Session 09 · Live · October 14

Connect Claude to the apps you already use.

A connection is how Claude reaches an account you already have - your email platform, your course platform, your notes, your calendar - instead of you copying between tabs all day. MCP is just the name for it. We set one up live, on a real account, and run one real job through it before we finish.

Wednesday, October 14 1:00 PM Eastern 90 minutes live Real-time Q&A
Buy Session 9 · $67 → PERMANENT REPLAY · Yours forever, included

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

$67 gets you this session on its own, recording yours forever. Or take the whole Founding Season - all ten sessions, 3 through 12, plus four Build Clinics, for $497.

October 14
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
One account you already use, connected to Claude, with one real job run through it.
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 9 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

One of your real accounts, connected to Claude.

Not a demo account. Something you already use every week. We connect it live, then run a real job through it while you watch.

02

MCP explained once, in plain English.

It sounds like something engineers argue about. It is not. You leave able to say what a connection is, and how it is different from an API, in one sentence.

03

A shortlist of what to connect next, and what to leave alone.

There are hundreds of connections. Most are not for you. You leave with the few that change your week, and a clear line on what you should never hand over.

One account connected, MCP finally clear, and a short list of what to connect 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 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
The Format

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

October 14
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
1:00 PM
Eastern Time
90 min
Live build session
Live Q&A
Your questions, real-time
Buy Session 9 · $67 →

Want more than one? Any three sessions · $150 →
Or get all ten builds in 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
  • One of your real accounts, connected to Claude and working
  • MCP explained in plain English, once
  • A shortlist of what to connect next, and what to never connect
  • 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 developer session. Setting up a connection is clicking, approving, and pasting a key. That is the whole job.
  • Not a security shrug. We cover what a connection can see and what it cannot before you switch anything on.
  • Not on the free plan. Connections live on Claude's paid plan. Bring a Pro account.
Where This Sits

Session 9 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 6 are already recorded and land in your library the moment you join. Six 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?
Yes. Session 9 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.
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, October 14 · 1:00 PM Eastern

Session 9 is one of ten. Come get the whole thing built.

Session 9 is $67 on its own, recording yours forever. Or take all ten sessions, 3 through 12, plus four Build Clinics with me, in the Founding Season - $497 once, and it never auto-renews. The art stays yours.

Buy Session 9 · $67 →

Or get all ten builds in the Founding Season · $497 →

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