You now have a team you never had
A Claude Code course for product managers. A prototype, a data breakdown, a landing page, a competitor digest — the things you used to go to a developer, a designer or an analyst for, you now do yourself.
Start freeThe intro section, 2 modules and an exam.
A course by Stanislav Shevchenko · nine years in digital productsYour team in this course
- 1Product workthe project boundary and rules that do not fall apart
- 2Analystthe export is analysed, and it is proven
- 3Designermockups from your own design system
- 4Marketercompetitor tracking on autopilot
- 5You, the product manageryou put it together and accept the work
5 practical assignments — one per role. I read every one of them myself.
How it works
What a “set up team” actually means
It remembers the project
Rules, decisions and the place you stopped at live in the project files. A new session reads them on its own — you do not retell the context again.
It reports in a way you can actually accept
A task has a criterion and evidence: how many rows were processed, where that number comes from, what happens on deliberately bad data.
It works without you
On a schedule or on an event: the digest is assembled by Monday morning, and you get it ready.
It costs money, and you are the one managing it
Not every task needs the heavy model. You choose what to spend the limit on instead of finding out when it has run out.
The core skill
A result can be replaced by a sign of a result
You ask for two thousand reviews to be analysed and the problems named. The agent sends back a list of five. The list is plausible. All two thousand reviews may never have been read.
Claude said
- a plausible list of five problems came out
- “Sent” appeared on the screen
- the error message is no longer visible
What actually happened
- the whole set is processed and classified
- the record appeared in the real system
- the cause of the error is gone
How to catch it. Ask what exactly this sign proved: how many rows were processed, where that number came from, and what happens if you feed in a deliberately bad row. If a stub was used in the check, the report has to name it outright.
This is one failure mode out of four. The other three are in module 14.
Practice
5 practical assignments — 5 roles of your team
In each one you do the work you used to order from someone else, and hand it in for review.
Why a product manager should work as an analyst and a designer. Because you cannot accept work you have never done yourself: you accept it by eye — and that is exactly where the agent wins. By the fifth assignment you know what to ask of each role, because you have been each of them.
These are not 5 variants of one assignment to pick from. 5 different assignments in a row, and the order is what it is because the designer’s work needs mechanisms from the third group of modules, and the autonomous one from the fourth.
Your projects
By the end of the course two things of your own are running
Your routine
The thing you do by hand every week: a competitor digest, a report, an export. From then on it is assembled without you, and your part is to check the result against a criterion.
A small product
A prototype to test a hypothesis or a landing page for an experiment. It opens from a link and can be shown to a stakeholder and to users.
Not exercises — your own work. Which one to take you will choose in the first section, and it is free.
And if you want your own
Your own thing is the same skill at a different scale
Everything you need to test a hypothesis inside a company is everything you need to test your own. The difference is whose hypothesis it is.
The course does not teach selling, finding clients or unit economics. It gives you the thing an idea usually dies without: the ability to build it yourself and show it to people.
No card needed
See how it is written before you pay anything
The first block is open in full: the intro section, 2 modules and the exam on them. By that point you will already have chosen both of your projects and set up your environment. This is not a summary — it is work already begun.
Programme
14 modules, 5 exams, 5 practical assignments
Open a block to see what is inside. A quiz after every module, an exam after every block — 206 questions that check understanding.
foundationSetup, environment, how it works3 sections · free
- ◇About this course
- 01Where to work
- 02How it works
- ✓Exam 1 and practical assignment 1
project systemMemory, model, skills4 sections
- 03Project memory
- 04Model, effort, and autonomy
- 05The system around Claude
- 06Skills
- ✓Exam 2 and practical assignment 2
control and toolsAccepting work, external services, hooks3 sections
- 07Acceptance of the result
- 08External services
- 09Hooks
- ✓Exam 3 and practical assignment 3
scalingLimits, orchestration, plugins3 sections
- 10Limits and cost
- 11Orchestration
- 12Plugins
- ✓Exam 4 and practical assignment 4
Autonomy and reliabilityWork without you, failure modes2 sections
- 13Working without you
- 14Failure modes
- ✓Exam 5 and practical assignment 5
ReferenceThe decision tree, the cheat sheet, the glossary, the disputed4 sections
- ◇Decision tool
- ◇Cheat sheet
- ◇Controversial
- ◇Glossary
Not only for PMs
The course is written for product managers, but works wider
Build a clickable prototype on your own design system and hand it over for review as a link.
Work through an export and get proof that the whole set was processed, not the first hundred rows.
Put competitor tracking and campaign breakdowns on autopilot.
Who teaches it
About the author
Stas ShevchenkofounderFounder of Digital Vanguard, WisemindApp and CashbackStacker. Nine years in product: fintech, banking, mobility.
I’m a product manager, not an engineer: I read code but don’t write it. Both products were built the way the course teaches.
The material is drawn from my own work, from practitioners’ experience and from the Anthropic documentation.
Differences
How this course differs from others
A data breakdown, mock-ups, competitor tracking — and a final assignment where you run all of it as the product manager.
Not exercises. What you hand in for review is your own work, not a drill.
What matters is found by search, not by scrubbing through a recording.
Every update comes with an email. Last checked on 18 August 2026.
So you can finish the projects, not sprint through them over a weekend.
A quiz after each module, an exam after each block. You find out you understood the wrong thing before you build your work on it.
Before you start
What you need to have
You can start on the Pro plan, $20 a month. Not included in the price of the course.
Mac, Windows or Linux. We set up the rest in the first module, which is free.
The full course
six months of access · 14-day refund
Buy the full courseThe Claude subscription is paid separately and is not included in the price.
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