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Claude

Claude, Cowork and Claude Code: from your first session to agent harness engineering. 15 platform modules plus 22 that apply to every platform.

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Three modules, in order: the required trio for the AF Claude Practitioner credential.

  1. Step 1:
    Module 01 · Track A

    Claude 101

    What Claude is, how it differs from ChatGPT, and how to use its three surfaces (browser, desktop, Cowork) for real work.

    ClaudeBeginners7 lessons · 90 min
  2. Step 2:
    Module 02 · Track A

    How to Prompt

    How current frontier models follow instructions, and the five fixes that turn vague prompts into precise ones.

    All platformsBeginnersIntermediate10 lessons · 60 min
  3. Step 3:
    Module 03 · Track B

    Set Up Claude Cowork

    How Cowork works and how to set up the folder and context files that make it effective.

    ClaudeBeginnersIntermediate5 lessons · 90 min

Credentials

Four levels, earned rather than attended: required modules, a verified skill check, and an artifact for the two upper levels. Every credential carries a public verification URL.

  1. Level 1

    AF Claude Practitioner

    3 required modules · skill check

  2. Level 2

    AF Claude Power User

    7 required modules · skill check

  3. Level 3

    AF Claude Agentic Engineer

    3 required modules · skill check · artifact

  4. Level 4

    AF Claude AI Leader

    3 required modules · skill check · artifact

Modules

Showing 38 of 38 modules

Module 02 · Track A

How to Prompt

How current frontier models follow instructions, and the five fixes that turn vague prompts into precise ones.

All platformsBeginnersIntermediate10 lessons · 60 min
Module 101 · Track A

AI at Work 101

What a large language model actually is, what that makes it good and bad at, and how the four assistants most organisations use ({{fact:general_assistants}}) package the same idea in different surfaces.

All platformsBeginners7 lessons · 90 min
Module 102 · Track A

Choosing Your AI Assistant

How to choose between {{fact:general_assistants}} for an organisation, starting from what you already pay for rather than from benchmark tables.

All platformsBeginnersLeadership6 lessons · 60 min
Module 01 · Track A

Claude 101

What Claude is, how it differs from ChatGPT, and how to use its three surfaces (browser, desktop, Cowork) for real work.

ClaudeBeginners7 lessons · 90 min
Module 04 · Track B

Sound Like You

How to capture your writing voice, taste, and hard rules in one compact file any AI can use.

All platformsIntermediate6 lessons · 120 min
Module 05 · Track B

Stop Writing Like AI

The patterns that make text read as machine-written, from negative parallelism to banned vocabulary.

All platformsBeginnersIntermediate5 lessons · 60 min
Module 06 · Track B

Stop Prompting, Start Briefing

Why maintained context files beat repeated prompting, and how to manage them with Obsidian.

All platformsIntermediate7 lessons · 60 min
Module 03 · Track B

Set Up Claude Cowork

How Cowork works and how to set up the folder and context files that make it effective.

ClaudeBeginnersIntermediate5 lessons · 90 min
Module 07 · Track C

Claude Skills

How skills turn your repeated tasks into reusable, auto-triggering workflows.

ClaudeIntermediate5 lessons · 90 min
Module 08 · Track C

Claude Connectors

How to connect Claude to the tools where your work already lives, and the restraint rules that keep it cheap and safe.

ClaudeIntermediate5 lessons · 60 min
Module 09 · Track C

Cowork + Projects

How Projects give Cowork persistent memory, standing instructions, and scheduled tasks.

ClaudeIntermediate6 lessons · 60 min
Module 10 · Track C

Claude as Your Computer

How Claude operates your computer directly, and how to set that up without giving away the keys.

ClaudeAdvanced5 lessons · 60 min
Module 12 · Track D

AI Slides

The research-first pipeline that produces decks worth presenting, plus the brand setup that keeps a whole team on-style.

All platformsBeginnersIntermediate5 lessons · 90 min
Module 11 · Track D

Claude for Excel

How to get real multi-tab spreadsheets with working formulas out of Cowork, with you controlling the assumptions.

ClaudeIntermediate6 lessons · 90 min
Module 13 · Track D

Claude Design

What Claude Design produces (sites, decks, video) and the design-system workflow that keeps output on-brand instead of generic.

ClaudeIntermediate6 lessons · 90 min
Module 14 · Track D

Claude Code for Non-Coders

How to ship websites, dashboards, and prototypes with Claude Code without writing or reading code.

ClaudeIntermediate7 lessons · 120 min
Module 104 · Track E

AI for Your Team

A five-day rollout playbook that works on any of the four assistants, built around recurring deliverables rather than general enthusiasm.

All platformsLeadership9 lessons · Half day or 5-part series
Module 15 · Track E

Claude for Your Team

A 5-day playbook for rolling Claude out to a team so adoption actually sticks.

ClaudeLeadership6 lessons · Half day or 5-part series
Module 16 · Track E

Stop Hitting Claude Limits

Why usage disappears (every message re-reads the whole conversation) and the habits that stop it.

ClaudeBeginnersIntermediateAdvanced6 lessons · 45 min
Module 17 · Track E

Claude Certificates

Which Claude certifications are real, which are free, which are scams, and the path through Anthropic's catalogue for your role.

