Foundations of Claude: Coach Your AI Apprentice on Real Work
The claude.ai foundations workshop for working professionals and business owners. Build the mental models, then learn prompting, Projects, Artifacts, Research, Connectors, and Skills by applying every one to work you actually do.
Built for working professionals, taught by a technopreneur who runs his business on AI
This workshop is for people who want to use Claude well for real work: marketers, ops people, founders, business owners, analysts, and consultants. If you’ve tried claude.ai or ChatGPT casually and felt you were only scratching the surface, this is built for you. No jargon, no assumptions about what you already know.
Most AI workshops come from one of two camps: techies with no real grounding in business or marketing, or business people who never built strong fundamentals. This one is built differently, by a technopreneur who actually runs his own business on AI, not just builds the tech behind it.
You learn it directly from Boon Kgim, who uses Claude every day to run the real work of his business: marketing, proposals, presentations, workshops, automation, and more. With 19 years building websites and software behind him, he knows where AI genuinely helps and where it doesn’t. The shortcuts, the patterns, the gotchas, you get them in one afternoon, distilled and handed to you straight. Making complex things simple for non-technical people is the entire teaching style.
Hands-on activities, curated to amplify your understanding
Foundations only stick when you apply them, so every feature block ends in a curated hands-on activity you run yourself, fixed in shape so it can be demoed and timed, but real enough that the feature clicks. You’ll walk the full literacy arc: prompting well, managing context, then Projects, Artifacts, Research, Connectors, and Skills, each one with a “try it now” you do in the room. Several plug straight into your own material: a Project for a work stream you pick, a Research run on a question you actually need answered, and a brand-voice Skill built from your own sent emails so Claude drafts the way you do. You also leave with a reusable HTML slide template and Gmail connected. The point isn’t to finish your work in the room, it’s to understand each feature well enough to carry the starter setup forward after.
One idea ties the whole day together: out of the box, Claude is generic. Think of today as day one of an apprenticeship. You give it context, review its output, give specific feedback, and teach it your way, until it stops being everyone’s Claude and becomes uniquely yours. So a generic first answer isn’t a failure, it’s exactly where you’d expect to start.
Why learn from Boon Kgim
- A technopreneur, tech consultant, and growth marketer who runs his own business on AI across marketing, proposals, presentations, workshops, and automation
- 19 years building websites and software, and 10+ apps built with Claude Code, so he knows the technology from the inside, not just the prompts
- Has built real Skills on his own work, including a LinkedIn writing Skill trained on 300+ published posts, the exact apprentice loop you’ll learn in the room
- A track record of teaching non-technical founders, freelancers, and professionals who walked in nervous and walked out fluent
- Direct access during the workshop, you ask, he answers, no TA layer in between
You’re not paying for a course. You’re paying for the compressed experience of a technopreneur who runs his whole business on AI, with Boon Kgim sitting next to you while you put it to work on your own real tasks.
You’re not done when you leave
This is the part most workshops get wrong. The skill grows by using it, so the day ends with a standing take-home challenge: this week, pick one recurring task (the weekly report, inbox triage, meeting notes) and move it fully into Claude, with a Project to hold its context and a custom Skill that does it your way. Do it once and it compounds every week after.
You’re not alone. Fall behind? You’re covered
You’re not on your own after the workshop. You get the alumni community group chat, where you share what you build, bring your questions back, and get answers from Boon, who regularly shares his own tips and practical insights and amplifies what members make. And falling behind is never a problem: if you don’t keep up, or you just want a second pass, you can re-attend a future run of the same workshop for free, whenever you want. The seat you take today is one you can always come back to.
Foundations first, applied to the work in front of you
The emphasis is a strong grasp of how to work with Claude, the literacy that carries across every AI tool you'll touch next. This isn't a feature tour for its own sake: you'll learn the real foundations, namely mental models, context, Projects, Artifacts, Research, Connectors, and your own Skills, all in plain English, then put every one into a curated hands-on activity built to make it stick, several run on your own material, so you leave with real understanding you can reuse, not a toy example.
Mental Models
Three ways to think about Claude, a brilliant super-intern, an averaging machine, an apprentice you train, so everything else clicks into place.
The Apprentice Loop
The habit that makes Claude compound, give it context, review the output, feed back what to fix, and teach it your way until it works like you.
Prompting
Talking to Claude like a capable coworker to get great results, no magic keywords or syntax required.
Context
The single biggest lever on output quality, everything Claude can see when it answers, and how to keep it tight.
Projects
Self-contained workspaces that hold your reference docs and rules so Claude has them in every chat.
Artifacts
Standalone, usable outputs, documents, decks, and mini-apps, built in a side panel you can copy, download, or publish.
Research
Many searches that build on each other, synthesised into a cited report in minutes.
Connectors
Giving Claude access to your real tools and data like Gmail and Drive, on the open MCP standard.
