Most professionals use AI like a search box and wonder why nothing changes. In 20 hours of live training over 5 days — in Claude Chat and Claude Code — we turn Claude into a system that knows your work and does more of it for you.
*Self-reported by graduates in post-course surveys, 30 days out. Your mileage depends on how meeting-heavy your week is.
If any of these sound familiar, the problem isn't you — and it isn't Claude. It's that nobody ever showed you how to build a system instead of typing one-off prompts.
You re-explain your job in every chat. Who you are, what your team does, what "good" looks like — over and over, from scratch.
Output sounds like a robot wrote it. So you rewrite everything anyway, and the "time savings" evaporate.
Your best prompts live in a graveyard. A notes doc you never open. Nothing compounds. Every week starts at zero.
The 30-minute YouTube tutorial didn't stick. Watching someone else use AI is not the same as building your own workflow with a coach beside you.
A pinch is the smallest ingredient that changes the whole dish. Our method finds the handful of high-leverage workflows in your actual job and builds them with you, live — so you leave with working systems, not a binder of notes.
Before Day 1, you audit where your hours actually go. We identify the 3–5 recurring tasks where Claude can carry real weight — for you specifically, not a generic "knowledge worker."
Five live sessions over five days, in Claude Chat and Claude Code. You bring real work — real meetings, real courses, real stakeholders — and build your system on it with an instructor watching your screen, not a recording.
You leave with a personal playbook, a 30-day operating plan, and two weeks of async instructor support. The habit forms because the system already works on Day 5.
Drag the sliders to match your real week. We'll show you what Pinch graduates typically reclaim — and how fast the course pays for itself.
Estimates based on automation rates self-reported by graduates 30 days after completing a course. Your results depend on your week — that's why the sliders exist.
Both are 20 hours of live, instructor-led training across 5 days, in Claude Chat and Claude Code. Both cost $1,497 per person — public cohort or private team. Both end with systems running in your real work — not a certificate and a shrug.
Stop briefing Claude like a stranger. Build a personal command center that knows your team, your priorities, and your voice — and run your week through it.
Ten Claude-powered skills that compress your design cycle — put to work on a capstone project you finish in class: a real, build-ready e-learning course.
You don't learn to drive from a video. You learn with an instructor in the passenger seat. Here's how Pinch compares to the alternatives you've already tried.
| YouTube & blogs | Self-paced course | Pinch Training | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built on your real work | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Live instructor coaching | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Working system by the end | ✕ | Rarely | ✓ |
| Accountability to finish | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ 94% completion |
| Support after the course | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ 2 weeks async |
"I ran the numbers after week three: my Monday planning block went from 2 hours to 20 minutes, and my team's status reports basically write themselves now. This paid for itself before the course even ended."
"We built a storyboard skill on Day 2 using a real SME interview from my backlog. It produced a first draft in four minutes that would have taken me most of a day. My whole team is going through the next cohort."
"I'd taken two self-paced AI courses and finished neither. The live format is the difference — you build it right there, someone checks your work, and you can't hide. Best training spend I've made as a manager."
Compare that to one week of a mid-level manager's salary spent on work Claude should be doing.
If you attend all five sessions and don't leave with a working system running on your real work, we'll refund every dollar. No forms, no fine print, no hard feelings. We can offer this because it hasn't happened yet.
Yes. Neither course requires code. If you can write an email and organize a folder, you have every prerequisite. Cohorts are capped at 20 precisely so the instructor can spot anyone falling behind and pull them back in, live.
The course runs on Claude Chat and Claude Code (Anthropic's official desktop app) — the exact tools you'll keep using afterward. A Claude subscription (from about $20/month) covers everything we build in class. No other plugins or IT tickets; we'll help you get set up before Day 1.
Yes — same $1,497 per person, same 20 hours. A private cohort runs on a flexible schedule that fits your team's calendar, built on your company's real work. See the details on the Command Center or Accelerator page, or email us.
Prompting is a tactic; we teach a system. Prompt tricks decay every time models improve. A system that captures your context, your voice, and your recurring workflows compounds instead. You'll write better prompts too — but that's a side effect, not the product.
Every session is recorded and you can book a 20-minute catch-up with the instructor before the next one. That said, the live build time is where the value is — we recommend protecting all five slots on your calendar (4 hours each). Or run a private cohort on a schedule that fits your team.
You control everything. Your command center lives in your own files and your own Claude account — nothing is uploaded to us. In class we cover your organization's AI policy, what to keep out of any AI tool, and how Claude's commercial terms handle data (spoiler: consumer and enterprise plans differ — we'll show you exactly where the lines are).
Most attendees do. We provide an itemized invoice, a manager-approval email template that frames the ROI in reclaimed hours, and a completion certificate for your training records. If your team sends 5+ people, email us about team pricing.
A pinch is the smallest ingredient that changes the whole dish. We're not trying to make you an AI researcher — we find the few small, high-leverage changes that transform how your entire week runs. Also, we show up when you're in one.
Cohorts are capped at 20 and fill fast. Pick your course and claim a seat.
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