Workshop · In person at SLCC · Thursday, November 5, 2026 · 8 am–4 pm
Claude Workshop: Build Your Own Website, App, or Automation with AI
The Schedule
In one day, learn agentic coding: Claude Code builds and launches your business website from plain English, with a form that saves to your own database. In the afternoon, build an app, an automation or an AI agent your business needs. No coding experience needed.
Calendar
Upcoming workshop dates. Pick a date to see the day, and add it to your own calendar.
Workshop day
What you’ll build
We build one real example together, step by step: AI Business Courses, a new startup offering free and paid courses that help small business owners start or grow their business. You follow along with your own business, in one of two camps. Everyone uses the same four tools and the same steps; Claude does the research, design and writing for your path.
The worked example, built live on screen: market research, a look designed with Claude, a coming-soon page and a waitlist, deployed by 12:30.
Check there’s real demand with Claude’s research, then launch a coming-soon page with a waitlist that proves it, just like the example.
Your ideal customer and what sets you apart, then either a new website with a contact form, or, if you keep your current site, a ranked list of fixes and a new offer page with a quote form.
Learn the difference between apps, automations and AI agents, then build one: an app (review booster, appointment requests, waitlist, RSVP, quiz, referrals, loyalty card), an automation (an email for every new entry) or an agent (an inbox assistant that sorts your messages and drafts replies), or your own idea.
Pick your starting kit
Every kit builds the same app. Only the questions, results and call to action change, so yours fits your business from the first minute. Pick one now; you can change it in workshop.
The day
Thursday, November 5, 2026, in person at Salt Lake Community College. Each step ends with a check that it works, and there are helpers in the room. Lunch is brought in, so if you fall behind you can finish over lunch with a helper. Every step is in the workshop guide, which stays online after workshop.
Find a seat, get on the Wi-Fi and meet the others.
Sign in to your Claude Pro account and set up free AI Business Advisor, GitHub, Netlify and Supabase accounts, with helpers in the room.
From an empty folder to your business website, designed with Claude and built by Claude Code, live on your phone, with a form that saves to your database.
Lunch is brought in. Eat, rest, or catch up with a helper.
Pick one from the idea menu or bring your own, and build it at your own pace with step-by-step instructions, with the instructor and helpers in the room.
Session 1 · 9:30 am – 12:30 pm · Build your website
Meet your instructor, then an overview of the day, what you’ll leave with, and the schedule.
Why you need Claude, GitHub, Netlify and Supabase and what each does; what Claude can do for your business (Chat, Projects, Design, Research, Claude Code, work done for you and more), and how to learn each one with the step-by-step guides on AI Business Advisor’s Apps page.
Pick your path. Claude researches your idea or market, your ideal customer and your competitors, then designs three looks; you pick one.
Connect Claude Code to GitHub and Netlify. Claude Code writes and saves your page, and it goes live. Then you screenshot it, Claude reviews it like a designer, and Claude Code improves it.
Helpers get anyone who’s behind back on track.
Connect Claude to Supabase. Claude Code builds a waitlist, contact or quote form and its database, where only you can read what’s sent.
Test your site like a customer, then have Claude Code test it, fix what it finds and list the changes.
Session 2 · 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm · Build your app, automation or agent
Pick a project from the idea menu, or bring your own idea, and build it at your own pace. Each idea has step-by-step instructions and prompts in the guide; the instructor and helpers walk the room.
Apps, automations and agents: what each is, with one built live. Then pick an app (review booster, waitlist, RSVP, appointment requests, quiz, referrals, loyalty card), an automation (an email for every new entry), an agent (an inbox assistant), or your own idea.
Follow your idea’s steps with Claude Code, one change at a time, and test it like a customer. Take a break when you like.
Volunteers show what they built, and everyone leaves with their next three changes.
What you’ll use
The same four tools that run AI Business Advisor. Each has a step-by-step getting-started guide here, linked below; we take a quick tour of all four in the morning. GitHub, Netlify and Supabase have free plans, so your site costs nothing to keep online. Claude needs a Pro plan ($20 a month) for Claude Code, the agentic part of Claude that writes, saves and fixes your site for you.
Researches and designs with you; Claude Code writes, saves, tests and fixes every page from plain English.
Where your app’s files are saved, with every change kept.
Puts your app online and updates it a minute after each save.
Your database and sign-ins, with rules that keep each person’s data private.
Who it’s for
Build what you’d otherwise pay a developer or agency for, in one day, and own it.
- Starting a business: test your idea with real market research, then launch a website with a waitlist that proves people want it.
- Running a business: get a modern website, a booking or quote form, and an AI assistant that sorts your messages and drafts replies, built for your business.
- Chamber, SBDC and economic development staff: learn to build these tools so you can help your members do the same.
- No coding needed: if you can describe what you want in plain English, Claude Code builds it, and it’s free to keep online.
Before workshop (about 30 minutes)
- Bring a laptop (Mac or Windows) and your phone
- Required: buy Claude Pro (or higher) at claude.ai before the workshop. It’s $20 a month and you can cancel any time.
- Optional: create free accounts at GitHub, Netlify and Supabase (we also do this together from 8:30 to 9:30)
- Think of two or three things that take your time or cost you customers: in the afternoon you build something that fixes one
- Have your logo and a one-line description of your business
- We email a one-page checklist with pictures after you sign up
Register
The workshop is offered through Salt Lake Community College. Register and pay on SLCC’s page; the workshop is at The Mill (Building 5), Room 101, 9690 S. 300 W., Sandy. Then create a free account here and pick your path, so your materials are ready on the day.
Questions
When and where is it?
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, in person at Salt Lake Community College, The Mill (Building 5), Room 101, 9690 S. 300 W., Sandy, with the Salt Lake SBDC and instructor Doug Brockbank. Check-in and breakfast start at 8:00, you create your accounts from 8:30, and the workshop runs 9:30–12:30 and 1:00–4:00 with lunch in between. You register and pay ($69) on SLCC’s workshop page. You also need your own Claude Pro plan ($20 a month), bought before the workshop.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. Claude Code writes, saves, tests and fixes the code from what you describe in plain English; you check it works and publish it. The workshop is built for people who’ve never coded.
Do I keep the app?
Yes. It lives in your own GitHub, Netlify and Supabase accounts, so it’s yours to keep and change after workshop.
Will it cost anything to keep it running?
Not for a small business’s traffic: GitHub, Netlify and Supabase have free plans that cover it. Claude Pro is $20 a month; keep it to keep building, or cancel it when you’re done. A web address of your own is optional, usually about $12 a year.
What if I fall behind?
Each step has a finished copy you can drop in, and helpers walk the room, so you leave with a working app either way.