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90-minute live build sessions where you walk away with it actually running - not just learned. For artists, surface designers, and creative entrepreneurs who want to use AI to run a real business. Session 2 is July 8 and it's free.
FREE · Live 90-min build · Walk away with it running
This is not about generating art with AI. It's about using AI to run the business around your art (writing, email, content, systems, automation) so you spend fewer hours on the stuff that isn't creating.
Wednesday, July 8 at 1pm ET. The two things that get Claude actually working for you: a Claude Project that knows your business, and the prompting formula that gets it right. Built live on screen with me. Works on the free Claude plan, no credit card needed.
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The two things that get Claude working for you: a Claude Project that knows your business, and the prompting formula that gets it right. Built live.
A lead magnet concept, opt-in page copy, and a 5-email welcome sequence - written live with Claude, in your voice. Not a plan in a Google Doc. A funnel that exists.
Figure out why someone should buy YOUR thing - not the 500,000 lookalikes. Use Claude to sharpen your offer and positioning so everything downstream converts.
One keyword workflow, every platform. Use Claude to research keywords and write listings, pins, and descriptions that actually get discovered.
Build a repeatable content engine for Instagram using Claude: captions, hooks, and a posting rhythm that points back to your offer.
Stop drowning in busywork. Map your manual workflow and build a 30-minute weekly business system in Claude - before you ever automate it.
Cowork is the desktop workspace where Claude stops chatting and starts doing - acting on your real files, start to finish. Set it up and run your first hands-on build.
Build your own custom Claude skills so Claude does things your way, every time, without re-explaining yourself.
Teach Claude to run on a schedule (daily reports, weekly content prep, monthly check-ins) without you lifting a finger.
Set up your first automation so your business keeps running while you're in the studio creating.
What MCPs are, why they matter, and how to wire Claude into the tools you already use, without writing code.
"Before Mandy introduced me to Claude, the to-do list felt insurmountable — especially those marketing items I really wanted to get ahead of. By learning my voice, automating, and integrating scheduled tasks, Claude is helping me prepare newsletters, blogs, and social media posts that took so much time away from art creation before. Now I get to spend more time on what I love: painting!"
"Claude has absolutely revolutionised the way I do the mundane and admin tasks in my business. What used to take me an hour now takes minutes, and it has become like a 'team member' in any sense of the word. The time it's saving me is huge — I can finally do more of the fun things in my business again (like making art and hanging out in my community!)."
"With Claude my Pinterest and Instagram captions are now optimized for converting — thanks to Mandy's guidance and support."
"I'm new to Claude and AI in general, but with Mandy's help setting it up, I've created individual C-suite projects in Cowork. My 'CFO' reviewed my YoY numbers and built a full 2026 growth strategy — where to go deeper, what products to cut, funding ideas for slower seasons, a production priority plan, monthly revenue forecasts. As a small business owner, getting Claude started with Mandy's help has changed how I run my product-based business — and I've only scratched the surface."
"Thank you for SUCH an insightful and so bloody useful session! My voice statement that Claude created for me was spot on, my husband and I burst out laughing with approval."
"I stopped ChatGPT first thing when I realized what I had been missing. Claude is walking me through every step... I finally think this is going to be an amazing website."
"You make systems, AI and technology feel approachable to artists rather than intimidating. Your philosophy that AI should support the business but never make the art really resonated with me."
90 minutes, live with me on Zoom. We'll build the two things that make Claude actually work for you: a Claude Project that knows your business, and the prompting formula that gets it right. You walk away with both built.
You'll get your Zoom link the second you register.
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I'm not a tech bro teaching artists. I'm an artist who taught tech for 25 years. Programming degree, 25 years in tech, a decade teaching network engineering and web design at the high school and college level, and I've spoken on multiple AI summits. Then I left it to homeschool my kids and rebuild as a working surface designer licensed by brands like Nordstrom, HomeGoods, and TJ Maxx. Creative Systems Lab is what happens when both halves of that brain teach you the same thing.