Course

Certified Reasoning Operator

Scrum with Claude, and the reasoning discipline around it. Five laws, a five-act method and a canon of real production failures that teach what each law costs when ignored. For people who direct AI agents on work that matters and need the output to survive scrutiny.

intermediate~2.5 hoursFree — founding cohort

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Passing the exam earns “Certified Reasoning Operator” — a private certificate of completion issued by GeeksAroundGlobe with a public verification page. Not an accredited academic credential.

What you'll learn

1.Reframe a request before executing it, and open work with an outcome rather than a task list.
2.Stack orthogonal lenses so analysis cannot hide its own blind spot.
3.Name rival hypotheses and control the reference class before investigation begins.
4.Force external grounding instead of accepting the training average.
5.Verify the artifact rather than the report of success.
6.Run empirical loops — transparency, inspection, adaptation — with a Definition of Done agreed up front.
7.Sequence irreversible work so it ships last, alone, and recoverably.

Course fit

Instructor: Kesara Bandaragoda

Operators, founders, engineers, analysts and editors who already use AI agents and want their reasoning — not just their prompting — to hold up.

Prerequisites

Practical experience directing an AI assistant on real work.

Course syllabus

Act I — The Original Question

Reframe before you execute — 11 min
Stack two lenses, never one — 10 min

Act II — First Principles

Reduce to irreducibles — 12 min
Control the reference class — 11 min

Act III — Fiction Stripped

Name the rival hypothesis — 12 min
Force external grounding — 11 min
Verify the claim, not the report — 12 min

Act IV — System Mapped

Scrum with Claude: empiricism — 12 min
Definition of Done, agreed before work starts — 10 min
Small batch and the timebox — 10 min
Stage the irreversible — 11 min

Act V — Practical Awakening

The Failure Canon — 14 min
The retrospective that compounds — 10 min

From obsession to clarity — one original question every week.

We answer one noisy topic at a time, in full. No daily roundup, no thread bait — just the question, the principles, and the system.