RiverCity capstone
Case study · AI Tools & Strategy · Learning Design
A readiness check and rehearsal for the capstone’s live stakeholder defense: confirm the engagement is complete, then practice answering randomized questions on camera before the real thing.
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What this simulation is
The capstone is a single, defended, end-to-end consulting engagement for a recurring client, RiverCity, taking a genuine decision from a one-page brief through scoping, a leakage-safe build, an unannounced distribution-shift event that breaks earlier models, a detection-and-adaptation cycle, and a live stakeholder defense. It integrates every outcome in the course.
This tool is the preparation layer: a readiness checklist that confirms the engagement is complete, then a recorded defense that speaks randomized questions on camera so the student can rehearse and self-assess. The live meeting with the sponsor is still the graded defense. It is built on the reusable Defense practice engine.
What it helps you do
- Confirm the engagement deliverables are complete before the defense.
- Rehearse answering unscripted, randomized stakeholder questions on camera.
- Watch yourself back and self-assess against the defense rubric.
- Practice conceding real weaknesses and answering “what would change your mind?”
- Build fluency so the live defense is rehearsal, not improvisation.
The graded object is fifteen weeks of decisions on a private, messy, shifting engagement, defended live before people who push back. A model can draft text, but it cannot own the specific choices this student made or answer the sponsor’s follow-ups in real time.