Claude Code for normal people: skills, voice mode, and how to collaborate with AI
About this episode
Grace Clarke discusses her journey of building a service business using Claude Code and shares insights on automating processes and teaching others.
Grace Clarke is an AI educator and former marketing consultant who taught herself Claude Code earlier this year and built a curriculum out of the process. She now runs her entire service business on tools she’s built with Claude, including a pipeline operator, a proposal maker, and a Gmail replacement she created in under 30 minutes, and teaches individuals and teams to do the same. What you’ll learn: How to build an hourly pipeline in Claude that moves clients through your process automatically Why Grace ditched traditional proposals for password-protected, interactive HTML documents built in Claude How she uses a “voice guide” skill file so every Claude output sounds like her, not like AI slop The two-step forcing function she teaches non-technical clients to build the muscle of opening Claude Why she started building in Claude Code, then handed the work off to Cowork via a Markdown session file How she replaced Gmail entirely with a custom inbox Why she teaches “intent engineering” instead of prompt engineering, and what that looks like in practice How she uses Claude on her phone, on walks, to track workouts and manage plants alongside client work — Brought to you by…
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