Free · Hands-on · No coding needed

Stop chatting with AI.
Start building with it.

A hands-on workshop for owners and leaders of 5-to-500-person businesses. Bring one real task. You’ll set Claude up on your own tools and turn that task into something that runs.

You can do this. It’s not technical. It’s a management skill, and you already have it.

Before and after

What changed for two business owners

Both examples come from Anthropic’s SMB workshops in 2026.

Paying the bills

Corey, Prospect Butcher Co.

Brooklyn · 2 locations · ~30 vendors · 2 billing systems

Before

2–3 scattered evening hours a week. Invoices across two systems. Some weeks vendors just waited.

After

45 focused minutes on Monday: a snapshot, then vendor-by-vendor suggestions with the reasoning shown. Vendors get paid consistently now.

AI handles
Pulls invoices, scans email, computes cash, recommends
Corey keeps
Every payment decision and every vendor conversation
“Paying bills wasn’t on the calendar — it followed me home.”

The daily order report

A regional distributor

Daily order reports across many accounts, each in its own format

Before

Every afternoon, someone downloaded order PDFs from account emails and re-keyed the line items into Excel, in each account’s own layout.

After

A scheduled job pulls the PDFs, rebuilds each account’s format and compiles the report before the team is back from lunch.

AI handles
Pulls the PDFs, parses line items, rebuilds each account’s format, compiles
The owner keeps
Anything that looks off, and the exceptions
“Someone on my team spent every afternoon turning order PDFs into spreadsheets. Now a scheduled job does it before they’re back from lunch.”

What you’ll build

Six workflows to start from

Each one comes ready-made in the Claude for Small Business plugin. Start from one, or build your own from a task you do every week.

What you could build

RUNNING

Monday Brief

One page every Monday at 7:00 am. Reads QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot and your calendar.

$48.2kcash on hand
+11%sales vs last week
3invoices 30+ days late

Top 3 this week

  • Chase Harbor Dental — $6,400, 41 days late (draft ready)
  • Call back Riverside Landscaping — quoted Tue, no reply
  • Payroll Fri: covered with $9.1k margin

Example output with sample numbers.

Monday Brief

/monday-brief

Cash, sales, pipeline, the week ahead, and your top 3 to-dos — every Monday at 7am.

QuickBooks · PayPal · HubSpot · Calendar

Cash-Flow Snapshot

/cash-flow-snapshot

30/60/90-day cash forecast with confidence bands and named risk flags. From QuickBooks + payments.

QuickBooks · Square · Stripe

Invoice Chaser

/invoice-chase

Drafts overdue-invoice reminders matched to each customer’s payment history. Sends via PayPal with your approval.

QuickBooks · PayPal · Gmail

Month-End Close

/close-month

Reconciles QuickBooks against payment processors, flags gaps, and writes the P&L narrative.

QuickBooks · PayPal · Stripe

Lead Triage

/lead-triage

Scores inbound leads, drafts touch emails, and blocks calendar time for the top 5.

HubSpot · Gmail · Calendar

Customer Pulse Check

/customer-pulse-check

Feedback themes from reviews, tickets, and disputes — with ready-to-send response templates.

PayPal · HubSpot · reviews

How the day works

What happens at the workshop

Everyone works on their own laptop. You do the typing. I point at the screen and name the next click.

Bring a laptop and charger. A tablet won’t work for the exercises. You’ll get setup steps a week before.

  1. Step 1

    The mental model

    About an hour on working with AI like a brilliant new hire, and the 4Ds: Delegation, Description, Discernment and Diligence.

  2. Step 2

    Watch it work

    A 5–10 minute live demo of the Claude for Small Business plugin, run on a practice business.

  3. Step 3

    Set Claude up for you

    Tell Claude who you are and how you like to work. Then connect Gmail or Google Calendar.

  4. Step 4

    Build, step by step

    Add a plugin, create your first skill, turn your data into a live report, and give Claude your business context.

  5. Step 5

    Open build

    Pick a real task from your business and build it while we work the room. A few people demo at the end.

  6. Step 6

    Keep going at home

    The workshop app stays open for two weeks, with a take-home track and resources.

Safety first

Is your business data safe with Claude?

Not used for training

Anthropic doesn’t train its models on your business content. You own what goes in, and what comes out. On a Team plan, that’s the default.

Encrypted & isolated

Encrypted end to end, walled off from every other company, never sold, deletable on request.

Independently audited

SOC 2 & ISO 27001 — audited yearly by outside firms. All public at trust.anthropic.com.

And you stay in control

Read access

Claude can look at your data but can’t change anything.

Write access

Claude can take action, and always requires your approval first.

Your off switch

Toggle access, revoke it entirely, or adjust scope anytime.

Is this for me?

Four questions owners ask before you sign up

“I’m not technical.”

Good. It’s not technical. It’s a management skill, and you already have it. You describe the job in plain English, the way you’d brief a smart new hire. No coding.

“I don’t want AI touching my books.”

You decide what each connection can do. Read access can look but can’t change anything. Write access always asks for your approval first, and you can switch any connection off at any time. You approve every step that touches money or customers.

“What do I need to bring?”

A laptop and charger. A tablet won’t work for the exercises. A week before, you’ll get the setup steps: use the Claude desktop app if you can, and sign in before you arrive.

“What happens after?”

The workshop app stays open for two weeks. Your welcome page becomes home base: the take-home track, the resources, and the leaderboard.

Upcoming workshops

Pick a workshop

Free, limited seating. Everyone gets help at their own laptop, and we confirm each seat by email.

New dates coming soon.

Tell us about your business (it takes about 2 minutes) and you’ll be first to hear when a workshop opens.

Save my spot for the next one

Questions

Quick answers

What does it cost?

Nothing, and there is no catch. Seats are limited, so you request one and we confirm by email.

Anthropic sponsors this program because small and medium businesses deserve the same help the large technology companies are getting to figure out how to work with AI. Jeff is a Claude SMB trainer, trained by Anthropic to run these sessions for you at no cost.

There is no requirement to work with Anthropic or to use their products afterwards. The skills apply across the whole AI landscape, though the terminology differs a little from tool to tool. We run these sessions so that everybody gets a chance to use these tools. Period.

What happens after I send a request?

You’ll get an email confirming we received it. We review requests within 2 business days and confirm your seat by email.

What should I bring?

A laptop and a charger. A tablet will not work for the exercises.

Do I need to be technical?

No. It’s not technical. It’s a management skill, and you already have it. You describe what you need in plain English, the way you’d brief a smart new hire.

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