Approval kit
Get this approved without writing the email yourself.
Most people who want this training stall at the same place: asking for it. Below is what your manager will want to know, and a message you can forward as written.
In one paragraph
What Claude Academy is, stated plainly.
A live, instructor-led, two-day training program on Anthropic's Claude tooling, capped at twenty people, where every exercise is applied to the attendee's own work. It ends in a practical assessment reviewed by a human, so the outcome is demonstrated capability rather than a completion badge.
Cost
$749
per seat, invoice available
Time away
6 hours
two 3-hour sessions
Cohort size
20 seats
so questions get answered
The argument
Tooling budgets got approved. Training on the tooling did not.
Most companies now pay for AI tooling and assume capability arrives with the licence. It does not, and the gap shows up as uneven adoption: two people getting real leverage, everyone else using it as a better search box.
- The licence is already being paid for either way. This is the difference between it being used at ten percent and at something closer to its actual range.
- One person trained properly becomes the internal reference, which is cheaper than training everyone at once.
- The output is configured tooling that keeps working, not knowledge that decays after a webinar.
- It is a fixed, one-time cost with a published curriculum, so it is easy to evaluate before committing.
Deliberately no ROI percentage here. Any number would be invented, and a made-up statistic is exactly what a sharp manager will catch. The curriculum and the assessment are the argument.
Copy, paste, send
The email.
Fill in the two brackets and send it. It is written to be forwarded, not rewritten.
Subject: Training request — Claude Academy ($749) Hi [manager], I'd like to request approval for Claude Academy, a live two-day training program on Anthropic's Claude tooling. Cost is $749 per seat. Why I'm asking: We're using Claude in some form already, but I'm working from documentation and trial and error, which is slow and leaves gaps I can't see. This is a live cohort capped at 20 people where the work is applied to our actual repos and workflows, not sample projects. What I'd come back with: - Claude configured against our real tooling, not a demo setup - At least one working automation built during the session - A practical assessment reviewed by an instructor, so there's evidence of competence rather than just attendance Logistics: - Format: two live sessions, three hours each, on consecutive days - Next cohort: Sep 15 – Sep 16, 2026 - Time away: six hours total, plus about an hour of prep - Invoice available, and they can complete vendor paperwork if needed Curriculum is published in full here: https://yourclaudeacademy.com/curriculum Happy to write up what I learn and run an internal session for the team afterward so it doesn't stay with just me. Thanks, [your name]
Finance
What finance will ask.
Card or invoice. For invoiced purchases you get a proper invoice with payment terms, and vendor onboarding forms, W-9, and purchase orders are all standard here.
Most commonly professional development, training, or an individual learning stipend. Some teams run it through a tooling or enablement budget instead, since the output is configured tooling rather than a certificate alone.
Six hours of live session across two days, plus roughly one hour of self-guided setup beforehand. Sessions are three hours, which is deliberately short enough to leave most of each day intact.
Seats can be transferred to another person on the team at no cost up to the start date. If the dates stop working, the seat moves to a later cohort.
Yes. Beyond three or four people it is usually worth a private program instead, where the curriculum is written against your own codebase. That is quoted after a discovery call.
Yes, an itemized receipt is issued automatically on payment, with the company name on it if you provide one at checkout.
They said yes. Now grab the seat.
Next cohort is Sep 15 – Sep 16, 2026, and seats do not roll over.
Next cohort: Sep 15 – Sep 16, 2026 · 4 of 20 seats left