Hiring managers at AI companies see hundreds of CVs with identical lists of courses completed. What makes you stand out is evidence that you can actually build things. These five projects consistently catch our attention.
Project 1: WhatsApp AI Chatbot
Build a chatbot using n8n Cloud (free tier) + WhatsApp Business Sandbox + OpenAI. Give it a specific purpose: a restaurant booking bot, a FAQ bot for a fictional company, or a lead qualification bot. Document the intent mapping, the prompt design, and the edge cases you handled. Time to build: 1 weekend.
Project 2: Product Review Sentiment Dashboard
Scrape public product reviews (Amazon, Trustpilot), run sentiment analysis with the OpenAI API, and display results in a simple dashboard (Streamlit is fine). Shows Python, API integration, and data visualisation skills.
Project 3: AI Content Pipeline
Build a workflow in Make or n8n that takes a keyword, generates a blog post outline with GPT-4, writes each section, formats it into HTML, and saves it to Google Docs or Notion. Shows end-to-end automation thinking.
Project 4: RAG Q&A Bot on Your CV
Upload your own CV into a vector database (Pinecone free tier) and build a Q&A bot that answers questions about your experience. Shows RAG architecture understanding — one of the hottest enterprise AI patterns.
Project 5: Lead Scoring Model
Use a public sales dataset (Kaggle) to train a simple logistic regression or gradient boosting model that predicts lead conversion probability. Deploy it as a Flask API. Shows ML fundamentals and productionisation skills.
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