Free course · 8 lessons
Automate the work you dread
You already use Claude or ChatGPT and want it to take on a task you repeat every week.
Find the recurring work worth handing over, then set up Claude or ChatGPT to draft it for you.
Steps for Claude and ChatGPT · Product details checked October 15, 2026
Your project
Pick one task from your own week and set it up to arrive as a draft you check. Every lesson moves that one task forward.
The worked example
Larkfield Supply
A 40-person office-supplies distributor. Its operations lead, Dana, writes a status report for the leadership team every Friday afternoon.
How the course works
By the end, one recurring task from your own work arrives as a draft, and you decide what happens to it.
The course works through four building blocks: skills, connections, schedules and actions. You carry one project through all eight lessons. Each build step has instructions for Claude and for ChatGPT, dated on the day someone checked them. The last lesson maps the same steps to Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot.
The four building blocks
- Skills
- Written instructions the assistant follows every time.
- Connections
- Access to the email, calendar and files the task reads.
- Schedules
- A time or an event that starts the task without you.
- Actions
- What the assistant may do with the result. In this course, it stops at a draft.
Each lesson moves your project forward
- Lesson 1 · 6 min readAudit your weekTime your recurring tasks and score them, so you automate the right one first.
- Lesson 2 · 6 min readPick the first targetChoose a first task that reads information and produces a draft, and know which tasks to leave for later.
- Lesson 3 · 6 min readWrite the task specWrite your task as a skill file that both Claude and ChatGPT can follow.
- Lesson 4 · 6 min readThe four building blocksSkills, connections, schedules and actions: what each one does, and what it is called in Claude and ChatGPT.
- Lesson 5 · 6 min readBuild itSet up your task in Claude or ChatGPT, run it by hand, and review the first drafts.
- Lesson 6 · 6 min readAdd checksKeep automations at the draft stage, test the scheduled run itself, and close the gaps that let a task fail silently.
- Lesson 7 · 6 min readMeasure and maintainTime the task before and after, watch usage, and keep the setup working when the products change.
- Lesson 8 · 6 min readOther assistantsHow the same four building blocks work in Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot.
Every starter prompt from the course is on one page: the prompt library.
Do I need a paid plan?
You can follow most of the course on a free plan. In Claude, skills work on every plan, including Free, once you turn on code execution and file creation. Scheduled tasks need a paid Claude plan. In ChatGPT, the number of scheduled tasks you can keep depends on your plan. OpenAI has not stated clearly which plans can add your own skills, and Emeri is still confirming this for Plus and Pro. Each lesson shows the date its steps were last checked.
Does this work with Gemini or Copilot?
The method does. Lesson 8 maps the four building blocks to Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot. Emeri tests the step-by-step instructions in Claude and ChatGPT only.
Is it safe to connect my email?
Every automation in this course stops at a draft that you check. It never sends, deletes or pays. Lesson 6 explains the main risk: an assistant that reads your private data and untrusted messages, and can also send data out, can be tricked by instructions hidden in those messages. Check your employer’s policy before you connect a work account.
How long does the course take?
Each lesson takes about six minutes to read. The exercises run alongside your normal week. The audit in Lesson 1 takes a week of light note-taking, and the build in Lesson 5 takes an afternoon.
Not sure this is the right course yet? The free check takes about fifteen minutes and shows which skill to work on first.