Altius Intelligence
Software - Consulting - AI Education
Working With AI as a Colleague
A single focused day that takes you from dabbling with AI to genuinely working with it. Just 16 places, hands-on, built around your own real work.
Stop dabbling. Start working with AI seriously.
Most AI training teaches you to use AI as a search box: type a question, get an answer, move on. It works, after a fashion, and it leaves almost all of the value on the table. This workshop teaches the other way of working, the one that actually rewards you. You will learn to treat AI not as an oracle you query, but as a colleague you work alongside, one that learns your business, remembers what you have been doing, and gets more useful every week you stay with it.
We call this AI fluency. It is very much like learning a language. A beginner memorizes phrases, the right prompt to get the right answer. Fluency is the point where the phrase becomes the start of a conversation, where you stop translating in your head and simply work. By the end of the day, you will have crossed from "I use AI now and then" toward "this is simply how I work."
The day leads with Claude, the AI we build our own working lives around, and guides you toward genuine fluency with it. It then shows how Claude orchestrates the wider AI landscape, Gemini, ElevenLabs, and Kling, with Claude itself writing the prompts that drive each specialist. You bring the business problems. You leave with a way of working.
From 9 to 5, prompts to fluency
Welcome — Why This Matters Now
The single largest shift in how business gets done in a hundred years, and the window that is open right now. What fluency means, and why it is the real goal of the day, not tricks, not prompts, but a way of working.
Meet Your Colleague — An Introduction to Claude
Why we lead with Claude. The difference between an oracle and a colleague, shown live. We start a real conversation and let it develop, the beginning of a working relationship.
From Prompts to Conversations
A good prompt matters, and we will teach you to write one. But it is the opening of a conversation, not the end of it. Learning to think out loud with Claude, to push back, to be pushed back on, and to arrive at something better.
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Projects — Giving Your Colleague a Memory
The single most important habit in working with Claude. How a Project holds your documents, history, and context so Claude is already up to speed every time you return. Hands-on: each attendee builds their first Project around a real piece of their own work.
Claude in Practice — A Real Estate Case Study
Kevin Mitchell shows Claude at work in a live profession: turning scattered information into a polished offering memorandum, reading a dense contract down to what matters, producing real market and property analysis.
Lunch (provided)
Claude Reads Everything — Documents, Data, and Images
Bring your real material. Contracts, spreadsheets, scanned paper, photographs, a website, a pile of exports. We watch raw information become usable intelligence, because the format was never the point. The data is the asset.
Claude Knows the Neighborhood — Orchestrating the Other Tools
Claude as the one fluent colleague who speaks every other tool's language. You describe what you want in plain English; Claude writes the prompt for the specialist: Gemini for a second perspective and fast research, ElevenLabs for natural voice and audio, Kling for video and animation. You master one fluent colleague who knows the rest.
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Working Session — Your Business, Your Colleague
Hands-on and personal. Bring a genuine problem from your own work: a report you dread, data you have never analyzed, a decision you are weighing, marketing you need. We work it together, live, with the room as support.
A Word on Trust — Where AI Helps, and Where to Keep Your Eyes Open
The honest limits. Why a confident answer can still be wrong, and the one rule that never changes: always check what matters. How to use AI as a disinterested second opinion while keeping your own judgement in the chair.
Your Way Forward
Building the habit after today. How to keep going from fluent beginner to fluent professional, and where Altius Intelligence can help next.
Certificate, Toolkit & Open Q&A
Leave with your resources, your first Projects already built, and a clear next step.
Not a folder of notes. A new way of working.
- A genuine working relationship with Claude already started, not a list of tricks
- Your first Projects built around your own real work
- The fluency habit: conversations, not quick prompts
- A working knowledge of how Claude orchestrates Gemini, ElevenLabs, and Kling
- A copy of all three Approachable books to keep
- A digital resource kit
- A Certificate of Completion
- A small-group experience, and ongoing support
Led by the author of the Approachable series
The day is led by Christine Ely, author of Approachable AI, Approachable SuiteCRM, and Approachable Claude, who has spent twenty-five years building software and teaching business technology. She is joined by Kevin Mitchell, who demonstrates Claude in live, practical use in commercial and residential real estate, and by guest tutors from a range of industries showing how they put AI to work in their own fields.
It is for business owners, entrepreneurs, and professionals who know their way around a computer and a browser, who may already dabble with AI, and who want to stop dabbling and start working with it seriously. No technical or AI expertise is assumed.
Every attendee takes home all three books
"You bring the business problems. You leave with a way of working."