Anthropic teaches Claude for free, and hardly anyone knows. No payment, no trial that turns into a charge. Here are the 4 to take, in order, if you run a business by yourself.
These courses come from the team that builds Claude. When something changes in the product, they update the lesson. The $500 course you saw advertised is often one person's take on the same material, recorded months ago.
Signing up takes an email address and nothing else. You can use your Google account. There is no card to enter, and you get a certificate at the end of each one.
The library has more than 20 courses, and that's exactly the problem: most people open it, feel lost, and close the tab. So take these 4 in this order and skip the rest for now.
The starting point. How to use Claude for everyday work tasks, how to ask for what you want, and why your answers come back generic when you don't.
Take this if. You've opened Claude, typed a question, gotten something bland back, and quietly decided AI isn't for you. This is the course that fixes that, and it's the one to do first even if you've used ChatGPT for a year.
Open Claude 101 →9 lessons, under an hour of video, built with real small business owners. You finish with 3 things you keep: your values and goals paragraph, a workflow template, and your own AI use policy.
Take this if. You're the whole company and every hour counts. This is the one course on the list written for your situation instead of a 40 person team, and those 3 documents are what make every AI answer sound like your business.
Open AI fluency for small businesses →This is where Claude stops answering questions and starts doing the work: opening your real files, working through a project, handing back something finished.
Take this if. You want the 2 hours of admin to become 15 minutes. It's the biggest jump on this list, and the one I'd tell every business owner to take, because it changes what you think to ask for.
Open Introduction to Claude Cowork →A skill is how you teach Claude to do one task the same way every time, so you stop re-explaining your process in every new chat.
Take this if. You've noticed you keep typing the same instructions. This is the course that turns a repeated explanation into something you set up once, which is how you start building your own expert team.
Open Introduction to agent skills →Everything Anthropic teaches lives in one place, including AI fluency versions for educators, students, and nonprofits: the full course catalog. Free, same email signup.
Claude Code is the version that builds things on your computer, and it's more technical than the 4 above. Start with Claude Code 101, then Claude Code in Action. Skip both until the first 4 feel easy.
DeepLearning.AI teaches Claude Code: a highly agentic coding assistant, built with Anthropic. freeCodeCamp has a longer Claude Code Essentials course on YouTube. Both are free and both are for the technical side.
Pick 1 and put it on your calendar this week. Do the exercises in your own business instead of the sample one: your client emails, your proposals, your numbers. A course you apply on Tuesday is worth more than 4 you saved for later.