Claude Expert Program · 30 October 2026

Sixteen Saturdays to real skill

Not a certificate course

Anthropic has four Claude certifications. Associate, Developer, Architect, and Architect Professional. I am not going to sell you a certificate. What I am opening is the Claude Expert Program, and it starts on Saturday the fourteenth of November.

Here is the difference, and it matters. A certification course teaches you to pass a paper. This one teaches you to be properly good at Claude. I use those four exam blueprints as a map, because between them they describe what a person ought to be able to do, and then I teach past the map. If your company asks you to sit one of those papers, you will be ready. Whether you ever sit one is entirely your business.

Who this is for

People rule themselves out wrongly. Yes, it is for developers. It is also for people who have never written a line of code. Look at what has changed in two years. Operations people are building agents. Support teams are automating their own queues. Pre-sales engineers are putting together working demos without waiting for engineering.

They are not doing it by learning to program. They are doing it because the coding is done by the tool now, and what matters instead is judgement, design, and knowing when the thing is wrong. That is most of what this course is about. So if you are in operations, support, pre-sales or finance and you assumed this was closed to you, it is not. You are exactly who I want in the room.

How a session runs

Sixteen Saturdays, two hours each, from the fourteenth of November to the twentieth of March. I build the thing on screen and explain it while I do it. You watch. No fighting with your laptop while I talk, no half the room stuck on an install.

Then the week begins, and this is the part that makes thirty-two hours enough. You get the lab guide, which says exactly what to practise and in what order. You get the recording, so you can watch me build it again, as many times as you need. And while you are practising, I am available for lab help. If something will not run, if you are stuck, if an error makes no sense, message me and I will get you moving. Most of those take me five minutes.

What help in the week means

Let me be precise about that, because I would rather set your expectation now than disappoint you in January. What I give during the week is lab assistance, not a second class. I will unblock you. I will not re-teach the concept. The recording does that, and the first fifteen minutes of every Saturday is me going through what beat the room during the week.

So the order is: watch on Saturday, practise in the week, ask me when you are stuck, and bring the understanding questions back to Saturday. That is how I have taught for ten years and it works.

The four blocks

Four blocks, in the order the skill is built.

1. Three Saturdays on judgement. Knowing when an answer is wrong, checking a claim, governance, and choosing a model on purpose. There is no code in that at all, and it is the half most working professionals need most.
2. Four on building: the API and the SDK, structured output, tools, MCP, caching and what things really cost.
3. Six on design, the deepest block. Agentic architecture, Claude Code configured properly, context and reliability, and evaluation that proves the thing works.
4. Three on ownership: starting from a business problem, integration, governance, rollout, and defending a system to the people who pay for it.

One thread runs the whole way through. From the second week you are building one real agentic system, and every block adds a layer to the same system. At the end you have something that runs, not a folder of notes.

Price

Thirteen and a half thousand rupees, including GST. One course, one price, everything in it. If you join after we have started, you pay only for the Saturdays that are left, and you get the recordings of the ones you missed.

Two things about November

Anthropic publishes updated exam objectives on the seventeenth, and the new content takes effect on the seventh of December for three of the four. Nobody outside Anthropic knows yet what changes. On the seventeenth I read the new guides and bring the course into line. When the map moves, the course moves with it. That is the method, not a disclaimer.

And one fact nobody tells you about those exams. Registering needs a work email at an organisation in Anthropic's Partner Network, and a personal address is refused at signup. I mention it so you are not surprised later, and because it changes nothing here. We are not selling the badge. We are making you the person in the office who is trusted to build with this.

A second way in

Our Vanguard program is five thousand nine hundred rupees a month, and it carries this entire Claude Expert Program plus three more courses running every week. AI Security, AI Governance, and Agentic AI. Extra material every day, help with your goal planning, and help building a portfolio project that is actually yours.

And the lineup keeps growing. Agentic AI Marketing, Offensive Security, Certified AI Security Professional, fine-tuning, and small language models. If you only want Claude, buy the course. If you want the whole stack and someone in your corner, come as a Vanguard. And if money is the problem right now, Anthropic Academy has free courses with their own certificates and no work email needed. Start there, and come to us when you are ready.

In short

The Claude Expert Program. Sixteen Saturdays, thirteen and a half thousand rupees, starting the fourteenth of November. I build it in front of you, you build it in the week, and I am there when you get stuck. There is a new video here every weekday until we begin.

Researched, written and reviewed by the Rathinam Trainers & Consultants team. The film's narration is an AI-generated voice; illustrations were created with AI tools under our direction.