Warmup · 8 hours · $900 per person
Understand AI from the inside.
Eight 1:1 hours. Run as a one-day intensive or four two-hour blocks. Remote or in person, scheduled to your calendar. Technical or not, you leave with a working model of the entire AI stack and the first AI use case worth investing in for your business identified.
What you leave with.
Eight hours is enough to build a working mental model of how AI actually fits together. Not how to write better prompts. How the whole stack works, end to end.
A working model of the whole stack
From prompts to production. You understand what every layer does, how the pieces talk to each other, and where Claude fits.
Your first use case identified
We work through your specific business and surface the first AI use case worth investing in. You leave with a real next step, not a generic framework.
The confidence to lead AI work
Whether you’ll build with AI yourself, hire someone to, or evaluate vendors who will. Technical or not, you walk into different conversations from this point forward.
The curriculum.
Four blocks, each one building on the last. Take them all in a single day or as four separate sessions over a few weeks, whichever fits your calendar.
Block 01
Foundation
The grounding that makes everything else make sense. We cover how prompts and models actually behave, what makes different models different, and how agents extend Claude beyond single-turn chat.
- Prompts, platforms, and the model landscape
- LLMs, generative AI, and how agents actually work
Block 02
Connecting AI to your work
Where AI stops being a chat window and becomes part of your operations. Tools let AI take action; MCP is the protocol that connects AI to the systems your business already runs on.
- Tools: how AI takes action
- MCP: how AI talks to your systems
Block 03
Building with AI
Two complementary ways to use Claude beyond conversation. Claude Design produces real visual and creative output. The Claude API is the programmable surface that lets you build anything on top of Claude.
- Claude Design: Anthropic’s research-preview design product
- The Claude API: Claude as a programmable building block
Block 04
Shipping
What it actually looks like to build and deploy AI applications today, and how the economics have changed. From writing code with Claude Code to shipping production AI on modern cloud infrastructure.
- IDE and Claude Code: building software with AI
- Infrastructure: Railway, Vercel, Google Cloud Platform
How it works.
Eight 1:1 hours. Run them as a one-day intensive or four two-hour blocks across two to four weeks. Remote or in person, whichever works for you. The pace is yours.
No prep is required before we start. We’ll share what you need to set up between sessions so the work compounds across the four blocks.
Format and pricing
1:1
$900 per person. One-day intensive or four two-hour blocks. Remote or in person.
Small group of 2 or 3
$900 per person. Same format, attended together.
Group of 4 or more
Discounted rate. Reach out and we’ll work out the right number for your group.
Who this is for.
Anyone curious about AI from the inside. Executives, managers, founders, technical leaders, individual contributors. Technical or not — the curriculum tunes to your level because it’s 1:1.
Many people who go through this end up working with Cortland on something bigger afterward. Plenty of others leave fluent and run with it themselves. Both are good outcomes.
Ready to start?
Book a seat below. We’ll be in touch within 24 hours to schedule.