Do I need to be technical?

No. The course is built for people who live in PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook. Nothing assumes you can code, and the few lessons that touch building software start from zero.

How long is the course?

22 lessons across 6 sections. 14 are recorded and ready to watch now, running to about 1h 23m, and the remainder are in production. Most lessons run between three and twelve minutes, so you can take one at a time.

Is this a course about Oria?

No. It is a course about Claude. Oria appears where it is the answer to a specific problem with slide design, and the plugin comes bundled with your plan.

It is included with every paid Oria plan, from 19 dollars a month. The first seven days are free, and you can cancel at any point during them.

Will this still be right in six months?

The lessons are built around the way of working rather than the current button layout, which is what makes them last. Where something genuinely changes, the lesson is re recorded and new ones are added.

Can my team watch it?

Each plan covers one person. For a team rollout, get in touch through the support page and we will sort out access together.

Claude AcademyFor Professionals

AI hype, decoded into practical lessonsfor corporate professionals

Claude Academy

Lesson library

https://academy.oria.one

One place to stay on the AI frontier

Curated video lessons - filmed by former strategy consultants

From first setup to agentic systems
New lessons as the tooling moves

Library of 100+ skills for professionals

Finance, consulting and private equity
Install in minutes, run the same way every time

Claude plugin for Tier-1 consulting slides

Your template, your brand, every slide
Fully editable PowerPoint, never flat images

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A colleague at a whiteboard walking a meeting room of professionals through an AI workflow

Be the person your team asks about AI

Learn it once, then set the standard the rest of the team follows

From AI Noise and HypeTo Practical Implications

We decode the noise of AI hype ...

Models

OpenAI released a new model

Anthropic shipped a new Claude

Kimi has performed best on the benchmark

Google extended the context window

DeepSeek published open weights

Meta released a new open model

Mistral updated its reasoning model

xAI claims a new state of the art

Access and pricing

API with Anthropic got blocked

Google decreased prices of inference

OpenAI raised the rate limits

Microsoft bundled AI into the suite

Nvidia says compute is still short

Perplexity opened a free tier

DeepSeek cut its token prices again

Hugging Face is hosting the new weights

Launches and funding

OpenAI introduced work

Anthropic launched a new connector

Mistral closed a funding round

Google shipped an agent builder

Meta reorganised its AI lab

Microsoft launched another copilot

Kimi tops the open leaderboard

xAI raised a new round

... into practical lessons for professionals

LESSONSubagents that Actually Workstress tested

LESSONLong Context in Practicetried on a data room

SKILLExcel Setups That Hold Upchecked live

LESSONWhat a Price Cut Changeschecked in real use

PLUGINMost Useful MCPscut from the noise

LESSONReading a Benchmark Claimwhat it leaves out

LESSONPrompts That Hold Upkept what survived

Video Workshopsto 10X Your Productivity with AI

Open Academy

Which Claude extensions are worth installing

Stop Chatting. Start Delegating

Lesson 1: Chat, Cowork and Claude Code - understand the difference

Place any task on the right surface, and know why Cowork, which reads and writes files on your machine, beats Chat for real work

Lesson 2: Switch from Chat to an Agent That Works for You

Wire Claude into your email, cloud storage and meeting recorder, then reconcile a week of recordings, calendar and mail into what you owe people

Lesson 3: Stop Prompting, Start Building Agentic Loops

Replace turn-by-turn prompting with one prompt running an architect, a builder and a reviewer in a loop, plus fan-out across twenty sub-agents

Lesson 4: Let Claude Loose in Chrome and Office

Run Claude inside Chrome, Excel, PowerPoint and Word, then watch the Chrome agent hold theatre tickets, stopping at payment

Lesson 5: Match the Model to the Stakes

Pick model and thinking level: Sonnet for routine work, Opus on high for synthesis, extra high when defensible, Fable for hundred-file jobs

Make Claude Run Your Week

Lesson 6: Load Your Whole Job Into Cowork's Memory

Build a permanent work-context folder in about an hour: sub-agents read every connector, Claude interviews you on the gaps, and every later session inherits it

Lesson 7: Run Your Claude Operating System

Navigate the instruction file and memory folders Claude wrote for itself, and correct them by asking rather than editing by hand

Lesson 8: Give Claude a Long-Term Brain in Obsidian

Build an Obsidian vault in layers, daily capture, per-client, durable reference, plus the index that tells Claude how to navigate it months later

Lesson 9: Wake Up and the Work Is Already Done

Schedule Claude against your context folder so a morning brief, replies already drafted, is waiting when you open the laptop

Lesson 10: Pick Up the Same Session on Your Phone

Carry a laptop session onto your phone: Claude Cloud runs server-side and keeps the same chats, unlike Dispatch

Turn Your Process Into a Skill

Lesson 11: Install Three Skills, Not Eighty

Judge which skills earn a permanent slot: three installed for good, the rest pulled per task, because eighty degrades current models

Lesson 12: Make Claude Write Like You

Build a skill that writes in your voice: Claude reads your sent mail, drafts samples for approval, then shifts register by recipient

Get the Model and the Deck Past Review

Lesson 13: Build Outstanding, Robust Models in Excel

Build models in Cowork and use the Excel plugin only to review them, with assumptions on their own tab and no hard-coded numbers in formulas

Lesson 14: Kill the AI Look in Your Slides

Kill the box-assembled look that gives a deck away: add Oria as a custom connector, then let Claude write content and Oria handle design

Lesson 15: Oria: Make Tier-1 Consulting Slides in PowerPoint

Set a reference style once from your own deck, then run text to slide, improve design and sketch to slide, landing as editable shapes in your template

Ship an App, Not a Prototype

Lesson 16: Take the Artifact Past the Demo

Save, update and share an artifact so it stops being a throwaway, and learn what it still lacks before anyone can rely on it

Lesson 17: Get It Off Your Laptop and Onto a URL

Turn what is on your laptop into a link a colleague opens on their phone, with version control so you cannot destroy your own work

Lesson 18: Give It a Database and a Login

Wire a hosted database and a login into your app so data survives a refresh and access decides who sees what

Lesson 19: Make It Survive Real Users

Harden the app for people who are not you: backups, sensible limits, and the checks worth running before you send the link round

Automate Only What Deserves It

Lesson 20: Answer Three Questions Before You Touch n8n

Decide in three questions whether you need n8n: unattended trigger, stored login, hundreds of runs. No to all three and Claude already does it

Lesson 21: Wire One Automation That Runs Without You

Ship one automation on hosted n8n with the split that matters: mechanical steps in the workflow, anything needing judgement handed to Claude

Lesson 22: Never Automate What Can Fail Quietly

Never automate anything whose quiet failure is expensive, and see why an agent that reads mail and sends messages is dangerous by design

A professional at a desk working across a wall of monitors, each running an AI chat that drafts and answers work questions

Become Dangerously Productive with AI

For consultants, bankers and investors who want a compounding edge

What You Will Learn

Delegate Work Instead of Prompting

Chat vs Cowork vs Code
Local File Access
Agent Loops
Architect, Builder, Reviewer
Key MCPs
Google Chrome extension

Build Your Operating System

Operating System
Obsidian Memory
Persistent context
Scheduled Runs
Office extension
Excel models

Build and Apply Skills

Build Your Own Skill
Personal writing style
Reusable voice
Audience-aware drafts
Annotate
n8n Automations

Build Tier-1 Consulting Slides with Oria

Oria for Slides
Tier-1 consulting layouts
Claude plugin workflow
Your template, your brand
Visual polish and review
Fully editable PowerPoint

Put Claude to Work for You