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Anthropic Claude for Absolute Beginners

Vivian Aranha

Founder and Instructor 
@ School of AI

Understand what Claude is, how it works, and how to use it confidently as a beginner.

Master Claude Basics

Learn how to create clear prompts that generate higher-quality and more useful AI responses.

Write Better Prompts

Apply Claude for productivity, learning, writing, research, and career growth daily.

Use Claude for Real Tasks

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

Cohort 3

UC Berkeley AI Instructor | ex CIO/CPO 

Microsoft

UC Berkeley

Capital One

Google

Amazon

James Gray

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

Cohort 2

Cohort 4

The agentic era rewards builders. Become one.You've mastered Claude for one-off prompts. The people pulling away aren't prompting harder — they're building AI systems that run without them. Your best workflows stay trapped in your head. Ideas wait on engineering. You can see where AI belongs, but not which workflows really fit or how to wire it all together. And you can't lead AI without hands-on credibility.In 5 weeks using the Claude Platform — Chat, Cowork, Code — you'll:✅ Operate your business from a unified AI command center✅ Delegate recurring work to custom skills, agents, and plugins you build yourself✅ Classify any workflow by autonomy and oversight to design the right AI✅ Turn any painful workflow into a working AI system with a methodical 7-step approach✅ Build with the right pattern for each job — a prompt, a skill, or a full agent✅ Ship a working web app prototype to a live URLThis isn't tips and tricks — it's a systematic method, honed training 5,000+ leaders at UC Berkeley and a decade leading at Microsoft. Small cohorts, 1:1 coaching, lifetime access. We build together, not lecture. Cohort 1 rated 4.8/5.

Build AI-powered solutions across the Claude platform

Operate your business from a unified AI command center

Design the right AI system for every workflow you run

Turn any business workflow into a working AI system, step by step

Build workflows with the right AI pattern — prompts, skills, or agents

Delegate recurring work to custom AI skills, agents, and plugins

Prototype and ship a working web app to a live URL in 5 weeks

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.

Get your work done for you with Claude Cowork

Helping you master AI daily  

Dr. Alvaro Cintas

Helping you master AI daily | Professor & Researcher

Cohort 1

A half-day intensive for knowledge workers ready to stop chatting with AI and start having it do real work - autonomously, across your actual tools and files.You're already using AI. But if you're still copy-pasting outputs, rewriting prompts, and doing the follow-through yourself, you're using it like a search engine with better grammar.Claude Cowork launched in January 2026 and most professionals still don't know how to use it optimally. It's the first agentic tool built for non-engineers that can actually run multi-step tasks across your real tools: Gmail, Google Drive, Slack, and more, without a terminal, without code, and without you babysitting it. The professionals who figure this out in the next six months will have a compounding productivity advantage that's very hard to close later.In this half-day workshop, I walk you through how Cowork works, how to connect your tools, and how to build a personal Skill from scratch - tailored to your role, your context, and your actual workflow.You'll leave with a working setup, a Skill you built yourself, and a curated resource stack you can reference long after the session.This is for anyone looking to learn how to use Claude Cowork!

Stop prompting and start delegating. Leave with a working Skill, a live Cowork setup, and AI handling real work for you.

Understand how Claude Cowork differs from chat

Connect your real tools and wire them into your workflows

Build a personal Skill from scratch during the session

Run complex, multi-step tasks without code or a terminal

Delegate work from your phone and come back to it done

Leave with a setup and resource stack you'll actually use

Knowledge workers already using AI daily but still doing most of the work themselves - ready to hand real tasks over to an agent.

Operators, consultants, managers, and execs who manage high volumes of information and want AI doing the heavy lifting.

Professionals who know AI is important and are finally ready to set it up the right way - no coding background required.

Build Autonomous Agents That Work While You Sleep. 10 Ready-to-Run Blueprints.

