Hands-on AI enablement training powered by Claude — built around your team's actual work, not generic demos.
AI tools like Claude aren't just chatbots. They're operational infrastructure — capable of reading your email, managing your calendar, drafting documents, running analysis, and executing work in the background while you sleep. Most people are using about 5% of what's available.
You haven't given your AI any context about who you are, what you do, or how you work
You haven't built any skills — reusable instructions that let AI handle recurring tasks automatically
You haven't connected AI to the platforms where you actually work (email, calendar, Slack, your CRM, your accounting system)
You haven't scheduled any work to run on your behalf in the background
You tell it what to do step by step instead of describing the outcome you want
You copy-paste between tools instead of letting AI move information for you
You use AI for one-off questions but never for repeatable workflows
If three or more of those sound familiar, you're leaving serious productivity on the table. The good news: it's fixable in a day.
3-person minimum ($4,500). One day to change how your team works.
In-person or virtual. This is not a lecture. Your team will use Claude to solve real problems from their actual roles — live, in the room, with guidance.
Every participant submits a real challenge before the session: "This is something I struggle with — I want AI to help." We build the training around your team's actual pain points.
A curated prompt library, framework guide, and tool recommendation set your team keeps permanently. The reference manual that keeps people productive after the training ends.
A next-steps document specific to your business — where AI fits today, what to prioritize next, and what to build toward. This isn't generic advice. It's a roadmap.
2 hours per week. Bring questions, share wins, troubleshoot problems. The peer learning that happens here accelerates adoption faster than any solo effort.
Per person. Bring your actual work — your messy spreadsheet, your real email workflow, your reporting process — and we'll build AI into it together.
All office hours and 1-on-1 coaching must be used within 30 days of training.
Each participant identifies a real workflow they want AI to improve. This becomes the foundation of the training.
A full-day, hands-on session where your team learns to work with Claude effectively — from prompting fundamentals to advanced workflow automation. Real examples from your submitted challenges are worked through live.
Office hours and 1-on-1 coaching over the next 30 days ensure AI becomes part of how your team actually works — not a one-day novelty that fades by Friday.
Many states offer workforce development grants that can cover part or all of professional AI training costs. In Louisiana, McCandless Consulting is a registered provider with Elite Training, which helps organizations access state funds for exactly this kind of program. Similar programs exist across the country — if you're in Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, or elsewhere, ask us and we'll help you explore your options.
David used Claude and an MCP to fill a feature gap in his property management software — seasonal turnover blocking for his Airbnb — in 20 minutes, without writing a line of code. Watch the 2-minute walkthrough below, or read the full story on Substack.
Read the full story on SubstackTraining business users is where we start. But McCandless Consulting has also enabled software development professionals in AI adoption across organizations of all sizes — from small businesses to publicly traded companies.
Whether your engineering team is integrating Claude into code review, accelerating development workflows, building AI-powered features, or standing up agentic systems — we can help.
Engineering engagements are scoped to your team's specific stack and needs.
The training teaches your team to use AI well. This stands AI up the right way — secure, governed, and live in 5 business days* — for a flat $5,000.
Your people are already using AI — drafting emails, summarizing documents, analyzing data, often on personal accounts. On a free or personal account, the “train on my data” setting is on by default, which means company data may already be flowing into someone else’s training set, and right now nobody can see it.
The instinct is to lock it down or wait for a “real” project. Both leave you worse off: locking it down removes visibility, not the behavior; waiting hands the productivity gains to your competitors while your exposure quietly grows.
There’s a better path — governed adoption. Replace the shadow AI you can’t see with a deployment you can: scoped, secured, and right-sized to what your business actually does.
Select the right plan (Team vs. Enterprise), configure SSO/SAML through your identity provider (Entra ID, Okta, Google), enforce MFA, set up automated provisioning and de-provisioning (SCIM), and define admin and member roles.
Configure data retention (including zero/limited-retention), turn individual tools on or off per your risk tolerance, set up a tiered data-handling framework, enable usage and audit logging, and draft a plain-English Acceptable Use Policy plus the data-handling policy that backs it.
