AI-First Operators: Ship the Tools Your Team Actually Needs
Rona Ruthen
Startup operator, ex-Monzo.
Stop using AI like a slightly better Google. Start operating with it.
You already use Claude or ChatGPT most days, and it saves you minutes. The bigger opportunity, redesigning how the work actually gets done, stays untouched. Not because you lack the ability, but because of time, noise, and the gap between "this is impressive" and "this materially changes how my team operates."
This program closes that gap in six weeks, and it is built on Claude. You will set Claude and Claude Code up as your own operating system, build an EA agent with a suite of skills, use Claude and Lovable to build a live customer dashboard, and design a multi-agent workflow for your role.
Running alongside every session, you ship one real tool of your own: scoped, specced, built, tested, and published to a URL someone else can actually use.
One Wednesday a week, three hours. The first hour is your build, then a break, then the session. Optional office hours in weeks three and four. Three cohorts of senior operators have been through this curriculum. Not slides. Not theory. Tools that survive Monday morning.
What you’ll learn
Go from casual AI use to running your function on it: your stack, your agents, your team's adoption, and one shipped tool.
Set up with the right guardrails, running your recurring work: meeting prep, follow-ups, briefs, papers.
A Meeting-Prep EA on your real calendar, plus the mental model to build the next five.
Real customer feedback in, themes and a working dashboard out, using a build pattern you can point at any dataset.
Scoped, specced, built, tested and published across six guided build hours, then demoed at the showcase.
Data tiers, action classes, review gates and cost visibility, so you can say yes to your team safely.
Agents that hand off to each other, plus a map of where the next opportunities sit in your function.
Learn directly from Rona
Rona Ruthen
Startup and scale-up Operator, ex-Monzo. Redesigning work in an AI-pilled world
Who this course is for
COOs, VPs of Operations and Heads of Ops at startups and scale-ups who are expected to lead AI adoption for their function.
Chiefs of Staff and fractional operators who want to be the builder in the room, not the person forwarding vendor decks.
Senior operators who use ChatGPT or Claude daily but know it hasn't actually changed how their work gets done.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Rona Ruthen in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
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Course syllabus
8 live sessions • 10 lessons
Week 1
Week 1: Getting personal with Claude Code
Sep
16
Session 1: Getting personal with Claude
Project step 1: Choose and scope your build
Week 2
Week 2: Skills, agents and better performance
Sep
23
Session 2: Skills, agents and optimising for performance
Project step 2: Research, PRD and design direction
Schedule
Live sessions
3 hrs / week
Wed, Sep 16
8:00 AM—11:00 AM (UTC)
Wed, Sep 23
8:00 AM—11:00 AM (UTC)
Wed, Sep 30
8:00 AM—11:00 AM (UTC)
Projects
2 hrs / week
Async content
1 hr / week
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