Module 3 Overview#

Theme#

Document and data extraction

Essential Question#

How does AI convert unstructured work into structured workflows?

Module Components#

  • Book prose: conceptual framing, domain scenario, methods, and failure modes

  • Assignment: evidence-backed production of a specific artifact

  • Slides: presentation sequence for seminar or lecture delivery

  • Narration: spoken version of the slide flow

  • Instructor notes: facilitation plan, discussion prompts, and grading cues

  • Rubric: criteria for evaluating the module artifact

  • Notebook: executable lab aligned with the module theme using synthetic process-event records with cycle time, exception flags, queue age, and rework indicators

Module Artifact#

automation readiness memo with workflow map, exception policy, control points, and ROI estimate focused on document and data extraction: Prototype a document extraction pipeline.

Professional Setting#

Students work as if advising an operations team deciding whether to automate part of a high-volume administrative workflow. Their work must be intelligible to process owner, operations analyst, frontline staff lead, and risk/control reviewer.