Welcome: What This Program Delivers
This is not an AI appreciation course. Over the next weeks, your teams will use Claude on your company's real work — real documents, real workflows, real constraints — and the program ends with each department putting one tested workflow into controlled production. Everything in these 53 hours is built backward from that ending.
We designed it the way a production is designed: every hour has a job, every session produces something, and nothing is here to fill time. Your part of the bargain is to arrive prepared — this phase, done before kickoff, is how.
The arc
| Phase | You learn | You leave with |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · Foundations | How Claude works, where to work, how to brief it, what to share | A tested Claude Project for one recurring task |
| 2 · Functional Tracks | Your department's highest-value patterns, hands-on | A working workflow prototype with a baseline and an owner |
| 3 · Systems and Governance | Connections, agents, policy, permissions, rollout | A capstone workflow approved for controlled release |
| 4 · Beyond the Program | How to compound the win | A 90-day plan and a learning path per role |
The thread that runs through all four: pick real work, give real context, judge the result, keep what works, and know who owns it. You will hear that rhythm in every lesson.
How the sessions work
Each lesson pairs a short video with a written page you can return to — the pages are the reference, the videos are the guide. Foundations lessons end with a Ready to move on check; track and systems lessons end with a Definition of done. Those checkpoints are the actual progress markers of this program — not watch time.
Two working rules make the hours count:
- Bring real work. The functional tracks run on materials you bring. A team that arrives with its workflow packet leaves with a prototype; a team that arrives empty-handed leaves with a demo.
- Practice sections are the course. Reading about a working brief takes three minutes; writing one against your own task is where the skill forms. Skip the practice and you have watched a documentary.
Throughout, examples run on Northstar Components, a fictional 400-person sensor manufacturer. When you see Maya prepare a renewal brief or Priya run a variance check, substitute your own desk — that is the intended move.
Before kickoff
- Confirm you can sign in to your company's approved Claude workspace.
- Complete the other two orientation lessons: how to use the resources and what completion means.
- Start noticing candidates: recurring tasks that are frequent, information-heavy, and slowed by searching, drafting, comparing, or reformatting. You will formally pick one in the first Foundations lesson.
Ready to move on
You can say what each phase produces, what you are expected to bring, and what the program's real finish line is — a workflow in production, not a certificate.