The AI Sherpa presents
BASECAMP · the live AI class
I’m Daphne Gray. Over four live 90-minute sessions I set Claude up inside your business on screen — your account, your tools, your machine — while you do it with me. It’s the same material I teach CEOs and founders in private coaching, at group-room price.
What you need: a Claude subscription, a computer you control, and 90 minutes a week for four weeks.
The gap
You’ve watched the videos. Maybe joined a group or two. You can hold a conversation about AI at dinner. And still, nothing is set up, nothing is connected, and nobody on your team knows what they’re supposed to do with it.
The video makes it look like three clicks. Then you try it on your own machine and hit the screen the video never showed — and there’s nobody to ask.
Connectors, projects, permissions, scope. These take sitting down and doing them properly. That is why each session is a full 90 minutes, not a highlight reel.
The free video funnels you into a paid group that drips the real thing out over half a year. You don’t have six months. You have four weeks.
The gap is not knowledge. The gap is doing it, in real time, with someone who has done it a hundred times.
Why a CEO sits in this room
Right now AI is pitched at two extremes. One half treats it like a smarter Google search for writing cookbooks. The other half treats it like a developer tool you need a hoodie to touch. Neither is any use to the person who has to make the call, sign off the spend and tell a team what to do.
When someone on your team says “AI can do that,” you’ll know whether that’s a twenty-minute setup, a genuine project, or a sales pitch. You’ve done the setup yourself.
You’ll know the difference between a chat, a project and something that needs building — which is the difference between a tool you buy, a workflow you set up, and money you shouldn’t spend yet.
Four weeks in, you’re not forwarding your team a link. You’re sharing your screen and showing them the thing you already built, the way I showed you.
Most people are handed AI as either a toy or a terror. The truth sits in the middle: you can now talk to software and have it build you the thing you would have paid a developer six figures for.
Basecamp is the four weeks where that stops being a claim you’ve heard and starts being something sitting on your own screen.
Your guide
Operator first, educator second. I build Claude systems for real clients with real stakes, and I have spent the past year privately coaching CEOs and founders on exactly this material. Nothing in Basecamp is theory. Every fix I show you on screen is one that runs on a Tuesday afternoon when nobody is watching.
What people say
Basecamp is not a new idea being tested on you. It is a year of private, paid, one-on-one coaching with CEOs and founders, opened to a small group room. Four doubts, and the answer to each.
Sample text — placeholder quotes awaiting Daphne’s real client words
Answers: “I already watch AI videos”
“I’d watched probably forty hours of AI content. Ninety minutes with Daphne and I had more running than all forty hours put together. The difference is she waits while you do it.”
Answers: “I’m not technical enough”
“Week four says you’ll build a dashboard and I genuinely thought that part wasn’t for me. I built it. It took the session. I open it every Monday.”
Answers: “No replays? Really?”
“I was annoyed there were no recordings. Then I realized I’d have watched none of them. Showing up and asking my own question is the only reason it stuck.”
Answers: “Will my team actually use it?”
“The real change was me. I stopped forwarding articles to my team and started showing them things on my screen. That’s when they moved.”
These four cards are placeholders. They will be replaced with real, named client quotes before this page goes live.
Four live weeks, and something running at the end of each one.
Save your seatWhat we cover
Every session is built from real one-on-one client work with business owners, so we fix the exact problems you will actually run into — not the clean ones from a demo.
Week 01
The full setup done live: your accounts, your security, and the difference between chats, projects and code — so you have a foundation you can build anything on, instead of a mess you have to undo in March.
Week 02
How to use Projects to organize everything, how Cowork lets Claude do more of the work for you, and your first Skill set up live — so a task you currently do every single week starts running itself.
Week 03
Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Zoom and Slack — wired in live. Then you can ask AI to review your email, prep your meetings, and pull answers out of your own files instead of guessing.
Week 04
You will build a simple dashboard for your life and business, and see how to experiment safely without any risk to your computer. No coding experience needed — this week is the opposite of a coding class.
The whole picture
Each of these comes directly out of one of the four weeks. Nothing here is theory you’ll “apply later” — I set it up with you, on your machine, while you watch your own screen.
That is the whole curriculum. Four weeks, four things running on your machine.
Save your seatHow it works
One 90-minute session a week for four weeks, in a group kept deliberately small.
I show you exactly what to click, on screen, step by step, and you do it on your machine as we go. You never get lost.
