Build a Course in an Hour
Watch a whole new course get built from scratch in about an hour — structured with Cowork, built with the Minisite skill, and illustrated with Midjourney. The example we build: Build Your Own AI Team. You'll learn the exact, repeatable process.
Please note: this session is educational only, not financial, tax or legal advice. AI product features, pricing and connectors change fast — treat specifics as current at June 2026 and verify before relying on them. For regulated work, a human always reviews and approves.
How a Course Gets Built in an Hour
Three tools, one repeatable loop. This very course was built this way, live — and you’ll watch each step.
Cowork
Hand Cowork the research and a plain-English goal. It scopes the audience, proposes modules and lessons, asks a couple of clarifying questions, and produces a phased plan you approve.
The Minisite Skill
A Skill encodes this site’s design system, so the landing page, dashboard and lessons all come out consistent — without hand-building the scaffold each time.
Midjourney
You don’t write the prompts — ask Claude (or ChatGPT) to write them, with one consistent style, the right aspect ratios and diverse people, then copy-paste each into Midjourney.
Learn It Live With Rupert
One practical hour over Google Meet. Watch a whole new course get built from scratch — structured with Cowork, built with the Minisite skill, illustrated with Midjourney — and learn the exact process so you can do it yourself. It’s the last of four free sessions this week.
What You'll Walk Away With
Six practical takeaways — the repeatable loop for building a course, or your own AI team, with AI.
Delegate a whole job to Cowork
Give a plain-English goal and let Cowork plan and execute the multi-step work, with you steering.
Turn research into a course
Watch a dossier become a clear module-and-lesson structure and a phased build plan.
Build pages with a Skill
See how the Minisite skill scaffolds a landing page, dashboard and lessons in one consistent style.
Illustrate with Midjourney
Have Claude write the Midjourney prompts — one locked style, the right aspect ratios, diverse people — and copy-paste them in.
Ship it & wire it in
Put the course live in the catalogue and sitemap — and keep it maintained as tools change.
Build your own AI team
Point the same loop at your real work — content, email, scheduling, research — under supervision.
Read It as a Book
The Build-a-Course Playbook — the whole session as a short, readable guide: the idea, structuring with Cowork, building with the Minisite skill, illustrating with Midjourney, and shipping it. Read online or download as a PDF.
5 chapters · read in well under an hour · carries the same educational-only disclaimer
The Hour, Step by Step
One idea, three build steps, and shipping it — the whole loop.
01The Idea: Build Your Own AI Team
12 min · the subject & the brief
The Idea: Build Your Own AI Team
12 min · the subject & the brief
02Step 1 — Structure It with Cowork
12 min · research to a phased plan
Step 1 — Structure It with Cowork
12 min · research to a phased plan
03Step 2 — Build the Pages with the Minisite Skill
12 min · what a Skill is
Step 2 — Build the Pages with the Minisite Skill
12 min · what a Skill is
04Step 3 — Illustrate with Midjourney
12 min · a cohesive image set
Step 3 — Illustrate with Midjourney
12 min · a cohesive image set
05Ship It & Do It Yourself
10 min · go live & reuse the loop
Ship It & Do It Yourself
10 min · go live & reuse the loop
Your Instructor
Rupert Chesman
Filmmaker turned AI educator who builds courses, content and tools with Claude every day — including this whole site. So this session comes from real, hands-on practice, not theory. Over 700 students taught this year.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to know how to code?
No. The whole point is that this is no-code: you delegate to Cowork, build pages with the Minisite skill, and make images in Midjourney — all in plain English.
What course actually gets built in the session?
Build Your Own AI Team — a short course on assembling AI assistants for a small business, safely. It’s the worked example; the real lesson is the repeatable build process.
What tools do I need to follow along?
To just watch and learn the process, nothing. To do it yourself you’d want a Claude plan that includes Cowork and a Midjourney subscription. Plans and features change — check current details before you rely on them.
Is this financial or legal advice?
No — it’s educational only. The example course touches on small-business workflows; for regulated work (bookkeeping, BAS, super) AI prepares and checks while a human reviews and lodges.
When is it on, and what do I need?
Friday 26 June 2026, 1:00–2:00pm Sydney. Just bring curiosity — no coding or design background needed. Sign up here.
Build Something Live, in an Hour
It’s free and live. Sign up to get the Google Meet link for this session and the rest of the week’s free series.