Skills
Teaching Claude your way of working once so it repeats good work the same way every time.
Ways to Use Claude
One account across web, mobile, and desktop, and when to reach for Chat, Cowork, or Code.
You will walk out with
- A working mental model for Claude and any AI assistant, in plain English, no tech vocabulary required
- The core habits of prompting, giving context, reviewing, and iterating, drilled in hands-on practice, not just explained
- Transferable foundations across AI tools, Projects, Artifacts, Research, Connectors, and your own Skills
- A Project that holds the context for one real work stream you keep using after the room
- A reusable HTML slide template you can build future decks from
- A Research run on a question you actually needed answered, with a cited report
- Gmail connected, with Claude drafting straight from your inbox
- A brand-voice Skill built from your own sent emails, so Claude writes the way you do
- The confidence to apply the same foundations to documents, automation, analysis, and almost anything text-based
Who this is for
- Working professionals and business owners, marketers, ops, founders, analysts, and consultants who want to use Claude well for real work
- Professionals who have tried claude.ai or ChatGPT casually and want to turn it into a daily tool they actually rely on
- Teams that want everyone fluent in the same Claude foundations, applied to the work they already do
- Anyone who's been put off by tech and wants to learn from someone who makes it plain for a living
Who this is NOT for
- Software engineers wanting a Claude Code or developer CLI deep-dive, this is claude.ai, the product, not the terminal
- People who want a done-for-you setup with no involvement, the activities are hands-on and you run them yourself
- Anyone expecting generic, polished corporate training. This is hands-on and personal, by design
Indicative pricing
Final quote confirmed on inquiry. Typical reply within 2 business days.
Individual seat
Public cohort registration
- S$268 per seatFlat rate, same price for every individual
Group / Private session
Book a dedicated session for your team
- Up to 8 paxS$2,144 flat8-pax minimum billing
- 9–11 paxS$268 per pax
- 12–15 paxS$248 per paxSave ~7%
- 16+ paxS$228 per paxSave ~15%
Customised session
Half-day default (4 hours) · Private team sessions and tailored runs available on request
What we provide
- Pre-workshop Claude account setup guide, written in plain English
- A prompt cheat sheet covering the 3-part frame and every feature
- Learner's quick-reference sheet
- Access to the alumni community group chat, where Boon answers questions and shares his tips and practical insights
- Free re-attendance to a future run of the same workshop
Your facilitator
Boon Kgim
Founder, nanogent.ai
Practitioner at the intersection of AI agents, vibe coding, and growth marketing. Boon teaches from the build, sharing what actually works when shipping AI products in competitive markets. His workshops combine live demos, real workflows, and frameworks you can apply the same day.
Common questions
Do I need any technical background? +
No. This is claude.ai, the product, not the developer terminal. There's no coding, no setup, no jargon. If you can describe what you want in plain English, you're ready.
Is this the same as Claude Code? +
No. Claude Code is the developer CLI for building software, covered in CC-1. This workshop is claude.ai, the chat product millions use for everyday knowledge work, drafting, research, analysis, and producing real deliverables, with no coding at all.
Do I need to pay for Claude? +
A Claude subscription is recommended (not included in the course fee). Claude Pro for individuals, or your company's Team plan, means nothing is capped during the day. The Free plan still follows most of the day, with Projects, Connectors, and Skills working at small limits. Research is the one paid-only feature, and we flag it when we get there.
Will I work on my own material, or a generic example? +
Both, by design. The activities are curated so each feature can be demoed and timed, and several plug straight into your own material, a Project for a work stream you pick, a Research run on a topic you actually need, and a brand-voice Skill built from your own sent emails. A couple are deliberately generic, a reusable slide template and a test email to yourself, because that's the more reliable way to learn the feature. You leave understanding each one, with a starter setup to keep building on.
What do I actually walk out with? +
A Claude setup you keep using, made up of a Project that holds your context, a reusable HTML slide template, a Research run, Gmail connected, and a brand-voice Skill that drafts in your voice. The features are the means; the understanding to apply them to your own work is the result.
Can I keep getting better at this after the workshop? +
Yes, and that's the point. The whole day is framed as the first day of an apprenticeship, you give Claude context, review its output, and teach it your way until it becomes uniquely yours. You leave with a take-home challenge to act on this week, the alumni community group chat, and free re-attendance to a future run, so you can keep going long after the room empties.
How is this different from the CC-1 workshop? +
CC-1 (Foundations of Claude Code) teaches the developer CLI by building your own website, foundations like version control, deployment, and isolated environments. CC-2 (this one) teaches claude.ai, the everyday product, for real knowledge work, with no coding at all. Start here if you want to use Claude brilliantly for documents, research, and analysis; take CC-1 if you want to build and ship software and sites.
From past workshops & talks
Moments from sessions, forums, and stages over the past few years.
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