Claude for Builders: AI Workflows and Product Prototyping

Establish your complete AI builder infrastructure by installing and configuring code editors, GitHub, Claude Code, voice-to-text tools, and work profiles that enable all hands-on work throughout the course.

Understand the fundamentals of agentic AI and the six building blocks (Prompt, Context, Project, Skill, Agent, MCP) that power these systems. Then identify and categorize 2-3 workflow candidates from your work—distinguishing between deterministic automation, collaborative AI workflows, and autonomous AI workflows with agents. Build self-awareness of where you struggle with workflow identification to focus Session 2's decomposition practice on your exact needs.

Deconstruct your processes into discrete workflows, identify them systematically, and name them clearly. Build your Workflow Registry in Notion—a living catalog that tracks all workflows, assets, and SOPs. Connect it to Claude via MCP so Claude collaborates with you to design, document, and organize everything, transforming ad-hoc experimentation into managed, scalable operations.

Build reusable Claude Skills by packaging your workflow expertise with proper metadata, instructions, and resources. Deploy across Claude platforms to execute your knowledge on demand.

Students distinguish between deterministic and collaborative workflow patterns on the autonomy spectrum, then build both types using Claude Skills and the Business-First AI Framework. Students design and deploy deterministic workflows that run independently with consistent results, then build collaborative workflows where Claude works WITH them as an intelligent partner — establishing the two foundational workflow patterns they'll use throughout the course.

Build Claude Subagents that run autonomously on your behalf. Design multi-agent systems with specialized tool permissions that execute complex work independently, enabling you to scale your productivity and impact without manual intervention.

Master Claude Cowork for delegating knowledge work tasks autonomously. Learn the mental model for task delegation, practice across research synthesis, document drafting, spreadsheet analysis, and presentation creation, then build a personal Cowork task library you can use immediately.

Map the agentic coding lifecycle — envision, define, plan, implement, verify, review, ship — and install the Claude Code toolkit for every stage. Then put the first two stages to work: craft a Vision Brief to clarify what you're building and why, then collaborate with Claude Code to transform that vision into an implementation-ready product requirement document with user stories and acceptance criteria.

Go from requirement document to a working prototype in a single session. Build your application collaboratively with Claude Code, open a pull request, install automated code review that runs on every future PR, and deploy to a shareable URL. You'll leave with a prototype on the internet and a permanent quality gate in your development workflow.

Showcase your capstone project and share insights from your journey—what you learned, what surprised you, and what you can now build that wasn't possible before. Reflect on your transformation from AI user to AI builder and chart your path forward.