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The Creative Systems Lab · Next live build · Wednesday, September 30

Build a creative
business that works
smarter.

Welcome to the lab. 🧪

90-minute 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. Sessions 3 through 7 are recorded and ready the day you join, and the replays are just as useful as being there live. Session 8, Meet Cowork, is live Wednesday, September 30. Take all ten builds in the Founding Season - Sessions 3 through 12 - for $50 a session.

See the Founding Season · $497 → See Session 8 details →

$497 · 10 sessions · $50 a session · Replays yours forever

Want the whole back end built? See the Founding Season - ten builds, join any time through Dec 31 →

Mandy Corcoran, tech instructor and surface designer, founder of Creative Systems Lab, holding a lab flask full of paintbrushes

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.

90 min
per session
1 tool
Claude, that's it
Live build
build it together
2 free
sessions free
Mandy's art & expertise has been featured by
Nordstrom HomeGoods TJ Maxx Spoonflower Apple Altitude Summit Hawthorne Threads Canvas Rebel

How to join the Lab

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Creative Systems Lab is ten 90-minute builds where you leave with the thing actually running - a lead magnet and welcome emails, a keyword bank, a content engine, an automation that does the boring part while you sleep. It is for artists, surface designers, makers and creative business owners who want the business side handled so they can get back to the work they actually love. No code. If you can open a browser tab, you can finish.

You do not have to buy the whole thing. There are three ways in. Pick the one that fits where you are.

One at a time
$67 a session

See a session you want and buy just that one. Nothing else attached.

  • A single 90-minute live build
  • Permanent replay, yours forever
  • Every prompt we use on the day

Every session is buyable on its own, Sessions 3 right through 12. Nothing is locked behind a bundle.

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Most flexible
Any three
$150 · $50 a session

Three credits. Pick any three of the ten, including sessions that have not run yet, and decide which after you buy.

  • Any three, Sessions 3 through 12
  • Choose them when you are ready
  • Permanent replays of all three

Credits are good through December 31, 2026. Build Clinics are not included - those come with the Season.

Pick any three · $150 →
The whole Founding Season
$497 · $49.70 a session

All ten builds, five recorded and five still to run live, plus four Build Clinics. Drop your question any time and I work through real member builds on screen.

  • All ten sessions, 3 through 12
  • Four live Build Clinics
  • Permanent replays of everything

The only way to get the Build Clinics, and the lowest price per session.

See the Founding Season →

Brand new? Sessions 1 and 2 are free. Start there - get Claude set up properly and learn the prompting formula before you spend a penny.

All Sessions

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⬤  Next live build · Founding Season
Session 08: Meet Cowork.

Wednesday, September 30 at 1pm ET. Cowork is the desktop workspace where Claude stops chatting and starts doing - acting on your real files, start to finish. It comes with the Founding Season, and so do Sessions 3 through 7, already recorded and just as useful as being there live. Claude Pro required.

Join the Founding Season · $497 → See Session 8 details →
Date
Sept 30
Time
1pm ET
Duration
90 min
Season
$497
Session 01 Free Replay
Set Up Claude For Your Creative Business

Build your Creative Business Cheat Sheet live. Make Claude permanently remember who you are. Now available as a free replay - watch any time.

▶ Watch replay ⏱ 90 min 🔓 Free account
Session 02 Free Replay
Stop Fighting Claude. Build the Project and Prompts That Make It Work.

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 July 8 - watch the free replay any time.

▶ Watch replay ⏱ 90 min 🔓 Free account
Session 03 $67 · Replay available
Build Your Lead Magnet + Welcome Email Sequence

A lead magnet concept, opt-in page copy, and a 5-email welcome sequence - written with Claude, in your voice. Not a plan in a Google Doc. A funnel that exists. Recorded live - watch the replay any time.

▶ Watch replay ⏱ 90 min Beginner+ 💾 Replay forever
Session 04 $67 · Replay available
Your Offer & Reason-to-Buy with Claude

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.

📅 Aug 5 ⏱ 90 min Beginner+ 🔓 Free account
Session 05 $67 · Replay available
Get Found: SEO Across POD, Etsy, Pinterest & Google

One keyword workflow, every platform. Use Claude to research keywords and write listings, pins, and descriptions that actually get discovered.

📅 Aug 19 ⏱ 90 min Intermediate 🔓 Free account
Session 06 $67 · Replay available
Caption & Content System

Build a repeatable content engine for Instagram using Claude: captions, hooks, and a posting rhythm that points back to your offer.

