Prompt Engineering Academy
Make models do exactly what you meant.
Prompting stops being guesswork once you can measure it. You'll build a prompt library, an evaluation harness and a regression suite — the same discipline you'd apply to any other production interface.
Duration
4 weeks
Content
32 hours
Lessons
42
Level
Beginner
Students
1,240
Certified
812
RIVA mentors you through every lesson, lab and assessment in this academy — and knows where you got stuck last time.
What you’ll be able to do
Written as capabilities, not topics. If you can’t do these at the end, the academy didn’t work.
- Design system prompts that hold under adversarial input
- Build a reusable, versioned prompt library with evaluation baked in
- Measure prompt quality with graders instead of vibes
- Cut token spend without losing output quality
Skills you'll build
Tools you'll use
5 modules · 21 lessons
About 11 hours of content. Expand a module to see every lesson.
01How models read a promptTokens, context and attention — enough mechanics to stop guessing.4 lessons · 1h
- VideoTokens, context windows and costWhy the same request costs 3× depending on how you phrase it.14 min
- VideoWhat the model actually attends toPosition, recency and the lost-in-the-middle effect.16 min
- VideoTemperature, top-p and when to pin them to zero12 min
- LabLab: measuring token spend on a real prompt25 min
02System prompts that holdThe instructions that survive an adversarial user.5 lessons · 1h
- VideoAnatomy of a production system promptRole, constraints, tools, refusals — in that order, and why.18 min
- VideoInstruction hierarchy and conflict resolution15 min
- VideoRefusals, escalation and the honest 'I don't know'13 min
- LabLab: harden a system prompt against injection30 min
- QuizCheckpoint quiz8 min
03Structured outputGetting JSON you can parse, every time, without a retry loop.4 lessons · 1h
- VideoSchema-first prompting16 min
- VideoTool calling as a typing disciplineWhy a tool definition beats 'respond in JSON' every time.18 min
- VideoRecovering from malformed output without a retry storm14 min
- LabLab: typed extraction from messy PDFs35 min
04EvaluationThe part that separates a prompt engineer from someone with opinions.5 lessons · 2h
- VideoBuilding an eval set from real traffic20 min
- VideoGraders: exact match, rubric, and LLM-as-judge22 min
- VideoRegression gates in CIFailing a build on a quality drop, not just on a stack trace.16 min
- LabLab: wire promptfoo into a pipeline32 min
- QuizModule quiz10 min
05CapstoneShip a versioned prompt library with evaluation attached.3 lessons · 5h
- VideoDesigning the library surface15 min
- LiveLive build session with a mentor60 min
- ProjectCapstone: prompt library + eval harnessAssessed against the Foundation rubric. Passing issues your certificate.240 min
Hands-on labs
Build a prompt evaluation harness
Score a prompt against a small golden set and fail the run when quality drops below a threshold — the seed of a CI gate.
45 min · Beginner · runs in the browser
Projects you can ship
Clinical Discharge Summary Assistant
Draft a discharge summary from a patient's encounter notes, with every clinical claim cited back to the source note and anything uncertain escalated to a clinician rather than guessed.
Healthcare · 28h · Professional
Structured Talent Screening Assistant
Score applications against a written rubric — evidence quoted from the application, protected attributes excluded by construction, and every score reversible.
HR · 22h · Professional
Contract Clause Intelligence
Compare an incoming contract against the company's standard positions and surface every deviation, ranked by risk, with the exact language that differs.
Legal · 24h · Professional
Adaptive Learning Tutor
A tutor that diagnoses the misconception behind a wrong answer and teaches to that — rather than restating the correct answer more loudly.
Education · 22h · Associate
Wealth Advisory Briefing Generator
Produce a compliant pre-meeting briefing for a relationship manager: portfolio position, relevant market moves, and talking points that stay the right side of advice.
Finance · 20h · Associate
Store Operations Assistant
A shop-floor assistant that answers process questions from the operations manual and files the exception when the answer is 'this needs a manager'.
Retail · 14h · Foundation
On completion
ReveloSoft Certified Foundation
You understand the vocabulary and can follow a working system end to end. The rung that makes the rest of the ladder legible.
60-minute assessment · pass mark 70% · QR-verifiable credential
- Complete one Foundation academy in full
- Pass the 40-question proctored assessment
- Submit one guided project