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A Working Capability System for Corporate Practice

Dealcraft

Doctrine, documents, numbers, and tools — built one day at a time.

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Lane C · Excel & Modeling  ·  Level 0  ·  Lesson 008

Navigation and selection

Move through a workbook at the speed of thought — and understand the one stray blank cell that quietly stops your jump short and breaks a formula's range. About 6 minutes, then a 10-minute drill in a scratch workbook.

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The library
The Reference LayerLive

The Corporate Law Encyclopedia

Corporate and transactional law taught in the order a deal actually runs, from the confidentiality agreement to the escrow release, plus capital markets, the adjacent fields, and a 144-term glossary of deal jargon. Original words from named sources, paired with the Hotshot video catalogue; your reading ledger stays in your browser.

50 sections · 366 paired courses · 144-term glossary

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Lessons

A new capability every day, foundations first, levels that unlock only by capstone. Six lanes rotate; each lesson ends with one hands-on action.

1 live · 186 on the ladder
The CraftSoon

The Toolkit

The working craft behind the documents as checkable cards: Excel, Word, decks, and legal AI, each with a best-free-first resource path and a proof artifact.

4 tracks · 28 cards
The Public RecordLive

Deal Breakdowns

Landmark transactions walked end to end — structure, documents, mechanics — each tied back to the encyclopedia. Opening with SpaceX’s IPO and Boeing / KLX.

2 breakdowns live
The Work ProductSoon

Artifacts

The practice work — models, marked-up documents, decks — produced by my own hands against the toolkit cards. Nothing reaches this shelf until it passes an audit for construction, correctness, and craft: the gallery’s credibility is the point, so there is no grade inflation.

audited only · models · documents · decks
The Glossary: 144 terms of deal jargon, A to W References: the named sources and firm anchors Inside the encyclopedia, ⌘K jumps to any entry, course, or term