Crescendo.
Five weeks to become the supply chain engineer your company points at when it matters. Mostly virtual. One live day in Chicago. Real Lyric Studio craft, modeling depth, and storytelling.
Sept 21 – Oct 22
Virtual · Mon & Wed 3:30 PM ET
Chicago · Thu, Oct 22
40 seats · capped
The program for the next generation of supply chain engineers.
Crescendo is Lyric's cohort-based program for supply chain analysts, modelers, and builders with a goal of expanding your capabilities and helping you become a more well rounded Supply Chain Engineer.
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A focused journey that transforms how you solve supply chain challenges and one day onsite.
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A hand-picked cohort learning, building, and growing together.
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Interactive workshops, expert insights, and collaborative co-builds.
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A balanced commitment of live learning and hands-on project work.
You're becoming an Upper-Right Engineer.
Supply chain decisions are technical and political. The best engineers don't win by math alone, and they don't win on charisma either. They live at the intersection, and that's where Crescendo is taking you.
Rigorous and creative.
Anyone can run the model. The best engineers also notice what the data is quietly trying to tell them.
Quantitative and persuasive.
Numbers that move rooms, not just spreadsheets. The math is necessary; the framing is what closes.
Builder and narrator.
You ship the prototype and you tell the story that makes the room act on it.
AI2
Algorithmic Intelligence x Agentic Intelligence
Algorithmic Intelligence is the optimization, ML, and forecasting that powers Lyric Studio. It's the math that makes the decision. Agentic Intelligence is the suite of AI co-pilots inside Lyric Studio that change how you do the work (synthetic data, modeling, app design), plus the chance to build your own agents for the boutique problems your team owns. Every week you get more fluent at both.
Who you become, week by week.
Each week is a skill, not a deliverable. The builds are the path. The transformation is the point.
Week 01
Sept 21 – 25
Week 02
Sept 28 – Oct 2
Week 03
Oct 5 – 9
Week 04
Oct 12 – 16
Week 05
Oct 19 – 22 · Chicago
Decode any supply chain problem
Craft synthetic data. The data itself isn't the point. It's the forcing function. Generate it from scratch and you're forced to understand every input, every constraint, every assumption beneath the surface. Master the structure, and the model writes itself.
Compose like an engineer
One algorithm rarely answers the real question. Chain Lyric notes into sequences (optimization, ML, forecasting) that hold together. Defend your composition: which notes, in what order, for which problem.
Ship a product, not a dashboard
Apps aren't dashboards. Design for one named persona (Strategic Stan, Tactical Tina, or Execution Eric) against our undeniable product principles. By Friday your teammates run your analysis without ever seeing the math.
Present like a TED speaker
The work is brilliant, but the room has to feel it. Pick one of the Seven Stories, shape your arc on the Hero's Journey, record a two-minute trailer that earns you the Chicago stage.
Earn your trophy in Chicago
One day in person. You take the stage. Ten minutes, your work, your story, in front of the cohort and a room of guests. One graduate wins Best Storyteller. Cohort dinner that night.
Five weeks at a glance.
Monday teaching. Tuesday and Thursday mini-sessions. Wednesday co-build. Friday peer review. One live day in Chicago to close. All virtual times are 3:30 PM ET.
Live · virtual
Async work
Onsite · Chicago
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Week 01
Sept 21 – 25
Live
Teaching session
3:30 PM ET
Mini
Optional mini session
Live
Co-build
3:30 PM ET
Mini
Optional mini session
Week 01
Peer review
Week 02
Sept 28 – Oct 2
Live
Teaching session
3:30 PM ET
Mini
Optional mini session
Live
Co-build
3:30 PM ET
Mini
Optional mini session
Week 01
Peer review
Week 03
Oct 5 – 9
Live
Teaching session
3:30 PM ET
Mini
Optional mini session
Live
Co-build
3:30 PM ET
Mini
Optional mini session
Week 01
Peer review
Week 04
Oct 12 – 16
Live
Teaching session
3:30 PM ET
Mini
Optional mini session
Live
Co-build
3:30 PM ET
Mini
Optional mini session
Week 01
Trailer due
Week 05
Oct 19 – 22
Prep
Independent practice
3:30 PM ET
Prep
Independent practice
Travel
Fly to Chicago & Evening Happy Hour
Week 01
Chicago
Live presentations
Week 01
Travel home
Finale.
