Skills & Surfaces — You & AI

Skills & Surfaces Claude

This course takes Claude from the chat window into the surfaces where your work actually happens — browser, spreadsheets, decks, dashboards — and teaches you to encode your standards as reusable Skills.

5 sessions · 75 min Live on Zoom · capped at 12 $1,000 Fridays · 12:00–1:15pm ET

We teach ideas that matter

We teach practical application. Not what dazzles in a demo but what you will actually apply day in and day out to your work.

We build conceptual understanding. If you grasp the why, then you can deploy the how more flexibly & confidently.

The five sessions

Five sessions across the surfaces where your work happens — the browser, spreadsheets, decks, and dashboards — with Skills in the middle so everything after it starts from your standards.

1

Claude in Chrome

A browser that works alongside you.

Put Claude next to whatever’s on screen — reading, comparing, and pulling from pages as you work — and hand it multi-step web tasks to run on your behalf.

Assignment: Apply or adapt an in-class use case for your workflows + class-wide challenge: who can save the most money using Claude in Chrome?

2

Claude in Excel

From messy input to finished analysis.

Clean, explore, and model data collaboratively inside the spreadsheet — organizer, analyst, auditor, and formula-builder in one.

Assignment: Take one messy spreadsheet end-to-end with Claude.

3

Building reusable Skills

Encode your standards once; apply them forever.

Skills are packaged instructions that capture your workflows, formats, and standards so Claude performs them consistently every time. You’ll apply Skills thinking to the work you’ve already done.

Assignment: Build, test, and refine a Skill that is useful for you.

4

Claude in PowerPoint

Decks from content you already have.

Generate new decks and raise the quality of decks you already have: tighter copy, better layout, your brand applied from your template.

Assignment: Elevate one existing deck, and create a Skill to layer with PowerPoint.

5

Visualization & dashboards

From analysis to something people can see.

Turn analysis into interactive tools and dashboards that your team can actually use.

Assignment: Build one visualization or mini-dashboard from your own data.

We teach so it sticks

See it

We work through concepts live on real examples. Everyone gets the recording for 7 days to watch it back.

Apply it

You apply what you learned to your work, ~30 minutes outside class.

Get feedback

Your instructor reviews your work, answers questions, and adds notes where helpful.

Build on it

The next class opens with a discussion of examples & questions from the class.

Upcoming cohorts

5 sessions · 75 minLive on Zoom · capped at 12$1,000 per person

5 Fridays

Sept 11 – Oct 9

12:00–1:15pm ET

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Past participants say

People from 100+ organizations have taken our open courses — including:

Education & schools

  • Alexandria City Public Schools
  • Excel Academy
  • KIPP Foundation
  • School Empowerment Network
  • Teach For America
  • Transcend
  • Wildflower Schools

Philanthropy

  • Arnold Ventures
  • The Broad Foundation
  • Carnegie Foundation
  • Milton & Carroll Petrie Foundation
  • Raikes Foundation
  • Scarlett Family Foundation
  • Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

Business & investing

  • B Capital
  • Constellation Energy
  • Hustle Fund
  • MM.LaFleur
  • Resilience VC
  • Saison Capital
  • Thumbtack

Plus dozens of independent consultants and boutique advisory firms.

Common questions

Do I have to take Foundations first?

You either need to have taken Foundations or have equivalent working knowledge. Sessions assume you’re comfortable with Projects, memory, instructions, and model selection. If you’re not sure about fit, you can Contact us.

I use ChatGPT, can I take this class?

ChatGPT is catching up on the functionality this class offers, but it isn’t quite there yet.

What if I miss a session?

Recordings are available to everyone, regardless of whether they missed class, for 7 days after each session.

What’s the refund policy?

We can’t offer refunds, but we can issue you a credit toward a future course.

I can’t make the listed sessions but would like to join a future one. Do you have a list I can join?

If you add your email address here, we’ll notify you when we open future trainings.

Still have a question? Contact us

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