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Capstone: Build and Document Your AI Operating System

This module is not content to consume. It's a project to complete.

AI Foundations · Beginner · 10 min read · 3 quiz questions

By Ronan Liedmeier, fractional head of growth and course author · Reviewed 13 October 2026

What you will learn

  • The capstone brief
  • Assessment rubric
  • Common capstone failure modes
  • After the capstone

Lesson preview

Over two weeks, you build, run, and document a v1 AI operating system for your real work, producing a single playbook document plus evidence of real operation. Excellence is judged on real-work grounding and evidenced judgment — not on how many tools you touched — and a killed workflow with an honest reason is treated as a feature of a good playbook, not a failure. Over two weeks, you will build, run, and document a v1 AI operating system for your real work. The deliverable is a single document — your AI OS Playbook — plus evidence of two weeks of real operation. The required components: a stack declaration explaining your daily driver, connectors, agent, and automation platform choices and why; three configured Projects with their instructions shown; one custom Style or voice ruleset with its source writing samples; three live recipes documented with tools, trigger, exact prompt, human checkpoint, and a real run example. Also required: one completed agent project with before/after description and the reusable Skill it produced; one live automation with a flow diagram and run history showing at least 5 successful real runs; one Deep Research report on a real decision with your verification notes; your guardrails page covering sends, deletes, money, confidential data, and verification; and a Day-14 audit with an honest hours-saved estimate, what you killed, and what you're adding next.

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Frequently asked questions

Who is "Capstone: Build and Document Your AI Operating System" for?
This Beginner module in AI Foundations is for people who are new to AI tools and want practical, everyday results without jargon. It takes about 10 minutes and ends with a 3-question quiz.
Do I need to code?
No. Everything in this module works in tools like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini through a normal chat window.
What comes before and after this module?
Before "Capstone: Build and Document Your AI Operating System", take "Case Studies: Four Complete Worked Examples" (module 13 of AI Foundations). Afterwards, continue with "Working With Images".

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