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7 Skills for Compound Thinking with Claude Code

Maven

Laura Esquibel Ackerman

producer/raw-clauder

Every conversation becomes a searchable, verbatim archive. Your breakthroughs findable word-for-word when you need them.

Never lose your thinking with AI again

End sessions with dedicated handoffs and return with full context. No more starting from scratch for you or your AI.

Pick up any thread, any time

Pressure-test your ideas and make space for AI's own curiosity and pushback. Your thoughts get sharper together.

Think with AI as a partner, not a yes-machine

Build permanent AI muscle, master the foundations of how AI actually works, and adopt future-proof tactics for the highest quality outputs.

Cohort 10

Founder, Free Agency; AI product leader.

OpenAI

Anthropic

Samsung

a16z

Google

Sherveen Mashayekhi

Founder & CEO of Free Agency. AI Product Leader, Investor, & Applied Researcher.

Cohort 9

Cohort 11

Stop relearning AI every month. In 3 weeks, master the mechanics and systems that make AI output reliable, high-trust, and portable -- across ChatGPT, Claude Code, CLI agents, and whatever comes next.Most people are "AI literate" (they can ask for things). This bootcamp makes you AI fluent. You'll be able to reliably steer, debug, and compound results, even as tools change.The course centers around 3 pillars: 1. Gain a foundational understanding of how LLMs and agents work that will keep you ahead of the game moving forward. It's durable literacy. 2. Build an AI operating system around your particular personality and workflow that will make using AI low-friction, high-trust, and high-impact across tools. 3. Develop an initial set of habits to help you build muscle over time, because it's your reflexive ability to reach for and use AI that will make this all matter.If you already use AI but any of these feel true, this course is for you:• Your results are inconsistent – sometimes gold, sometimes garbage• You can't get an AI agent to do what others can, but you can’t diagnose why• You spend too much time rewriting and re-prompting• You keep trying new tools, but nothing compounds

Gain foundational understanding and build your personal AI operating system.

Think beyond the model, get into the scaffold and context.

Not “better prompts” -- instead, better mechanics.

DRIVE, DIFF, your personal AI repo, and more.

Adopt an agent-forward framework to get the best of what AI has to offer.

Instead of being left behind, you'll get and stay ahead of the AI curve

Your personal AI tech stack and operating system.

• you want a PDF of “50 magic prompts”
• you’re not curious about how AI actually works
• you already live inside arXiv 

This course is NOT for you if...

This course is made for you. We'll mostly stay outside of coding tools, except guided projects where they'll be useful even in your context.

If you are non-technical...

... but you still want a foundational understanding of how LLMs and agents work, you'll enjoy this course (a lot)!

If you're already good at using AI...

This is for ambitious professionals who already use AI weekly (or daily), and want reliability and leverage.

That includes founders, operators, product leaders, PMs, engineers, analysts, designers, finance, and GTM leaders.

No technical experience required. This is primarily aimed at non-technical individuals, though engineers also love this course.

Go from domain expert to the person on your team who makes AI actually work. Leave with a portfolio of skills that save real hours.

Founder, Agentman.ai | myAgentSkills.ai

Prasad thammineni

Atlassian

Salesforce

Rappi

Zillow

Prasad Thammineni

Founder, Agentman.ai & myAgentSkills.ai

Cohort 1

Ask AI to write in your brand voice? It sounds like everyone else. Ask it to run your close checklist? It skips your steps. AI is trained on the internet — not on how you do your work.This course teaches you to bottle your domain knowledge — brand voice guidelines, close checklists, contract review playbooks, sales methodologies — into Claude Skills that AI follows reliably. Skills that work across Claude.ai, Agentman, ChatGPT, and other AI platforms. Then connect them to your tools using Claude Plugins and MCPs — turning AI from a chatbot into a coworker that executes your workflows.The research backs this up: Stanford, CMU, Berkeley, and Oxford tested 7,308 AI runs across 29 domains. Structured skills improved performance by 16 percentage points on average — 52 points in healthcare. When AI wrote its own skills? Performance dropped. Your expertise is the ingredient AI can't manufacture. That's your job.No code. No engineering background. By week 4, you'll have 3–5 production-ready skills saving you real hours every week — and a new competitive advantage in the emerging skills economy. One skill that saves 30 minutes a day pays for this course in weeks.

Turn AI from a chatbot into a coworker that executes your workflows.

Find your packageable expertise and write Claude Skills that AI follows reliably

Connect skills to real tools & build workflows that replace hours of your work

Leave with a portfolio of 3–5 production-ready Claude Skills you built

You should have real-world experience in marketing, finance, legal, operations, product, or another specialty. No coding required.

