FDE Standalone Lessons

76 interactive standalone lessons are live in this deployment. These pages supplement the in-app course library with richer lesson-specific widgets, rubrics, and practice studios.

Course 1 is free for everyone. Courses 2–8 are part of the paid FDE program — sign in if you're enrolled, or apply to join.

Course 1 Free

  1. 1.1 - Lesson 1.1 · The Economics Era of AI — FDE Certification
  2. 1.2 - Lesson 1.2 · The FDE Trinity — FDE Certification
  3. 1.3 - Lesson 1.3 · The Four-Stage Maturation Loop — FDE Certification
  4. 1.4 - Lesson 1.4 · The Implementation Lifecycle — FDE Certification
  5. 1.5 - Lesson 1.5 · Founder-Like Ownership and the Bias to Ship — FDE Certification
  6. 1.6 - Lesson 1.6 · The 'Narrow Path' Prototyping Principle — FDE Certification
  7. 1.7 - Lesson 1.7 · Evidence, Not Claims: Building the FDE Companion OS — FDE Certification
  8. 1.8 - Lesson 1.8 · Course 1 Mastery: Position Yourself as an FDE — FDE Certification

Course 2 Paid · sign-in required

  1. 2.1 - Lesson 2.1 · The Soft Stack — FDE Certification
  2. 2.2 - Lesson 2.2 · The Discovery Call: 5-Whys at BlueRidge — FDE Certification
  3. 2.3 - Lesson 2.3 · MECE Decomposition for Vague AI Strategies — FDE Certification
  4. 2.4 - Lesson 2.4 · The Pyramid Principle: Answer-First Communication — FDE Certification
  5. 2.5 - Lesson 2.5 · Translating Business Language to Jira-Ready Specs — FDE Certification
  6. 2.6 - Lesson 2.6 · Systems Thinking & Systems of Record — FDE Certification
  7. 2.7 - Lesson 2.7 · Cost of Inaction & Anti-Gold-Plating — FDE Certification
  8. 2.8 - Lesson 2.8 · Agentic Thinking: Automate vs. Human Judgment — FDE Certification
  9. 2.9 - Lesson 2.9 · Course 2 Mastery: Live Discovery Simulation — FDE Certification

Course 3 Paid · sign-in required

  1. 3.1 - Lesson 3.1 · Production-Ready Python: Modular Functions and Error Boundaries — FDE Certification
  2. 3.2 - Lesson 3.2 · API Design Mastery: REST vs. GraphQL — FDE Certification
  3. 3.3 - Lesson 3.3 · Backend with FastAPI — FDE Certification
  4. 3.4 - Lesson 3.4 · Front-End Touchpoints — FDE Certification
  5. 3.5 - Lesson 3.5 · Continuum of Autonomy: Chains, Single-Agent, Multi-Agent — FDE Certification
  6. 3.6 - Lesson 3.6 · Agentic Frameworks Tour: LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, ADK — FDE Certification
  7. 3.7 - Lesson 3.7 · Build a Single-Agent System — FDE Certification
  8. 3.8 - Lesson 3.8 · Build a Multi-Agent Workflow with LangGraph — FDE Certification
  9. 3.9 - Lesson 3.9 · Bridging Probabilistic Intelligence with Deterministic Execution — FDE Certification
  10. 3.10 - Lesson 3.10 · Tool Use & Function Calling Design Patterns — FDE Certification
  11. 3.11 - Lesson 3.11 · State, Memory, and Long-Term Context — FDE Certification
  12. 3.12 - Lesson 3.12 · Semantic Layer Architecture & Metadata Lakehouse on Iceberg — FDE Certification
  13. 3.13 - Lesson 3.13 · Model Context Protocol (MCP): Beyond Traditional APIs — FDE Certification
  14. 3.14 - Lesson 3.14 · Reasoning Patterns — FDE Certification
  15. 3.15 - Lesson 3.15 · Course 3 Mastery — FDE Certification

Course 4 Paid · sign-in required

  1. 4.1 - Lesson 4.1 · Discovery: Mapping Workflows and Friction Points — FDE Certification
  2. 4.2 - Lesson 4.2 · The Three Whys of Systems of Record — FDE Certification
  3. 4.3 - Lesson 4.3 · Pilot Scoping & The Discovery Brief — FDE Certification
  4. 4.4 - Lesson 4.4 · Rapid Prototyping: Instrument Before Polishing — FDE Certification
  5. 4.5 - Lesson 4.5 · LLM Observability Foundations — FDE Certification
  6. 4.6 - Lesson 4.6 · Building Evals with Phoenix / LangSmith / HoneyHive — FDE Certification
  7. 4.7 - Lesson 4.7 · Hallucination Control & Grounded Generation — FDE Certification
  8. 4.8 - Lesson 4.8 · Red Teaming & Adversarial Testing — FDE Certification
  9. 4.9 - Lesson 4.9 · Security & Compliance Rails for Regulated Environments — FDE Certification
  10. 4.10 - Lesson 4.10 · Change Management & Technical Enablement — FDE Certification
  11. 4.11 - Lesson 4.11 · The Partner Demo — FDE Certification
  12. 4.12 - Lesson 4.12 · Course 4 Mastery — FDE Certification

