AI for Financial Services

Module 1: Getting Started with Claude AI

• Explain how Claude works in plain language and identify the model tiers, plans, and interface
• Understand the context window, how Claude processes information, and when to start new conversations
• Practice your first Claude conversation using a financial services–specific prompt
• Identify what Claude does well, what it doesn't, and when human judgment is essential

Module 2: Prompting Fundamentals

• Apply the five-part prompt framework: context, task, format, constraints, and examples
• Supply source material yourself rather than asking Claude to recall figures from memory
• Recognize the difference between extractive and abstractive summarization, and catch qualifier drift before it reaches a reader
• Practice with financial services scenarios: a weak prompt, a fully sourced prompt, and a constrained prompt for the same deliverable

Module 3: Working with Files & Documents

• Upload and analyze images, PDFs, spreadsheets, and documents directly in Claude
• Use Claude to extract, compare, and summarize information from uploaded files
• Work with financial services file types: portfolio reports, compliance checklists, market research PDFs, client account summaries, and regulatory filings
• Complete a hands-on document analysis exercise using provided financial services sample files

Module 4: Projects & Knowledge Bases

• Explain how Projects use custom instructions and knowledge bases to organize ongoing work
• Write effective Project instructions that encode your role, audience, format preferences, and rules
• Upload reference documents and understand how retrieval surfaces relevant material automatically
• Create a financial services Project for a client engagement or compliance review using provided sample documents and templates

Module 5: Artifacts, Skills, Memory & Usage Management

• Create reusable deliverables with Artifacts, and edit them directly or through conversation
• Build a Skill that carries your firm's writing voice, reproduced from real samples rather than described
• Author a reusable Skill that packages a recurring workflow, with its own checkpoints built in
• Configure Memory to retain key context about you and your work across conversations
• Apply usage management techniques to extend your plan value