FixMyHome The project you build across the whole AI Engineering course
What you build
Your own private AI home stack: a local model, a private memory, a gateway that guards personal data, and a research agent you supervise. Lesson by lesson, across the whole course.
How you learn and earn
Every lesson leaves one working piece. Twenty pieces later you hold a live system you can demo to a client, and the skills to charge for the next one.
MailFarm The reading library that runs this very site
What you build
A real reading library: the post comes in, each letter is read, made into a card, badged and filed on shelves you can search. The app serving this page is the same species of machine.
How you learn and earn
You learn the whole craft of a working web app, the kind small businesses pay for. Your portfolio holds one that is live, not a toy.
The complaints platform The project you build across the Forward Deployed Engineer programme
What you build
A working system for a company's complaints: a model reads each one and sorts it, your tests prove the sorting is right, the cloud serves it, and a mock client signs it off.
How you learn and earn
You finish with the exact portfolio piece employers ask about: a live system, measured, secured and explained. Twelve projects, each one a rung.
The company system The project you build across the Architect-Professional course
What you build
FixMyHome grows up: many tenants on one system, old systems joined in, cost dashboards, security and testing at scale. The same home, run like a company.
How you learn and earn
You learn the decisions that keep software safe at scale. That is the line between the beginner and the architect, and it is where the pay rises.
The SEND backbone The flagship project, its own course
What you build
A platform of services for the management of special educational needs, built as public infrastructure on a documented practice estate, with no real child's data anywhere.
How you learn and earn
You learn to build systems where a mistake has consequences, and to prove every claim with a receipt. The hardest thing here, and the most respected.
Anchor A driving companion that keeps a quiet eye on your car
What you build
A car companion people open every day: MOT and tax reminders straight from the government's own free records, a parking spot you never lose, and a night-watch screen where a small light only glows green when the latest check-in is truly fresh. Stale never shows green.
How you learn and earn
You learn to build software people trust: reading open data the right way, keeping records people rely on, and never letting a screen pretend. That honesty is the skill clients pay for.
RiskGateman A digital gateman that stands watch over a teenager's day
What you build
A guard with manners. It watches with rules anyone can read, speaks to the teenager first, and only calls a guardian when it truly matters. Three lanes, from all-clear to urgent, and a promise not to cry wolf, so when it rings, people listen.
How you learn and earn
You learn the hardest craft in this trade: judgement. When to warn, when to wait, and how to show your workings so people can check the system is fair.
The Gate The writing checker that proves a person checked
What you build
A checker that runs on your own machine, offline: British English policing, packs of house rules, and a signed record that a named human read the words before they went out. It flags, suggests and records. It never decides.
How you learn and earn
You learn privacy by design, because the words never leave the machine. And you learn why an honest record beats a rubber stamp.
MailMaster Your post, read to you in plain English
What you build
A money-and-deadline inbox: every letter summed up in plain words, every bill in one list, nothing paid until you approve it, and a scam check on anything that asks for money.
How you learn and earn
You learn to build the app people open when they are anxious: reading documents with a model, and earning trust with one promise, nothing happens until you say so.
Vortex AgOS The till that keeps more of every sale for small shops and charities
What you build
A giving-and-selling counter that writes its own paper trail: every payment sorted by type, Gift Aid asked at the moment of giving, and an audit record written automatically. Nothing typed by hand, nothing quietly changed.
How you learn and earn
You learn why money software is judged differently: the rules live in the database itself, and every number is calculated, never typed.
Databox Every company holding your data, in one list. Clear them in one tap.
What you build
One list of every company that holds your data, and a clear-out that takes one tap, built on UK data rules with a record of every request.
How you learn and earn
You learn data protection by building the tool that exercises it. A utility people genuinely need is a product you can stand behind.
KeyStone Bookings, records and billing in one calm system.
What you build
Bookings, records and billing in one calm system. A real village hall runs on it: rooms booked, records kept, invoices settled.
How you learn and earn
You learn the quiet core of real software: records that never contradict each other and money that adds up. That is what small organisations pay for.
