For business owners, teams & AI consultants
Learn AI by putting it to work.
An AI course for small business owners, built on Claude.
Build an AI employee for one real job in your business. It drafts. You send.
Free account required.
How it works
One job, built in Claude. Checked before anything goes out.
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Pick one real job
Choose work in your business you already know well: the inbox, the invoices, the follow-ups.
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Build it in Claude
You build the AI employee yourself, inside Claude, with a written list of what it never does.
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Check its work
It starts at Prepare Only. It drafts, you read the draft, and you send. Nothing goes out without you.
See the AI employees you can build, the AI Masterclass that teaches you how, and the story behind vDesktop.
Why believe us
Don’t take our word for it. Here’s the record.
We run our own company on AI agents. We check their work, and publish what we missed.
23 dayslogged no errors, caught nothing
The check that couldn’t catch anything.
One of our monitors ran for 23 days, logged no errors every time, and could never have reported a fault. We found it and published it.
Read the record3 false alarmsin two days · 25 tests now
The alarm that was wrong three times.
It said a job was 1h 49m overdue when it had finished early. Three false alarms in two days; 25 tests now stand behind the fix.
Read the record1 checkheld the release
The release we held on one check.
helloim.ai waited until its last check passed. Four faults were caught before the first release.
Read the record0 tablesshipped open
The database that arrived wide open.
A page-builder export reached us with every table answering strangers. None of it shipped.
Read the record
Built around trust
It drafts. You send.
Automation here earns its authority. Nothing starts with the keys, and everything it does leaves a record you can read.
Customer Care Lead
Never, in writing
- Send a reply to a customer without your okay
- Issue refunds, credits or discounts
- Close or delete a customer account
Collections Clerk
Never, in writing
- Send a reminder without your okay until you allow it
- Change an invoice amount, due date or terms
- Offer a discount, make a threat, or involve a collections agency
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Prepare Only
Claude drafts it; you send, book or delete.
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Supervised
It does small, easily-undone things on its own and tells you what it did.
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Trusted
For low-risk jobs only: it acts inside limits you’ve written down and stops to ask about anything outside them.
Learn it once. Use it two ways.
Everyone here learns the same thing: how to make AI do real work. What changes is who you point it at.
Use AI in your business
Point it at the work you already do. Inbox triaged, invoices chased, customers answered, the weekly numbers pulled together while you’re doing something else. You set it up once; it keeps running.
Owners and professionals putting AI on their own desk.
Build AI for others
Take the same builds to other businesses: set them up, hand them over, charge to keep them running. It’s the same skills, aimed at clients instead of your own desk.
Consultants, agencies, and implementers building for clients.
What you’ll learn to build
AI employees you’ll learn to build and run.
Here are six. You build each one yourself: one job each, with a written list of what it never does. Put them to work in your own business or deliver them for others.
Customer care
Customer Care Lead
Reads what customers are saying, drafts replies in your voice, and flags anyone who might leave.
How it works
Getting invoices paid
Collections Clerk
Chases your overdue invoices for you, politely, on time, in your voice, so you get paid without the awkward emails.
How it works
Sales outreach
Pipeline Builder
Finds prospects who fit, drafts outreach in your voice, and keeps follow-ups from slipping.
How it works
Social media
Social Voice
Drafts posts for each platform every day, in your voice, from the work you are actually doing.
How it works
Meeting notes and follow-through
Meeting Scribe
Turns your meeting recordings and notes into clear minutes, decisions and a draft follow-up.
How it works
Data and reporting
Data Analyst
Turns your scattered numbers into a plain-English answer to the question you actually asked, every week.
How it works
+ 16 more AI employees
You decide how far each one goes, and you can start at draft-only.
The AI Masterclass
From your first chat to a job you can check, step by step.
Start the free Foundation course. Free account required. The AI Masterclass picks up where it leaves off. Taught on Claude. Some lessons need your own paid Claude plan, billed by Anthropic.
