IFO4 Proven . PROV-AGENTIC-AI . 45 minutes . Live

IFO4 Proven, AI Financial Operations.

45 minutes. Eight production AI agents in incident. $48,000 daily burn. The CFO is in the room.

Pick the right 5 actions out of 12. Defend them in writing. AI graded against a deterministic rubric plus a Vertex AI Gemini 2.5 Pro examiner.

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I . The scenario

Helios Retail Group is on fire.

Sixty days ago Helios Retail Group launched a customer service AI platform. Eight production agents. Vertex AI Gemini 2.5 Pro. Anthropic Claude Sonnet for the premium tier. Twelve LangGraph orchestrators stitching it all together.

Daily costs spiked from $12,000 to $48,000. The CTO has agreed not to interrupt you. The CFO has asked for a written remediation plan in 45 minutes. There is no second meeting.

You will be given the full system brief, the daily traffic shape, and the on-call SRE diary inside the lab. You bring the diagnosis, the action plan, and the executive note.

II . The four phases

45 minutes, divided.

I5 min

Situation Shock

The brief lands. The metrics are on the page. You read it under the clock.

II10 min

Rapid Diagnosis

Three short answers, 60 seconds each. Name the cost driver. Defend the priority order. Surface the failure modes.

III20 min

Execution

Twelve action cards. A mix of GOOD and TRAPS. Pick at most five. The architecture is unforgiving.

IV10 min

Executive Justification

Five short answers including a strategy choice (A, B, or C). The CFO will read every word verbatim.

III . The stakes

What you walk away with.

A soulbound NFT credential

The badge mints to your wallet on Polygon. Anyone can verify the signature against the public key. There is no central registry to trust.

An evolving Proven badge

Future labs add satellite medallions to your existing seal. Cross four Elite credentials and unlock the gold leaf foil overlay.

III

A public practitioner profile

Your tier, total score, and per-question feedback live at a public URL. Share it on LinkedIn or paste it into your resume.

IV . What you need

Bring four things. Take everything else from us.

60 quiet minutes

No interruptions. Phone on silent. The timer cannot be paused.

A modern browser

Chrome 120 plus or Safari 17 plus. We cannot ship the live state machine to older targets.

III

Dual screen ideal

You will read the brief, edit your action selection, and write your executive note. Two windows beats one.

Active Executive Membership

Proven Labs are free for IFO4 Executive Members. Free and Professional members upgrade once at /pricing for unlimited lab access.

V . Access

Free for Executive Members.

Proven Lab

Included with Executive Membership

Unlimited attempts. Every cert in the Proven line. AI graded. Evolving badge. No exam ticket needed for the Lab.

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Proven Exam (separate)

Different track, own pricing

The Lab is the practice ground. The Proven Exam is the proctored, single-attempt formal credential and uses its own pricing model. Coming Q3 2026.

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VI . Onboarding flow

Five steps to the bell.

Identity

Drop in your email. We send a one-time magic link via Gmail Workspace. Valid for 30 minutes.

Membership

We confirm your IFO4 account is on the Executive tier. Free and Professional members get a one-click upgrade prompt.

Environment

A sandbox project id is provisioned and tied to your attempt. The full GCP sandbox spins up in the background.

Pre-flight

Four checkboxes confirming the timer, the browser, the AI grading consent, and the public credential record.

Lock-in

You click "Start the 45 minute clock". From that moment your timer is the source of truth.

Ready when you are.

Forty-five minutes can change your career.

Onboard now. The clock starts only when you click "Start". Until then, take your time.

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