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Claude Foundation
Master Claude as your personal AI assistant.
Core capabilities covered
Syllabus
01Claude fundamentals for business
What Claude does well, choosing the right model and mode for each task, and where it fits alongside the tools you already use.
02Prompting that works
Structuring prompts with role, context, task and format, iterating on output, and building a personal prompt library for the work you repeat.
03Extended thinking and reasoning
When to switch on extended thinking for harder problems, and how to read Claude's reasoning before acting on it.
04Documents, PDFs and data analysis
Working across long documents and PDFs, and extracting, comparing and questioning figures from spreadsheets and reports.
05Artifacts for business outputs
Turning prompts into documents, pages and interactive tools you can share, using research and image analysis as inputs.
06Projects and personal knowledge
Setting up Projects with instructions and files so your recurring work starts from context, not a blank chat.
07Scheduled Tasks and recurring workflows
Automating the reports, summaries and checks you run every week so they arrive without being asked for.
08Safe use, verification and hallucination checks
Clear data rules, spotting errors and verifying output before it travels — the habits that make usage responsible.
Skills learnt
- Write consistently effective prompts
- Analyse lengthy documents quickly
- Build interactive Artifacts for business use
- Create reusable Claude Projects
- Schedule recurring AI-assisted tasks
- Conduct high-quality research
- Summarise reports and meeting notes
- Improve writing and communication
- Verify AI outputs before using them










