How we assess
Drillhall judges the work you produce in a mission: the documents you write, the code you fix and the tests that prove it. Finishing a lesson or a quiz is never treated as proof.
What we assess
Nine areas in four groups. Your skills map shows each group after your starting-point check.
AI essentials
- AI system quality:
- Reading evaluation results, fixing what fails, and naming the risk that remains.
Software/API essentials
- Engineering:
- Fixing and hardening unfamiliar code, and proving the change with tests.
- Architecture:
- Choosing a design that fits the customer's constraints and recording why.
Cloud/delivery essentials
- Reliability and operations:
- Finding the root cause of an incident, preventing a repeat, and predicting what could fail next.
- Security and governance:
- Naming what could be attacked or misused, and a control for each credible threat.
FDE delivery essentials
- Discovery:
- Finding the real outcome, the constraints, and the conflicts behind a customer request.
- Communication:
- Writing for decision-makers, with every claim backed by evidence.
- Delivery leadership:
- Replanning when the customer changes course, and resetting expectations honestly.
- Product judgement:
- Scoping a pilot small enough to prove, with acceptance criteria someone else can check.
What your skills map can say
Each group shows one status. Only “Proven” means assessed evidence met the bar, and it is always for one named project.
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Not started | No evidence for this area yet. |
| Lesson to do | A gap to close in a short lesson before a project. |
| Learning | You saw the work once. This is not a skill check. |
| No gap | The check found no lesson here. This is not proof from a project. |
| Practising | You finished the lesson and check. Next, use it in a project. |
| Practising | You did the work in a run. It is not formally checked yet. |
| Proven | Assessed evidence passed for this project only — not a job certificate. |
What we do not publish
The exact checks behind each area stay private, because they would give away the answers to the missions. You get feedback on your own submissions.
The documents assessed in these areas are on templates.