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IWAI’s Claude Bootcamp

Stop stumbling upon Claude’s best features by accident. Learn it fast and deliberately: Projects, Skills, Connectors and MCP, Cowork and Claude Code, explained for non-techies so you can hit your full potential.

Two 90-minute sessions, recorded and yours to keep
Every prompt and template from both sessions
Watch at your own pace, come back any time
No tech experience required

Delivered by Innovating with AI, an independent education company. Not affiliated with Anthropic, the creator of Claude.

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“I’ve paid for Claude all year… why am I still discovering features by accident?”

I hear that constantly. We know Claude has potential, but the best features are buried, confusingly labeled and hard to use without guidance, especially when you’re new. I’ve been a software developer for 20 years and it still took me months to truly figure it out.

Most of what Claude does feels like common sense once you figure it out. The vocabulary and lack of documentation are what get in the way. A Skill is basically an agent, but then a Plugin is a bundle of Skills? 🤯 And Claude Code has a name that sends non-programmers straight past it (the useful part has nothing to do with writing software).

Anthropic barely documents any of it, which means you have to hope you catch the right tweet or YouTube video to find out about the most powerful features.

You’re paying hundreds or thousands a year for this tool – why would you only use a fraction of its potential?

Now that I’ve become a Claude pro, I use it for both life and work. On the company side, we have Skills and Connectors running our monthly financial reports. That alone saves me and my team 10+ hours a month.

Once you figure this out, your Monday looks different. Claude already knows your services, your pricing and how you write. Recurring tasks happen seamlessly and life gets a lot smoother.

But if you just sign up and click around, you’ll probably miss more than half of the best stuff Claude can do. So we taught a live bootcamp to fix that, and the whole thing is recorded and waiting for you.

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What’s inside

Two 90-minute sessions with a break in the middle, recorded live with a real audience asking real questions. I build while you watch, and everything I run on screen is written out for you in the course, so you can build alongside me or afterward at your own pace.

Session 1

Foundations, Cowork, and Skills

The vocabulary of modern AI: Five words that make every AI product make sense: LLM, Agent, Memory, Tool, Orchestrator. Learn them once and you can decode any vendor’s sales deck, not just Anthropic’s.
D.R.O.I.D.: The four things every AI agent does, in order, every time. Once you know them, the task list building itself in your sidebar stops looking like magic and starts looking like something you can steer.
The three Claudes, and which model to run: Chat, Cowork and Claude Code run the same model with different reach. Most people have only opened one. Plus how to pick between Fable, Opus, Sonnet and Haiku, and why the smallest one that does the job is usually the right answer.
The privacy setting that’s on by default: Training on your data is switched on unless you turn it off. We stop and change it together, on screen. Plus where I’m cautious with permissions, and what should never go in a Cowork folder.
Your writing style, built into a Skill: I build my own writing style Skill live, start to finish, in five steps. This is the one people point to afterward as the thing that changed how they work.

Session 2

Connectors, Claude Code, and Projects

What a Skill actually is: I open a real one from my own company, the Skill that chases down failed credit card payments every month. Instructions, spreadsheets, a Python script I didn’t write. Plus the update warning that costs people their work.
Connectors and MCP: What MCP actually is, and what a Connector hands over once it’s on. Enough to explain it on a client call. I start every connector on Blocked or Needs Approval and show you why.
A real report, built on live business data: One prompt, two connectors, roughly 80 queries, about two minutes. I pull the actual registration list for this bootcamp out of our newsletter platform and turn it into a finished spreadsheet without touching a formula.
Claude Code for people who don’t code: Nothing to install, no terminal. I hand it that spreadsheet and get back a shareable HTML report with charts in about a minute. Then turn it into a PDF with one more sentence.
Projects and memory: How a session holds a million tokens, what happens when it fills up, and why the Project instructions field is the highest-leverage five minutes in the whole course. I screen-share the real Project I built to analyze this bootcamp.

What you take away

Both session recordings, yours to keep, with a written summary under each one so you can find a specific moment without scrubbing through 90 minutes
My writing style Skill, the real one, with my personal details stripped out and placeholders in their place
A report-running Skill you can point at your own systems, showing the internal anatomy of one that works
Every prompt I ran on screen, quoted word for word, plus a bracketed version to fill in with your own business
Example Project instructions for four common situations: recurring analysis, client work, content, and operations
A one-page cheat sheet covering both sessions, plus a written guide to backing up your work so AI can’t delete your afternoon

Everything lives in the Innovating with AI Student Center. We’ll email you your access as soon as you join, and it doesn’t expire.

Who this is for

I built this day for beginner and intermediate Claude users. Every term gets a plain definition, every step happens on screen, and nothing assumes you write software.

