The Practice Rulebook

9 weeks listed, about 31 hours of lessons, quizzes, tasks and live sessions.

1. Pre-work 7 lessons, 3.3 hours
   • The laptop, the time and your baseline
   • Your Claude plan and the course files
   • Switching training off, and writing down the date
   • Git for Windows, and booking your clinic
   • Getting help, low data and power cuts
   • Pre-work lesson notes: ready before day one
   • Pre-work worked example: getting ready at Ladipo Nwosu & Co
2. Week 0 8 lessons, 3.5 hours
   • What you are about to build
   • The terminal, and installing Claude Code
   • Your workspaces
   • Your first conversation
   • The safety switches
   • Your first win: a letter from a finished workspace
   • Week 0 lesson notes: set-up, safety and the first win
   • Week 0 worked example: setting up at Ladipo Nwosu & Co
3. Week 1 7 lessons, 3.4 hours
   • The rulebook Claude reads first
   • Who you are, the firm, and the firm folder
   • The first letter, and why it sounds like nobody
   • Voice, writing rules, branding and services
   • The letter after, and three controls
   • Week 1 lesson notes: the rulebook and the firm's voice
   • Week 1 worked example: Ladipo Nwosu & Co's rulebook and voice
4. Week 2 9 lessons, 3.6 hours
   • A client file Claude can trust
   • Profile, brief and log
   • What never goes in, and the two tests
   • Your AI assistant and the Data Protection Act
   • Your AI assistant and the Data Protection Act
   • From enquiry to signed engagement letter
   • From enquiry to signed engagement letter
   • Week 2 lesson notes: taking on a client properly
   • Week 2 worked example: Mrs Okonkwo-Bassey, the data protection gate, and Crumbhouse from enquiry to letter
5. Week 3 7 lessons, 3.5 hours
   • What a skill is, and when to write one
   • Drafting the intake skill, and reviewing it
   • The test, on an enquiry the skill has not seen
   • The client-request skill: registry and clearance requests
   • When a skill misfires
   • Week 3 lesson notes: your first skills
   • Week 3 worked example: client-intake tested on Bluefen, client-request on Sweetcrest and Northgate
6. Week 4 7 lessons, 3.4 hours
   • A recurring job, a folder for the period, sources left alone
   • The set-up file comes first
   • Every line, one reconciliation, one suspense list
   • Check it yourself, and close the log
   • The monthly-close skill, tested on a messier month
   • Week 4 lesson notes: the monthly close
   • Week 4 worked example: Sweetcrest's September 2026, and the monthly-close skill
7. Week 5 8 lessons, 3.4 hours
   • High-stakes work, and the rule that governs Nigerian tax
   • Citations Claude must not invent, and checks it must show
   • Clearing one marker from the right Act
   • The auditor's own workspace, and the independence rule
   • Accepting the audit: checklist, letter and index
   • A public video: every tax line checked, every word kept
   • Week 5 lesson notes (accounting and tax pack): the high-stakes work
   • Week 5 worked example (accounting and tax pack): an objection, an audit acceptance and a video
8. Week 6 9 lessons, 3.6 hours
   • Everything has one home
   • Routing rules
   • Reading the proposal before you approve
   • What Claude should remember
   • Connecting email and storage
   • Live systems rules
   • The deny-rule test and the reply
   • Week 6 lesson notes: the inbox, memory and connecting the firm
   • Week 6 worked example: the demo firm's inbox, memory and the Northgate reply
9. Week 7 9 lessons, 3.5 hours
   • Finishing the engagement you have carried since week 2
   • The demo firm's capstone, run and scored
   • Self-review, the gate and submitting
   • The live practical and demo day
   • Keeping the workspace alive
   • Week 7 lesson notes: capstone and demo day
   • Week 7 worked example: the demo firm's capstone, scored, and the practical that followed
   • Capstone brief: carry one engagement through your workspace
   • Capstone rubric