AI fundamentals intensive: the Claude and ChatGPT family hands-on.

Two-day workshop for everyone who wants to move from first understanding into productive AI work. The intensive covers all content of the foundations course and deepens it through hands-on exercises. On top of that come further topics and tools that do not fit the half-day format: the Claude family hands-on, code AI in direct comparison, agentic AI with your own APIs and image AI for QA artefacts. If you have already done the foundations workshop, you are still welcome here and use the refresher block as a compact recap.

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Why this workshop

Four reasons the intensive workshop pays off.

Foundations plus depth in one

For beginners the half-day foundations course is the right crash course. For those moving into productive use, the intensive covers the foundations in compact form plus 1.5 days of practice.

Tool variety in practice

Claude CoWork, Claude Code, Claude Designer and ChatGPT Codex in direct comparison. You learn the strengths, the limits and clear selection criteria for your concrete use case.

Agentic AI as a practice topic

AI as an autonomous component: set it up, secure it, extend it through your own APIs, keep costs and risks under control.

Practical scenarios to work on

We work with prepared practical scenarios that show the tools on realistic tasks. The examples are chosen so that the insights transfer to your own use cases later.

What stays with you

Lifetime access to the online course material.

After the workshop your login keeps working. Whenever we update the material, you get the new version automatically. No expiry, no re-booking.

Learning outcomes

What you can do after the workshop.

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Select AI models and their tool families confidently and put them to use for your own tasks

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Set up a productive working environment with Claude tools and ChatGPT Codex, and run it context-aware

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Bring agentic AI safely into operation, extend it through APIs and estimate the cost realistically

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Use image AI sensibly for mockups, documentation and test artefacts, without gimmicks

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Build a prompt and workflow library of your own that keeps growing after the workshop

Audience

Practitioners who want to work productively with AI after the first basic understanding

Duration

2 days as a block

Participants

max. 12 people

Format

On site or hybrid

Workshop content

Five building blocks over two days.

Block 01

Foundations entry

All content of the foundations course is covered here and deepened on tasks from your own day-to-day. If you have already attended the half-day foundations workshop, you use this block as a refresher and move into the further practice exercises earlier.

Models and vendor landscape: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini at a glance
Prompt basics, roles, context window and realistic expectation
Use cases and risks in daily work, awareness block
Short demos of the tool variety we deepen in the next blocks

Block 02

Claude CoWork & Designer

A generous hands-on block for the Claude family as a creative and office tool. You build your own projects live, learn context-aware work, and see what Designer delivers for visual outputs.

Set up CoWork projects for your own office and research tasks
Work with artifacts, custom instructions and conversation context
Experience Designer for structured sketches, diagrams and visualisations
Exercises on tasks from your own work, you take your own templates home

Block 03

Code AI compared: Claude Code & ChatGPT Codex

Second large hands-on block. Code AI in direct comparison. We set up the working environment together, look at strengths, limits and selection criteria for concrete QA tasks.

Use Claude Code for test generation, refactoring and review loops
Run ChatGPT Codex on comparable tasks and place the differences
Set up the working environment: setup, custom instructions, repository context
Selection heuristics: when CoWork, when Code, when Codex, when better classic

Block 04

Agentic AI

AI as an autonomous component: set up, secure, extend. From concept to running agent, with live use of the Agentic Token Calculator for the cost side.

Understand agent architecture: tools, memory, loops, stop conditions
Connect through your own APIs, with authentication and rate limits
Place safety and steering layers so the agent does not drift
Estimate cost with the Agentic Token Calculator, run realistic scenarios
Run scenarios live, prepare escalation and stop paths

Block 05

Image AI in professional use

DALL-E, Nightcafe and related image tools. Practical use for mockups, bug-repro images, training material and test artefacts, with a clear line between value and gimmick.

Produce mockups and wireframe sketches quickly and usefully
Generate bug-repro images and documentation visuals in a structured way
Enrich training and onboarding material with visuals
Place licensing, data-protection and authenticity questions pragmatically

Investment

What it costs.

€ 999

per participant, net

Group size: bis 12 participants
Format: On site or remote

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Discounts

Early-bird discount 10% when booking more than 30 days before the date. Group discount 10% from 5 participants registered together.

In-house training?

For an on-site learning environment and a format that you can run repeatedly for your colleagues, we deliver this workshop in-house as well. Reach out for a tailored offer.

Next dates

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Wed, Aug 12, 2026

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Wed, Oct 14, 2026

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Questions

What we are often asked.

Do I need the foundations workshop AND the intensive?

No. The half-day foundations workshop is a crash course for colleagues who do not yet know AI. A compact, easy-to-attend introduction next to daily work. The intensive workshop covers all content of that foundations course and deepens it through hands-on exercises. On top come further topics and tools that do not fit the half-day format: the Claude family hands-on, code AI in comparison, agentic AI and image AI in professional use. If you have already attended the foundations workshop, you are still welcome in the intensive and revisit the familiar content directly on your own work.

Do I need accounts for the tools?

Helpful but not required. We work primarily with demo access and free tiers. If you already have Pro accounts, bring them along and practise directly in your own setup.

Which topics come from my daily work?

We work with prepared practical scenarios that show the tools on realistic tasks. The examples are chosen so that the insights transfer to your own use cases later. You are welcome to bring your own tasks into the discussion. The common thread of the workshop stays with the prepared examples so the curriculum holds reliably.

How does this relate to “Workshop: evaluating AI”?

The Workshop: evaluating AI covers testing AI systems from a test-lead perspective (eval sets, robustness, reporting). The intensive workshop here covers AI as a tool in your own day-to-day. The two complement each other and are clearly distinct in topic.

From first understanding to agentic solution.

Solid foundations turn into productive practice. Prepared scenarios show the tools on realistic tasks. The result is a documented tool and workflow selection that you can put to use the day after.