Seven phases that take you from typing your first prompt to running a real working partnership with Claude. Designed for working professionals, taught in plain English, built to be used immediately at your job.
The seven phases cluster into three zones — each one represents a fundamentally different way of getting work done with Claude.
You and Claude are in a chat. Every session starts blank. Quality depends entirely on what you put in the message.
You stop re-explaining yourself. Persistent context — Projects, Skills, instructions — lets Claude show up already knowing your work.
Claude reaches your real systems and runs work end-to-end. You stop being the courier. You start being the boss.
Unit 1 maps the journey. Each subsequent unit walks you across one transition — with scenarios, sample projects, and a knowledge check at the end. Roughly 30 minutes apiece, fully self-paced.
● Unit 1 is free · ● Units 2–7 are Standard tier · ● Unit 8 is Premium tier · See pricing
The full map of the journey. Meet all seven phases, the three zones, and seven real-world scenarios that bring each phase to life. By the end, you'll know exactly where you are today and where the next move is.
Start Unit 1 →Your first promotion. The mental shift from asking Claude to briefing Claude — the four ingredients of a strong brief (RCTC), two worked examples, two hands-on sample projects you'll write yourself with a model answer to compare against.
Start Unit 2 →The work you just did in Unit 2 becomes automatic. Move every recurring brief out of your prompts and into Claude's setup — Projects, Custom Instructions, and Reference Files Claude opens already knowing.
Start Unit 3 →Skills — packaged procedures Claude runs on command. The AI equivalent of a standard operating procedure. You'll design two real Skills during the unit and ship them the same week.
Start Unit 4 →The bridge from advice to action. Wire Claude into your real tools — Gmail, Drive, your calendar, your CRM — and stop being the courier in your own workflows.
Start Unit 5 →Multi-step workflows. Hand off entire chains of work — pulling data, drafting, scheduling, filing, posting — and trust Claude to complete them end to end.
Start Unit 6 →The relationship inverts. Claude initiates, surfaces, proposes. The unit that teaches you to design Claude into your week as a colleague, not a tool.
Start Unit 7 →For working professionals who've mastered the seven phases. Advanced patterns and multi-week projects for building a personal AI infrastructure: the Knowledge Compound, Multi-Claude workflows, your own MCP server, the Council, and the Decision Atlas. Less hand-holding, more density. The unit that turns the framework into a system.
Enter the Frontier →Two tiers. Both come with the full Hire-to-Partner framework, the worked examples, the sample projects, and progress tracking. Premium adds the graduate-level Unit 8 — Beyond Partner — with the five advanced patterns and four multi-week build projects.
The 7-phase framework. Units 1–7.
Founders price: $20 for first 100 customers
All 7 phases plus the Frontier. Units 1–8.
Founders price: $59 for first 100 customers
Unit 1 is always free — work through it first, decide if the framework lands, then upgrade. No subscription. No upsell after purchase. Lifetime access means lifetime.
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Most professionals using Claude today are getting one tenth of what it can do for them. Not because they aren't trying — because nobody taught them the mental model.
This course teaches the mental model. It is not about "prompt engineering tricks." It is about the way you think when you sit down to work with Claude — the difference between treating it as a tool and treating it as a teammate.
Each unit is self-paced, takes about 30 minutes, and ends with two things: a new thought process, and at least one artifact you built yourself.
Take a unit on your lunch break or split it across a week. Progress, reflections, and quiz answers save automatically — come back where you left off.
Written like a teacher who respects your time. Every concept lands in a scenario. Every framework comes with worked examples.
Every unit ends with sample projects you write yourself — then compare against a model answer. The learning is in the doing.