Module 7: Vendor Evaluation and the Model Landscape
The external-facing capstone, and the credential gate. The program turns outward to the widest executive judgment it teaches: deciding what the organization should adopt, and standing behind that decision under questioning.
Session structure
The 30-minute peer share is protected in every module, because peer exchange, not formal instruction, is where the learning compounds.
Capstone build step
Live: defend the vendor evaluation and present the 90-day plan.
Standing behind a judgment under questioning. Everything before this taught you to build and govern a system. This teaches you to defend a decision about what to adopt, the widest judgment the program teaches.
Prepare your defense
No new build. Break and recover from your runbook, organize Under The Hood by the five Elements, and rehearse the defense.
Start building ->The materials
Pre-work
What to have done before we meet: the Module 6 assignment.
Open pre-work ->Session guide
The full run of show: the three blocks, the timings, and the facilitator notes. Sign-in required.
Open guide ->Teaching slides
The 16:9 deck for display during the instruction block. Sign-in required.
Open deck ->Homework
Hardening, customization, and artifact completion are done between sessions, so the live floor belongs to the defense.
Open homework ->Debrief
The recap and the session recording, posted after we meet. Sign-in required.
Open debrief ->Reading
The Five Elements Spine: Personal OS Architecture Guide
The primary reading, and the map you will grade your own system against for the rest of the program.
Why we build together
The collaborative build that runs alongside the individual capstone through the protected peer-share time, and culminates here.
Time to read: about 4 minutes
The vendor evaluation framework
To be written. A new build, applying the model landscape taught in Module 6.
To be writtenUnder The Hood
To be written. The recoverability artifact: system components, where each element lives, and how to troubleshoot each, presentable in gray mode.
To be writtenBuild status
The shape of the final session is fully settled in canon, including the deliberate demotion of recoverability to a brief walkthrough. The vendor evaluation framework, the 90-day plan template, and the Under The Hood artifact form are all net-new builds.