F1 Claude Code for Agency Owners

See a concrete day-in-the-life scenario of an agency owner using the operator stack, and understand that this course builds operators not developers.

Identify each tool in the operator stack, understand its role, and see how the four tools connect into a single system.

Map Claude to concrete planning, drafting, review, and orchestration jobs inside the agency.

Install Obsidian on your local machine and create a new vault for agency use.

Use plan mode, task decomposition, and explicit verification criteria for real delivery work.

Create a Bitwarden organization with Secrets Manager enabled and understand why centralized credential management matters.

Install the BWS CLI, authenticate with a machine account token, and store and retrieve a secret from the command line.

Set up CLAUDE.md, working notes, and lessons so context survives beyond the current chat.

Create a Claude subscription, install Node.js and Claude Code, and verify the installation.

Have a conversation with Claude Code, understand the interface, and experience the tool-use and permission approval flow.

Use Claude Code to create new files, read existing files, and modify file contents — then verify every result.

Create the folder structure, naming rules, and first notes that make the vault operational.

Use Claude Code to explore an unfamiliar folder or file, ask questions about what you find, and build a mental model of something you did not previously understand.

Ask Claude Code to build a simple, useful script from a plain-English description, run it, and verify the output.

Use keyword, semantic, and hypothetical retrieval modes to find the right notes quickly.

Understand what a VPS is in concrete terms and know which Contabo plan to buy for the operator stack.

Provision a VPS through your chosen provider's dashboard, receive your server credentials, and successfully log in for the first time via SSH.

Build one repeatable weekly workflow that Claude can help you plan, execute, and review.

Generate an SSH key pair on your local machine and understand what the public and private keys do.

Copy your public SSH key to the VPS, verify key-based login works, and disable password authentication for security.

Install Node.js and Claude Code on the VPS, authenticate with your Claude subscription, and have your first remote conversation.

Use Claude Code on the VPS to create a non-root user with sudo privileges and SSH key access.

Use Claude Code to enable a firewall, open only necessary ports, update system packages, and store VPS credentials in BWS.

Get your Obsidian vault onto the VPS so Claude Code on the server can read and write to it.

Use Claude Code to create a practical folder structure and the first 20 real business notes in the vault.

Scope a simple report generator tool by defining the data source, output format, and success criteria before writing any code.

Use Claude Code on the VPS to build the report generator from your spec, run it against test data, and verify every output against the success criteria.

Understand what CLAUDE.md does, how Claude Code uses it, and why it transforms Claude Code from a generic assistant into a context-aware operator.

Write a global CLAUDE.md and a project-level CLAUDE.md for your vault, then verify that Claude Code uses them correctly.

Distinguish between tasks that need plan mode and tasks that should be handled with direct instructions, and understand the cost of choosing wrong.

Take a real multi-step task through the complete plan-execute-verify cycle with Claude Code, including plan review, step-by-step execution, and structured verification.

Install qmd on the VPS, index your vault, and run your first search queries.

Build the habit of using qmd as the default way to find vault information instead of browsing folders or guessing from memory.

Follow a structured daily workflow that uses Claude Code, the vault, BWS, plan mode, and qmd in a realistic sequence.

Identify which agency tasks are best handled through Claude Code and which are better done with other tools or manually.

Understand what each remaining free and paid course covers and choose the right next step based on your agency's needs.