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The forward-deployed engineering discipline doesn't exist as a hiring pipeline anywhere else. So we built one.

Ten weeks, cohort-based, hybrid. Shared foundations for every trainee, then a split into one of two tracks — because verifying one decision and getting anything live at all are different jobs, staffed differently.

10 wks

4 weeks foundations, 2–4 weeks track electives, 2–3 week capstone.

15–25

Trainees per cohort — small enough for every capstone to get a real review.

2 tracks

Sponsored (bonded, tuition-free) or self-funded, open enrollment.

Foundations — required

Four modules. The same discipline whether the job is verification or adoption.

01 · Causal Reasoning

DAGs, confounders, Simpson's paradox, structural causal models — why pattern-matching in language isn't the same as establishing causality in operational data.

1 wk

02 · Verification Architecture

Designing a WHY-traversal tree, writing hard gates (temporal ordering, magnitude consistency, sample-size floors), the three-tier escalation model.

1 wk

03 · Calibration & Confidence

What calibration actually means, Brier scores and reliability diagrams, translating a statistical interval into a label a non-technical approver can act on.

1 wk

04 · Audit & Governance

Immutable decision-log schemas, named-approver workflows, what a model risk committee or regulator actually asks to see.

1 wk

Choose a track after week 4

Two tracks. Two different engagement types on the other side.

Track A — Decision Verification

Staffs verification engagements

Deepens the foundations: production-grade traversal trees, structural causal models for a named vertical, and the audit schema a real risk committee will accept. Ends with a vertical elective.

Track B — AI Adoption & Modernisation

Staffs adoption engagements

Legacy-system reverse engineering — reading undocumented code and inferring the business rules inside it — agentic workflow architecture, and the change-management reality of getting anything new adopted inside a risk-averse org.

Track B exists because most of what blocks enterprise AI adoption isn't a decision-verification problem. Every Track B placement doubles as market research: the hard problems its FDEs hit are the pipeline for new Vertical Verification Packs.

Track A electives

Same verification discipline, different failure patterns.

Financial Services

Available now

NBFC and bank origination pipelines, credit decisioning, collections. Model risk committee expectations, RBI and SOX context.

2 weeks

Commerce & Growth

Available now · with Niti

Marketing spend allocation, attribution reconciliation, margin-aware decisioning — taught jointly with Niti's team, using its own template library as case material.

2 weeks

Claims & Insurance

Roadmap

Prior-auth exceptions, claims triage, fraud-adjacent decisioning under regulatory review.

2 weeks

Trading & Execution

Roadmap

Trade sign-off, position-limit exceptions, execution-quality verification.

2 weeks

Track B electives

Same FDE discipline, aimed at whatever's actually blocking adoption.

Legacy Modernisation

Available now

Reverse-engineering undocumented systems — mainframe, monolith, decades of institutional logic — into a spec an agent can safely act on.

2 weeks

Agentic Workflow Architecture

Available now

Designing and shipping bespoke agent-driven workflows outside the verification frame — the general build-it-and-run-it job.

2 weeks

Regulated Change Management

Roadmap

Getting a genuinely new system adopted inside a compliance-heavy org — the non-technical half of why AI pilots stall.

2 weeks

Capstone

A real, anonymised client problem. Defended to a panel that includes a working engineer.

The brief.

Track A trainees write a constraint framework, causal model spec, calibration approach and audit schema for a real decision problem. Track B trainees get a real adoption blocker and write the modernisation plan.

The review.

Defended live, the same way an engagement gets scoped internally — not a slide deck, a working spec.

The bar.

Top performers are fast-tracked directly into a live engagement in week 11.

Sponsored

12–18 month bond staffing verification or adoption engagements

₹0 tuition

Self-funded

None — certificate, capstone portfolio, alumni job board

₹1.5L one-time

Sponsored seats are limited per cohort and prioritised for partner-college applicants. Self-funded seats are open to anyone who clears the technical screen. First two cohorts run in partnership with two Indian engineering colleges — named once the first cohort is confirmed.

Apply

Apply as a trainee, or tell us which track you'd sponsor.

Say which track you're interested in — Decision Verification or AI Adoption — and whether you're applying sponsored or self-funded.