Professor & AI expert (540K+ Students)

HSBC

General Motors

Samsung

Dr. Ryan Ahmed @Stemplicity

Professor, AI expert, & YouTuber who has taught 540,000+ learners worldwide.

Director of Engineering @Launchpad.AI

Nike

Levi's

Mr. Cooper

Launchpad

Kukesh Kodess

Director of Engineering with 7+ years building cutting-edge AI/ML systems

⭐"Join the instructor trusted by 540K+ students with 40K+ five-star reviews and 50M+ minutes of AI training watched worldwide."Stop Prompting. Start Delegating. Build an Agent That Actually Knows You in 1 Day.10 Blueprints. 100+ Slides. Claude Code + Cowork. Everything Runs From Your Phone.Most AI workshops teach you to prompt a chatbot. This one builds you a personal AI agent that knows how you think, connects to your real tools, and runs tasks while you sleep.What you walk away with:✅ Claude Code + Cowork fully configured &amp; ready to build during the workshop✅ Multi-agent teams that research, write, &amp; review in parallel✅ "Soul.md" identity file, your agent writes &amp; thinks like you✅ 10 ready-to-run automation blueprints✅ Email, calendar, Drive, Notion, &amp; GitHub wired in via MCP✅ Phone control via Dispatch + Telegram, assign tasks from your couch✅ Custom skills, plugins, and slash commands ✅ Scheduled agents: morning briefs, market scans, sprint updates; all automated✅ Persistent memory via Obsidian so your agent gets smarter over time✅ 100+ slide Agentic AI guide to keep building after the workshop✅ Pre-recorded setup videos + lifetime access to the recording of the live workshop

Founders, operators, and professionals who want to build personal AI agents to automate workflows and scale their output

Product managers and software engineers looking to prototype and deploy production-ready agent systems quickly

Builders and knowledge workers who want to move beyond demos and build their own personal AI agents using Claude Code in a day

Claude is more than a chatbot. This course teaches you everything you're not using and how to leverage its full potential.

April Cohort

Founder | Growth Operator |20k+ Students

Relay.app

Project A

Esade

Università Bocconi

Ethermail.Ethermail

Pietro Montaldo

AI Educator | Top Voice on AI for Growth Systems

May Cohort

You're using maybe 10% of what Claude can do.Either way, you never properly learned the ecosystem, the connections, and the full set of tools at your disposal: Cowork, Skills, Plugins, MCP connectors, Computer Control and Dispatch. In two intensive sessions, you'll learn how to:<ul><li>Properly set up all your Claude environment</li><li>Manage safety and permissions</li><li>Organize your workspace and files</li><li>Build, test, adapt and maintain custom Skills and Plugins</li><li>Connect Claude to the tools you already use in a professional way (SKILL + MCP)</li><li>Understand fully the entire potential of Claude for non-tech user</li></ul>Each session is followed by an optional office hour for hands-on help with your practical homework.<ul><li>50% Theory, 50% Practical</li><li>Small Cohorts to maximize learning</li><li>100% Live Sessions with real demos</li><li>Optional Office Hours for Q&amp;A and dedicate support</li></ul>IMPORTANT: this course does not cover Claude Code, which is designed for developers. We focus exclusively on the Claude ecosystem built for non-technical operators.

Go from casual Claude user to advanced operator in 5 hours

Understand the Claude Ecosystem (and What's Actually for You)

Set Up Cowork and Start Using It for Real Work

Build, Test, and Share Your Own Skills

Automate Your Workflows with Plugins and Scheduled Tasks

You should be familiar with ChatGPT, Claude or other LLMs in your day-to-day.

Basic Prompting Skills

We need a pro or max account to be able to use CoWork and Skills to the fullest

PAID account on Claude

Make sure you you hardware is compatible with CoWork

Marketers, operators, and founders already using Claude who want to unlock the full platform beyond the chat

ChatGPT or Gemini users looking to switch to Claude and learn the ecosystem from scratch the right way

No coding or technical skills required. Claude CODE is NOT included in this course.