🎉 Foundation is LIVE — start here.

Welcome. I'm glad you're here.

The next decade of work belongs to people who can build their own AI tools — in plain English, on their laptop, without renting frameworks or waiting for permission. A newsletter business. A consulting practice. A YouTube channel that writes itself. A one-person business that runs while you sleep.

Foundation is the setup.

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🛠️ What you actually need

A Claude subscription. That's it.

No Python. No agent frameworks. No API keys. No vector databases. No LangChain. No "do I need to learn JavaScript first?"

Just Claude (Desktop or Code) + one file — SKILL.md. Five lines of plain English at the top, your instructions below, Claude does the work.

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📦 What lands on your computer by Saturday lunch

✍️ newsletter-skill — writes a newsletter from your notes

🔗 linkedin-post-skill — drafts your daily posts

👋 hello-world — your first SKILL.md

📥 claude-desktop-quickstart — install companion

Four working files. Real outputs. On your machine.

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🔁 Plus the pattern (Lesson 6.3) to build anything else

Once you know how SKILL.md works, a new one takes ten minutes: blog-skill · twitter-skill · email-skill · sales-page-skill · YouTube-script-skill · client-intake-skill · invoice-skill · whatever your business needs.

You don't learn 47 tools. You learn one pattern. It compounds.

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👋 About me, quickly

I taught LangChain, RAG, and AI Agents to 29,000 engineers on Udemy. Then Anthropic shipped SKILL.md and made most of that complexity optional. Today I teach the simpler way.

Anyone can do it. A 67-year-old retiree finishes Foundation by Saturday. So does a senior engineer at an enterprise SaaS company. Same lessons. Same destination.

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🗺️ The journey

29 lessons. ~3 hours total. Lesson 1.1 takes 5 minutes. The first stretch sets up your folder structure and your first SKILL.md — after that, the journey is smooth.

👉 Start here: Foundation (5 min)

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🤝 You're not building alone

Suneetha and I are in the comments every day. Hit an error? Drop it — someone fixed it yesterday.

Post your first SKILL.md in 🏆 Wins — members will reach out, some asking how, some wanting to hire you.

Help the next person stuck behind you. That's how this works.

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💎 When you're ready for depth

🆓 Foundation — free forever. Yours.

💎 Skill Vault — $27/mo founding rate, locked for life for the first 200 members. After 200 it climbs to $37 → $47. Inside: Saturday Skills drips, 7-module curriculum (Skill Anatomy → References → Scripts → Composition → Hooks/MCP → Senior-Pro Skills → Capstone), Wednesday Workshops co-hosted with Suneetha.

⏳ Pro — $97/mo. Opens Month 2-3. Business scaling for paid client work.

Foundation alone is enough. Vault is for builders who want depth Foundation can't cover.

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💬 Reply below

What's the first thing you want to build? A newsletter? A blog workflow? A client-intake skill for your consulting practice?

Please tell me your one-person business idea — I'll suggest the right Skill.

I read every reply. Me, not a team.

— Pragati