Session 08 · Live · September 30

Stop copying and pasting. Let Claude open the files.

Everything up to now has happened in a chat window. Cowork is where Claude works on your actual files and folders - your spreadsheets, your docs, your product photos. In 90 minutes you watch it finish one real multi-step job on your own stuff, then you do it yourself.

Wednesday, September 30 1:00 PM Eastern 90 minutes live Real-time Q&A
Get it in the Founding Season · $497 → PERMANENT REPLAY · Yours forever, included

Session 8 is $67 on its own and opens for individual purchase closer to the date. Right now the way in is the Founding Season - all ten sessions, 3 through 12, plus four Build Clinics, for $497.

September 30
Mandy Corcoran, founder of Creative Systems Lab, smiling at the camera in her kitchen with her own pattern design as a tile backsplash behind her
You leave with
Cowork set up, connected to your real files, with one full job already finished.
The Sacred Line

AI runs the business, never makes the art. The art stays yours.

This is not about generating art with AI. This is about using AI to run the business around your art - smarter, faster, with fewer hours lost to the stuff that isn't creating.

Before you buy: Session 8 needs a paid Claude Pro account. It builds with tools that only exist on Claude's paid plan, billed separately by Anthropic and not included in the price. Sessions 3 through 6 run fine on the free plan. From Session 7 on, you need Pro. Telling you now, on purpose.

What You'll Walk Away With

Three things in your hands by 2:30 PM.

01

Cowork set up and pointed at a real folder of yours.

Not a demo folder. Yours. This is the session where Claude stops being a chat window and starts being something that works on your actual business.

02

One real multi-step job, finished on your own files.

Pick something you have been putting off - renaming a mess of files, pulling numbers out of a stack of spreadsheets, turning notes into a document. We do that one, live.

03

A shortlist of what to hand it next.

Once you see it work on your own files, the list writes itself. You leave knowing exactly which three jobs to give it this week.

Cowork running on your machine, one real job done, and a list of what goes next.

Mandy Corcoran at her digital drawing tablet in her studio, mid-build
Why This Works

"I'm not a tech bro teaching artists. I'm a tech instructor who became one."

I have a programming degree, 25 years in tech, and a decade teaching network engineering and web design at the high school and college level. I have spoken on multiple AI summits.

Then I left the tech track to homeschool my kids and rebuild as a working surface designer. I spent years pitching collections. I know the silence after you hit send, and I know what it feels like when the art is good and the business underneath it is held together with sticky notes.

None of the art wins fixed the business. Systems did. So now I teach the systems - the same ones I used to teach engineers, translated for how artists actually think.

Multiple AI summit speaker 25+ years in tech 10 years teaching 2,000+ students
The Format

No replay-only. No pre-records. Just you and me, building it live.

September 30
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
1:00 PM
Eastern Time
90 min
Live build session
Live Q&A
Your questions, real-time
Join the Founding Season · $497 →

Permanent replay forever, baked in. Live only - and the recording is yours forever after. No replay-only product, no expiring window. Watch it as many times as you like.

Radical Clarity

What's in the session - and what's not.

✓

What you get

  • 90-minute live build session with me on Zoom
  • Real-time Q&A - your actual questions, not pre-submitted
  • Cowork set up and pointed at a real folder of yours
  • One real multi-step job, finished on your own files
  • A shortlist of what to hand it next
  • Permanent replay in your private course home on Kajabi - yours forever, watch it as many times as you like
  • The take-home guide + saved prompts so you can run it again without me
✕

What this is NOT

  • Not an AI art class. No Midjourney. No Stable Diffusion. The art stays yours, full stop.
  • Not a coding session. You will not write code. You will point Claude at a folder and tell it what you want.
  • Not for making art. Cowork touches your business files. The art stays yours, same as every session.
  • Not on the free plan. Cowork is a paid Claude feature. Bring a Pro account or you will be watching, not building.
Where This Sits

Session 8 is one build inside a ten-build season.

All ten sessions, plus four Build Clinics

Sessions 3 through 12 · September 2 - December 31

Sessions 3, 4 and 5 are already recorded and land in your library the moment you join. Seven more run live, every other Wednesday at 1pm ET. Plus four Build Clinics where I work through real member builds on screen. One payment. It never auto-renews.
Free · Start here

Sessions 1 and 2 are free

Set up Claude · Projects and prompting

If you have never set Claude up properly, start there. It is free, it is included, and it is the groundwork I do not re-teach in the paid sessions. Grab the Session 1 replay →

You do not have to buy the whole Season to come to one session. But the builds stack, and this one lands better with the ones before it underneath it.

Questions

Before you join the Season.

Can I buy this session on its own?
It will be $67 on its own and it opens for individual purchase closer to the date. Right now the way in is the Founding Season, which gets you this one plus the other nine and four Build Clinics for $497.
Do I need Claude Pro?
Yes, for this one. Sessions 3 through 6 run on Claude's free plan. Session 7 onward needs a paid Claude Pro account, billed separately by Anthropic and not included in the price. I would rather you know that now than find out the morning of.
Do I need the earlier sessions first?
You will get more out of it with them, and honestly the back half of the Season assumes the front half. Sessions 1 and 2 are free and they are where Claude learns your business. Start there either way.
What if I can't make it live?
The full recording and the take-home guide land in your library right after we wrap. Permanent access, nothing expires. The only thing you miss is building it alongside me in real time.
Is this too technical for me?
No code. If you can open a browser tab, you can finish. I spent a decade teaching this stuff to people who did not think they were technical either, and the ones who thought they would be lost are usually the ones who finish first.
Is this about making art with AI?
No. AI runs the business, never makes the art. The art stays yours.
Wednesday, September 30 · 1:00 PM Eastern

Session 8 is one of ten. Come get the whole thing built.

The Founding Season is all ten sessions, 3 through 12, plus four Build Clinics with me. $497 once, and it never auto-renews. The art stays yours.

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90 min live · Real-time Q&A · Permanent replay · Walk away with it built