Four exercises on real source packets: label where the evidence agrees, disagrees and is simply missing — then write a brief that survives someone arguing with it.
Feed a model four documents and ask for a recommendation and you will get one — fluent, confident, and silently smoothing over the two places the sources contradict each other.
The gaps are the valuable part. A brief that says "no source measures this" is worth more than one that quietly fills the hole with a plausible sentence.
This track gives you bounded, conflicting source sets on purpose, and the whole exercise is refusing to go beyond them.
NotebookLM
Create a cited comparison from a bounded set of sources and verify the supporting passages. Two exercises: compare evidence in a bounded source set, then draft a citation-checked research brief.
ChatGPT
Turn a source packet into a concise draft, then pressure-test and revise it before use. Two exercises: build a transparent option comparison, then pressure-test and finalize a decision brief.
Real source packets, built to conflict
Each exercise supplies its own fictional, privacy-safe evidence set — with a deliberate contradiction and at least one evidence gap in it. You cannot practise honest synthesis on sources that all agree.
You leave with a file, not notes
This track ends each tool with something you export and keep — a real document, deck or sheet. Every step lists what a good one contains, so you can tell whether the work is actually good, not just finished.
Grounded in the tool's own docs
Each lesson ends with the vendor's own documentation pages that the exercise relies on. Nothing here is invented, and when a tool changes you can see exactly what to re-check.
Yes, completely. Create an account, start the track and work through it. There is no card, no trial and no upsell at the end.
You need an account with each of the two tools. Every exercise is written against the tool's own published documentation, and each lesson links the exact pages it relies on — check there for what your plan includes, since the vendors change their tiers regularly.
About 85 minutes across four exercises — roughly 20, 20, 20 and 25 minutes. It is the longest track in the catalogue, and it is the one most worth doing slowly.
No — this pathway is self-paced and nothing is collected. Both NotebookLM exercises end with a file you export and keep, and the exercise lists exactly what a good one contains, so you can hold your own work against it.
Yes. Complete all four exercises and your certificate of completion is issued automatically, with your name and the track title, and appears under My certificates on your account. It is also emailed to you.