Claude Workflows for Architects

8 weeks. 8 workflows. A complete Claude toolkit for your practice.

You've tried the generic AI tools. They're fine for rewriting an email. But they fall apart when you need something that actually understands your work.

You asked ChatGPT to help with a project narrative or summarize a spec. It gave you confident-sounding nonsense that missed the point. You spent more time fixing the output than you would have spent doing it yourself. So you went back to doing things the way you've always done them.

The problem wasn't you. The problem was the tool. Generic AI doesn't know what a basis of design is. It doesn't know your firm's standards. It doesn't know that "code review" means building code, not software.

Claude is different. It can hold the full context of your project. It can learn your firm's specific standards and apply them automatically. It can run multi-step workflows and produce tools your colleagues can use without touching AI themselves.

But none of that matters if you don't know how to set it up. That's what this program is for.

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This isn't a course. It's a toolkit you build one workflow at a time.

Each week, you receive a complete, ready-to-use Claude workflow built for the kind of work architects actually do. A short guide or video walkthrough shows you how to set it up. Then you use it on your real projects that same week.

No theory for the sake of theory. No homework. Just a new tool in your hands every seven days.

The eight workflows follow a structured progression through Claude's capabilities. You start with effective prompting, move into building a project knowledge base, learn to teach Claude your firm's standards, and finish by automating real workflows and building tools your colleagues can use.

Each workflow builds on the one before it. By Week 8, you won't just be using Claude. You'll be the person at your firm who knows how to put it to work for everyone.

What you'll walk away with

After eight weeks, you'll have:

A prompt framework that produces useful output on the first try, not generic filler you have to rewrite
A project knowledge base that turns Claude into a team member who has read every document on your project
A custom Claude Skill trained on your firm's standards that Claude follows automatically
Automated workflows for meeting notes, QA reviews, and other tasks that eat your time
A plugin your team can use, even for colleagues who have never touched AI
A clear understanding of where Claude is headed and how to lead adoption at your firm

The tool progression

Each week introduces a more powerful layer of Claude's capabilities.

Weeks 1 and 2: Claude.ai Learn to communicate with Claude effectively and produce real output for your projects. This is where most people get stuck, using AI like a search engine instead of a collaborator.

Weeks 3 and 4: Claude Projects Give Claude deep context about your project so it can reference your drawings, specs, standards, and correspondence. This is where Claude stops being a chatbot and starts feeling like a team member.

Week 5: Claude Skills Create a custom Skill that teaches Claude your firm's specific standards. Once built, Claude follows your rules automatically. No more repeating instructions in every conversation.

Weeks 6 and 7: Cowork Build real automations. Meeting notes that produce action items. QA reviews that check deliverables against your standards. The repetitive work starts doing itself.

Week 8: Cowork Plugins Build a tool your colleagues can use without knowing anything about AI. This is how you go from being a Claude user to the person who brings AI to your firm.

Week by week

Week 1: The Project Narrative Generator

Learn the fundamentals of writing prompts that produce genuinely useful output for architectural work. You'll generate a complete design narrative and understand exactly why it worked.

Week 2: The Scope and Fee Drafter A

pply your new prompting skills to fee proposals. Feed Claude the RFP, describe your approach, and walk away with a structured draft that starts at 70% rather than 0%.

Week 3: The Project Brain

Build a Claude Project loaded with your project documents and learn to query it for instant answers. You'll use it to review a spec section for code compliance issues.

Week 4: The Communication Toolkit

Create a set of ready-to-use prompts for client updates, scope pushback emails, RFI responses, meeting prep briefs, and status reports. A system that lives inside your project and is ready when you need it.

Week 5: The Firm Standards Skill

Create a Skill trained on your firm's naming conventions, formatting preferences, QA standards, or any other process you want Claude to follow consistently.

Week 6: The Meeting Workflow

Build an automation that takes raw meeting notes or a transcript and produces formatted minutes with action items, plus a pre-meeting brief for the next meeting.

Week 7: The QA Reviewer

Pick a deliverable you produce frequently and build a Cowork automation to check it against your firm's standards. This is where the hours start coming back.

Week 8: The Team Plugin

Build a plugin that a colleague can use without knowing anything about AI. A project kickoff generator, a fee proposal assistant, and a lessons learned template. Whatever process at your firm would benefit from AI but currently depends on one person's expertise.

Bonuses

Vibe Coding with Claude Code

A look at building real software tools with AI, no programming experience required. Describe what you want in plain English and watch Claude Code turn it into a working tool.

Connecting Claude to Your Tools with MCP

See a live demo of Claude interacting directly with a Revit model through a Revit MCP server, plus how to connect Claude to Notion, Google Drive, and other tools your firm relies on. This is where AI in AEC is heading.

Live Q&A sessions

Every two weeks, we meet live. These sessions are your chance to ask questions, troubleshoot issues, and see workflows customized in real time.

Week 2 — After Workflows 1 and 2
Week 4 — After Workflows 3 and 4
Week 6 — After Workflows 5 and 6
Week 8 — After Workflows 7 and 8

All sessions are recorded if you can't make it live.

Who this is for

You're a mid-career architect. Maybe an associate, a senior associate, or a principal. You've used ChatGPT or Claude a few times, but you know you're barely scratching the surface.

You don't need to be convinced that AI matters. You need someone to hand you the tools and show you how to use them in the context of the work you actually do.

About me

I'm Michael Kilkelly. I hold a Bachelor of Architecture from Norwich University and a Master of Science in Design and Computation from MIT. I spent seven years at Gehry Partners working on projects like 8 Spruce Street in New York and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.

For the past 15 years, I've been on the software side of AEC, developing tools and automations for architects and engineers. I'm the founder of ArchSmarter, where I've spent over a decade teaching AEC professionals to work more efficiently with technology. I use Claude every day in my own work. I know what works, what doesn't, and how to translate the technology into language that makes sense for how architects actually practice.

What's included

8 complete Claude workflows delivered weekly, each ready to use immediately
Written guides and video walkthroughs, depending on complexity
4 live Q&A sessions (biweekly, recorded for replay)
3 months of Claude Pro, so you have everything you need from day one
Access to all workflow materials after the program ends
Bonus: Vibe Coding with Claude Code
Bonus: Connecting Claude to Your Tools with MCP (including a live Revit MCP demo)

Details

Format: 8 weeks, one workflow per week, plus biweekly live Q&A
Start date: April 1, 2026
Enrollment: Limited to 30 participants
Investment: $497
Includes: 3 months of Claude Pro (a $60 value)

The window is open.

Most architects are still at the "I tried ChatGPT once" stage. The ones who move past that, who learn a specific tool deeply enough to build real workflows around it, are going to have an enormous advantage. Not someday. Right now.

Eight weeks. One new Claude workflow each week. Use it on real work immediately. By the end, you'll have a complete toolkit and the skills to keep building on it.

You've spent years building expertise that makes you great at what you do. Claude doesn't replace that. It multiplies it.