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Claude Mastery Academy

For: Business professionals and content creators using Claude AI

Buildability

The Problem

Most people get poor results from AI because they don't know how to prompt effectively, leading to 'AI slop' and wasted time.

The Solution

Comprehensive online course teaching the 10 rules of Claude prompting plus industry-specific templates and advanced techniques.

Why Now?

Claude and other AI tools are mainstream but prompting education hasn't caught up. People are frustrated with poor AI outputs and willing to pay for better results.

Build MVP in 7 Days

Day 1

Create basic landing page with email capture

Day 2

Record 10-minute sample lesson using the framework

Day 3

Build simple course outline with 5 core modules

Day 4

Set up basic payment processing

Day 5

Create first batch of prompt templates

Day 6

Launch with early bird pricing

Day 7

Start content marketing with prompting tips

How to Validate

Survey existing AI users about their frustrations

Create free mini-course and measure completion rates

Run LinkedIn ads to prompting tips content and measure engagement

Pre-sell course with detailed curriculum but before creating all content

Interview power users about what techniques they wish they knew

Revenue Model

Course sales ($297-497), monthly membership for new templates and techniques ($29/month), enterprise training packages ($2,000+), affiliate commissions from AI tools.

Competitive Moat

First-mover advantage in structured prompting education, relationship with AI companies for early access to techniques, community of advanced prompters sharing strategies.

Risks to Consider

AI companies could integrate better prompting assistance directlyMarket could get saturated quickly with prompting coursesTechniques might become outdated as AI models evolveFree resources might be sufficient for most users

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