Get Claude-fluent in 3 weeks with a live cohort of peers.
For coaches, operators, and founders. Build something you keep using, and let Claude do what used to take you hours.
Phil Rivard
Techstars alum, angel investor. Coached 350+ early-stage founders.
10 founding spots $750 CAD No prior AI experience needed
The hardest part of using AI is probably choosing where to start.
It mostly comes down to three tools.
You don't need to master all of them. You need to know which one to open, and when.
Chat
You need an answer, a first draft, or someone to think out loud with. Chat talks it through with you. It doesn't touch your files.
Cowork
You need the work done on your own files and apps. Give it the goal, let it run, check what comes back. No code involved.
Claude Code
The work lives in code, or you're building software. Same idea as Cowork, made for a codebase.
Ask → Chat. Do → Cowork. Build → Code.
Already deep in Claude and want a real partner to apply it to a startup? Read about the cofounder experiment
What you walk away with.
Built on your own work, so you keep using it after the last session.
A capstone demo
In the last session, everyone demos something they built and how it helps their day-to-day. You leave with yours, plus a few ideas borrowed from everyone else's.
A daily Claude system you actually use
Your voice file, your prompts, the files Claude reads, the workflows for the things you do most. Built around your actual week.
Your first Claude Code skill or hook
The first piece of automation you write yourself. Most people don't think they can write one until they do.
Everything you can come back to
Recordings, transcripts, and the Slack community. So when you forget how something worked in week one, you can find it in week eight.
Three weeks, two live sessions a week.
We start Monday, October 19. Every session is a 60-minute live class, followed by an optional 30-minute office hour for anyone who can stay. Bring whatever you're stuck on. Session times are coming soon, and Slack stays open in between.
Foundations
Claude learns your voice and your context. By Friday your weekly tasks run on command. From here, it's only speed.
Surfaces
Claude.ai at your desk, mobile on the move, Cowork alongside you. By Friday it's wherever you are, picking up where you left off.
Code + Build
You're building. The workflow you've done by hand for years becomes a command you type. By Friday it's tested and ready to share.
The capstone demo
Everyone demos what they built and how it helps their day-to-day. Just us, no pressure. Show up and you've got your certificate.
I've used AI every day since ChatGPT launched.
I switched to Claude for how it writes, right before Claude Code came out, and I've been a heavy Claude Code user since the beta. I still test what the others ship. Right now that's Codex and Grok Bot.
I started Nukern in 2013, my first VC-backed company. We raised a pre-seed and made it through Techstars Austin in mid-2017. 200 companies across 53 countries pre-paid to get on the waitlist for our SaaS, with zero marketing spend. Only community building. We still ran out of money, and in April 2018 I made the tough call to turn off the lights. As personal guarantor on the company's debt, I paid part of it back myself. I made a lot of bad calls as a first-time founder. Learned a ton!
After that I co-built the Next AI Montreal accelerator and spent the next several years coaching founders of all backgrounds. The last founder I helped raise closed a $5.5M USD seed round in deep tech. The one before that raised $1.6M.
- Morning walks turn into structured notes. Voice memos on the walk get transcribed, decisions and actions extracted, and filed in Linear and the second brain before I'm back at my desk.
- Coaching prep that pulls past notes on demand. Before a 1:1, Claude surfaces the relevant thread from past sessions with that founder, plus anything from the last week that connects. I show up knowing more than I remembered.
- A weekly review I don't grind through. Every week, Claude pulls everything from Linear, Granola, and Gmail and drafts the recap. I read, edit, send.
- Drafts that already sound like me. Email replies, LinkedIn posts, follow-ups... Claude reads from my voice file before drafting, so the first version sounds like me, not like AI trying to sound like me.
I'll show you how to build
your own workflows.
$750 now, starts Oct 19.10 founding spots.
$750 CAD for the founding cohort. $2,250 CAD for the next one.
Founding cohort
Ten people. You're betting on a class that hasn't run yet. In return you get a smaller group, more of my time, and the only time this class runs at $750.
The founding cohort is more than a pilot. It's a conversation. I come in with a curriculum and a direction, and I adjust in real time to what you actually need.
For $750, you get:
- 6 live 60-minute sessions, twice a week
- A 30-minute office hour after every session, for anyone who can stay
- Recordings and transcripts of every session
- Private Slack community access
- Completion certificate
- Founding-alum pricing on the next course
If you decide it's not for you by end of week 1, you get your money back. No questions.
The 10 spots go to the first 10 paid invoices.
What's still moving
Session times, and parts of the curriculum. When you save your spot, tell me what you want out of the class. It helps me finalize the course around the people in the room. Slack opens the week before we start.
Why I'm not showing testimonials yet
There aren't any. This is cohort 1. After cohort 1, I'll show what people actually said about the content, what they built, and how it changed how they work.
Take one of the ten founding spots.
$750 CAD now, $2,250 CAD for the next cohort. Ten seats, and the people in them help shape the curriculum.
Save my spotThe 10 spots go to the first 10 paid invoices.