📅 Sept 2 ⏱ 90 min Intermediate 🔓 Free account
Session 07 $67 · Replay available
Get Out of Admin Chaos with Claude

Name the admin that eats your week, then build a Weekly Admin Project in Claude that lays your week out day by day. Recorded live - watch the replay any time.

▶ Watch replay ⏱ 90 min All Levels 🔒 Pro required
Session 08 $67 · Next live
Meet Cowork · Put Claude to Work on Your Desktop

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.

📅 Sept 30 ⏱ 90 min All Levels 🔒 Pro required
Session 09 $67 · Bundle or Season
Connect Claude to Your Apps · MCP Made Plain

What a connection actually is, in plain English, plus Claude wired into one account you already use, with a real job run through it live.

📅 Oct 14 ⏱ 90 min All Levels 🔒 Pro required
Session 10 $67 · Bundle or Season
Building Skills in Claude · Make Claude Do It Your Way

Build your own custom Claude skills so Claude does things your way, every time, without re-explaining yourself.

📅 Oct 28 ⏱ 90 min All Levels 🔒 Pro required
Session 11 $67 · Bundle or Season
Build It Once, Keep It Current · Artifacts + Scheduled Tasks

Build a dashboard or tracker you actually keep, then put it on a schedule so it refreshes itself instead of going stale.

📅 Nov 11 ⏱ 90 min All Levels 🔒 Pro required
Session 12 $67 · Bundle or Season
Automations · Chain It All Together

Chain a connection, a skill and a schedule into one multi-step automation that runs hands-off, and learn how to spot one that has quietly stopped.

📅 Nov 25 ⏱ 90 min Advanced 🔒 Pro required
What students are saying

Real results from artists already using Claude in their business.

"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!"

Gabrielle Alice
Gabrielle Alice
Surface Pattern Artist

"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!)."

Sophie Timms
Sophie Timms
Creative Business Owner

"With Claude my Pinterest and Instagram captions are now optimized for converting — thanks to Mandy's guidance and support."

Lizzy Clark
Lizzy Clark
Creative Business Owner

"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."

Desiree Perez
Desiree Perez
Product-Based Business Owner

"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."

E
Eve
Pesky Cat Studio

"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."

T
Tracy Alex
Surface Pattern Artist

"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."

C
Caroline
Anduze, South of France

Free Resources

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Free Download
10 AI prompts that actually work for your creative business
Mandy Corcoran · Free download
Free Tool
Write Like Me: teach Claude your voice in five minutes
Mandy Corcoran · Free tool
Free Skill
The Claude skill that fixes the tasks you keep avoiding
Mandy Corcoran · Free Claude skill
Prompt Writing
10 AI prompts I actually use every week in my creative business
Mandy Corcoran · 5 min read
Surface Design
How I use Claude to write every Spoonflower description in 20 minutes
Mandy Corcoran · 7 min read
AI Tools
Why Claude is the only AI tool Creative Systems Lab teaches
Mandy Corcoran · 4 min read
Business Systems
The creative business system that runs even when I'm in the studio
Mandy Corcoran · 6 min read
Email Marketing
Writing a welcome sequence with Claude that actually sounds like you
Mandy Corcoran · 5 min read
Automation
The 3 automations I set up in one afternoon that saved me 6 hours a week
Mandy Corcoran · 8 min read
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Questions, answered.

The stuff people ask before they hit join.

Do I have to take the sessions in order?
No. Creative Systems Lab is à la carte on purpose. Take the sessions that meet you where you are right now, and come back for the rest when you're ready. There's no locked track and no wrong order. Each one leaves you with something built.
How long do I keep what I buy?
For life. Every session you buy is yours to keep - the live build and the replay both. No expiring links, no 30-day window. It lives in your private course home, and you can come back to it whenever you want.
Are the sessions live or recorded?
Both. Every session starts as a real 90-minute live build with me, not a pre-taped lecture, and every one is recorded. Sessions that have already run are ready the day you buy, and the replay is just as useful as being there live. You watch, pause, and build along whenever it suits you.
What if AI changes? Will my session go out of date?
Here's my promise: if a session is for sale, it's current with the latest AI - keeping it up to date is on me. And if something changes enough that I re-record a session, anyone who already bought the earlier version gets the new one free. You never pay twice to stay current.
Mandy Corcoran, founder of Amanda Grace Design and Creative Systems Lab
Mandy Corcoran
Founder, Amanda Grace Design & Creative Systems Lab

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.