James Gray

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Smart leaders treat their prompts like code, not chat. Leverage this guide with step-by-step instructions to go from chats scattered across multiple AI tools to managing prompts like a pro.

How to Manage a Prompt Library Like a Pro

The most important conversation you have is with yourself.&nbsp;When there is an internal misalignment, your lack of deep self-awareness can influence your life in various ways:<ul><li>remaining stuck in a job that no longer serves you</li><li>confusion</li><li>anxiety and fear</li><li>minimal growth</li><li>weak relationships</li></ul>Your mindset becomes a superpower when it's aligned and integrated. Read how my life changed by adopting these 10 building blocks that activated my transformation.

How Does Looking Inward Change Your Life?

Master the complete Claude platform — Claude.ai, Desktop, Code, and Cowork — to design AI workflows and ship web applications.

UC Berkeley AI Instructor | ex CIO/CPO 

UC Berkeley AI Instructor | Former CIO/CPO | Trained 5,000+ Leaders

Claude for Builders

Product Innovation Leader

Chief Business Officer

Entrepreneur

Turn AI into your competitive advantage—automate, optimize, and lead smarter with agentic workflows.

UC Berkeley Instructor | ex CIO & CPO 

Hands-on Agentic AI for Leaders

Project Manager I

Global Head of Digital Business Unit, SVP

Data, Analytics, and AI Executive

Managing Partner

VP People

Lead Product Manager

Head of International HubSpot for Startups

UC Berkeley

Microsoft

AI transformation starts with leaders who build, not just evaluate.You're approving AI initiatives you can't personally validate. Your team experiments with prompts but nobody designs repeatable workflows. You know AI should save time, but you can't quantify where or how much. Strategy decks pile up while execution stalls.In 4 weeks, using the Business-First AI Framework and your agentic builder stack, you'll:✅ Apply the Business-First AI Framework to discover your highest-impact workflows and build a living registry✅ Evaluate workflow architectures on the autonomy spectrum and map them to the seven agentic building blocks✅ Build reusable agent skills that capture your expertise for consistent, team-ready execution✅ Design deterministic and collaborative AI workflows powered by your skills✅ Become fluent with Claude Code, Cursor, and your full builder stack using plan mode and agentic coding✅ Deploy multi-agent autonomous systems that handle complex workflows This isn't theory — it's a hands-on builder methodology from training 5,000+ leaders at UC Berkeley and a decade at Microsoft. Rated 4.8/5. Intimate cohorts, 1:1 coaching, lifetime access. We build together — not lectures.

From AI User to Business-First AI Builder in 30 Days

Apply the Business-First AI Framework to your work

Evaluate AI workflow architectures to select the right pattern for each use case

Build reusable Agent Skills that turn expertise into AI workflows

Build deterministic and collaborative AI workflows powered by skills

Become fluent with your agentic AI builder stack

Build multi-agent autonomous systems for complex workflows

The course extensively utilizes AI assistants, such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Some lessons are unique to these tools.

You have a paid subscription to one or more: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini

The course does not require coding experience, but we will use AI code editors (Cursor/VS Code) to build and refine prompts

No coding experience

This cohort experience is for people who learn best in small groups and value personalized feedback from an experienced instructor.

Learning in a small, supportive cohort

Leaders and professionals who believe in “learning by doing” by using cutting-edge tools and building AI solutions&nbsp;hands-on.

Leaders who must understand the latest AI capabilities to&nbsp;drive an AI-powered business strategy credibly.

Professionals who must boost their AI technology acumen to strengthen collaboration and influence with technical stakeholders.

Capital One

Google

Amazon

The agentic era rewards builders. Become one.You're using Claude for one-off tasks while others build AI systems that scale expertise, automate operations, and ship products. Your workflows stay ad-hoc. Ideas are trapped waiting on engineering. Skills locked in your head can't compound. You can't lead AI initiatives without hands-on credibility.In 5 weeks using the Claude Platform - Chat, Cowork, Code - you'll:✅ Master a repeatable methodology — Analyze, Deconstruct, Build — to turn any business process into a production AI workflow✅ Design workflows across two dimensions — augmented vs. automated and deterministic vs. autonomous — so you choose the right pattern for every task✅ Deploy autonomous Subagents and Agent Teams for complex, multi-step work✅ Prototype and deploy a web app using the full agentic coding lifecycle—vision brief to live URL✅ Accelerate knowledge work with Claude Cowork and build your reusable task libraryThis isn't tips and tricks—it's a systematic builder methodology from training 5,000+ leaders at UC Berkeley and a decade at Microsoft. Rated 4.8/5. Intimate cohorts, 1:1 coaching, lifetime access. We build together—not lectures.

Build AI-powered solutions across the Claude platform

Configure your AI builder stack and workflow system

Design and build AI workflows — from automated to collaborative

Deploy autonomous AI using Subagents and Agent Teams

Accelerate knowledge work with Claude Cowork

Prototype and deploy a web app using agentic coding

Skills, Projects, and advanced features require a paid plan. Free tier won't work for this course. 

