Claude Code for Ambitious Builders Workshop
Bring one idea. Leave with the app built, Stripe connected, and real people signed up.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 by 250+students
- Next date
- 22 Sept · 09:00 ET22 Sept · 6:00 AM PDT22 Sept · 14:00 BST
- Price
- £387per person, including VAT$497per person€457per person, including VAT
- Full refund 14 days before
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Taught by
Mark Nguyen
Chief Executive Officer, Atlas Learn. ex-Microsoft, ex-Amazon
250+ students trained from top companies
Watch the trailer
A look at how the session runs and what you leave holding.
What you'll build
Not notes about the work. The work itself, built as you go and yours to keep.
Every project under one roof
We open with a full tour of Claude Code. By the end of it you'll know what each tool does and, more importantly, when to reach for it.
Then we set up the project structure I use, so an idea never slips through the cracks again. You leave with it on your own machine, already holding the thing you built today.
The tour the morning opens with. Design and architect your app
Yes, you can turn a sentence into a beautiful app. But who owns your data? Is your code secure? And what happens to your cloud bill when real users show up?
Here we lay the foundations properly, the same way we would on a real, high-stakes software project. You leave with the spec and the architecture decisions written down, which is what stops the build wandering once it is moving.
The slide we scope your idea against. Build a real app, with the right prompts
You barely need to write code anymore. You do need to know what to ask for, and how to tell when the answer is wrong.
That second half is the one nobody teaches. We work on reading a plan before it runs, catching the confident answer that solves the wrong problem, and saying the thing that puts it back on track without starting over.
One brief, and the app it produced. Connect Stripe and take payments
Apps get interesting when they start talking to other services: third-party APIs. We'll wire up Stripe live and watch a test payment land.
The finished app, with its services attached.
Course outcomes & benefits
Proof you can take an idea to production
Anyone can describe a project. You leave with a live product, built in one morning, that you can put in front of a hiring manager, a board or an investor. Being the person who ships is the whole difference.
Own the commercial side of the build
Payments, pricing and the path a customer walks are usually somebody else's remit. Wiring them yourself is what moves you from executing a spec to owning a product.
A portfolio piece with real users in it
Not a repo nobody visited. A product strangers signed up for, with numbers to show, which is the evidence people actually respond to when you are making a case for yourself.
Direct AI the way a senior engineer does
How to give Claude Code enough context and constraint that it plans the work properly instead of sprinting confidently in the wrong direction. This is the skill compounding fastest in engineering teams right now.
Why Claude Code for Ambitious Builders Workshop
Most workshops send you home with notes. This one sends you home with a URL, a Stripe integration and a table with real people in it.
The idea is the one you keep describing to people and never starting, because starting means a week of scaffolding before anything is interesting, and that week never arrives. Claude Code collapses it. Not by writing the whole thing while you watch, which produces something you cannot maintain, but by doing the parts you already know how to do faster than you can type them, while you stay the one deciding what gets built.
So we scope hard in the first half hour, get something deployed before the break while it is still ugly, and spend the rest of the morning turning it into a product: payments wired up, signups working, a domain on the front. Then we launch it, in the room, together. You do not leave with a plan to launch. You leave having done it.
How your half day breaks down
Every block below is exactly what happens and how long it takes. No filler, no guessing where the time goes.
- 35 min
Cut the idea down to something you can ship today
The most valuable half hour of the morning, and the one people resist. Writing the spec, arguing with the plan before a line of code exists, and deleting every feature that is not needed for a stranger to sign up and pay.
- 60 min
Build it, and get it live before the break
Claude Code pointed at a fresh repo, the core built in long agentic runs, and deployed to a real URL while it is still ugly. Shipping early is deliberate: everything after this block adds to something already live rather than racing to catch it.
- 15 min
Break
Stretch, and a first look at what everyone else has running.
- 45 min
Connect Stripe
Checkout, webhooks, and the whole path a customer walks from clicking a price to landing back on your product with access. Test keys, real plumbing, and the failure cases that bite people who wire this up in a hurry.
- 45 min
Accounts and signups
Auth, the signup flow, and what happens in the sixty seconds after someone hands over their email. The gap between a landing page and a product is almost entirely here.
- 55 min
Launch it, and get your first real users
Polish that changes whether a stranger trusts it, a domain on the front, and then we launch. Everyone in the room signs up for everyone else's product, you post it wherever your people are, and you watch the rows arrive. You do not leave with a plan to launch.
- Close
How this course sticks
Start with your workflow
We start with your actual workflow, not a generic curriculum: the tools you already use, the tasks that eat your week, and where AI genuinely earns its keep.
Learn by building
Every concept is taught against a real task, not a toy example. No prior technical experience is assumed. You'll be working with AI assistants and everyday tools from the first exercise.
