Stop using Claude like Google.

A two-part live workshop where you stop getting answers and start getting actual work done — with a Claude that's set up for you, by you.

What version of Claude have you been using?

Most people who use Claude regularly have a similar experience: open a tab, type a question, get an answer, close the tab.

It's useful. But it's not really working.

You're using Claude the way you'd use a search engine — faster, smarter, but still just a lookup. There's a different version most people haven't found yet.

That version doesn't just answer questions. It does work. It remembers your context. It runs tasks while you're doing something else. It drafts the email before you've finished your coffee.

This workshop is the setup I wish someone had handed me in month one.

The gap between these two versions isn't skill. It's setup.

You can watch every YouTube video out there, try things, experience the highs of something clicking and the frustration of something that won't. Most people lose a lot of time to that approach.

Or someone can just walk you through the setup.

Where you might be right now

Most people who use Claude have made some version of this journey — though rarely all the way through:

• Chat → asking Claude questions, getting answers, closing the tab
• Projects → a persistent space that remembers context between sessions
• Skills → small reusable instructions for things you do repeatedly
• Automations → Claude doing real work for you, connected to your tools, running in the background

Most Akimbo participants are somewhere between Chat and Projects. This workshop gets you to Skills and beyond — on your actual work, in two sessions.

Claude isn't a search engine. It's a colleague. But it needs to be onboarded.

Think about what it takes to bring someone new into your working life. You don't hand them a question and wait. You give them context. You explain what matters. You show them how you like things done.

Claude works the same way. Most people skip that step — then wonder why it keeps producing generic answers.

This workshop is the onboarding you never did.

Across two 90-minute sessions, you'll build your working email assistant.

Not a theoretical system. Your actual working system — the one you open at the start of the week and run.

By the end of Session 2, you'll have:

• • Instructions that tell Claude who you are and how you write
  • A Project set up for your email
  • A Skill, /draft-email, that drafts replies in your voice from any email you paste in
  • Your own little email app, with buttons, built in Session 2
  • If you use Gmail: Claude finds the emails that need a reply and has drafts waiting each morning
  • Your next co-worker started, using the same four questions on a job you choose

You build it in the room. Not watch someone else build it.

Session 1 — Set it up

Tuesday, October 13th, 2026, 12:00–1:30pm ET

We start with a brand-new Claude, the way a new hire starts on day one. Then you tell it who you are, what it can look at, and how you like a job done every time.

1. Day one: a brand-new Claude replies to an email. It is polite and generic
2. You build: set up your project, then give Claude Instructions, a note and your first Skill
3. Peer check-in: share one line Claude got right and one it got wrong
4. Homework brief: one specific thing to do before Session 2

What you'll build:

• Your project: the desk your Claude works from
• Instructions: who you are and how you write, so replies sound like you
• Context: a note of the things you always explain, such as your booking link
• Your first Skill: you'll build /draft-email together in the room

Between sessions: use /draft-email on five real emails. When a draft is wrong, fix the Instructions, not the email.

Session 2 — Put it to work

Tuesday, October 20th, 2026, 12:00–1:30pm ET

How it works:

1. Show-and-tell: breakout rooms, share what you fixed, steal each other's ideas
2. Your own email app: your skill gets buttons, so you paste an email, pick a tone and hit Draft
3. Your inbox: Gmail users connect it so Claude finds the emails that need a reply. Everyone else keeps pasting emails in
4. Your next co-worker: the same four questions, on a job of your choice

Fair warning: once you see it running on your own emails, in your own voice, you'll start seeing automations everywhere.

After this workshop, you'll be able to:

• Open Claude and know exactly where to go when you need to write something that matters.
• Give Claude the context it needs to do real work instead of generic answers
• Build a Skill for something you keep doing manually
• Know where things live in Claude, and what to do when the buttons move
• Tell anyone in your life what Claude can actually do — and show them

What you walk away with

Walk in using Claude like a smarter search engine.

Walk out with:

• A working setup you can open tomorrow morning
• Instructions that carry your voice across every task
• A Skill you built for something real in your work
• The confidence to keep extending it on your own

What people built

"I went into this workshop thinking I would learn more about how to use AI to help me a little bit more with tasks I was already using. But in 3 hours, instead I got a full-time Co-Worker who does tasks that would have taken me hours to compile. Comprehensive spreadsheets with details and instructions, daily and weekly schedules of production, management, and deadlines, long-term planning projections with analysis of costs. And that is only after one week of implementing what I learned in those 3 hours."
— M. Ahern

"This session gave me so much information and a lot to work on for the future. Thank you so much!"
- Edmund Tijerina

Why this matters right now

Everyone you know is using Claude. Most of them are getting generic answers and moving on.

The gap isn't access. It isn't skill. It's setup.

The people who get real work done with Claude have done one thing differently: they treated it like a colleague, not a tool. They gave it context. They built structure around it. They made it theirs. They took the time to onboard.

That's what this workshop is for.

Who this is for

This is for coaches, consultants, and independent professionals who:

• Use Claude occasionally but feel like they're getting a fraction of what it can do
• Have tried to "get better at prompting" and found it didn't change much
• Want their AI working life to feel more like collaboration and less like search
• Are ready to actually set something up, not just hear about it

This is not for you if:

• You've already set up Claude and use it daily
• You're looking for a broad survey of every AI tool available
• You want to build production software or complex systems
• You're expecting a passive webinar — you'll be building in the room

This is for people who want to build one working system — with Claude — and actually use it.

Curiosity required. Technical expertise optional.

A note from Conor

I've been building with Claude for 18 months — not experimenting, actually using it to run my work. Coaching leaders and consultants through Akimbo and altMBA, I've watched the same thing happen every time someone new picks up Claude: they start with a question, not a context. They get an answer, not a colleague.

This workshop is the setup I wish someone had handed me in month one.

Workshop details

• Two live sessions on Zoom — 90 minutes each
• Session 1: Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 12:00–1:30pm ET
• Session 2: Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 12:00–1:30pm ET
• Small group: maximum 25 participants
• One platform: Claude. You'll need a Claude Pro or Max account and the latest Claude desktop app before Session 1. Any email account works. Gmail users can connect their inbox in Session 2, and everyone else pastes emails in. Those are the only things to set up in advance.
• Between sessions: one piece of homework. You'll know exactly what to build.

Both sessions build on each other. Attending both is the point.

FAQ

Do I need Claude Pro?

Yes. Claude Pro is $20/month, and Max also works. Set it up before Session 1. We always work in the Claude desktop app, not the website, so please install it too.

Do I need a Gmail account?

No. Session 1 uses emails you paste in, so any email works: Gmail, Outlook or a work account. In Session 2, Gmail users can also connect their inbox so Claude finds the emails that need a reply. If you don't use Gmail, you still build the same email app by pasting emails in.

Do I need to attend both sessions?

Yes. Session 2 picks up where Session 1 leaves off. The system you build in Session 1 is what you put to work in Session 2.

What if I already use Claude a lot?

Good — you'll move faster. Most regular Claude users have never done a proper setup. You'll find the gaps quickly and fill them in the room.

Will there be a recording?

No recording. Like all Akimbo workshops, this is designed to work live, not on replay.

Do you offer refunds?

Refunds available up to one week before Session 1.

Early bird: $395 until Wednesday, October 7, 2026.

Full price: $495.

Registration closes Monday, October 12, 2026. Spots are limited by design.