What's due, in order.

Everything else, by due date

Done ones are greyed out. The next one due has an orange bar.

1. Fri Sep 11

   Three tedious jobs you

   Canvas

   • Three jobs, each with: who does it (a named organization and their role), what their hands actually do, how often and how long, how you know, which of the four kinds
   • At least one from a person you talked to, with a quote
   • Brought on paper Wed Sep 16
2. Fri Sep 18

   Gift exercise you

   Canvas

   • A gift planned for a specific person for a specific reason (in Log 1)
   • Given, with what they said when they got it (in Log 2)
   • One paragraph on what it taught you about giving before asking
3. Fri Sep 25

   Team plan (Inefficiency Brief) team

   2–3 pages · Canvas · how to pick a job: the guide

   • Your partner business, named: a real business outside your own life (family businesses and campus offices count if the job is one businesses everywhere do the same way). Your contact, named: the person who does the job today, and their agreement to three meetings
   • The job in two sentences: who does it, how often, what it produces
   • What it costs them now, in their words and their estimate
   • The other ten: ten organizations that do this the same way, and why each would pay to stop
   • A first sketch of the three steps: what comes in, what gets decided, what goes out, and what your assistant would do at each
   • Your list of guesses: everything the project depends on being true, each marked "untested"
   • Your agreement with your contact: what the assistant may read, what it may send, who checks
   • Your research plan: eight conversations and one hour of watching the job, each with a name and a date
4. Fri Oct 9

   Research pack (Discovery Pack) team

   PDF plus your raw notes · Canvas

   • Eight conversations with real people who do or depend on this job. Not roommates, classmates, friends, or family.
   • For each: date, who (no names needed), three or more exact quotes, what surprised you, what you'd ask next
   • Sixty minutes watching the job, with notes on what people did, not what you think about it
   • What it adds up to: what they need, what surprised you, what changed your mind
   • Your contact's before numbers: minutes per week, how often it's late, how often it's wrong
   • Your list of guesses, updated: what's now confirmed, what turned out wrong
5. Fri Oct 16

   Business Case team

   One page · Canvas

   • Who pays, and what the work is worth to them, in dollars or hours, with the math shown
   • What it costs to run: AI usage, tools, your time
   • Why they'd want it, in one paragraph
   • A lean canvas
   • The other ten, revisited: which of them you've talked to since the team plan
6. Mon Oct 19

   Your assistant, version 1 you

   Canvas · my checking agent reads it first, then you get 48 hours to fix

   • Skills, hooks, rules, and memory put together into one assistant that does your team's whole job
   • Runs on sample information at all three parts of the job: information in, the decision, information out
   • Says, for each step, what the assistant does (collect, summarize, flag, send) and where the person decides
   • The guess behind your first working version written down: the assumption, and what result would prove you wrong
   • Passes my checking agent
7. Fri Oct 30

   Book memo 1: Co-Intelligence you

   500–1,000 words · Canvas · one memo for a B, both for an A

   • Two or three ideas from the book
   • Each tied to your project with a real example
   • One thing you'll do because of it
   • One question it raised that you can't answer yet
   • Not a book report
8. Fri Oct 30

   Test report (Validation Report) team

   Canvas

   • Your contact has used version 1 and version 2; both sessions written up
   • Three or more test sessions, each planned: the question, who, what counts as success
   • The guess behind each version and what happened to it
   • What changed between versions and why, with evidence
   • Results on twenty real inputs: pass, fail, and why
   • Your list of guesses, updated
9. Fri Nov 13

   Book memo 2: The Minimalist Entrepreneur you

   500–1,000 words · Canvas · same checklist as memo 1

   • Two or three ideas from the book
   • Each tied to your project with a real example
   • One thing you'll do because of it
   • One question it raised that you can't answer yet
   • Not a book report
10. Tue Nov 17

    Pitch video team

    11:59pm · three minutes max · Canvas

    • The problem, in your contact's words if you can get them
    • The assistant running, on real information, on screen
    • The evidence: before numbers, what changed, what your contact said
    • The other ten: who else would pay, and why
    • What you're asking for
    • Every teammate on camera
11. Thu Nov 19

