Course
AI at Work: Foundations
Start from zero and finish with three things you can actually use.
Who this is for
Anyone starting from zero who wants the safe habits and the first three wins before picking a track. Every example follows Lina, an office manager for a nine-person engineering firm.
You will be able to
- Explain what Claude can and cannot see, and why it is sometimes confidently wrong
- Run a first conversation that ends with something you can use
- Upload a file, a screenshot or a photo and ask the four questions that get real value
- Create one Project that remembers your context
- Get a document or a table out of Claude and know where to go next
Stops
- What Claude is, and is notWhat is actually behind the chat box, why the first answer was bland, and why a confident answer is not the same as a correct one. Read once
- The ground rulesFive things that make people quit in week one: running out, long chats, what never gets pasted, and the two buttons nobody notices. Read once
- Your first real askThe four parts of a request that gets usable work back, and the one line to add to every prompt you write. Daily
- UploadsFiles, screenshots and photos of paper, what Claude can read in each, and the four asks that get real value out of them. Daily
- Your first ProjectA Project is a chat that already knows who you are. Set one up once and stop re-explaining your job every morning. Set once
- Get something out, then pick your trackHow to leave a chat with a real Word doc, spreadsheet or PDF in your downloads folder, and how to choose what you learn next. Weekly
Written for Claude. The ideas transfer to ChatGPT and Gemini; the menu paths don't. Current as of September 2026; where a feature may change we link to support.claude.com.
Claude helped Dasow draft and structure every course. A human at Dasow reviewed every stop.