This hands-on course takes you from your first Claude conversation to a fully configured AI workflow built for entrepreneurs and startup founders. You’ll learn to write effective prompts, organize ongoing work with Projects, build reusable templates with Artifacts, and connect Claude to workplace tools — all using startup-specific examples, exercises, and real business documents. By the end, you’ll have a personalized Claude system designed around your business and your most pressing operational priorities.
Early-stage founders and small business owners wear every hat: strategist, marketer, salesperson, operations manager, finance lead, and customer support. You don’t have a team to delegate the research, writing, and analysis to — which means those tasks either consume your evenings or don’t get done. Claude changes that equation. This course teaches you to use AI across every function a startup needs: market research and competitive analysis, business plan and pitch deck development, customer outreach and sales communications, marketing copy and content creation, financial projections and investor updates, and the operational documentation that keeps a growing business organized. The capstone produces a complete investor-ready or launch-ready business package using your full Claude system — built around your actual business, not a hypothetical one.
Active involvement in starting, running, or planning a business. No prior AI or technical experience required.
Receive instruction from subject‑matter experts who bring proven government experience.
Courses that are regularly updated based on feedback and industry developments, ensuring versions are mapped to federal competencies.
The instructor was wonderful and so knowledgeable. The course materials were extremely relevant to what my job is. I feel like I can be better because of this class.
— 2025 student
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Your trusted training partner, equipping public service professionals with the skills and knowledge to excel in their roles and drive meaningful impact.
Attend this course live online or as self-paced training. Engage with expert instructors, ask questions, and get feedback on your exercises and projects.
Get the same interactivity and access to the instructor as in-person students. There are no extra fees and we’ll work with you to ensure your remote setup is perfect.
Learn at your own pace with pre-recorded video lessons and hands-on exercises. Work through the material on your schedule with access to course content and resources.
Our instructors are industry experts and experienced educators, driven to help you succeed.
Upon completion of this course, you’ll receive an official certificate testifying to your mastery of the curriculum. We’ll send you a link where you can download your certificate, share it online with your friends, post it to your professional network on LinkedIn, and view all your earned certificates. Congratulations on your achievement!
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We offer a single free retake of the class within a year.
Since 1921, Graduate School USA has partnered with over 125 federal agencies and trained more than one million federal employees. Led by instructors with deep, real-world knowledge of federal regulations, policies, and practices, our private group programs are practical, mission-driven, and tailored to your agency’s objectives. We offer expertise across key federal domains—including human resources, financial management, acquisition and contracting, leadership, and more—to deliver training where and how your team needs it.
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