Claude AI: The 3-Hour Intensive
From chatbot to digital coworker in three hours. A practical, no-hype Claude course for business professionals — the model family, prompting, Artifacts, Cowork, the Office add-ins, connectors, Skills, a governance brief, and a real Australian case study of running a company's books with Claude.
What You'll Learn
Every Claude feature worth knowing, in the order you'll actually use them — and how to put it to work the next morning.
The Four-Tier Model
Haiku, Sonnet, Opus and the Mythos tier — and the simple heuristic for choosing the right Claude every time.
Prompts That Hold Up
The RCTF framework that turns a vague ask into a reliable result — and a reusable prompt library.
Artifacts, Styles & Projects
Build real, editable things in your own voice — and give Claude your knowledge so it works like you.
Cowork: AI That Does the Work
Hand whole multi-step jobs to Claude as a desktop coworker — and supervise instead of doing.
Office Add-ins & Chrome
Claude working inside Excel, PowerPoint and your browser — with the guardrails you need to know.
Connectors, Skills & MCP
Wire Claude into Gmail, Drive, Slack and your stack — and make your best workflows permanent.
Trust & Governance
Data privacy, certifications and the safety story — plus a one-page brief to win over IT and the board.
A Real Australian Case Study
Bonus module: running a GST-registered company's books with Cowork + Claude in Chrome, in QuickBooks.
Read the Whole Course as a Book
The Claude Handbook — the full intensive as a disciplined, browsable book: the models, the agentic products, governance, and the Australian case study, kept current as Claude changes.
4 sections · 8 chapters · covers all 18 lessons · read online or download as PDF · kept up to date as the tools change
Course Curriculum
Six core modules over three hours, plus a live bonus case study. Tap any module to preview the lessons.
Who This Course Is For
Business Professionals
Managers, operators and knowledge workers who want Claude doing real work in their week.
Operations & Finance Teams
The people drowning in spreadsheets, inboxes and admin — exactly the work Claude is best at.
Team Leaders
Deciding how the team adopts AI — and needing the governance story to defend the choice.
Anyone Curious
No technical background needed. If you've used a chatbot once, you're more than ready.
Your Instructor
Rupert Chesman
Filmmaker turned AI educator and author of The AI-Native Playbook, with over 700 students taught this year alone. Rupert teaches Claude the way he uses it himself — running his own company's books, invoicing and reconciliations with Cowork and Claude in Chrome. Deliberately anti-hype, relentlessly practical.
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About the Expert
Rupert Chesman
AI Educator · Filmmaker · Author of The AI-Native Playbook
Rupert has taught over 700 students this year across corporate workshops, online courses and live intensives — including AI training delivered through the Australian Institute of Management. He turns complex AI capability into practical, immediately applicable skills.
Ready to Start?
Jump straight into the lessons, or leave your email to hear when live workshops and the handbook drop.