Publishing plan · updated continuously
Coating IQ started as a 10-lesson intro to surface treatments. The next courses go much deeper — a working operator's curriculum for the categories that actually drive cost and quality on the shop floor. Here's what's shipped, what's in flight, and what's next.
The top-of-funnel orientation. Substrate to surface, vendor-neutral, in plain English.
The deep dive on our most economically important category. Twelve lessons of microstructure, process control, spec writing, and shop-floor reality.
Expensive problem, expensive solution. The course for the people who choose the steel and design the cavity.
Operations economics: pre-heat, lube, inspection cadence, and when to pull a die before it costs you a part run.
Steer the roadmap
Tell us your role and which course you'd want first. The order's not locked. If half the inbox tells us forge die building should jump the line, it jumps the line.
What this builds toward
Each course ships with a gold-set, 20 to 30 questions a working operator must be able to answer correctly. Those gold-sets stack. By the time all four courses are live, that's 80 to 100 questions across the topics that actually move cost and quality in tool-and-die surface engineering.
That stack becomes the launch gate for a Coating IQ AI assistant, a vendor-neutral reference that has to clear the gold-set before it ever goes public. We're publishing the courses first because the corpus has to be right before the assistant can be.