Flagship program
Become a certified Claude operator.
Most certificates prove you sat through something. This one asks you to build, applied to your own work, and gets reviewed by a person. That is the only version worth putting your name on.
Next cohort Sep 15 – Sep 16, 2026 · 4 of 20 seats left
The honest part
Why most AI certifications are worthless, and what makes this one different.
Attendance-based certificates are issued automatically when a video ends. Everybody knows it, which is why nobody weighs them. The fix is not a harder quiz, it is assessing the thing you actually want to hire for.
You get a brief, not a quiz
After the two live days, you receive a build brief. It describes an outcome, not a set of steps, because the skill being measured is deciding how to get there.
You build it against your own context
Your repo, your data, your workflow. Two people never submit the same thing, which is exactly why the result means something.
It gets reviewed by a human
Someone reads what you built and why. You get written feedback either way, including the parts that were wrong, which is usually the useful half.
You hold something specific
The credential names what you demonstrated. That is far more useful in a review or an interview than a line saying you attended a course.
Day one
Wire Claude into the work you already do.
No sandbox project. We start from your actual accounts, your actual inbox, your actual documents, and leave you with something running that you will still be using next Monday.
- Project instructions and memory that match how you think
- Connectors into the tools you already live in
- A daily brief that assembles itself before you sit down
- Skills and MCP, so Claude learns your tools instead of guessing
Operators, founders, and managers. No programming required, and roughly half of every cohort has never written production code.
If you already live in the terminal, this is the day you find out how much of your non-coding work was automatable the whole time.
Day two
Ship something real, in the room.
Day two moves into building. You pick something from your own backlog, and it gets built live with help on hand the moment you get stuck.
- Claude Code on a real repository, not a tutorial clone
- Agents that run without you watching them
- The Agent SDK and the API, and when each is the right call
- Debugging live, which is the part documentation cannot teach
- Both live days, three hours each
- The practical assessment and human review
- Written feedback on your submission
- The credential on passing
- Recordings and the pre-cohort portal
- One retake if the first attempt does not pass
Who teaches it
Taught by someone who ships with Claude every day.
Charles J Dove
Founder, C&C Strategic Consulting
Twelve years building businesses, the last stretch of it building AI systems that run without anyone watching them. The material here comes out of client work and shipped software, not out of a slide deck written to fill two days.
That matters for one reason. When something breaks live in the session, and it will, you watch it get debugged in real time. That is the part you cannot get from documentation.
Dates
Live cohorts, real seats.
Every cohort is capped at 20 people. No countdown timers here, just the actual count.
September Cohort
Sep 15 – Sep 16, 2026
October Cohort
Oct 13 – Oct 14, 2026
November Cohort
Nov 10 – Nov 11, 2026
Questions
Before you book.
No, and that is not a hedge. Day one is entirely about wiring Claude into how you already work, which requires no programming. Day two goes further into building, and roughly half of every cohort has never written production code. You will still ship something.
It is assessed on work, not attendance. You submit a build against a brief, applied to your own context, and it gets reviewed. Certificates that arrive automatically when the Zoom call ends are worth exactly what they cost to issue.
Fully. Two three-hour sessions, one per day, capped at twenty people. You can interrupt, share your screen, and get unstuck in real time. Recordings go out after, but the value is in the room.
Usually yes. Most companies cover this under an existing education or professional development budget. There is a page at /for-managers with the numbers and an email you can forward without editing.
Join the interest list and you will hear about the next cohort before it goes public. Cohorts run monthly, and seats in the current one are usually gone before the date is close.
A Claude account and a terminal. You get a setup checklist a week ahead, and there is a short pre-cohort portal that gets everyone to the same starting line so day one is not spent on installs.
Full refund up to seven days before the cohort starts. After that the seat is held and cannot be resold in time, so it becomes a credit toward a later cohort instead.
Prove it, do not just attend it.
Two live days, one assessment on your own work, and a credential that names what you actually demonstrated.
Next cohort: Sep 15 – Sep 16, 2026 · 4 of 20 seats left