013 hours
AI Workshop
Three hours, hands-on, in Claude. Your team works on tasks from your industry and saves its first skills.
3 hours
Best for
One team, one process, or people who already use AI.
practical ai bootcamp · full day
The Practical AI Bootcamp: from the basics to hands-on work in one day.
The Practical AI Bootcamp is a one-day training for teams that want to understand AI and use it on the same day.
The morning covers how to use AI apps well, and how automation, AI automation, and AI agents differ. Each person ends it by writing down three workflows from their own job. The afternoon is the AI Workshop: three hours of hands-on work in Claude, on examples from your industry.
- Length
- 6 hours, plus lunch
- Format
- Morning talks, hands-on afternoon
- Group
- Up to 20 people
- Where
- On site in the U.S., or online
Outcomes
What your team will be able to do.
The morning gives everyone the same background. The afternoon puts it to work, with each person on their own laptop.
- 01
Pick the right AI app, model, and setting for a task.
- 02
Use web search and research to check on competitors and your market, and verify the sources.
- 03
Hand AI a document or spreadsheet and check what it actually read.
- 04
Tell rule-based automation, AI automation, and AI agents apart, and match each one to the right job.
- 05
Write a task down as a workflow: what starts it, the steps, and the result.
- 06
Connect Claude to your tools, save skills, and put a task on a schedule.
The agenda
A morning of background, an afternoon of building.
About six hours of training with breaks, plus lunch. The afternoon is the full AI Workshop.
Start6 hours, plus lunch
Morning: using AI well
- 15 min
Welcome
The plan for the day, and a quick round where each person names one task they wish AI could take off their plate.
- 75 min
Using AI apps for real work
We start with a plain chat window and add one feature at a time: smarter models, web search, deep research, your documents, and your spreadsheets. Everyone tries each step.
- 15 min
Questions and a break
- 75 min
Automation, AI automation, and agents
What a workflow is, then one example, handling customer requests, as it moves from simple rules to AI to an agent. Each person writes down three workflows from their own job.
- Lunch
Lunch
Afternoon: the AI Workshop
- 75 min
Session 1: Claude Chat
Privacy settings, research, connecting your email and files, skills, and projects.
- 15 min
Questions and a break
- 75 min
Session 2: Claude Cowork
One folder, a CLAUDE.md file, a dashboard and a report from a spreadsheet, a skill, and a task on a schedule.
- 15 min
Questions and next steps
Each person picks the first of their three workflows to hand to AI.
What you leave with
What each person leaves with.
Everything from the AI Workshop, plus what the morning adds.
- Three workflows from their own job, written down and checked against four questions: how often it happens, how clear the rules are, what data it uses, and what happens if it fails.
- A clear sense of which AI app and setting to open for which job.
- A Claude account set up safely and connected to approved tools.
- A saved skill, a dashboard and report from a spreadsheet, and one task that runs on a schedule.
- A page with every prompt from the day.
The morning in one picture
Three kinds of automation, and when each one fits.
People lump these together. The morning pulls them apart with one running example, so your team can tell which kind a task needs, if any.
Rule-based automation
Follows fixed steps, every time. Good for invoice reminders or moving form entries into a spreadsheet.
Cheap to run and predictable. It breaks when the input is messy.
AI automation
Fixed steps with one AI step that can read messy input. Good for sorting customer emails or drafting replies for a person to review.
It costs a little every time it runs, and someone checks the output.
AI agent
Gets a goal and a set of tools, and decides the steps itself. Good for handling a customer request from start to finish.
The most flexible, and the one that needs the most checking.
Who it is for
Is the Practical AI Bootcamp right for your team?
A good fit
- Teams with set processes and some software in place.
- Owners who want the team to understand AI and use it on the same day.
- Teams that keep hearing about AI agents and want to know what would actually help.
Not the right fit
- Teams that rarely use a computer for their work. The AI Foundations Bootcamp starts further back.
- Teams that only need hands-on time in Claude. The AI Workshop is half the length.
What your team needs before the day.
- A laptop for each person, Mac or Windows.
- The Claude desktop app, installed and signed in before the day. I send setup steps a few days before.
- A paid Claude plan for each person. Claude Cowork, used in the second session, is not on the free plan.
- If your company is on a Claude Team or Enterprise plan, someone with admin access checks a few settings first. In a small business, that person is often you.
- For the morning, the AI app your company already uses works too.
- Three tasks each person repeats every week. A short survey a week before collects them.
Other trainings
Not quite the right fit?
03Full day
AI Foundations Bootcamp
A full day for beginners. How AI works and what it can do, in plain words, with games and quizzes in place of building.
6 hours, plus lunch
Best for
Teams that rarely use AI and run on email, paper, and memory.
Questions
What owners ask about the Practical AI Bootcamp.
What is the Practical AI Bootcamp?
A one-day AI training for small business teams. The morning covers how to use AI apps well and how automation, AI automation, and AI agents differ. The afternoon is the AI Workshop, three hours of hands-on work in Claude.
How is it different from the AI Workshop?
The afternoon is the AI Workshop. The morning adds the background: how to use AI apps well, and how the three kinds of automation differ. Teams that already use AI every day can go straight to the AI Workshop.
Do we need technical skills?
No. Everyone needs to be comfortable on a laptop. I explain every term in plain words.
Which AI tools do you use?
In the morning, the AI app your company uses, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot. The afternoon runs in Claude. What your team learns works in the other apps too.
Do we need paid AI plans?
Yes, a paid Claude plan for each person, because Claude Cowork in the afternoon is not on the free plan. I send setup steps a few days before.
How many people can join?
Up to 20 people in one hands-on session. A bigger team splits into groups.
Is it on site or online?
Either. I come to your business anywhere in the U.S., or run it on a video call. The agenda is the same.
What does the Practical AI Bootcamp cost?
I don't publish prices. I quote after a short call, because it depends on your group size, where we run it, and how much I set up for your industry.
What happens after the bootcamp?
Each person leaves with three workflows from their own job. We go through those lists together and decide what your team can do in Claude, what to automate, and what to leave alone.
Plan your team's Practical AI Bootcamp.
In a 30-minute call we talk about your team, the work they repeat, and the examples to use on the day. The call is free.
Free. 30 minutes.