Beyond the Chat Box: Unlocking the Potential of Claude

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You've been using Claude like a search engine with manners. It's time to use it like an operating system. Agents. MCPs. Skills. Claude Code. This is where one-person companies start — and where entire industries shift.

Most people discover Claude through the chat interface. They ask questions. They get answers. They think: "Nice. It's like a smarter Google." Then they close the tab and move on.

They never find out that Claude can autonomously browse the web, write and execute code, manage files, connect to any app or database on the planet, coordinate multi-step workflows across tools, and operate for hours without a single human keystroke.

They never find out about Claude Code — a CLI agent that can build entire products from a description. Or MCPs — a universal protocol that plugs Claude into Slack, GitHub, Notion, Figma, PostgreSQL, and thousands more. Or Skills — reusable, markdown-based "playbooks" that teach Claude any repeatable workflow you can describe.

"Claude Code is, with hindsight, poorly named. It's not purely a coding tool: it's a tool for general computer automation. Anything you can achieve by typing commands into a computer can now be automated."
— Simon Willison, software engineer & researcher

This course gives you the full picture — from the concepts down to the commands. By the end, you will see Claude not as a chatbot, but as a platform for building the future of work.



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  • Starts 08 April 2026 04:00 AM UTC
  • Ends 25 April 2026 04:00 AM UTC
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Younes

Biography:

Dr. Younes Sadat-Nejad is the co-founder of Veebar Tech, a Toronto-based company focused on providing AI, automation, and product engineering solutions to small and medium-sized businesses in non-tech industries. Through his work, he helps organizations integrate AI into their operations across sectors such as construction, automotive, and beyond.

He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from University of Toronto, with a focus on artificial intelligence, where his research involved using graph neural networks to cluster and analyze brain data.

Dr. Sadat-Nejad has over five years of experience as an engineering instructor at Humber College, where he taught electronics courses and led engineering capstone projects, guiding students through hands-on design and implementation.

He has been actively involved with IEEE since 2019, delivering and instructing a series of workshops in artificial intelligence and related technologies. His work also includes scientific publications across multiple fields, including artificial intelligence and eVTOL systems, as well as patented innovations developed through Veebar Tech.

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Agenda

Module 01

Claude Is Not a Chatbot

Reframe everything you know. Understand the architecture: Claude as a reasoning engine, an action-taker, and an autonomous agent — not a Q&A machine. The mental model that unlocks everything else.