You’ll get a lot out of this if

You’re new to Claude and would rather learn it in a sensible order than find things by accident
You use Claude most days but have never set up a Project, a Skill or a Connector
You’ve heard MCP said out loud and would rather understand it than nod along
You pay for Claude every month, you know there’s more it can do, and you haven’t unlocked it yet

It might not be for you if

You already build your own MCP servers and ship your own plugins, in which case a good chunk of the day will be ground you’ve already covered
You want a deep engineering course. This one is paced for people who don’t write code
You want a file of prompts to copy, rather than a setup you understand well enough to rebuild
You need someone to work through your particular setup with you, which a recorded course can’t do

What you’ll need. Cowork runs on the Claude desktop app and needs a paid Claude plan. On the free tier Session 2 will make sense while you’re watching, though you won’t get far afterward until you upgrade. That’s Anthropic’s rule, not mine. The cheapest paid plan is $20 a month. That’s Anthropic’s rule, not mine.

If your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 account belongs to an employer, an admin can block Connectors on it. We cover what that looks like and what to do, so bring a personal account if you have one.

Meet Your Coach

Portrait of Rob Howard Hey 👋, I’m Rob Howard.

I’ve spent 20 years in the tech industry, and I started coding at 12. I founded a cloud-storage startup that reached a million users and was acquired in 2009, and I’m CEO of HDC, a development firm whose software has powered more than 100,000 websites, including Harvard, MIT, The World Bank, Marriott, Intel, Facebook and The Oscars. My work has appeared in Wired, Forbes, Fortune and TechCrunch, and through Innovating with AI I’ve helped tens of thousands of people get comfortable and confident with new technology.

On a personal note…

These days, it’s easy to fall prey to the mantra of the Endless Hustle. Yes – it’s important to work hard, push yourself out of your comfort zone and have serious goals.

But it’s even more important to have a solid reason why you’re doing all that work. Is it to keep up with the Joneses or the Instagram stars? Or is there deeper meaning to what you’re doing?

For me, that deeper meaning takes the form of ensuring that my team, my students and I can devote more time to family, health and relationships. That’s why everybody at my company has the freedom and flexibility to take off at 11 a.m. on a Tuesday – they don’t have to ask for permission. It’s just built into our rules.

Rather than allow the success of my business to suck me into more and more work, I very intentionally parlay that success into more time with my family.

I know it’s a cliché to say “you only live once.” But how many nights, weekends, bedtimes and school days should we sacrifice at the altar of work? When we look back, which are we more likely to regret: turning down a project, or missing those special family moments?

This philosophy applies to pretty much every area of life: I am not my job.

Instead, I am defined by how many people I can help with the resources I’ve accumulated from having a successful tech career. One of those resources is time – so I can give my son 100x more love and attention than my dad was able to give me. Work comes and goes, but kids are only kids for a very limited time.

To paraphrase some ancient wisdom: “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.”

And to my surprise, I’ve discovered that teaching – helping tens of thousands of people achieve comfort and freedom – has been even more fulfilling than the tech consulting that filled the first chapter of my career.

Real growth and happiness come from helping others – and business success is just a path to helping as many people as possible.

For me, the second act of my career wasn’t about tripling my productivity, or about escaping the grind to a tropical island. It was about teaching and sharing, so that as many people as possible could benefit from the good luck that got me to where I am today.

Questions

Is this live or recorded?

Recorded. Both 90-minute sessions were taught live to a real audience in August 2026, and you’re getting the full recording, including the Q&A blocks where I answer questions from attendees. Some of the best material in the course is in those answers. You watch at your own pace and come back whenever you want.

How do I get access?

We’ll email you your login to the Innovating with AI Student Center as soon as you join. Both recordings sit there alongside every resource from the course: the Skill templates, the prompts, the example Project instructions, the cheat sheet and the version control guide. It’s all on the page, nothing to download and lose track of, and your access doesn’t expire.

Do I need to be technical?

No. I built every part of the day for people who don’t write code, and nothing asks you to install or set up anything technical. If you can hold a conversation with Claude, you can follow all of it.

Will it work if I mostly use ChatGPT?

Yes. The first session teaches a vendor-neutral vocabulary before it teaches you a single Anthropic word, so it applies to whatever model you’re on. Same with everything about permissions and Connectors. The demos are Claude because that’s what clients are asking about.

Is this the same as your other programs?

No. It’s about 3 hours on a single topic, and if you’re already an Innovating with AI student it goes further on Claude than any lesson currently in the curriculum.

Can I expense it?

Yes, and plenty of people do, through their own business or by claiming it back from an employer. You’ll get a receipt at checkout, and if your finance team needs an invoice in a particular format, reply to any email and we’ll send one.

How long does it take to get through?

About 3 hours for both sessions, and you don’t have to do it in one sitting. A lot of people watch Session 1, try one thing, and come back for Session 2 a few days later. Start with Session 1 either way, because the second session leans on it constantly.

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