Week 5 · spine

Expanding Claude's Reach

Connect Claude to your tools and do deep, cited work.

Delegation Power skill: Research Mode

Overview for Week 5 renders from src/data/courseData.ts via SessionOverview.

Learner goals

Understand how Connectors link Claude to Drive, Slack, and Gmail.

Navigate data residency and GDPR compliance when using connected AI.

Use Research Mode for deep, cited analysis.

Understand the future of Autonomous AI and Computer Use.

What you set up live

Claude account (Pro recommended)

A real work task to practise on

Optional: Wispr Flow for voice input

Run-of-show · 180 min

The session timeline. The amber row is where the wow lands.

Time	Segment	Mode
0:00 · 30m	Connectors & Enterprise Search	Talk
0:30 · 30m	Governance: Data Residency & GDPR	Talk
1:00 · 30m	Build-along: The Research Brief ✦ wow	Build-along
1:30 · 30m	The Future: Computer Use & Dispatch	Talk
2:00 · 60m	Live Q&A & Build Clinic	Breakout

Wow moment

Deep Research Mode

Unleash Claude's research mode to pull cited, multi-source analysis on a complex topic in minutes.

~1:00 — Build-along: first real win

This week's project

Deep Research Mode

Use Claude's Research mode — and a connector to your own tools (Drive, Gmail or Slack) where it helps — to produce a cited, multi-source briefing on a real question facing you right now: a market you're entering, a competitor, a supplier shortlist, or a decision your boss has asked for. The output isn't a chat answer; it's a tidy briefing with sources you could forward to a colleague. The leap this week is from 'AI in a box' to AI that reaches into your real information and shows its working.

Deliverable: A one-to-two-page cited research briefing on a real question, with sources listed and a clear recommendation or summary.

Done when

✓Answers a genuine question relevant to your work, not a demo topic.
✓Uses Research mode and/or at least one connector to a real source you chose.
✓Every key claim is traceable to a cited source.
✓Ends with a short, decision-ready summary or recommendation.
✓Notes the data-residency / GDPR check you applied before connecting anything sensitive.

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