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Module 12 · Projects

Research briefing with verified citations

An orchestrator that fans questions out to workers, a supervisor that writes the brief once, and a verification pass that checks every cited claim against the source text before anything ships. With the accountant that shows what fan out costs.

4 lessons · 3 graded exercises·5 hours·advanced·Prerequisite: Support triage that knows when to escalate
01

Fan out, and what it costs

60 min · exercise
Parallel research fan-out increases corpus coverage at higher token consumption. Instrument orchestration budgets to track stage-by-stage token spend.
02

Writing the brief

50 min · exercise
Workers return raw extracted notes while a single supervisor synthesis call drafts tagged prose. Sentences without tags are tracked explicitly as uncited claims.
03

The verification pass

60 min · exercise
Verify citations by running deterministic substring checks before invoking model judges. Redact unverified statements in-place to preserve verified claims.
04

Running it for real

25 min
Production considerations for deep research pipelines: stage-level checkpointed resumption, privacy-preserving operational tracing, and compact evaluation sets.