Build a Course in an Hour
Watch a whole new course get built from scratch in about an hour — structured with Cowork, built with the Minisite skill, and illustrated with Midjourney. The example we build: Build Your Own AI Team. You'll learn the exact, repeatable process.
Please note: this session is educational only, not financial, tax or legal advice. AI product features, pricing and connectors change fast — treat specifics as current at June 2026 and verify before relying on them. For regulated work, a human always reviews and approves.
How a Course Gets Built in an Hour
Three tools, one repeatable loop. This very course was built this way, live — and you’ll watch each step.
Cowork
Hand Cowork the research and a plain-English goal. It scopes the audience, proposes modules and lessons, asks a couple of clarifying questions, and produces a phased plan you approve.
The Minisite Skill
A Skill encodes this site’s design system, so the landing page, dashboard and lessons all come out consistent — without hand-building the scaffold each time.
Midjourney
You don’t write the prompts — ask Claude (or ChatGPT) to write them, with one consistent style, the right aspect ratios and diverse people, then copy-paste each into Midjourney.
What You'll Walk Away With
Six practical takeaways — the repeatable loop for building a course, or your own AI team, with AI.
Delegate a whole job to Cowork
Give a plain-English goal and let Cowork plan and execute the multi-step work, with you steering.
Turn research into a course
Watch a dossier become a clear module-and-lesson structure and a phased build plan.
Build pages with a Skill
See how the Minisite skill scaffolds a landing page, dashboard and lessons in one consistent style.
Illustrate with Midjourney
Have Claude write the Midjourney prompts — one locked style, the right aspect ratios, diverse people — and copy-paste them in.
Ship it & wire it in
Put the course live in the catalogue and sitemap — and keep it maintained as tools change.
Build your own AI team
Point the same loop at your real work — content, email, scheduling, research — under supervision.
Read It as a Book
The Build-a-Course Playbook — the whole session as a short, readable guide: the idea, structuring with Cowork, building with the Minisite skill, illustrating with Midjourney, and shipping it. Read online or download as a PDF.
5 chapters · read in well under an hour · carries the same educational-only disclaimer
The Hour, Step by Step
One idea, three build steps, and shipping it — the whole loop.
01The Idea: Build Your Own AI Team
12 min · the subject & the brief
The Idea: Build Your Own AI Team
12 min · the subject & the brief
02Step 1 — Structure It with Cowork
12 min · research to a phased plan
Step 1 — Structure It with Cowork
12 min · research to a phased plan
03Step 2 — Build the Pages with the Minisite Skill
12 min · what a Skill is
Step 2 — Build the Pages with the Minisite Skill
12 min · what a Skill is
04Step 3 — Illustrate with Midjourney
12 min · a cohesive image set
Step 3 — Illustrate with Midjourney
12 min · a cohesive image set
05Ship It & Do It Yourself
10 min · go live & reuse the loop
Ship It & Do It Yourself
10 min · go live & reuse the loop
Your Instructor
Rupert Chesman
Filmmaker turned AI educator who builds courses, content and tools with Claude every day — including this whole site. So this session comes from real, hands-on practice, not theory. Over 700 students taught this year.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to know how to code?
No. The whole point is that this is no-code: you delegate to Cowork, build pages with the Minisite skill, and make images in Midjourney — all in plain English.
What course actually gets built in the session?
Build Your Own AI Team — a short course on assembling AI assistants for a small business, safely. It’s the worked example; the real lesson is the repeatable build process.
What tools do I need to follow along?
To just watch and learn the process, nothing. To do it yourself you’d want a Claude plan that includes Cowork and a Midjourney subscription. Plans and features change — check current details before you rely on them.
Is this financial or legal advice?
No — it’s educational only. The example course touches on small-business workflows; for regulated work (bookkeeping, BAS, super) AI prepares and checks while a human reviews and lodges.
Build Something Live, in an Hour
Work through the lessons at your own pace, any time — free and self-paced.