AI for everyday work. No code, real results.
Chasing Jarvis: Basecamp
A six-hour, hands-on introduction to AI for non-technical professionals The first step before the Chasing Jarvis programme
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Basecamp introduces artificial intelligence (AI) for everyday office work, without writing any code. It is the first step before the advanced Chasing Jarvis programme.
Who is it for? Professionals without a technical background whose company wants them to understand what AI can do for their work today. No programming knowledge is needed.
- Who it is for
- Professionals without a technical background whose company wants them to understand what AI can do for their work today. No programming knowledge is needed.
- Languages
- English, Slovenian or Croatian
- Length
- 6 hours (360 minutes) including two 10-minute breaks; can be extended to 8 hours
Structure
Seven structured blocks. Each ends with something that runs.
- 01
The AI landscape
What a large language model (LLM) is, in two minutes. Why the model is the engine and the app around it, the harness, is the car. Cloud or local: a live demonstration of a model running on a laptop with the internet switched off, and a simple rule for which data may go where. Your first task: research a real work question with Claude and get a one-page brief with sources.
- 02
Claude at work
Demonstration: thirty invoices and one question, answered in seconds and then checked. Invoice detective: you analyse your own PDF documents and turn them into an Excel table. Interactive dashboard, the main task of the day: you turn your own data into a dashboard your colleagues can open by link. Demonstration: the same findings as a Word memo and a PowerPoint deck.
- 03
NotebookLM
You collect sources on a topic from your work and turn them into a podcast, a video or slides. Every answer comes with a citation, because the tool answers only from your sources. This is called grounding.
- 04
Create: images, video, logo
You are the director: a good prompt works like a film call sheet. You create an image in Google Flow and a professional logo in Claude Design.
- 05
Build without code
In Google AI Studio you build a one-page website with your logo, or a simple game, just by describing it. You leave with a link you can share.
- 06
AI in the company: three levels
Level 1: Claude for employees. Level 2: Lumina, an agent that answers your customers from your documents. Level 3: ARIA, a live avatar, demonstrated in real time. A demonstration of The Curator, a "second brain", shows why the right context is what makes AI useful. Your task: let Claude interview you, write knowledge files, and build your own support agent in Lumina.