Session 08 · Replay · Recorded September 30

Stop copying and pasting. Let Claude open the files.

This is not about generating art with AI. This is about using AI to run the business around your art.

Cowork is Claude working inside the desktop app, on your actual files and folders (your spreadsheets, your docs, your receipts). It opens them and does the job itself. No more copying and pasting into a chat window. In 90 minutes you'll watch it finish one real multi-step job, then you'll do one on your own stuff.

Recorded live September 30 Watch anytime 90-minute build Permanent replay

Then I show you the skills I use to run my business, and you add your first ones.

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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.

What You'll Walk Away With

Three things in your hands by the end of the build.

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.

From the Lab

Real results from artists already using Claude in their business.

"All the CSL workshops have been absolutely amazing. ... While we were on vacation, I even had my earphones in during a family dinner. ... as soon as we got home, I completed all the assignments too!"

KK
Krisztina Kasza
Creative Systems Lab member

"Thank you for another great session! The tip about putting the transcript into Claude and asking it to simplify the language for third graders was really helpful."

Beth Gilman
Beth Gilman
Designer & Owner

"I'm new to Claude and AI in general, but with Mandy's help setting it up, I've created individual C-suite projects in Cowork. My 'CFO' reviewed my YoY numbers and built a full 2026 growth strategy ... getting Claude started with Mandy's help has changed how I run my product-based business."

Desiree Perez
Desiree Perez
Product-Based Business Owner
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 an artist who taught tech for 25 years."

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
Will This Work For My Business?

What would you hand it first?

One folder, one sentence, one job done. Here's what that looks like in different creative businesses.

Surface designers

"Read my collection notes and make me a one-page PDF line sheet for a licensing submission."

Illustrators

"Turn this folder of client briefs into one project tracker spreadsheet."

Makers and shop owners

"Clean up my sales export and tell me my ten best sellers."

Coaches

"Turn these session notes into a one-page client summary."

Just getting started

"Make me a spreadsheet index of everything in this folder, with what each file is."

This is not about generating art with AI. This is about using AI to run the business around your art.

The Format

The whole build, recorded live. Yours the moment you join.

Replay
Recorded live September 30, 2026
Anytime
Watch on your schedule
90 min
Full build session
Q&A
The live Q&A, in the replay
Get the Session 8 replay · $67 →

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.
You'll also need the Claude desktop app on a Mac or Windows computer. Cowork works on your files through it.

Want more than one? Any three sessions · $150 →
Or get all ten builds in the Founding Season · $497 →

Permanent replay forever, baked in. The recording is yours the moment you join, and it's just as useful as being there live - you can pause it while you build. 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

  • The full 90-minute build session, recorded live
  • The live Q&A - real questions from the room, all in the replay
  • 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 through 8 are already recorded and land in your library the moment you join. Four 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 get the replay.

Can I buy this session on its own?
Yes. Session 8 is $67 on its own and the recording is yours forever. Or get it in 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?
No. Every session is built so you leave with its deliverable whether or not you have done any other one - this one included. The builds do stack, and Sessions 1 and 2 are free and are where Claude learns your business, so if you have never set Claude up, start there. Nothing in this session waits on them.
When do I get the replay?
The moment you join. The full recording and the take-home guide are already waiting in your library. Permanent access, nothing expires.
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.
What if it's not for me?
All sales are final. Not sure it fits your business? Read "What would you hand it first?" above. If you can picture handing Claude one of those jobs, you're in the right room.
Recorded live · Watch anytime

Watch it anytime. Bring the folder you've been avoiding.

$67 gets you the full build, the live Q&A, and the recording forever. You leave with Cowork running on your own files and one real job done. Want the whole season instead? All ten builds plus four Build Clinics are $497 once, and it never auto-renews. The art stays yours.

★★★★★

"Mandy's Claude classes are the only ones where I leave with something that's ready to use and actually makes a difference. ... If you're wondering if these are for you, just yes."

Joni Gaines
Joni Gaines
Creative business owner
Get the Session 8 replay · $67 →

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All sales final. The recording is yours forever.

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