One day in person. One stage. Every student presents.
Unanimous pilot rating for Chicago Finale logistics
"The single best thing"
What multiple pilot students called the in-person day
You present. Then we celebrate.
Pitches all day inside a venue worth the trip. Morning round from 9:00 to 12:00, lunch with the cohort, afternoon round 1:00 to 4:00, then certificates and Best Storyteller. Cohort dinner downtown that night.
What pilot graduates are saying.
"The pace was faster, but if you show up, you can keep up. The focus was laser sharp. I left with a prototype that impressed leadership enough that I committed to bringing it to full implementation."
"I left Chicago with a ton of ideas on how to leverage Lyric to tackle our biggest challenges. The collaboration with like-minded supply chain people was the part I didn't expect to love this much."
"Crescendo gave me a framework for turning messy operational problems into clean, runnable analyses. Five weeks in, I had a prototype I could actually take back into my team."
Who you'll learn with.
Head of Product Training at Lyric, after decades on the operating side of supply chain. Designed Crescendo's curriculum and ran the pilot cohort end to end.
There isn't a supply chain optimization product she can't build. Set the technical bar for Crescendo and built the reference solutions the cohort worked against.
Industry leaders with deep practitioner experience across product, modeling, and storytelling. Lineup confirmed before the cohort opens.
Supply chain engineers from across the industry. Cross-company, cross-domain. Your peers, your critics, your sounding board.
What you walk away with.
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The craft to prototype any supply chain problem
The repeatable practice of modeling, sequencing, app design, and narrative that you can run on whatever your company puts in front of you next.
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A LinkedIn-ready certificate
Deterministic credential ID, hosted permanently. Eight credentialed skills you can post to your profile.
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A 40-person peer network
The repeatable practice of modeling, sequencing, app design, and narrative that you can run on whatever your company puts in front of you next.
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Ongoing Crescendo Gyms
The repeatable practice of modeling, sequencing, app design, and narrative that you can run on whatever your company puts in front of you next.
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Discounted access to future cohorts
The repeatable practice of modeling, sequencing, app design, and narrative that you can run on whatever your company puts in front of you next.
Frequently asked questions
About 10 hours per week for the first four weeks. Four virtual live sessions a week (Mon teaching, Tue mini, Wed co-build, Thu mini), each running 60 to 90 minutes, plus async build, peer review, and final polish in between. Week 5 is the in-person Finale in Chicago.
Yes. Crescendo is currently open only to practitioners at Lyric customer accounts. The curriculum runs on Lyric Studio, so you'll need an active account. Not yet a Lyric customer? Reach out to our team.
Five weeks of live sessions, optional mini-sessions, Lyric Studio access, peer-cohort tooling, the Chicago Finale day (sessions, lunch, dinner), your certificate, and continued post-cohort gym access. Not included: flights and hotel for Chicago.
Pilot graduates and returning moderators get a private promo code from the Lyric team. Reach out to your CSBP or to Frank and Erin directly. Apply the code at registration to unlock the appropriate discount.
One full day in Chicago on Thursday, Oct 22, 2026. Morning and afternoon pitch rounds, with every student presenting their ten-minute narrative in front of the cohort, the Lyric team, and a room of guests. Best Storyteller is named at the end of the day. Cohort dinner downtown that night.
All pilot students went through their company. If you need help making the case internally (ROI framing, manager email template, or a conversation with your CSBP), write to us and we'll help.
Full refund up to 30 days before the cohort opens (by Aug 22, 2026). After that, registrations are non-refundable but transferable to a colleague at the same company.
Forty seats. One cohort. Sept 21.
Five weeks. Real prototypes. A live day in Chicago. A peer network you'll keep.