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Claude Training Program

Eight sessions over four weeks that took the firm from first prompt to building its own tools.

A surfer riding the inside of a huge wave whose foam is shaped like a brain

Why I built it

The firm had rolled out Claude, but rolling out a tool and getting people to use it well are different things. Nobody was sure what they could put into it, which Claude product fit which job, or how to get past chat into real work. I wrote the curriculum and built the site it runs on.

What it does

  • Eight sessions over four weeks: firm guidelines, prompting, writing and artifacts, deep research, shared projects, Claude in Excel/PowerPoint/Chrome, connectors and automation, and Claude Code and the API.
  • Quizzes and live 'Try It' Claude exercises in every session, with progress saved per person.
  • A compliance guide ('Before you upload, ask yourself') and a which-Claude-tool-should-I-use chooser.
  • A team prompt library, Prompt of the Week, weekly challenges and a leaderboard.
  • An ROI log where attendees record time saved, rolled up on a team dashboard.
  • A facilitator console to track everyone's progress and issue completion certificates.

How it works

A static site with serverless functions for sign-in, progress, the prompt library, admin and Claude calls, on top of a Redis store. No build step, which meant I could fix a session between classes.

Sign-in is a six-digit email code limited to company domains. The Claude proxy restricts models, caps tokens and rate-limits each person.

Calls I made

Session one is the rules

People use a tool more once they know exactly where the lines are, so compliance came before prompting.

Attendees log the time they saved

The ROI log turned the program into a business case I could show the partners.