Domain expertise in any business function

You've used AI chatbots for work tasks. You don't need to know how they work under the hood.

Basic familiarity with AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude

Domain experts in marketing, finance, legal, ops, HR, or sales who want to package their expertise into AI that actually works.

AI-curious professionals who use ChatGPT or Claude and want to go beyond prompts — to build skills you can share with your team or publish

Consultants &amp; agencies wanting to offer AI skill-building as a new service — package client expertise into scalable, repeatable workflows

Build a PM Copilot: AI that remembers everything, plans your day, and reviews your week. No coding required.

Head of Product | AI for non-tech users

Myles Sutholt

Head of Product, 10+ years - Building AI for non-technical healthcare worker

Cohort 2

85% of AI users report saving hours every week. (Workday, 2026)When researchers actually measured it, experienced engineers were 19% slower with AI. They believed they were 20% faster. (METR, 2025)If senior engineers cannot tell whether AI is helping them, the rest of us almost certainly cannot either.I saw this in my own teams. Same tools, same AI. They used it like a vending machine: throw in a prompt, some inputs after being asked, get polished output, move on.The problem was not the AI. It was what AI knew about their work. Very little beyond what it asked for.Most CEOs report no net benefit from AI. Only about 1 in 10 capture real gains. (PwC CEO Survey, 2026)I built a system that gives AI my real context that compounds over time: projects, decisions, priorities. It changes the output because it can ask much better questions. It already knows everything it needs to act as a virtual team member. You leave with a working system built on your actual work. Not a demo, not a certificate. From ChatGPT basics to building automations, the course meets you where you are.If you work with projects, decisions, and AI, this is for you.

AI Copilot that remembers everything and plans your week. No coding required.

AI That is Visibly Better

Your AI never forgets who you are or what you're working on

Context-switch between projects without losing anything

Wake up to your priorities already sorted

Your weekly review writes itself every Friday

Enable seamless AI handoffs with teammates

You'll build on AI habits you already have, not learn from scratch.

Use ChatGPT or Claude regularly (not just tried once)

Proves you have the "I'll figure it out" mindset the course requires

Have experience with Notion, Zapier, or similar tools

You'll run terminal commands and see code - AI writes it, but you'll see it.

Willing to try things that feel unfamiliar at first

<pre><code class="language-markdown">You want a competitive edge. Comfortable being a beginner if it means being the person others ask "how did you do that?"</code></pre>

You want a competitive edge. Comfortable being a beginner if it means being the person others ask "how did you do that?"

<pre><code class="language-markdown">You can't work more hours. You need leverage, not tips. You want a system that compounds over time.</code></pre>

Master the fundamentals of Claude Code and build your first project in a single weekend

AI Product Leader & AI Coding Educator

MongoDB

Timescale

YouTube

Princeton University

Avthar Sewrathan

14-15 March 2026

Claude Code is the most important AI tool to learn in 2026. This course helps you master the fundamentals and start building productively. You'll go from zero to a working project in a single weekend. You'll learn how to plan projects so Claude builds what you want, build features with a repeatable system, and customize Claude Code to fit your tools and workflows.What you'll walk away with:<ul><li>A working app, dashboard, landing page, or workflow you built during the course.</li><li>A recorded demo to share with your team, network, or portfolio.</li><li>Repeatable systems for research, planning, building and testing you can apply to every future project.</li><li>Exposure to advanced Claude Code features and workflows like Skills, MCPs and Plugins, async usage, and multi-agent development.</li></ul>I created this course to offer what I can't on Youtube: personalized support, faster progression, and accountability to actually build alongside a community of peers.Every topic is taught through live demos, followed by a hands-on activity to immediately put into practice what you learned. Plus help whenever you need it during in-class build time, live Q+A and async via Slack.

Learn Claude Code. Build your first project. All in just 2 days.

Set up and use Claude Code on Desktop, Terminal, IDE, Web and Mobile

Plan and spec projects so Claude builds what you actually want

Build and iterate on features with a repeatable system (RPIT)

Customize Claude Code to fit your personal workflows

Walk away with a real project (and a path to continue learning)

You'll need this to run Claude Code and build your projects

Laptop or desktop computer

Come with an idea for a web app, mobile app, workflow, dashboard, or landing page (examples / suggestions also provided)

Ideas for projects to build during the course

You'll need a Claude Pro ($20/mo) or Claude Max ($100-200/mo) account to access Claude Code

Claude Pro or Max account

Software engineers and Product Managers who want to quickly adopt AI-native development workflows

Founders and Business Owners who want to transform their product development and business operations with AI

Non-technical but motivated professionals in marketing, operations, content and sales who want to build workflows and personal apps with AI.