AI Fluency Academy
DESIGN BRIEF R2 · DELIVERABLE 03
THE FOUNDATIONS CAPSTONE

The moment the five moves come together.

A culminating exercise that tests fluency across the whole method against a published rubric. Scored by the platform; awarded as nothing. Its honest design is what teaches a learner why the independent Institute exam is harder, and why its credential means something.

SCREENS  5
RUBRIC  Published, seen first
SCORE  Self-assessed · none awarded
TEACHES  Why the exam is harder
THE WHOLE POINT OF THE CAPSTONE

Same shape, different rules.

Academy Capstone
PRACTICE AGAINST PUBLISHED CRITERIA
✓The learner sees the rubric before they begin.
✓A fluent answer is revealed afterward.
✓The learner scores themselves. No grade is awarded.
✓The goal is comprehension, not a credential.
Institute Exam
ASSESSMENT AGAINST HIDDEN CRITERIA
→The rubric blueprint is public; specific test cases are hidden.
→No fluent answer is shown. You don't see what you missed.
→Scored independently. You do not grade yourself.
→A pass issues a verifiable credential. You can fail.
Designed under the separate Institute brief. Shown here only for contrast.

The contrast itself is the teaching. By practicing in the open, the learner understands exactly what the closed exam will demand of them.

foundations / capstone
THE FOUNDATIONS CAPSTONE
One problem. All five moves.
This is practice, not certification. The Applied AI Institute issues credentials. We help you get ready.
📖 The rubric you'll be measured againstView →
Begin the Capstone
1

Capstone introduction

The opening screen explains what the Capstone is, and what it is not, in plain words: "This is practice, not certification. The Applied AI Institute issues credentials. We help you get ready." Crucially, the rubric is linked and fully viewable before the learner begins. Nothing is hidden; that openness is the lesson.

Firewall in play: the Institute is named explicitly and styled in indigo wherever it appears. Two organizations, never one.
BEGINS WITH
capstone / scenario
THE BRIEF
The quarterly report nobody can read
Your team's operations report runs forty pages. Leadership wants a one-page brief they can act on in a Monday meeting, accurate, scannable, and honest about what's uncertain.
Use the full method to direct an AI tool to produce it, and to be sure the result is trustworthy.
2

The scenario

A piece of teaching

A realistic business problem presented as a brief, long enough to require all five moves, small enough to finish in one sitting. It is written for editorial weight: a piece of teaching, not a form to fill out. The scenario reads like the kind of messy, real task fluency is actually for.

SCOPED FOR
All five moves, one sitting. Realistic, not toy.
VOICE
Editorial, in the teacher's register, never a curt prompt.
3

The working surface

PRODUCTION FIDELITY

Where the learner does the work. The five moves are visible as a structural scaffold they fill in, draft the prompt, define constraints, generate, verify the output, and write an operationalization plan. The rubric stays open in a rail, because here nothing is hidden.

foundations / capstone / work
autosaving
1Briefstate the objective
2Constrainformat, limits, rules
3Generateproduce & paste the result
4Verify
5Operationalize
Submit the Capstone
📖THE RUBRIC · OPEN THE WHOLE TIME
A clear brief
The objective is stated so a stranger could act on it.
Real constraints
Format, length, and exclusions are named, not implied.
A verification step
The output is checked against the source, not trusted blindly.
A repeatable plan
The approach could be reused next quarter.
Nothing here is a secret. The exam works differently.
ON SUBMIT
4

The reveal

Teaching continues

After submission, the learner sees a fluent practitioner's answer side by side with their own, annotated. "Here the practitioner specified the format up front. Here they added a verification step you can adopt." The reveal is where the most learning happens, so it is designed as teaching, not as a score report.

YOUR ANSWER
"Summarize the ops report into one page for leadership. Keep the important parts and flag anything uncertain…"
○ No explicit format named
○ No verification step
A FLUENT PRACTITIONER
"Produce a one-page brief: a 3-sentence summary, 5 key findings as bullets, and a short 'what we're unsure about' list. Then check each figure against the source table and flag mismatches…"
✓ Specified the format up front.
✓ Added a verification step you can adopt.
CLOSES WITH
capstone / close
RATE YOUR OWN WORK
A clear brief
A verification step
You have completed Foundations.
5

Self-assessment & close

After the reveal, a short reflective form: the learner rates their own work against the published criteria, and that reflection is saved and surfaced in the dashboard. Then the honest closing screen: "You have completed Foundations." An optional invitation to consider the independent Institute exam follows, framed without pressure. No score is awarded by the platform.

Awarded as nothing. The honesty is the point: comprehension is its own reward, and the real credential lives at the Institute.
DECISION FIs the Capstone required to "complete Foundations"?

The Capstone is the culminating moment, but it awards nothing. Does finishing the six modules alone count as completion, or must the learner attempt the Capstone too?

F1
Capstone completes it
"Completed Foundations" means modules + an attempted Capstone. Makes the close meaningful.
F2
Modules complete; Capstone optional
Six modules = done. Capstone is an encouraged-but-skippable finale.
F3✓ CHOSEN
Capstone + self-assessment required
Must attempt and self-rate to close. Most deliberate; slightly more friction.
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