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Plan, draft, and prototype your idea in Claude, not just ask it questions.
Before you build anything, Claude is where an idea becomes a plan, a brief, and a first draft you can click through. It is a product with surfaces, settings and limits, and most people use about a fifth of it. This course covers that product concretely: when a Project beats a one-off chat, what project knowledge and custom instructions actually change, how an artifact lets you revise a document or a small app instead of regenerating it, and what a file loses on its way into a message. It then turns to the harder half — writing a brief that produces a usable first answer, asking for disagreement instead of encouragement, and closing a long thread into a written decision. It ends on the practical week: picking a model by stakes, spending a usage budget on purpose, keeping secrets and other people's data out, and recognizing an answer that is fluent and false. No programming knowledge is assumed.
Section 1
The surfaces Claude runs on — the desktop app's chat, Cowork and Code, plus Projects and Chrome — and the places you can park standing context so you stop repeating yourself: project knowledge, custom instructions and memory.
Section 2
Artifacts as revisable objects beside the chat, what a PDF or a photo loses on its way into a message, and how to draw more reasoning out of a model that now decides for itself how long to think.
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Using a conversation to think: a brief in three parts, sources reconciled rather than blended, critique you asked for on purpose, and a thread closed into a written decision.
Section 4
The week-to-week practicalities: matching a model to the stakes, treating whichever allowance or spend cap your plan exposes as a budget, keeping the wrong material out of the box, and catching an answer that is fluent and false.
Section 5
Four features you switch on and steer yourself: a deep-research run that returns a cited report, memory set row by row, a doc you edit in place and export for its reader, and a skill Claude loads when its task turns up.