Raw-Clauding Bootcamp
Laura Ackerman
producer/non-technical raw-clauder
Build your own non-technical thinking harness using Claude Code in Cursor.
You're losing your ideas to chat threads, project buckets, AI summaries that flatten texture, and agents that compact what matters. Every session is a cold start. Every re-explain is a tax on the thinking you were trying to do. Your work isn't matching the depth of your ideas and you can feel your tools starting to shape your thinking.
It's exhausting keeping up with all our sh*t and helping AI keep up with it too; humans don't have persistent energy and AI doesn't have persistent memory. And the most important thing for all of us to keep up with is our own thinking because how we all show up shapes what shows up.
raw-clauding is files + intention = partnership
It's a foundational one-source-of-context-truth. Everything lives in plain text you own and can edit directly so you stay close to your thinking as it compounds. You'll collaborate with AI as a thinking partner and build an archive of your own thinking texture (not compressed summaries). You'll think deeper together, your AI will find connections you don't see, and you won't have to hold it all in your head anymore. The context is yours forever. The system and the way you show up carry it.
What you’ll learn
How to think *with* AI and build a system where each session compounds.
Pick up any thread, any thought, any time, without re-explaining what you already said.
Files carry the context so your thinking continues from where you left it, not from zero.
The cold-start tax disappears so you can focus your energy on your work and your ideas.
Build a local markdown system you can plug into whichever AI you want to think with.
One source of context; the same files work the same way wherever you take them.
Pricing/model/platform changes stop being existential to your work.
Your voice stops degrading because the system holds your unique thinking texture.
The work that you're known for starts compounding again instead of feeling scattered.
You'll have one good system that amplifies instead of slopifies your ideas.
Architecture signals intent; know where to put things so you and AI are on the same page.
External sparks and resources that inspire you become part of your reference library.
Internal ideas and output that defines you stay grouped together by project gravity.
Codify your own knowledge and flows into custom skills you can read, edit, and share.
Skills can pull you closer to your thinking or further from it; you'll know when to use which.
The skills get better through use; every session sharpens the system as you use it.
Practice 50/50 partnership: from "give me an answer" to "let's figure this out together."
Pressure-test decisions through multiple lenses so neither of you misses what matters.
Push back and forth until your ideas find shapes you wouldn't reach working alone.
Learn directly from Laura
Laura Ackerman
producer/non-technical raw-clauder
Who this course is for
You ship thinking-heavy work and can feel your ideas slipping through chat threads, being diluted in summaries, and not sounding like you.
Your brain can't stop thinking in non-linear tangents, side quests, and brain dumps and you need AI to help connect all of it.
You're tired of tool mode and want AI that pushes back, helps sharpen your thinking, and can pick up wherever you left off.
Prerequisites
You'll need an Anthropic account and subscription for Claude Code (Pro or Max)
We'll be working with Claude Code in Cursor (using the free tier of Cursor), and also Obsidian (free by default).
Daily AI users and curious/motivated dabblers will do best (not for everyone)
Those who want AI to think for them (tool mode) might not enjoy the 50/50 collaboration modeled in this course.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Laura Ackerman in a real-time, interactive format.
Custom non-technical AI harness (architecture and infrastructure)
A complete starter system built through daily use for over a year, ready for you to move into and start making your own on day 1. Each session compounds.
Live setup walkthrough to get your system hooked up
The first session you'll install and start working in your own version of the system. We'll go through everything together so you can continue working in it before we meet again for the second session.
Tool-optionality: works with or without extra tools and connections
The system is plain markdown files inside a folder on your computer and the architecture works without connecting anything external. Layer other tools on top or don't, works either way.
Small cohorts, conversational learning
Groups stay small enough that we can think together in real time, follow the threads that matter to each person, and troubleshoot together in your own system.
Alumni cohort and ongoing community
Private alumni community for sharing insights, asking questions, watching how the system shapes other people's work, and staying connected so we all keep learning together.
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Course syllabus
2 live sessions • 14 lessons
Week 1
Jun
5
Day 1: System/Capture
System/Capture
Week 2
Jun
12
Day 2: Loop/Partnership
Loop/Partnership
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Schedule
Live sessions
3 hrs / week
Fri, Jun 5
3:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
Fri, Jun 12
3:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
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