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Capstone: Domain Capstone (Vertical)

Ship vertical capstone + weakest-project rebuild.

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Assignment Instructions

Brief

Ship a vertical capstone (fintech / e-comm / health): one domain dataset, one case rebuild of your weakest project, and a 10-minute defense recording.

Dataset

Vertical dataset of choice (documented source + license) + weakest-project artifacts from earlier track work.

Starter guardrails (plan 88)

Capstone template (problem, method, metrics, limits); rebuild diff attached; recording checklist.

100-pt rubric

Domain depth 25; rebuild quality (delta vs original) 25; metrics + limits honesty 20; defense 20; docs/links 10.

Deterministic checks -> LLM review

Checks: dataset license recorded; rebuild diff present; recording attached. LLM review grades domain reasoning and weakest-link candor.

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