Claude for Small Business

Free Claude workshops for small business owners and teams.small businesses.

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Claude SMB Workshop · San Francisco · Vancouver · Online

AI Fluency for Small and Medium Business Leaders

Learn how to put AI to work. Fewer errors. Faster turnaround. Work you can actually put your name on.

Join Anthropic and ASMR Automations for a half-day AI fluency training and hands-on workshop for business owners and operators who want to learn how to leverage AI to solve real world business problems.

No prior experience needed. Just practical skills you can put to work the next morning, and a room full of fellow business leaders problem solving alongside you.

Free · Half-day · San Francisco, Vancouver, or online · Bring a laptop

Upcoming events

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  1. Fri · Nov13San Francisco12 PM to 5 PM PT · In personSign up
  2. Sat · Nov21Virtual8:30 AM to 12:30 PM PST · Live onlineSign up
  3. Fri · Nov27Vancouver, BC12 PM to 5 PM PT · In personSign up

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About this event

Line drawing of two business owners and a robot walking with laptops

Small and mid-sized businesses employ nearly half the American workforce, but most of the AI conversation skips right past them. In Anthropic’s research with SMB leaders, the #1 pain point wasn't skepticism about AI. It was employees being unsure how or when to use it effectively. That's the gap this workshop is built to close.

The Claude SMB Workshop is a free, hands-on session built for leaders running real companies with real operational complexity. You'll spend the afternoon with an approved Claude SMB Trainer, ASMR Automations, learning practical AI skills, working through exercises on your own laptop, and trading notes with other business owners navigating the same questions.

You'll walk out with at least one workflow you can run the next morning. That's the bar we're holding ourselves to.

Why we're doing this: SMBs are where AI will actually change how work gets done, and frankly, we learn as much from these rooms as you do. This is an education and research initiative, not a sales pitch. The skills you'll learn work with any AI tool, not just ours.

This is part of The Claude SMB Tour, a national series of workshops Anthropic is running in partnership with local business communities across the country.

Who should attend

This workshop is built for you if you are:

  • An owner, operator, or senior leader at a company with 5-500 employees
  • Running a business with real workflows: departments, teams, back office, customers, vendors
  • Curious about AI but not sure where to start, or already experimenting and want to go further
  • Based in or around San Francisco or Vancouver, or happy to join us online

You do not need any technical background. If you can use email, you can do this workshop.

What you’ll learn

  • Turn messy data into clean reports and dashboards, pulling from the spreadsheets and systems you already use
  • Automate the repetitive stuff: customer follow-ups, order management, forecasting, scheduling, status updates
  • Connect Claude to the tools you’re already in all day: Gmail, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva
  • Know where the limits are: what to trust, what to double-check, and how to keep your data yours

Agenda

About 4.5 hours · Half-day Line drawing of a robot hand ticking a checklist on a clipboard
  1. 30 minutes
    Registration & SetupCheck in (or log on) and get your laptop connected.
  2. 45 minutes
    AI Fluency TrainingWhat AI is actually good at, what it isn’t, and how to think about it for your business
  3. 15 minutes
    Break
  4. 2 hours
    Hands-On SessionGuided exercises using Claude with your own work. Bring a real task you want to tackle.
  5. 1 hour
    Happy HourNetworking, and informal Q&A with staff and fellow attendees

What's included

  • Full workshop access
  • 1 month of Claude Max (Claude’s top-tier plan) on us, so you can keep going after the workshop
  • Takeaway materials

Free to attend. Sign up to save your seat.

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