    Video Pitch Competition you

    Required event · counts as a class day · a token doesn't cover it

    • Be there with your team
    • Answer the judges; any teammate may be asked anything
    • Their feedback written up in Log 9
12. Fri Dec 4

    Live-week report (Deployment Log) team

    Canvas

    • The assistant ran on the real job for at least five working days by the end of Week 11
    • What it caught, what it broke, where a person had to step in
    • The Week 5 before numbers next to the same numbers now
    • Your contact's signed statement of what it did
13. Fri Dec 11

    Final Dossier team

    Noon · 10–15 pages plus appendices · Canvas

    • One-page summary
    • The job: who, what, why it matters
    • Research: how you did it, what you found, quotes
    • Business case
    • How the assistant changed from version 1 to live, with a drawing of the three steps
    • What worked, what failed, what you changed course on
    • What runs today and who runs it
    • What's next: roadmap, open questions
    • How the team worked: roles, conflicts, how you resolved them
    • Appendices: interview notes summary, test results, live-week report, judges' feedback
    • Complete, based on evidence, specific, shows change over time, honest about failures
14. Fri Dec 11

    Final reflection you

    Noon · 1,500–2,500 words · Canvas

    • Your term, mapped against the seven skills of entrepreneurial thinking
    • Your biggest failure and what it taught you
    • Three moments your view of your assistant changed, each pointing to a specific log
    • What you believed in Week 1 that you don't now
    • What you'd do differently
    • Where this applies outside the course
    • Specific examples throughout. "I learned a lot" comes back.
15. Fri Dec 11

    Peer and self evaluation you

    Noon · confidential Google Form

    • Rate each teammate and yourself 1–5 on: contribution, reliability, collaboration, initiative
    • What each teammate did well
    • One change you'd make to how the team worked
    • Who did how much, honestly
    • Your main role and one thing you'd improve
16. Fri Dec 11

    Extra projects team

    Noon · with the Final Dossier · optional · two for a B, four for an A

    • Checklists for all seven are below

Extra projects (mastery options)

Optional. Team work, shared credit, all due Fri Dec 11 at noon with the Final Dossier. Two for a B, four for an A. Each has a hard minimum; "we tried" comes back.

1. M1

   Talk to the other ten

   • Six or more conversations with organizations from your list of ten
   • Notes in the research-pack format
   • Two pages: what confirms there's a market, what breaks it, what you'd change
   • Different organizations, not six branches of one
2. M2

   Run it somewhere else

   • The assistant runs at a second business for five working days
   • What worked unchanged, what didn't, what you changed and why
   • The second contact's statement
3. M3

   Sell it

   • A real stranger pays at least $5 for work your assistant does
   • Stranger means not a roommate, classmate, friend, family member, or anyone paying out of obligation
   • The pricing conversation, the receipt, and the follow-up written up
4. M4

   Test the market

   • A live landing page that says what it does and has a working sign-up
   • An outreach campaign you actually ran: where, how many people, the scripts
   • The numbers: visitors, sign-ups, conversion, response rates, what you learned about demand
   • Honest numbers, even if they're bad
5. M5

   Break it on purpose

   • Forty or more real inputs with a pass/fail check for each
   • Run before and after a change to the assistant; both sets of results reported
   • Every failure explained; the ones you chose not to fix, justified
6. M6

   Write the manual

   • Instructions good enough that your contact's coworker can run and maintain the assistant without you
   • Tested: they do it while you watch and don't help. What they got stuck on, written down and fixed.
7. M7

   Plan the business

   • Three potential partners: who, what you need from them, what you offer, where the conversation stands
   • A twelve-month roadmap with go/no-go points
   • A budget with the math per customer: startup costs, monthly costs, price, cost to get a customer, break-even

What each grade takes

A doctor's note or a confirmed varsity obligation excuses an absence. A Monday demo you miss costs a token. Nov 19 is required and counts as a class day.