Course 5 Paid · sign-in required

  1. 5.1 - Lesson 5.1 · Healthcare & Life Sciences Vertical: Clinical-Grade FDE Patterns — FDE Certification
  2. 5.2 - Lesson 5.2 · Financial Services & Banking — Audit-Trail-First Agent Design — FDE Certification
  3. 5.3 - Lesson 5.3 · Public Sector & GovTech — FDE Certification
  4. 5.4 - Lesson 5.4 · OT/IT Convergence and the Plant-Floor Boundary — FDE Certification
  5. 5.5 - Lesson 5.5 · Retail, E-commerce & Hospitality — Consumer-Facing Agent Design · FDE Certification
  6. 5.6 - Lesson 5.6 · Legal & Professional Services: Privilege, Ethics, and the ABA 512 Bar — FDE Certification
  7. 5.7 - Lesson 5.7 · Logistics, Supply Chain & Field Service: Edge, Offline, and the Last-Mile Constraint — FDE Certification
  8. 5.8 - Lesson 5.8 · Course 5 Mastery — Vertical Translation Studio

Course 6 Paid · sign-in required

  1. 6.1 - Lesson 6.1 · The Partnership Ecosystem — Co-Selling vs. Co-Building
  2. 6.2 - Lesson 6.2 · The SCOPE Framework for Partner Qualification · FDE Certification
  3. 6.3 - Lesson 6.3 · Joint Value Proposition (JVP) Design — FDE Certification
  4. 6.4 - Lesson 6.4 · The Partner Roadmap to 'Core' Status (Anthropic-Style) — FDE Certification
  5. 6.5 - Lesson 6.5 · GTM-SMSA Alignment: Strategy → Pre-Sales → Post-Sales · FDE Certification
  6. 6.6 - Lesson 6.6 · The Discover-Design-Deliver-Develop Cycle — FDE Certification
  7. 6.7 - Lesson 6.7 · The Pod Model: Working Inside a Customer Environment · FDE Certification
  8. 6.8 - Lesson 6.8 · Course 6 Mastery — A Joint Pilot Plan

Course 7 Paid · sign-in required

  1. 7.1 - Lesson 7.1 · The Senior FDE Identity: From Doer to Multiplier — FDE Certification
  2. 7.2 - Lesson 7.2 · Coaching Junior FDEs: The Founder-Like Ownership Ladder Revisited · FDE Certification
  3. 7.3 - Lesson 7.3 · Hiring & Interviewing FDEs — FDE Certification
  4. 7.4 - Lesson 7.4 · Running a Pod of Pods: Manager-of-FDEs Operating Cadence — FDE Certification
  5. 7.5 - Lesson 7.5 · Practice-Wide Eval Hygiene & Knowledge Compounding — FDE Certification
  6. 7.6 - Lesson 7.6 · Difficult Conversations: Sponsor Pushback, Scope Creep, Kill-Decisions — FDE Certification
  7. 7.7 - Lesson 7.7 · Career Architecture: The Senior IC vs. Manager Fork — FDE Certification
  8. 7.8 - Lesson 7.8 · Course 7 Mastery — FDE Practice Playbook

Course 8 Paid · sign-in required

  1. 8.1 - Lesson 8.1 · The Founder Identity: From Senior FDE to Practice CEO — FDE Certification
  2. 8.2 - Lesson 8.2 · Pricing the FDE Engagement: Fixed-Fee vs. T&M vs. Outcome-Based — FDE Certification
  3. 8.3 - Lesson 8.3 · Selling FDE Services — FDE Certification
  4. 8.4 - Lesson 8.4 · Founder Brand & Thought Leadership — FDE Certification
  5. 8.5 - Lesson 8.5 · Practice P&L Reading: The Unit-Economics Tile — FDE Certification
  6. 8.6 - Lesson 8.6 · The Partner Agreement: Negotiating Co-Selling and Co-Building Contracts — FDE Certification
  7. 8.7 - Lesson 8.7 · The Founder's Hiring Loop: Building Bench at 2x Pipeline Velocity — FDE Certification
  8. 8.8 - Lesson 8.8 · Course 8 Mastery — Your 18-Month Practice Founder Plan