Keep judgement in the loop
Before anything runs unattended: what to delegate to AI, what stays with a person, and how to tell the difference, so speed never comes at the cost of control.
Leave with working output
You'll finish with the thing itself (a template, an automation, a workflow) rather than notes about one. Everything is built to be pointed at your own work the same day.
Meet Mark Nguyen
Mark Nguyen
Chief Executive Officer, Atlas Learn. ex-Microsoft, ex-Amazon
Mark spent a decade building and scaling products at Microsoft and Amazon before founding Atlas Learn to make that same operating discipline teachable to marketers and growth teams.
What students say
The best part of the workshop was realising that AI can actually take a task off your plate entirely. I left feeling confident that I finally have a practical way to use AI in my day-to-day work, not just theory or hype.
Aishwarya Banerjee
Business Consultant
Delighted to complete the Anthropic Claude Code Workshop led by Mark Nguyen. A highly informative experience packed with actionable insights on Claude Skills. Highly recommend this program to anyone looking to level up their expertise in Claude Skills.
Prasanth Muralidharan
Group Manager, Avanade
The vibe coding workshop was amazing regardless of the different tech levels of everyone. It delivered an amazing amount of valuable and practical knowledge.
David Blanco
Co-Founder, White Systems Consulting
What it costs
- The live half day, capped small enough that you get help on your own build
- Everything you make on the day: the app, the repo, the Stripe setup, all yours
- The recording, and any updates as Claude Code changes
£387per person, including VAT$497per person€457per person, including VAT
Before you book
What do I need before I start?
A laptop and a Claude account. No coding background is assumed unless the course level says otherwise, and any course needing a particular tool or subscription says so in its own questions below. The "Is this for you?" section above is deliberately blunt about who a course does not suit.
Does the course stay current as Claude changes?
Yes. These tools move quickly, so courses are revised as Claude changes. You keep access to the updated material at no extra cost, and we email you when a course you own has been updated.
What if I get stuck?
Email hello@atlaslearn.io and a person will answer, normally within two working days. Questions about the course material are part of what you paid for rather than an extra.
Can you run this for my whole team?
Yes. Every course here can be run privately for a team, in person or online, and tailored to the work your team actually does. Email hello@atlaslearn.io with roughly how many people and what you want them to be able to do afterwards.
What has to be set up before we start?
More than usual, because four hours has no slack in it. You need Claude Code on a paid Claude plan or API credit, plus Node, git and a terminal you are comfortable in. You also need three free accounts created in advance: GitHub, Stripe, and a host such as Vercel, Netlify or Cloudflare. We send the full list a week ahead and open the room from 08:45 ET to sort out anything that did not work. Arriving without these is the one thing that stops people finishing.
Do I actually leave with real signups?
Yes, and we do not leave it to chance. In the final block everyone in the room signs up for everyone else's product, so you finish with real people in your database whether or not you have an audience of your own. You also post it wherever your people are, and most attendees pick up signups from outside the room too. What we cannot promise is that your launch post finds a thousand strangers by 13:15.
Does Stripe take real money on the day?
You build it on test keys, and it works end to end: checkout, webhook, and access granted on payment. Live keys need Stripe to verify your business, which can take days and is outside our control, so gating the morning on it would leave people watching. Everything you build is the real integration. You swap two keys when Stripe clears you.
Do I have to bring an idea?
Yes, and one you genuinely want to exist. The morning is built around shipping your thing, so arriving to browse means watching other people build. It does not need to be big. The ideas that finish are the narrow ones. If you are unsure yours is the right size, email hello@atlaslearn.io before you book and we will tell you straight.
The session is in Eastern Time. What does that mean where I am?
09:00 to 13:15 ET, which is 06:00 in California and 14:00 in the UK. If that does not work, email hello@atlaslearn.io: we schedule by demand and will tell you what else is coming.
How is this different from the Cowork course?
Same engine, different room. Cowork is for handing recurring work to an agent without touching a terminal. This is for people building software, in a terminal, shipping a product. If you do not write code, take the Cowork morning instead.
What if I cannot make the date I booked?
Tell us at least 14 days before and we will move you to a later cohort at no cost, or refund you in full. Inside 14 days we can transfer your seat to a colleague.
Is the session recorded?
No. These are working sessions rather than lectures, and the room is on live deals and real accounts all day, so nothing is filmed. You keep every exercise, prompt and template used on the day.
How does payment and invoicing work?
The price shown is the total you pay, with UK VAT included and nothing added at checkout. You will get a receipt as soon as you book, and we can raise a full VAT invoice on request, normally within one working day. If you would rather your company was billed directly, or your finance team needs a purchase order number or particular wording on the invoice, email hello@atlaslearn.io before you book.
Not the right date?
Leave your email and we will tell you as soon as the next cohort is scheduled, along with the occasional note on doing real work with AI.
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