AI Crash Courses · Paddock20 Academy
Google, Coursera, and LinkedIn teach you how AI works. These courses make you ship with it.
The stack
The same tools used in live client builds. One course per tool.
Who finishes with deployed software
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The Full Digest
Every live crash course plus the system modules. One payment, yours for good.
AI does not replace judgment — it multiplies it.
What separates agentic engineering from vibe coding. Three things stack up: knowing your tools, human judgment, and AI speed. And why the path matters, from Excel to certified to no-code to full-stack to agentic.
You can explain the difference between agentic engineering and vibe coding in one sentence.
Before you build anything, you have to see it clearly.
The mental model shift from operator to architect. How to read a problem, scope a system, and decide what to build before a single line of code is written.
You have scoped one real problem you have right now into a one-page system map.
Paddock20 is a studio, a school, and a signal.
How Paddock20 works: the studio side (builds), the school side (courses), and what a client relationship actually looks like. The context that makes every other course make sense.
You know which of the three doors you're walking through.
The thinking partner that lives in every browser.
ChatGPT, from basic prompts to workflows that run the business. Custom GPTs, Projects and the Canvas editor for drafts. Then operator system prompts, and jobs that run while you sleep.
One scheduled task runs overnight and lands in your inbox.
The reasoning engine behind the agentic stack.
Claude, from a first chat to writing your own system prompts. Projects hold context, and a 200K window gives you room. What to put in it, how operators should prompt, and when to use Claude over ChatGPT.
One system prompt runs a real repeating job without you in the loop.
Terminal-native agentic engineering.
Claude Code from first command to multi-file agent loops: CLAUDE.md, tool approval, memory files, slash commands, MCP server setup, and the real cost model from live Paddock Meter data.
One agent loop runs a multi-file edit and commits to GitHub without your hands on the keyboard.
Working alongside Claude, not just prompting it.
How to work with Claude, not just prompt it. Shared context, and Claude as a partner on real calls. The back and forth beats one big prompt every time, and the thread keeps its memory across sessions.
One real work decision is better because Claude was in the room.
Describe a one-pager. Get a polished artifact.
Claude Design, Anthropic's visual surface, from first brief to finished file. Feed it your brand, then shape it with inline comments. Export to PDF, PowerPoint or Canva. When a design has to become software, hand it to Claude Code.
A real client deliverable exports from Claude Design and it carries your brand without a single font decision.
The machine that builds the machine.
Replit, from first prompt to a live app. Agent 3, the plan-build-test loop, checkpoints, and how storage works. Plus what a 200-minute run actually costs. Start here if you have never opened a terminal.
Your app loads on someone else's phone.
Screens you'd pay a designer for.
v0, from first prompt to a page that is live. One screen per message, paste your brand in, then refine by pointing at it. GitHub stays in sync. You watch a portal page ship in 2:45, backed by over four thousand logged prompts.
The portal URL is live and saved on your phone's home screen.
Where the build becomes a URL.
Vercel, from a first deploy to your own domain. Connect GitHub, get preview URLs, set env vars, and roll back in one click. Then cron jobs, Web Analytics, and Edge Functions that run at the CDN. 1,870 deploys and counting.
Your own domain loads the build.
Serverless Postgres that scales to zero and back.
Neon, from a new project to queries in production. Branching, pooled connections, Drizzle and migrations. The Neon MCP lets you change schema inside v0, and autoscale keeps the bill flat.
A query runs from production and the branch model is set up.
Your app's memory.
Supabase, from your first table to real logins. The Table Editor is a spreadsheet you own. Then Row Level Security, live subscriptions and file storage, proved out over 262,000 API requests.
A test submission shows up in the Table Editor.
The email that sends.
Resend, from verifying a domain to mail that actually lands. You cover event-driven templates, plain-text twins, delivery webhooks and React Email components. Six sending domains are already verified across Paddock20.
The confirmation lands in your inbox and the dashboard says delivered.
Production-quality AI voice in six lessons.
ElevenLabs, from cloning a voice to putting it on a phone line. Voice design, latency tuning and the Retell AI hookup. It is the same stack behind Amy on (615) 551-3500.
A caller hears the voice and cannot tell it isn't human.
