For individuals
You work a real problem, under supervision, and leave with something you produced.
A partner organisation contributes a problem it has scoped but cannot staff. You join a cohort assigned to that problem, working under a practitioner mentor who reviews the work against a stated quality gate. What you leave with is a portfolio artefact describing the scope, the constraints and your own contribution, not a certificate.
This path is built for three groups: the career switcher moving into transformation work, the working professional testing applied capability alongside a job, and the recent graduate building evidence in the absence of prior experience. If none of those describes you, the eligibility section below still applies, since admission is assessed against published criteria rather than which group you fall into.
Who this is built for
- Career switcher
- Moving into transformation, product or operations work from a different function. The task on this page is to judge whether the artefact produced is credible to a hiring manager, since the cost is time and fee against an outcome that is not guaranteed.
- Working professional
- Employed, and testing applied capability alongside a job. The constraint is schedule, not motivation. The weekly time commitment for the pilot Sprint Challenge is confirmed with the first cohort, so plan around your own calendar until that figure is published.
- Recent graduate
- Seeking portfolio evidence in the absence of prior paid experience. Fee sensitivity and admission likelihood are the live questions, addressed under eligibility below rather than assumed away.
The commercial arrangement, stated plainly
You pay to work on a problem for which the contributing organisation also pays. Praxora Lab receives payment from both sides where applicable. This is disclosed here rather than left for you to discover after paying. Read how we are paid.
The pilot format
The Sprint Challenge
The first Praxora Lab format for individuals. It runs 2 to 4 weeks, is cohort-based, and is supervised throughout by a practitioner mentor rather than delivered as self-paced content.
| Detail | Position |
|---|---|
| Duration | 2 to 4 weeks, depending on the problem assigned to the cohort. |
| Structure | Cohort-based. You work alongside other participants assigned to the same problem, under one mentor. |
| Supervision | A practitioner mentor reviews the work against a stated quality gate and is accountable for what the cohort produces. |
| Dates | Not yet set. Published once the first pilot cohort is confirmed. |
| Weekly time commitment | Not yet set. Published once the first pilot cohort is confirmed, so you can judge fit against your own schedule before applying. |
| Fee | Not yet set. Published once the first pilot cohort is confirmed, alongside GST treatment and what is included. |
| What is issued at the end | A portfolio artefact describing the scope, the constraints and your own contribution. No certificate, accreditation or qualification is issued. |
| Employment or placement outcome | None is implied or guaranteed. The artefact is evidence you present yourself; Praxora Lab does not place participants into roles. |
Display rights for the artefact, meaning what you may show a prospective employer and under what conditions, are set out in the confidentiality and IP statement.
Eligibility and fees
Applications are assessed against published criteria, not a hidden bar.
Cohort places are limited, so admission is selective. The criteria below are what is assessed. They are not a checklist you must satisfy in full before applying; the application itself is how you demonstrate fit.
- Declared segment. Every applicant identifies as a career switcher, a working professional or a recent graduate at the point of application. This is used to report demand across segments, and it does not by itself determine the outcome.
- Fit to the problem assigned to the cohort. Problems vary by domain and difficulty level. Your current role, study status or prior exposure is read against the specific problem a cohort is being formed around.
- Time commitment. You are asked to state the weekly time you can realistically sustain for the duration of the Sprint Challenge. This is used to assess whether the commitment is compatible with your current employment or study load.
- Fee. Not yet published. It is one figure for the first pilot cohort, not negotiated per applicant, and is published once that cohort is confirmed, the same point at which dates and weekly time commitment are published above.
- Review timeline. Not yet published. The timeline from application to a decision is confirmed with the application process, so you are told when you apply rather than given a figure that predates the first cohort.
The fee you pay does not cover the full cost of the engagement on its own. The contributing partner organisation also pays for the problem you work. Read how we are paid.
Next step
Applying does not commit a cohort place to you
It starts the review described above. You will be told the outcome and, where relevant, which problem and cohort you have been assigned to.