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Thursday 18 September. Two things worth doing before the session.

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Shipped: a browser agent that files my expense receipts every Friday

Took three runs to get the login step stable. The trick was giving it a saved login instead of asking it to type the password each time. Run history attached, ask me anything.

Manu JayawardanaHostin AI General

Tonight: bring a real dataset, leave with a working MCP tool

We will wire an MCP server to your data, let Claude Code work against it, and ship one small tool by the end of the hour. Recording lands in Classroom tonight.

CarolynL3in AI London

London meetup, Thursday 6:30pm, Shoreditch. Who's in?

Room for twenty. Bring one thing you built this month. Aki is running a short evals clinic before the drinks.

Week 5 of 12, Nate.

Halden Group · AI-native operations programme · Cohort 1

Readiness: Level 2 · Active user
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AI-native operations programme

Custom AI Training · 12 weeks · 24 colleagues · hosted by Manu and Aki

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DoneThis weekLive sessionWeek 11 demo day · Week 12 executive summary
This week: Session 2 of 4, Claude Code on the ops runbookOpen week 5
Next sessionSession 2: Claude Code on the ops runbookThu 18 Sep · 18:00 BST · with ManuJoin the room
Assignment dueRebuild one weekly report with Claude and MCPDue Fri 19 Sep · submit to the private roomOpen assignment
Office hoursTuesday 12:00 with Aki30 minutes, bring the thing that is stuckBook a slot
Halden Group
Dr. Aki WijesundaraHostin Halden Group

Week 5 brief: what "done" looks like for the report rebuild

Done means the report runs from a prompt, pulls from the real source through MCP, and someone other than you has read the output. Post the before and after. That is the readiness evidence.

ChristieL3in Halden Group

Rebuilt the Monday supplier report. 40 minutes down to 6.

Claude Code reads the sheet through MCP, drafts the summary, and I check the exceptions. Sharing the prompt and the checklist for anyone on the ops side.

KaviL4in AI General

Shipped: a browser agent that files my expense receipts every Friday

From the public community. You have full access to every public room alongside the programme.

Halden Group · Cohort 1

Week 5 of 12 · AI-native operations programme · 24 participants

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Seats used24/306 invites pending
Up to speed18+5 since week 3
Avg readiness2.6/5from 1.4 at week 1
Workflows submitted31across 4 teams

Who is up to speed All 24 people

PersonReadinessMovedLast evidenceStatus
ChristieOperations
3Practitioner+2Supplier report rebuild · 3h agoOn track
KaviOperations
4Builder+2Receipt-filing agent · 4h agoOn track
NateFinance
2Active user+1Session 1 exercise · 6d agoAssignment due
AamirEngineering
4Builder+1MCP connector · yesterdayOn track
DanSales
1Aware0No submission yetNeeds a nudge
LW
Lei WangEngineering
3Practitioner+2Eval harness · 2d agoOn track

Capability gaps By team

  • Evals and testing AI output9 of 24 can do this
  • Connecting tools with MCP11 of 24
  • Prompting for repeatable work19 of 24
  • Building a workflow end to end7 of 24

Session 3 (week 7) is scheduled on evals for exactly this reason. Office hours next Tuesday are open to Sales first.

Executive summary

Readiness movement, shipped workflows and attendance in one page, refreshed every Monday. Week 12 produces the final version.

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Not surveillance software. No raw AI conversations, no private coaching content, no personal career plans, ever visible to managers. Managers see evidence: assigned-activity completion, readiness evidence, submitted workflows and aggregated team patterns.