You have a Claude paid subscription. 

You'll install Claude Code and browser extensions. Work computers with admin restrictions may be an issue. 

You can install software on your computer.

All free. GitHub manages AI assets, the editor runs Claude Code, Chrome enables browser automation. Setup guided in Week 1.

You have GitHub, Cursor or VS Code, and Chrome installed.

Operational Leader: Leaders building AI systems for their teams—creating reusable assets that scale expertise across the organization.

Builder-Founder: Founders and solopreneurs who prototype fast, automate operations, and ship AI-powered products without engineers.

AI-First Professional: Professionals building the systems, skills, and workflows that put AI at the center of how they create value.

UC Berkeley AI Instructor | ex CIO & CPO

The step most teams skip is the one that determines whether AI actually works

You have an AI workflow idea. Maybe it's automating client onboarding, streamlining reporting, or building an intelligent triage system. The natural instinct? Jump straight to tools — pick a platform, start prompting, see what happens.The problem: without structural thinking first, you're building on sand. You don't know what decisions the workflow actually makes, what data it needs, where it can fail, or which parts should be automated vs. human-guided. The result? Fragile demos, over-engineered agents, and weeks of rework.This workshop teaches the most critical step in the Business-First AI Framework: Deconstruct. But you won't just learn a method — you'll use it. The framework is embedded in agent skills that you install in your AI tool of choice. The skills guide you through the deconstruction conversationally — asking the right questions, surfacing what you're missing, and assembling the artifact as you go.You'll deconstruct your own workflow during the session and leave with a complete Workflow Definition artifact — the essential input for designing and building any agentic AI workflow. Plus the agent skills installed and ready to use on your next workflow.

You'll go from "I have an AI idea" to holding a structured, buildable specification — the foundation every successful AI workflow needs

Install and use the Business-First AI Framework skills

Classify workflows on the Workflow Design Matrix

Deconstruct a business workflow into a buildable specification

The framework's agent skills run inside your AI tool and guide the entire deconstruction process conversationally.

An AI tool that supports agent skills

Leaders scoping AI initiatives — You need a structured way to move from "we should automate this" to a concrete specification.

Builders planning AI workflows — You're ready to build but the process you're automating isn't defined well enough to start.

Operators drowning in manual work — You know every edge case and workaround. Now translate that into a spec AI can help you build.

Configure Claude Skills for Quality, Speed, and Cost

UC Berkeley AI Instructor | Founder | ex CIO & CPO

See how effort: high vs. low changes output quality and response time for different skill types

Set effort levels to control thinking depth per skill

Match Opus, Sonnet, or Haiku to your skill based on the reasoning it requires

Select the right model for each skill's complexity

Run structured evaluations to verify your skill performs consistently across scenarios

Test skill quality with evals before deploying

Build an AI Workflow from a Business Process

See how each step maps to prompts, skills, agents, and integrations on the design matrix

Map a deconstructed process to AI building blocks

Follow a live build from spec to executable artifacts using Claude Code skills and agents

Watch a workflow definition become a working system

Preview Run, Test, and Improve — the phases that turn a build into a reliable system

Understand the path from build to production workflow

Deconstruct Any Business Process into an AI Workflow

See how a 5-step process expands to 15+ steps when you surface buried decisions and data flows

Spot the hidden complexity in any business process

Use Discrete Steps, Decision Points, Data Flows, Context Needs, and Failure Modes to break down a real process

Apply the 5-question framework to deconstruct work

Walk away with a structured definition that maps directly to AI building blocks

Produce a workflow definition ready for AI design

Business Ideas into Buildable PRDs with Claude Code

Watch a rough idea sharpen into a structured vision brief through back-and-forth with Claude Code as a thought partner

Discover how a collaborative AI conversation clarifies ideas

See how a vision brief drives a structured PRD with user stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics

Map the human-AI collaboration that builds a full PRD

Understand the 6-stage SDLC framework and how the PRD you define drives every stage from planning through deployment

Connect the PRD to a complete build-and-ship lifecycle

Build a Registry of Your AI-Powered Value Chain

Walk through a real registry showing how business processes map to workflows and the AI assets that power them

See how processes, workflows, and AI assets connect

Use a Notion template to create your registry with Business Processes, Workflows, and AI Assets databases

Clone and set up your own workflow registry

Add a workflow to your registry and link it to the prompts, skills, or agents that operationalize it

Register one workflow with its AI tools in your registry

Link Notion to Claude or ChatGPT so your processes and IP become accessible context in every conversation

Connect your registry to your AI assistant

Deconstruct Your Workflows for Agentic AI

Name your process and the discrete workflows within it—the first step to making any of them automatable

Identify the workflows hiding inside your business processes

Use a meta-prompting technique to have AI write the detailed instructions for each workflow step

Deconstruct one workflow into AI-executable steps

Capture your domain expertise as documentation you can delegate from, share, or automate

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