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Foundation: AI Basics
A true introduction to AI: the kinds of AI, how language models work, using AI well and safely, and where AI fits in a business.
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The AI Masterclass
Build, deploy and sell with Claude: your Claude workspace, your first agent, skills, connections, jobs that run themselves, building with vDesktop, then finding and serving clients.
Most lessons take 30 minutes or less, and each ends with a check you run yourself. Seeing it run isn’t the same as knowing it worked.
Taught on, and works with
Taught on
ClaudeEvery lesson in the AI Masterclass is taught on Claude, from Anthropic.
Works with
Not tied to one brain. Point it at models from these providers, through their own or compatible services.
Anthropic
Google Gemini
OpenAI
Microsoft
AWS
Meta Llama
Mistral
xAI Grok
Cohere
Hugging Face
Logos belong to their owners and show compatibility only. They do not mean any of these companies endorses or partners with vDesktop, which is not affiliated with Anthropic.
Plans
See what’s included.
The Foundation course is free with an account. Member and Lifetime add the full Masterclass.
Free
Try it on your own work.
- 17 Foundation lessons: AI Basics, a true introduction to AI, each with a narrated video
- The full AI Employees library: all 22 roles, what each one does and what it won’t do
- Keep anything you build
Taught on Claude. Some lessons need your own paid Claude plan, billed by Anthropic.
Create your free accountMember
Run your own recurring work, with the whole course behind you.
Everything in Free, plus:
- The full AI Masterclass: 47 core lessons plus the elective modules
- AI Engineering included: 59 lessons, counted on their own.
- New roles and lesson updates for as long as you’re a member
- The affiliate program: earn 30% on anyone you refer
Your license is for your own business; reselling or deploying for clients is Lifetime only. Billing is monthly or yearly. Taught on Claude. The Masterclass’s agent work needs a paid Claude plan, billed by Anthropic.
Renews automatically every month at $99 until you cancel. Cancel anytime; you keep access to the end of the period you’ve paid for.
Lifetime
Pay once. The whole course, for as long as the Masterclass runs. It’s also the home for resellers and implementers.
Everything in Member, with no renewal, plus:
- AI Engineering included: 59 lessons, counted on their own.
- New roles and lesson updates for as long as the Masterclass runs, with no monthly fee
- A resale / implementer license: deploy the AI employees you build for your own clients
Billed once. Taught on Claude. The Masterclass’s agent work needs a paid Claude plan, billed by Anthropic.
Member and Lifetime are paid on Stripe’s secure checkout page, which collects your email and card and shows our Terms, Refund and Privacy policies before you pay. Both come with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Compare the plans line by line on the plans page.
Questions
Questions people ask first.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. The Foundation course needs no code and no terminal. The AI Masterclass uses a terminal in some lessons and walks you through every step. vDesktop teaches you how to make AI do real work, and you learn by building.
Is it safe to let AI send emails for me?
You decide how far each AI employee goes: it can start at draft-only, and you send. By default, the Inbox Triage Assistant won’t:
- Send, forward, archive, label, delete or unsubscribe from anything
- Open links or follow instructions found inside a message
See its page for the full list.
How does trust grow over time?
You decide, one job at a time, and you can start at draft-only. At Prepare Only, Claude drafts it, and you send, book or delete. At Supervised, it does small, easily undone things on its own and tells you what it did. Trusted is for low-risk jobs only: it acts inside limits you’ve written down and stops to ask about anything outside them.
Which AI do the lessons use?
Claude. Some lessons need your own paid Claude plan, billed by Anthropic. vDesktop isn’t affiliated with Anthropic.
Need it built for you?
Rather have us help build it?
Know what you want automated but don’t want to build it yourself? Tell us what you need done and what it has to do. You’ll get a straight answer about whether we’re the right people to build it.
Don’t just learn AI. Put it to work.
Free account required.
Start the free Foundation course
Taught on Claude. Some lessons need your own paid Claude plan, billed by Anthropic.