Connect Claude to one of your systems (SharePoint, Google Drive, Salesforce, Slack) through a secure, permission-scoped connector — scoped so Claude sees only what it should.¹
Run an enablement session, build shared prompts and templates for your common workflows, and deliver a documented admin runbook your IT team or MSP can maintain.
Figuring all of this out in-house is weeks of someone’s time — learning a platform they’ll configure once and never touch again.² We do this for a living, and we do it in 5 business days.
We don’t bolt a six-month enterprise process onto a small business. Low-risk use (internal drafting, summarizing, brainstorming) goes live fast. Higher-risk use (customer data, regulated information, live system connectors) gets deliberate controls before it ships. You get value quickly where it’s safe, and careful handling where it counts.³
The full secure rollout: SSO, MFA, data retention, tool controls, one connector, policies, enablement, and handoff.
Healthcare, financial services, or other high-sensitivity environments needing de-identification and a full governance spine.
Preferred-partner pricing — save $1,000. If your managed service provider is one of our preferred partners, your Governed Deployment is $4,000.⁴
Book a call* Most deployments go live in 5 business days — assuming your team does its part on schedule. The setup touches systems we don’t control: SSO/MFA require your sysadmin or MSP to apply changes in your identity provider; each connector requires the admin of that system; policy sign-off requires whoever owns the decision to be reachable. Tell us who those people are up front and keep them available, and we hold the timeline. If key people go dark, the clock pauses.
¹ We deliberately start with one connector. Prove the value on a single source, then add more once it’s earning its keep. Additional connectors are billed at $300/hour (typically 2–3 hours each).
² “Couldn’t our own IT person handle this?” They could — by stopping their actual job for a week or two to learn Claude’s admin model from scratch, then relearning it next time because they never touch it in between. You get the result in days, and your IT team stays focused on running your business.
³ What’s included — and where we stop. The flat fee covers configuring a governed deployment and handing it off clean. We set up the data-handling framework but don’t classify your data for you. We’re not your long-term Claude admin — we hand off a runbook (or stay on by retainer / $300/hour if you’d rather). Your Microsoft 365 and network stay with your IT team or MSP. The $5,000 is flat and includes generous coordination time; if setup runs long because key people on your side aren’t available, additional coordination is billed at $300/hour — a line you’ll never see if your team shows up. Advanced active-monitoring guardrails are scoped separately.
⁴ Preferred MSP partners: HiTech Managed Services (more added as we onboard them — ask if yours qualifies). When the Microsoft and network side is run by a team we already know and trust, the work goes smoothly, and we pass the savings to you.
Why governance is the point: the controls aren’t bureaucracy — they’re what bounds your risk. When use cases are tiered, the rules are written down, and decisions are documented, “are we exposed?” stops being a guess and becomes something you can answer. Governed AI beats ungoverned AI. We make the governed version easy.
Your team is already curious about AI. Give them the skills — and the structure — to actually use it.
Book a callYes. Claude's Team and Enterprise plans do not use your data for model training. Enterprise adds custom data retention (including zero-retention options) and SOC 2-aligned audit capabilities.
Claude Team plan is $25/user/month (monthly) or $20/user/month (annual). Minimum 5 seats. A 10-person pilot costs roughly $200–250/month. No long-term contract required.
Claude Enterprise requires approximately 50+ seats and a 12-month commitment with custom pricing via Anthropic sales. Includes SAML 2.0 / OIDC SSO, SCIM provisioning, domain capture, role-based access, and custom data retention.
Yes. Team is the natural pilot tier. Migrate to Enterprise when seat count and control requirements justify it.
That's exactly the risk this addresses. The most common scenario is employees using free ChatGPT or Claude accounts without verifying data training settings — which means company data may be used to train AI models. A Team workspace gives IT visibility, control, and a training-excluded-by-default environment.
No. Claude is fully hosted — nothing to install or maintain. Team plan setup takes about 15 minutes with a credit card. No sales call, no contract negotiation, no infrastructure.