Live Q and A in every session. Any question about AI in your business gets answered on the spot.
Every week ends with something working: a locked-down setup, a live connection, a running dashboard — plus written guides to keep it that way.
The materials
Prompt structures built for how you actually work, sent out after the sessions. Not generic templates scraped off the internet.
Every setup done live comes with written instructional material, so you can redo it, fix it or extend it on your own later.
The written guides and materials are yours after the class ends. The live room is the part you cannot rewind. The paper trail stays.
The sessions get it working.
The guides keep it working.
Live, and only live
Here is the honest truth about replays: the class you plan to watch later is the class you never finish. Recordings feel like a safety net and act like a failure point.
Live attendance is where the learning actually happens, because every session includes live Q and A — and a recording of other people’s questions will never do for you what asking your own does. So we protect the room. Show up, follow along, ask, and build while it is happening.
This is not another course to watch later or a tutorial tab you leave open. It is for people who want AI working in their business, once and for all. If you cannot commit to four live sessions, this is not the right fit, and that is okay.
One honest caveat. If a major scheduling conflict makes a single session truly impossible for you, reach out before the class. On a rare, case-by-case basis I may arrange additional support for that week. It is an exception, not a policy.
You keep the skills and the guides.
You don’t get to re-watch me.
The fit filter
From the private room to yours
For the past year I have taught this exact material behind closed doors, one on one, to CEOs and founders paying for private coaching. Same setups. Same builds. Same systems. It works, because every session ends with something running, not something bookmarked.
So many people needed it that I opened the same training to a small group room. Same material, same live builds, same standard my private clients get: nobody leaves a session stuck. We work until it works on your machine.
The details
Your time zone — same time every week
Same time, same day, every week, for four weeks.
The ticket price
Four live weeks with the person who sets this up for a living, in a room kept deliberately small.
Founder pricing
This is founder pricing. The price goes up with every new cohort. The people who move early always pay the smallest number.
Dates to confirm Four Wednesdays starting October 28 · 2:00 PM Eastern · seats kept deliberately small
By saving your seat you agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. All sales are final; see the refund question below.
All sales are final and there are no refunds — the room is small, your seat is held, and the material starts moving on day one. What you get instead is a standard: nobody leaves a session stuck. If you complete the class and feel your goals were not met, email daphne@grayadventurestrategies.com and I will look at options for you to repeat the class in a future cohort.
Questions
The class always runs four Wednesdays in a row. The next set of dates — Four Wednesdays starting October 28 — is still being confirmed. Email daphne@grayadventurestrategies.com to check before you book. Every session starts at 2:00 PM Eastern, which is 1:00 PM Central, 12:00 PM Mountain and 11:00 AM Pacific. Your Zoom link and full instructions arrive within 24 hours of purchase.
No, and that is a teaching decision, not a cost decision. The class you plan to watch later is the class you never finish. Every session has live Q and A, and a recording of other people’s questions will never do for you what asking your own does. You keep the skills and guides; you don’t get to re-watch me.
If a major scheduling conflict makes a single session impossible, email daphne@grayadventurestrategies.com before the class. On a rare, case-by-case basis I may arrange additional support for that week. It is an exception, not a policy.
Because the videos got you to 80%, and 80% does not run. Knowing about connectors is not the same as your connectors working. This class exists for the last 20%: doing it, live, on your machine, until it works. That is what a video cannot do, and what a six-month drip group makes you pay to wait for.
No. Week four is exactly the opposite of a coding class. You will see why code is not scary, how to play with it safely without any risk to your computer, and you will build a simple working dashboard with it. If you can follow along on a screen share, you can do this.
A Claude subscription, a computer you control and are comfortable using, and 90 minutes a week for four weeks.
That is the point of the room. Basecamp is a working session for the person who has to lead the decision — so that when your team asks what AI should be doing here, the answer comes from someone who has done the setup themselves rather than read about it. You do the clicking in the session, which is what makes you able to show someone else afterwards.
All sales are final and there are no refunds. The room is small, your seat is held, and the material starts moving on day one. That said, the goal is that you leave with things working. If you complete the class and feel your goals were not met, email daphne@grayadventurestrategies.com and I will look at options for you to repeat the class in a future cohort.
Stop at 80% or finish the climb
Stop guessing. Start winning.
Dates to confirm Four Wednesdays starting October 28 · 2:00 PM Eastern · seats kept deliberately small
By saving your seat you agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. All sales are final; see the refund question above.
