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AI-502 AI & Data

AI Solutioning & Pre-Sales Engineering

Turn client conversations into winnable, deliverable AI solutions: discovery questioning, feasibility triage, effort and cost estimation for AI work, proposal architecture, and live demo strategy — practised through role-played client scenarios with rubric feedback.

B4Professional
5modules
33skill atoms
2role journeys
Curriculum

What this course covers.

5 modules, 33 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1Discovery Craft6 skill atoms
question bankspain→capability mappingopen vs closed questioningquantifying current costidentifying the economic buyerdisqualification signals
2Feasibility & Sizing7 skill atoms
data auditseffort modelsrisk registerdata readiness scoringsizing with rangesassumption loggingclient-side dependencies
3Solution Architecture Sketching6 skill atoms
whiteboard patternsbuild-vs-buy callsreference pattern libraryintegration point mappingphased architecturenon-functional requirements
4Proposal & Pricing Logic7 skill atoms
scope guardrailspilot designsuccess metricsfixed vs T&M framingchange-control clausepilot exit criteriaassumptions section
5Demo Dojo7 skill atoms
role-play roundscurveball handlingscoringnarrative arc of a demorecovering a broken demopricing objection responsescompetitor comparison
Where it fits

AI-502 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 2 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Forward Deployed Engineer

Professional stage
AI-308AI-502AI-311

Solutions / Sales Engineer

Professional stage
AI-505AI-502AI-508

Roles this course serves

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B4.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence
B1
AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance
Knowledge checks
B2
FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts
Guided labs, autograded exercises
B3
PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently
Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams
B4
ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes
Break-fix drills, design defenses
B5
AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others
Rubric-scored capstones, vivas
B6
ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams
Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

Next step

Run AI-502 for your team.

This course runs at several lengths depending on how deep you need to go and how much of it your people already have. Tell us who is being trained and we will scope it.

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