Get an AI advantage — in 20 hours
A practical, jargon-free training that teaches busy professionals exactly how to use Claude every day at work — to write faster, think clearer, and win back hours every week. No tech background needed. Real results by Monday morning.
I built this course so you'd have a real skill by the end — not just a tool you open once and forget.— Leigh Baumann
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Use Claude confidently every day at work to write, plan, analyze, and communicate — without any technical background
- Build a personal prompt library of ready-to-use templates tailored to your specific job role and most common tasks
- Cut the time you spend on emails, reports, summaries, and first drafts by at least 50%
- Apply a small set of core mental models that make every Claude conversation faster and more useful — regardless of the task
- Complete a real-world capstone project in your own field and walk away with a personalized AI workflow you'll actually stick to
- Confidently choose the right Claude approach for high-stakes tasks like strategic planning, client proposals, difficult conversations, and content creation
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 23 lessons
Foundations — The 20% That Drives 80% of Your Results
Before you touch a single prompt, you need the right mental starting point. This module destroys the most common misconceptions about Claude, shows you how it actually works in plain English, and gets you to your first real, useful results inside your very first session. By the end, you'll have sent prompts you're genuinely proud of — and started the prompt library you'll use for the rest of your career.
- 1.1What Claude Actually Is (And Why Most People Use It Wrong)Included
- 1.2The Golden Triangle — Role, Task, and ContextIncluded
- 1.3Your First Real Wins — Emails, Summaries, and Quick DraftsIncluded
- 1.4Building Your Personal Prompt Library From Day OneIncluded
Core Mental Models — How to Think With Claude, Not Just Talk to It
Getting decent results from Claude is easy. Getting consistently great results — the kind that genuinely change how fast and how well you work — requires a small set of mental models that most people never learn. This module gives you those models. You'll shift from 'typing requests' to 'conducting a real working conversation,' and you'll discover how to shape, steer, and personalise Claude's output so it actually sounds like you.
- 2.1Thinking in Conversations, Not CommandsIncluded
- 2.2The Five Modes of Claude — Knowing Which One to UseIncluded
- 2.3Giving Claude Enough to Work With — Context Without OverloadingIncluded
- 2.4Steering, Redirecting, and Getting Claude Back on TrackIncluded
- 2.5Tone, Voice, and Sounding Like YouIncluded
Practical Skills by Task — Guided Exercises With Real Work
This is where you build genuine workplace speed. Each lesson in this module targets a specific category of work that knowledge workers spend the most time on, and walks you through guided exercises using your actual tasks — not made-up examples. You'll finish each lesson with a new set of tested, polished prompts ready to add to your library and a measurable reduction in time spent on that type of work.
- 3.1Writing Faster Without Sounding Like a RobotIncluded
- 3.2Thinking and Analysis — Using Claude as a Thinking PartnerIncluded
- 3.3Planning and Organizing — From Chaos to Clear Next StepsIncluded
- 3.4Research and Summarizing — Getting Smart on Any Topic FastIncluded
- 3.5Communication and Difficult Conversations — Using Claude to Find the Right WordsIncluded
Real-World Projects — Applied Practice in Your Actual Work
Mental models and task skills only become real capability when you use them under real conditions. This module takes everything from Modules 1–3 and applies it to full-length, realistic work scenarios — including a complete end-to-end project workflow, the high-stakes situations that matter most in professional life, role-specific practice, and an honest look at the mistakes and myths that trip even experienced users up.
- 4.1The Full Workflow — Running a Real Project End to End With ClaudeIncluded
- 4.2High-Stakes Scenarios — Strategic Planning, Proposals, and PresentationsIncluded
- 4.3Common Real-World Scenarios by RoleIncluded
- 4.4Mistakes, Myths, and What to Watch Out ForIncluded
Advanced Shortcuts and Best Practices — Working at Full Speed
You now have the foundations, the mental models, the task skills, and real project experience. This module is about compounding everything — layering in the advanced patterns and personal systems that turn a competent Claude user into someone who operates at a noticeably different level. You'll also learn how to bring these skills into your team without becoming the unofficial IT department.
- 5.1Advanced Prompting Patterns That Save You Hours Every WeekIncluded
- 5.2Building Your Personal AI System — Routines That StickIncluded
- 5.3Working Smarter in Teams — Sharing Claude Skills Without Becoming the IT PersonIncluded
Capstone and Your Personalized AI Roadmap
This is where everything comes together. You'll complete a full, real-world capstone project using the skills, prompts, and workflows you've built across the entire course — then step back and design a personalised AI roadmap that maps your next 90 days. You'll leave with proof of what you can do, a library full of prompts you'll actually use, and a clear, realistic plan for what comes next.
- 6.1Capstone Project — Your Best Work With ClaudeIncluded
- 6.2Your Personalized Next-Step RoadmapIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The Overwhelmed Manager
Drowning in emails, reports, and meeting prep — and ready to finally claw back hours in the week using Claude's writing and planning modules.
The Independent Consultant
Needs to produce polished proposals, sharp analysis, and confident client communication faster, without hiring more help.
The Small Business Owner
Wears every hat in the business and wants a practical AI system that handles drafts, planning, and communication — without a tech team.
The AI-Curious Professional
Has heard the buzz, poked at ChatGPT once or twice, but never got past basic results — and wants a structured path to actually using it well.
The Ambitious Analyst
Already strong at research and thinking — wants to use Claude as a true thinking partner to move faster and communicate findings more clearly.
The Falling-Behind Exec
Watching younger colleagues use AI fluently and determined to close the gap — without spending months figuring it out alone.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Leigh Baumann
Here's something I noticed a while back: the professionals getting the most out of AI aren't necessarily the most technical people in the room. They're just the ones who figured out how to have better conversations with it.
If you've opened Claude (or any AI tool) and walked away thinking "I don't really get it" — I want you to know that's not a you problem. It's a teaching problem. Most of what's out there is either written for engineers or stuck at the "here are 50 prompts to copy-paste" level. Neither of those actually changes how you work.
I built this course because I wanted something I could hand to a smart, busy person — a manager, a consultant, a business owner — and say: do this, in this order, and you'll have a real skill by the end. Not a party trick. Not a tool you open once a month. A skill you use every single morning.
The 20-Hour AI Playbook is structured around the way professionals actually think and work. We start with the foundations that unlock everything else — the Golden Triangle of Role, Task, and Context — and then we move through practical skills by the tasks you already have: writing, thinking through problems, planning, research, communication. Every exercise uses real work, not made-up examples. Your capstone project is done in your field, on something you actually care about.
I kept the course to 20 hours on purpose. That constraint forced me to cut everything that's interesting but not essential, and keep only what you'll use. The 20% that drives 80% of the results — that's all we're doing here. No rabbit holes. No theory for theory's sake. Just skills you'll use on Monday.
I'm genuinely excited for you to start. The moment it clicks — when you send a first draft in ten minutes instead of an hour, or when Claude helps you think through something you'd been stuck on — that's a moment worth getting to. Let's get there.
— Leigh Baumann
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