ClaudeBeginnersLeadership5 lessons · 45 min
Module 18 · Track F

Prompt Engineering Deep Dive

The complete prompting toolkit, from structure and roles to hallucination control and complex industry prompts, plus how to measure prompt quality with evaluations.

All platformsIntermediateAdvanced8 lessons · Half day
Module 20 · Track F

Agent Harness Engineering

How agents actually work under the hood: the model supplies intelligence, and everything else is a harness you can build.

All platformsAdvanced7 lessons · Full day
Module 21 · Track F

Agentic Futures Briefing

Where agentic engineering is heading across three horizons: what's standard practice now, what arrives within a quarter, and what's forming six months out.

All platformsLeadershipAdvanced6 lessons · 90 min, also quarterly 1:1
Module 19 · Track F

Claude Code for Developers

How to run Claude Code as a professional engineering tool: operating manuals, subagents, hooks, skills, MCP, and git/CI workflows.

ClaudeAdvanced5 lessons · Full day
Module 103 · Track G

Working Safely with AI

What may and may not go into an assistant, where personal data and the EU AI Act touch everyday use, how prompt injection reaches you through connectors and browsing, and how to keep a named human accountable for every output that leaves your desk.

All platformsBeginnersIntermediateLeadership8 lessons · 60 min
Module 140 · Track H

AI for Sales and Revenue Teams

The five sales workflows where an assistant pays for itself: pipeline triage, account and meeting prep, proposal and follow-up drafting from a brief, objection practice, and forecast commentary.

All platformsIntermediate7 lessons · 90 min
Module 141 · Track H

AI for HR and People

How to turn a role brief into a job ad and an interview kit, draft and plain-language a policy, build onboarding material, and run a bias check on all of it, without ever pasting a candidate or employee record into the wrong place.

All platformsIntermediate6 lessons · 90 min
Module 142 · Track H

AI for Finance

A verification discipline for finance work with an assistant: assumptions before formulas, formulas before numbers, a reconciliation check before anything leaves your desk, and commentary that points at the cells it came from.

All platformsIntermediate7 lessons · 90 min
Module 143 · Track H

AI for Project Managers

To turn raw updates into a status report people read, keep a decision log that survives staff turnover, write stakeholder communications for the audience rather than the project, maintain a risk register that changes, and schedule the recurring briefings where your platform supports them.

All platformsIntermediate7 lessons · 90 min
Module 144 · Track H

AI for Legal and Compliance Teams

Three contract-review patterns (clause extraction, playbook comparison, plain-language summary), how to build and use a clause library, and the four guardrails that decide whether any of it is safe: confidentiality, privilege, hallucinated citations, and what never leaves the firm.

All platformsIntermediate6 lessons · 90 min
Module 145 · Track H

AI for Content and SEO Teams

Two half-sessions with their own exercises: content (briefs to drafts in the house voice, editing, repurposing across channels, and the anti-AI-writing habit) and SEO (keyword clustering, search-intent mapping, on-page briefs, metadata at scale, and checking what AI answers say about your brand), plus the short list of what not to automate.

All platformsIntermediate7 lessons · 90 min
Module 146 · Track H

AI for Tech Teams

The non-agentic developer workflow: the reading-and-writing work around the code that an assistant in a chat does well today, on any platform, without touching your repository. Documentation and ADRs, code review summaries, ticket triage and refinement, incident notes and post-mortems, runbooks.

All platformsIntermediate7 lessons · 90 min
Module 130 · Track I

AI Strategy Briefing for Executives

What has changed in the assistants over the last eighteen months, what an organisation should do in the next ninety days, and how to frame build versus buy, capability versus tools, risk posture and return on investment so the board can decide rather than defer.

All platformsLeadership7 lessons · 90 min
Module 131 · Track I

Measuring AI Adoption

What the admin dashboards on all four assistants actually measure, how to take a time-saved baseline that survives a finance review, which quality signals to collect, and what good looks like at three, six and twelve months.

All platformsLeadership6 lessons · 60 min
Module 31 · Track J

Build Your Own MCP Connector

How the Model Context Protocol works and how to wrap an internal tool or API as a connector any MCP-capable assistant can call.

All platformsAdvanced7 lessons · Half day
Module 33 · Track J

Building on the Claude API

The Claude API from first call to first agent: messages, system prompts, streaming, tool use, and structured output.

ClaudeAdvanced7 lessons · Half day
Module 34 · Track J

Claude Solution Architecture

How to design a Claude solution end to end: platform choice, architecture pattern, evaluation, cost model, and safety plan: the five decisions every deployment stands or falls on.

ClaudeAdvancedLeadership7 lessons · Full day
Coming · Track J

Plugins

Bundle skills and connectors into installable plugins for a team.

Claude

Tracks

Track A · 4 modulesFoundationsTrack B · 4 modulesPersonal SetupTrack C · 4 modulesPower FeaturesTrack D · 4 modulesDeliverablesTrack E · 4 modulesTeams and ScaleTrack F · 4 modulesDeveloper Deep-DivesTrack G · 1 modulesGovernance and ComplianceTrack H · 7 modulesRole-Based SessionsTrack I · 2 modulesLeadership and StrategyTrack J · 4 modulesBuilder Track

Live bootcamps

The same modules, taught in a room. Cohort dates are on each bootcamp page and on Luma.