Week 1 · foundation
Basics of Claude + the AI Landscape
Get fluent fast, and set up an AI command center tuned to your job.
Week one exists to do one thing: get you from “curious” to “this is genuinely useful” before you leave the session. We tour Claude just enough to start building, place it on the map of AI tools (and teach the principle that the structure you learn ports to any of them), then build your personal AI command center — a Project tuned to your actual job.
The week ends on its wow: asking your command center a real question and watching it answer from your documents. That feeling is the whole course in miniature — and it’s the first Delegation decision you’ll make: what’s worth handing to AI.
Learner goals
- Navigate Claude confidently: chat, Artifacts, file analysis, the model picker.
- Understand the AI landscape (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, image models) and why structure beats tools.
- Create a Project tuned to your role, with custom instructions and knowledge.
- Get a first real win — Claude answering a genuine work question from your own documents.
What you set up live
- Create your workspace and first Project.
- Add two real documents as Project knowledge.
- Build a cheat-sheet Artifact of your best prompts.
Run-of-show · 180 min
The session timeline. The amber row is where the wow lands.
| Time | Segment | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 · 15m | Welcome & the promise | Talk |
| 0:15 · 20m | The AI landscape — and why structure beats tools | Talk |
| 0:35 · 15m | Tour: chat, Artifacts, file analysis, model picker | Screen-share |
| 0:50 · 40m | Build-along: create your AI command center (Project) | Build-along |
| 1:30 · 10m | Break | Break |
| 1:40 · 40m | Build-along: first real win + cheat-sheet Artifact ✦ wow | Build-along |
| 2:20 · 25m | Role breakout: tune it to your job | Breakout |
| 2:45 · 15m | Project handoff & the 4D mindset | Talk |
Become the AI-powered one in your office
Eight weeks. A real project every week. A personal AI assistant that does real work for you — taught live.