FDE portfolio projects
12 builds with a fictional client brief, deliverables and a rubric. Ship one per level and you have a portfolio interviewers can open.
BEGINNER
Sync a CSV export into a client's REST API
A client exports orders as CSV every night and wants them in their order system's API.
Open brief →FAQ bot over one PDF with citations
A customer wants staff to ask questions about a 40-page policy PDF and see where each answer came from.
Open brief →Webhook receiver with retries and logs
A partner sends order events and sometimes sends them twice or out of order.
Open brief →Weekly KPI report from a messy database
A manager wants five KPIs every Monday from a database whose tables have inconsistent keys.
Open brief →INTERMEDIATE
CRM lead-enrichment agent
Sales wants new CRM leads enriched with company details before an owner is assigned.
Open brief →Contract clause extractor with evals
Legal wants key clauses pulled from supplier contracts into a table.
Open brief →Support ticket triage with human review
Support leads want tickets routed and summarised, with agents able to override.
Open brief →RAG across Drive, Slack and a wiki
Staff cannot find answers spread across three tools with different permissions.
Open brief →ADVANCED
Multi-agent workflow for finance ops
Finance wants invoices matched, flagged and queued for approval across several systems.
Open brief →Serve a small model on client infra
A regulated client cannot send data to a hosted model and wants an in-house option.
Open brief →Regression eval platform for prompts
A team changes prompts weekly and has no way to see what broke.
Open brief →Full deployment with handover pack
Take one use case from discovery to production and hand it over to a client team.
Open brief →