Course overview
A three-day introduction to building real tools and automations with Claude Code, with no developer background required. You will learn how Claude Code works and direct it to build genuinely useful things for your business.
The extra day gives beginners room to build properly rather than rush. Through hands-on practice, you will leave able to create your own simple tools and understand enough of the output to test and improve them.
Who's It For?
Technically curious professionals
who want to build with Claude rather than just use it, with no coding experience neededFreelancers and operators
who want to create their own tools and automations without hiring a developerCreatives and producers
who want to automate the repetitive parts of their workflow and build things themselvesAnyone who has wondered what they could build
if they had a developer on hand who never said no
Job outcomes
- Claude Specialist
What you'll learn
By the end of this course, you will be able to direct Claude Code to build real, useful business tools without needing a developer background. Expect to understand enough of the output to sanity-check it, automate simple data and file tasks, and leave with one or more working tools you built yourself.
How Claude Code works
understand what it can build and how to direct it clearly
Building your first tools
create web pages, forms, dashboards and simple data processors
Reading output as a non-developer
understand enough to test what you build and spot when something is off
Automating data tasks
process and transform files without manual effort
Testing and iterating
use a simple discipline to check, debug and improve what you create
Study method
- In-class
- Blended
- Online
- Virtual
Locations
- Scotland
- Edinburgh
- England
- London
- Manchester
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Duration study load
3 Days
Delivery
Course outline
From understanding how Claude Code works to building tools, automating data tasks and learning to test what you create. Three days of hands-on practice on real things you need done.
Day 1
Getting started
How Claude Code works and what it can build
Reading code as a non-developer
Your first tool, built live in the room
Day 2
Building useful tools
Web pages, forms and dashboards
A reliable build method you can repeat
Common use cases for business owners
Working with data
File processing and data transformation
Automating tasks you currently do manually
Practical examples on your own files
Day 3
Testing and improving
The testing discipline: how to check what Claude builds
Debugging with Claude when things go wrong
Security basics every builder should know
Entry requirements
No developer background required
an interest in how tools and automations work is enough to get startedAn active Claude account
Pro plan recommendedA working laptop
with access to your own files and projectsNo prior Claude Code experience needed
Course features
By Day 3 you leave with working tools you built yourself, an understanding of how to read and test what Claude Code produces, and a method you can repeat on new problems without help.
Your first working tool
a web page, form, dashboard or data processor built and tested by you
A repeatable build method
a clear process for scoping, directing and checking Claude Code outputs
A data automation
a file or data task running without manual effort
A testing discipline
a simple method for checking, debugging and improving what you build
About AI First Training
AI First Training is the UK's dedicated Claude training company. We teach one tool, and we teach it properly. Most AI training spreads thin across many tools and leaves teams dabbling. We go deep on Claude, because depth is what changes how people actually work. Our flagship is Claude in 3 Days: a three-day, hands-on intensive capped at ten people, run in person in London and live online. Day one covers Claude, prompting, and system prompts.Day two covers Memory, Projects and Skills. Day three is Cowork and a Build Day, where each delegate builds working tools of their own. We also run one-day courses built around specific roles, including Claude for Sales, Marketing, Design and small business owners, plus bespoke in-house training shaped around a team's own work. The approach comes from a long training background. Founder Mark Young spent more than a decade running one of the UK's leading creative and software training companies, delivering classroom training to large brands and in-house teams across the country. AI First Training brings that same classroom-led, hands-on method to Claude. The focus is always on the outcome your business needs, with the depth of a single tool underneath. Delegates leave able to use Claude in their day-to-day work.
