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TL;DR: Claude Code for Absolute Beginners is a full-day workshop on April 14 for non-technical people who want to start building with Claude Code. It’s led by Mike Taylor, with Every CEO Dan Shipper as a guest instructor. There’s no programming experience required. You can register now at $1,250, which includes the workshop and our annual Every membership.

Elliot runs growth at her company. She’d never written a line of code. Seven hours after walking into our last Claude Code workshop, she'd built an internal dashboard for her team and described the experience as walking away with “an entirely new, powerful toolkit to build and create whatever you want.”

Elliot isn’t unusual—but her results surprised even her, because most people come in thinking Claude Code is a smarter chatbot. It's not. Claude Code runs in the terminal, on your machine, which means it can read your files, write code, and connect to tools you already use at work—Google Sheets, Slack, APIs. When you tell it to build something, it builds it. When something breaks, you tell it what went wrong and it fixes it.

That's what makes it so useful for any knowledge worker, not just engineers. A marketer who needs a reporting tool doesn’t have to wait on engineering anymore. An ops lead who spends every Monday writing the same update can automate it instead. Everyone at Every uses Claude Code now—writers, editors, operations experts, product designers. The barrier has come down.

We teach all of this in Claude Code for Absolute Beginners on April 14. Most people who sign up don't arrive with a project in mind. They arrive curious. By the end, they leave with something shipped—and a clearer sense of what they want to build next.

Claude Code for Absolute Beginners
April 14​
​10 a.m.–5 p.m. ET
Live on Zoom
Workshop price: $1250 (includes a 1-year Every subscription)

This course is led by me, Mike Taylor—head of tech consulting and a columnist at Every—with Every CEO Dan Shipper as a guest instructor. One thing worth saying plainly: This is for true beginners. If you've spent more than an hour with Claude Code or have already built something with it, this isn't the right fit. Not sure if it's for you? I went live on YouTube to answer questions about who it's for and what students built.

Here's how the day works: On Monday, April 13 at 3 p.m. ET, we run an optional setup session so you arrive ready to build. On the day itself, you'll build something new from scratch, then take something you already do at work and automate it with Claude Code. Throughout the day you'll have guided walkthroughs, independent building time, peer breakouts, and hands-on help when you're stuck. You'll leave with something shipped and a workflow you can repeat—even if you've never touched the terminal before.

For many of our students, their company covers the cost of the workshop. If that's an option for you, we've put together a short template you can send your manager.

If you've been curious about Claude Code and haven't known where to start, April 14 is your day.

See you there,
Mike Taylor
Head of tech consulting at Every