The course
Your AI resource library
A free course in twelve sections. Start at the top, or jump to the section you need.
Part 1 Learn the tools
01
Start here: the six building blocks of Claude, each with its chapter of the full course. The whole course and all six on one page: Claude 101 →
Connectors
Connect Gmail, Drive, Calendar or Microsoft 365, and stay safe.
Watch and read →
Bonus
Model families
Which Claude model to pick, and when to leave it alone.
Open →
FAQ: limits, plans and API keys
The questions that come up in nearly every lesson, answered once.
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02
How to Prompt
You get out what you put in: a prompt is context you type, and SDS is how you type it well.
How to Prompt: SDS
Set the stage, name the task, say what good looks like.
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Voice and Wispr Flow
Why talking beats typing, dictation and voice mode, and Wispr Flow.
Open →
Good prompts vs bad
Four real asks, written badly then written well. The four moves.
Open →
03
Claude Code
The desktop app is where you delegate. VS Code is where you ship.
How to create anything: start in VS Code
New folder, PRD, plan mode, then build.
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PRD: the brief before the build
The brief that stops Claude building the wrong thing.
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API keys
What a key is, and why it never goes in a page.
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Netlify: put it live
Put your build on the internet, three ways.
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Supabase: a real database
A real database, sign-in, and the test that proves privacy.
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Advanced skills
Install a skill once instead of pasting it into every chat.
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04
Claude Design
Your own marketing studio.
Claude Design: describe it, refine it, ship it
When to reach for it over Chat and Cowork.
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Design by reference
Show it a screenshot that already looks right. Steal the layout.
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Slide decks
Four routes to a deck, and which one you actually want.
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Video
Coming soon
Part 2 Understand AI
05
Claude Academy Courses
Anthropic’s courses, compressed.
AI Fluency: the 4D framework
Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence. Based on Anthropic’s AI Fluency course.
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AI Capabilities and Limitations
Why it is brilliant one minute and confidently wrong the next.
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AI Fluency for Small Businesses
Coming soon
06
Dangers of AI
Dangers of AI: the agreement loop and over-reliance
It agrees with you, and you quietly stop checking.
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Part 3 Use it
07
Claude for Work
Find the work worth automating, write the SOP, then automate.
Education, then SOPs, then automation
Automation is the last step. Teach, write it down, then automate.
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The SOP Generator
Copy-paste prompts that turn messy notes into a clean, structured SOP.
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The skills toolbox
The tools I bring to jobs, plus free downloadable skills.
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Use cases
Real use cases from Anthropic’s own library, grouped by kind of work.
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08
Claude for Life
Big builds you make for yourself.
The app library
Coming soon
Finances
Coming soon
Fitness and health
Coming soon
The council
Coming soon
09
Files your AI reads every session, so it knows your work better every week.
Your second brain
Context that compounds, and the starter file to begin your own.
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The monthly memory audit
A second brain rots quietly. One prompt, run on a date.
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Part 4 Go further
10
Advanced
Multi-agent orchestration
When several AI helpers beat one long conversation.
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11
Real Builds
Things I’ve built
A gallery of real tools built with AI.
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The AI Building Course: eleven projects
Take the finished build apart, or build your own from a roadmap.
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12
Beyond Claude
Gemini Notebook
Answers from the sources you give it, with a citation.
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ChatGPT and Codex
OpenAI's side of the same three moves, judged fairly.
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Worth your time
A short, vetted shortlist beats the firehose. Start at the top, stop when you have enough.
More stars mean start here. ★★★ start , ★★ go deeper , ★ browse .
★★★ ~10 min a visit · the source for Claude Straight from the people who make Claude: what is new, what each surface does, and how to use it well. Trust this over any third party for Claude facts.
★★★ ~15 min a topic · reference, not entertainment The official documentation. Dry but reliable when you need the real answer on a feature, a limit, or how something actually works.
★★★ ~20 min a video · automation, creator-friendly angle Clear walkthroughs of AI automation and agent workflows for people who are not engineers. Good for seeing a whole build end to end.
★★ ~15 min a video · official channel Talks, feature demos, and research explainers from Anthropic itself. Slower-moving than the news channels but authoritative.
This hub keeps growing
New prompts and guides land here often, so check back. Want it set up around your own work? Book a free chat and we can do it together: calendly.com/seanmccloskey/30min .
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