46 tools wired to each other in an afternoon.
Composio, from one connector to an agent that uses many tools. It handles auth, chains actions and speaks MCP. The Paddock20 stack ties Claude, n8n and Cal.com together.
One action fires across two tools without manual handoff.
Workflow automation that actually ships.
n8n, from your own install to workflows that run the business. Nodes, HTTP calls, webhooks and error branches. The Composio library wires up 46 tools without code.
One workflow runs on a schedule and the log is clean.
Booking infrastructure for serious operators.
Cal.com, from setup to booking driven by API. Event types, routing forms, round-robin teams and webhooks. Wired to Amy, it books straight off an inbound call.
A booking fires through the API and lands in the calendar.
Fast images for production apps.
Cloudflare Images, from upload to fast delivery on any screen. Variants, transforms, signed URLs and R2 storage. The same setup absorbed 3.8M requests without one hitting the origin.
An image loads from the CDN on a real domain with a real variant applied.
Video delivery without the infrastructure tax.
Cloudflare Stream from upload to embedded playback: adaptive bitrate, signed URLs, webhooks on upload completion, and the embed pattern that puts course video inside a Next.js LMS without a CDN bill.
A video plays on a real URL, gated behind a signed token.
Design at operator speed.
Canva, from a blank page to a brand system. The Brand Kit, Magic Design and AI images. Then bulk-create for client reports, and a template library that keeps every output on brand.
A real client deliverable comes out of Canva in under fifteen minutes.
Why proof beats a pitch.
The Replit badge comes from shipped work, not a test. It reads what you built and deployed. Level 4 Advanced Builder, 19 skills, earned by an operator doing exactly what this weekend teaches.
Your cert profile is open and two target capabilities are written in this margin.
From 38 to 72 in a real case study.
The whole Paddock20 SEO pipeline. DataForSEO feeds it, keywords get clustered, and the results live in a Neon warehouse. The brief system behind it moved paddock20.com from position 38 to 72 in 90 days.
Your keyword warehouse is seeded and the first position report lands in your inbox.
The integration layer every agentic stack needs.
MCP servers, browser extensions and API connectors. These are the tools that turn Claude Code into a full-stack operator, not just a thing that writes code.
One MCP server runs inside Claude Code on a real task.
Every call ends booked or captured.
How Amy is built, all of it. A 10-node Retell AI flow runs the call, ElevenLabs gives her a voice, and Claude Sonnet does the thinking. Cal.com takes the booking and Neon logs the call. It is the stack answering (615) 551-3500.
A test call reaches the agent, gets routed, and books a slot.
Three questions. One AI blueprint. Real pipeline.
The whole RAIL gateway, end to end. It reads intent and routes three ways: Design, Diagnose or Explore. Then it makes the mockup, mails a blueprint with a PDF, and opens the design in a magic-link viewer.
An intake completes and the blueprint lands in the prospect's inbox.
The part where you get paid.
Stripe, from a Payment Link in two minutes to live subscription webhooks. Deposits, invoices, Checkout Sessions, the signature check and idempotency keys. All of it proved out on 118 real payments.
A test payment clears and the branded receipt sends.
Build it, then get paid monthly.
How to turn a build into a retainer. Real numbers from a real deal, the wedge-not-platform strategy, and the pitch skeleton. Plus the monthly report that renews the work, and ten moves from first chat to a recurring invoice.
Three names in this margin, and the pitch skeleton filled in for the warmest one.
Ship software that does not leak.
The three security controls that look like polish: CSP headers, RLS policies, and signed tokens. Plus: input validation, rate limiting, and the Cloudflare rules that shielded 3.8M requests.
RLS is on, one CSP header is live, and no keys are in the repo.
A tool that moved $125M+/mo, built live.
The whole Lot Assistant build. It priced and tracked stock for a leading exotic and luxury dealership. The calls that shaped it, the edge cases, and what it took to be ready for a paying client.
You can explain the architecture in one paragraph and defend every decision.
From idea to live product in the exotic car market.
The whole SupercarIQ build, start to finish. How data comes in, how pricing works, and how the screens are put together. Plus the SEO that pulls traffic in a market where buyers are ready.
The live product is open in a tab and you can explain how it makes money.
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