Enabling Employees · Claude Foundations

Your Team Has Claude. Now Learn to Actually Use It.

Claude Foundations is a two-day, hands-on training program for business professionals — building the habits, workflows, and configurations that turn Claude access into Claude capability. Private cohort. Customized to your team. No coding background required.

The gap

Access isn't capability

Most teams already have Claude. What's missing is the structured training that turns it from a curiosity into a deployed capability your team actually reaches for.

The problem

Claude stays a curiosity

Claude is available to your team today. But without structured training, it stays something people try once, get a mixed result from, and set aside. Meanwhile your best people are doing work below their pay grade — proposal drafting, status updates, data formatting, meeting notes — hours every week that should go to decisions, relationships, and strategic work.

The solution

Claude becomes how your team works

The course moves Claude from a curiosity to a deployed capability through structured, hands-on training on real work. Participants learn which tasks to delegate first, how to configure Claude for their specific context, and how to build workflows that handle real business problems reliably — so the tool your team already has is actually used.

This course

A private program built for business professionals — not developers

Claude Foundations is a 9-module, 2-day curriculum for non-technical professionals ready to put Claude to work on real business problems. Every module is hands-on. Every exercise uses real workflows. Cohorts are designed for teams of 8 or more — smaller team? we can work with you 1:1. The program is delivered as a private cohort for your team, customized to your organization's industry and workflows.

Built for business users

No coding. No IT background needed. Every module assumes participants are business professionals and builds from there. If you can use email and documents today, you're ready.

Private cohort delivery

Your team only — no shared cohorts with other organizations. Content is customized to your industry, workflows, and the business problems your team faces every day.

Chat, Cowork & Code

Two full days across Claude's three primary surfaces, so participants leave knowing which tool to use for which job — and how Claude fits the tools they already use.

The curriculum

Two days. Nine modules. Everything built during class.

No theory for its own sake. Every module ends with something participants can use, built on their own real work.

Day 1 — Foundation & orientation

  • 1 · Intelligent Automation for Business Users — how to think about automation: what it is, where it applies, and how to spot the work in your own day that AI should handle.
  • 2 · Intelligent Automation Fundamentals — the 80/20 rule of information work, how AI differs from rule-based automation, and AI literacy basics like how language models work, hallucinations, and data privacy.
  • 3 · Introducing Claude — a practical orientation to the Claude lineup, licensing and plans, and how Claude compares to the assistants you already use.
  • 4 · Navigating Claude: Chat, Cowork & Code — the decision framework for choosing between Claude's three surfaces, with live walkthroughs on real business use cases.
  • 5 · Setting Up Your Claude Environment — the most critical setup module: configuring your grounding context, Claude's memory model, and data hygiene, so you leave Day 1 with a working environment ready for Day 2.

Day 2 — Doing the work

  • 6 · Working in Claude Chat — model selection, context, Projects for organizing work, file analysis, and the prompt patterns that get consistent results — built on your own real work.
  • 7 · Working in Claude Cowork — the deepest hands-on module: structuring projects for repeatable use, installing and using Skills, planning agentic tasks, and course-correcting when Claude goes sideways.
  • 8 · Prompt Engineering for Business Users — the anatomy of effective prompts and business-specific patterns for summarizing, analyzing, drafting, comparing, and extracting — leaving with reusable prompts you'll use immediately.
  • 9 · Claude Code, Computer Use & Windows Applications — what Claude Code is, Claude operating applications directly, a test for identifying good automation candidates, and the safety principles that keep humans appropriately in control.

Why this beats generic AI training

Most AI training is conceptual — it explains what AI is without teaching people to do anything with it. Claude Foundations is entirely practical. Every module ends with something participants built during class, using their own real work. We also configure Claude specifically for each participant's role and context during the program, so they leave with a tool that already knows how they work — not a generic setup they have to figure out on their own.

  • Private to your team — customized to your roles, your data, and your tools.
  • Hands-on, on real work — not slideware; your actual documents and workflows.
  • No coding required — built for business professionals and team leads.
  • In person or virtual — in-person in Denver / Fort Collins and Seattle / Bellevue / Everett; virtual everywhere else.
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Where this fits

Claude Foundations is one of two foundation courses in our training suite. Prefer to learn one-on-one? Mentoring pairs you with a guide on your own work.

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About Claude Foundations

What is Claude Foundations?
Claude Foundations is a private, cohort-based AI training program from NovoCircle that teaches business teams to put Claude to work on real workflows. It's a 9-module, 2-day curriculum designed for business professionals — no coding or IT background required. It's the flagship Claude course in our AI Training for Business Users suite.
Who is the training for?
Business professionals and team leads who already have access to Claude but aren't yet using it on real work. No coding background is required — if you work in documents, email, and everyday business tools today, you're ready.
What does the program cover?
Nine hands-on modules across two days, covering Claude's three primary surfaces — Chat, Cowork, and Code — plus how Claude fits the tools your team already uses, how to configure your own Claude environment, and how to build reliable workflows on real business tasks.
Can the content be customized for our industry or workflows?
Yes. Every cohort is private to your team and customized to your roles, tools, and the workflows you want to improve. The setup module teaches participants to configure Claude with their own professional context, so the tool is set up for their actual job.
Is the training delivered in person or virtually?
Both. We deliver in person in Denver / Fort Collins and Seattle / Bellevue / Everett, and virtually everywhere else. Either way, it's a private cohort for your team only.

Stop doing work that Claude can do for you.

Tell us your team, your tools, and the workflows eating your week. We'll talk through where to start — no pitch, just a conversation.

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