The Agent Operator Cohort
Nine live sessions. Real work. No coding required. $697.
Reserve your spotWhy this isn't another AI course
There's a lot of noise out there right now — theory, hype, buzzwords. What's missing is someone showing you exactly how to use Claude, practically, to build a business or run one better. That's what this is. Nine live sessions — sessions 1–8 are one hour followed by 30 minutes of office hours where we build together in real time — not a video library, not a PDF. If you want to use AI to build a business or grow a career, this is where you learn by doing the work — yours.
Already read the guide?
The $57 guide teaches you the framework — the four components, the six skills, the 90-day path. The cohort is where you build with it, live: nine sessions working on your own business, 30 minutes of office hours after each one, a group building alongside you, direct feedback on your actual work, and the Agent Operator certification when you finish. The guide is the map. The cohort is the guided trip — and guide readers arrive with a head start.
Who this is for
AI agents are already handling scheduling, follow-up, content, and reporting across marketing, operations, finance, and healthcare. Someone has to set the goals, audit the outputs, and own the results. This cohort teaches you to be that person.
AI agents are already generating content, running campaigns, and qualifying leads. The marketers who learn to direct that work set the strategy instead of just executing it.
AI can draft the first pass. You still have to own what it produces. This is for the professionals who build the oversight systems their firm depends on.
Agents are already handling AP/AR, categorization, and reporting. The finance professionals who learn to audit and direct that work become the ones the team relies on.
Operations already runs on structured, process-driven thinking — the same thinking that directs AI agents well. This is where that skill becomes a strategist's role.
Scheduling, patient communication, documentation — agents are already handling pieces of this. Someone has to be the person overseeing how it's done.
AI agents are already writing product listings, processing invoices and purchase orders, and handling customer communications and support. The retail teams who learn to direct that work move faster than competitors still doing it by hand.
What you'll actually learn — 9 live sessions
Welcome & Community
Meet the group, share what you want out of the course, get to know each other and me. Walk through expectations and what to bring. No office hours this session.
The Foundation
Set up Claude as your AI brain: system prompts, project structure, your prompt library. Learn the core discipline: work a process through with Claude conversationally before you ever automate it.
Prompt Engineering
The structure that makes AI instructions reliable. Automate your first real task.
App Integrations
Connect Claude to the tools you already use; map your personal tool stack.
The Four Components
Brain, Nervous System, Memory, Voice. Set up MCP connectors so Claude can reach your tools.
Building Your First Automation
Build a real automation end to end, using the connectors from session 4.
Claude Everywhere
Chrome extension, Microsoft 365 add-ins, artifacts as live dashboards, and Cowork for bigger projects.
Claude Code
GitHub → Vercel → domain, editing a real site live, auditing the output.
Skills & The Full Picture
What skills are, building vs. downloading one, course wrap-up and certification.
Sessions 1–8 run Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12–1pm ET — one hour of live teaching, followed by 30 minutes of office hours (1–1:30pm) to apply it to your own work.
The four-component framework
Every AI agent system — no matter the tools — runs on four components.
Brain
The reasoning engine — like Claude — that interprets instructions and makes decisions. This is what you're directing.
Nervous System
The connections and workflows that let the brain act across your other tools — the wiring between thought and action.
Memory
What the system remembers between runs. Good memory compounds intelligence over time; no memory resets it every time.
Voice
How the system talks back — to you, your team, your customers. The interface where trust is won or lost.
Taught by someone who runs these systems daily
Every session is taught live by Christina Dills — founder of Smart Edge Technologies, 13 years at Microsoft, 20+ years at the intersection of business operations and emerging technology, with credentials from Harvard, Columbia, and IBM. She runs three AI-powered companies on the exact systems taught in this cohort. The curriculum comes directly from those deployments: what worked, what failed, and what non-technical professionals need to stay in control.
What Cohort 1 built
Testimonials
"I built a capability one-pager for my business and got real UI/UX feedback using Claude's Chrome extension — genuinely useful, immediate results. But the bigger shift was in how I think about Claude: I went from treating it like a single thinking partner to running it like three skilled employees, each with their own output to leverage."
"I've been deep in the AI space for about a year, using it to transform how I work and helping others see its real operational value. But this program cracked something open for me — it showed me how to take everything I'd been doing and actually wire it into the functioning of my business, not just as a tool I use, but as the engine that runs it. That's a completely different level."
"Before this program I was building with Claude in ways that worked, but self-taught, without a shared vocabulary for what I was doing. This cohort gave me a framework to name it — and confirmed that the most important design decision in AI adoption isn't which model you choose, it's how you structure the relationship between human judgment and the system."
Certification
Attend at least seven of the nine sessions — you can miss up to two — and complete the cohort to receive your Agent Operator certification, shareable on LinkedIn.
What you need to know
Prerequisites: none. No coding, no prior AI training — just a computer and a Claude account.
Group size: capped at 10 people, so everyone gets direct feedback during office hours.
Miss a session? You can miss up to two sessions and still earn your certification.
Refunds: full refund available until 24 hours before the cohort starts. After that, refund requests are closed.
Reserve your spot
The next cohort begins the second week of August 2026. Session 0 — Welcome & Community — is Friday, August 7. Sessions 1–8 run Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12–1pm ET, with office hours from 1 to 1:30pm. Reserving is free and holds your place in line — no payment today.
What happens next: you'll get a confirmation email right away. When enrollment opens, we email the reserve list first with the payment link ($697) and the full session schedule. Spots are confirmed in reservation order — the cohort is capped at 10.
After the cohort
The cohort teaches you the framework, start to finish. The Agent Operator Community is where you keep building — two live sessions a month plus a private Slack group, for graduates who want to keep going.
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