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Pick a job title. Follow a Basic, Intermediate and Advanced video path chosen for that role. Prove it with a capstone you can show an employer.
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Model unit economics, forecasts and trusted finance decision systems
Automate close, reconciliation and recurring finance decisions with AI
Govern financial AI and translate outputs into executive decisions
Design an AI-native finance operating system, with controls and an adoption roadmap
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Paths built by Manny Ogbeide, product leader at Microsoft, formerly Amazon and AWS, who has hired for the roles these paths prepare you for.
Three levels of hand-picked lessons, then a capstone with a rubric.
Forecasting, close and reconciliation, and finance agents.
AI & AgentsProduction software foundations, modern LLM/context engineering and agents.
Revenue & GTMTurn customer ambiguity into a credible technical solution.
Data & MLOwnership, policy and a discoverable inventory of enterprise data.
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Search or browse 201 job-market-benchmarked roles, Career Pathways and Certificates — or jump straight into a Skill Track if you already know what you want to learn.
Work the ladder — Basic → Intermediate → Advanced — with direct links to the best free videos for each competency. No filler courses, no paywalled lessons.
Every path ends in a hands-on capstone project — something concrete you can put in a portfolio or talk through in an interview.
Certificates here are self-paced completion tracking, not formal credentials: finishing a certificate's proof rubric marks it complete in your own browser, including paths built around public university material, like the Full-Stack Web Development Bootcamp Certificate's Harvard CS50W video spine. There’s no accreditation or outside verification body behind it — each certificate page states its exact benchmark so you know precisely what “complete” means before you list it anywhere.
Capstone Spotlight
Cover forecasting, close and reconciliation, pricing, or spend. Deliver a unit-economics or scenario model, one AI workflow, data contracts, exception queues, approvals, controls, audit trails, KPIs, and a staged adoption roadmap.
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Credentials issued by Google, Microsoft, Harvard, AWS, and others. We find them, verify them, and tell you what each one is actually worth on a resume.
Exam-based, from the provider itself
Hands-on, such as Microsoft Applied Skills
Such as Harvard CS50. Courses, not degrees
Proof of completion, not certification
Search by title or scroll the list on the left. Every role includes 6 core competencies, 12 direct video bridges and a hands-on capstone.
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Who’s Hiring
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Why This Exists
Most "free" course catalogs paywall you after lesson two, or string together recycled filler just to pad a syllabus. Zuyini Academy is built the other way: every role, pathway and certificate is benchmarked against what companies are actually hiring for, assembled entirely from the best free videos already online, and ends in a capstone you can point to — not a certificate claim with nothing behind it.
Each path maps to the skills employers list for that role today.
Only the best free videos, in the order you need them.
Every path ends in a capstone with a clear rubric.
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