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Career Katral · Lesson 3 · 10 min

One hireable project

In one sentence

A certificate is a receipt. A project is proof. Pick one role and ship a small, real artifact.

Arul

Arul

Career coach

The market hires proof. We will build the proof.

Read the idea, watch the picture, then try it with your hands.

Watch the idea

The concept

Builder

RAG, agents, evals, APIs

Deployer

Sit with the customer and install

Product

AI PM · what not to automate

Domain + AI

A skill inside marketing, HR, ops

One artifact, three proofs

Proof of craft: it runs. Proof of judgment: it refuses when it should. Proof of taste: a human can review what leaves the building. Tutorials show you followed a video. A portfolio project shows you can be trusted.

Pick a painful, bounded job

HR policy assistant. Lab handbook bot. Support macros over real tickets. Not 'ChatGPT clone'. Bounded data, a user, a fail mode. That constraint is what makes the story interview-shaped.

Ship it where they can click

Live demo, repo, short video, and a one-page write-up: problem, approach, eval, what you would do next. If they cannot click it in five minutes, it does not exist in the hiring loop.

Worked example

The policy assistant

You take a public employee handbook, chunk it, retrieve, require citations, refuse off-policy questions, and publish a 30-case eval. That single project covers RAG, evals, and product judgment — the 2026 AI Engineer loop.

Picture to keep

Proof stack

  1. 1Role
  2. 2Artifact
  3. 3Metric