

Work through conflicting sources and missing evidence. Finish with a recommendation someone else can trace and challenge.

$29 once · 3 project lessons · About 90 minutes · At your pace

What you’ll make

An evidence ledger, a comparison, and a decision memo with explicit limits.

Frame an answerable decision
Resolve conflicting evidence
Make the recommendation defensible

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Start with the brief.

Use the fictional source material. The full lab continues the same project through the next two lessons.

Lesson 01 / 01

Learn by doing

Frame a decision that evidence can answer

Start with a real decision.

The brief · fictional workplace example

Nadia manages a fictional 18-person service team. She must recommend a rota tool. Budget is $150 monthly in total; export is mandatory; staff data must stay in approved systems. A colleague sends a list of “top AI tools.” The decision is due Friday.

The starting point

“Rank these tools from best to worst.”

Pause. What would you do?

A comparison site calls a supplier “enterprise-ready.” What does that establish?

That the data owner has approved it.That it satisfies every required control.Only that the comparison site made that claim; the required controls still need evidence.

Try a choice first. A wrong answer is useful practice.

Make the complete project.

Your one-time $29 purchase includes all three lessons, worked examples, a downloadable project workbook, and a self-review rubric. You can return through My learning. It does not include personal feedback or certification.

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