Claude Academy is free.And it's genuinely good.
Claude Academy — formerly Anthropic Academy — has 27 free courses and hundreds of tutorials, use cases and live webinars on Claude, Claude Code, MCP and AI fluency, built by the people who made the tools. This page is about where Skilled Rabbit is different.
We'll be straightforward: Claude Academy is genuinely good. It's free, it's accurate, and it's built by the people who made Claude. If you like to pick a topic and learn how something works, it's a great place to look.
But you don't have to start there. The fastest way to learn Claude is to use it on real work — and that's what this is. Skilled Rabbit teaches you Claude by doing, with Finney coaching every step, even if today you've only ever used ChatGPT.
Apply for the betaClaude Academy — Anthropic's free learning hub, formerly Anthropic Academy — is the best library there is for learning how Claude works, with courses, tutorials and short use cases for your role. Skilled Rabbit is different: one coached path, Finney inside your own Claude, checkpoints verified on your real work, and Proof of Work to show at the end.
Free. Official. Built by the people who made the tools.
It's free. No subscription, no credit card. 27 courses and hundreds of tutorials, use cases and webinars — covering Claude, Claude Code, MCP, agents and AI fluency. That's a remarkable amount of value at zero cost.
Anthropic knows Claude better than anyone. When the course teaches you how prompt caching works, or how MCP authentication is structured, or what subagents can and can't do — that knowledge comes from the engineers who built it. The accuracy and depth on the technical side is hard to match.
There's a recipe for your role. Pick your role — marketing, HR, finance, sales, legal and more — and you'll find short, ready-to-run use cases: build a campaign brief, analyse a pipeline, draft a policy. Ten to twenty minutes each, straight from the source.
The MCP courses are directly relevant. Claude Code in action, Introduction to MCP, MCP: Advanced topics — these are the exact tools that power the Finney integration in Skilled Rabbit. If you ever want to see how that connection works under the hood, they're a great free reference.
A library of recipesis not the same as a coached path.
Claude Academy is a library — an excellent, growing one. You choose the topic, you choose the recipe, you decide what to try on your own work. That works beautifully when you already know what you need.
What a library can't do is notice where you get stuck, pick the next step for you, or check that you actually did it on your own work. Trying ten recipes is not the same as changing how you work — that only comes from doing, week after week, with someone watching the line.
That's exactly what Skilled Rabbit adds. Finney connects to your own Claude via MCP and is present during the actual work. Every checkpoint is completed in your real work and verified. By the end, you don't just know the recipes — you have Proof of Work: a prompt library, a set of workflows, or a product you built.
Think of it this way: Claude Academy gives you the recipe. Finney cooks it with you.
They're not competing.They work together.
You don't have to choose between them — and you don't have to finish one before the other.
Claude Academy is a genuinely good, free library for how Claude works and what it can do in your role. Dip into it whenever you want to go deeper.
Skilled Rabbit is where you put them to work — coached by Finney, building real output in your role from week one. You can start here today, with Claude Academy alongside you whenever you want it.
Claude Academy answers "what can this do?" Skilled Rabbit answers "what can I build with it, in my role, starting this week?"
What you're comparing.
| Claude Academy | Skilled Rabbit | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free during the beta |
| Made by | Anthropic (Claude's creators) | Independent — built by practitioners |
| Format | Courses, tutorials, use cases, live webinars | One coached path of weekly missions |
| Role-specific | Short use cases per role (10–20 min) | A full path in your role, week by week |
| Coaching | Live group webinars — no personal coach | Finney — personal AI coach inside your Claude via MCP |
| Personalisation | You choose what to take | Adapts to your role, goals and progress |
| Progress check | Quizzes | Checkpoints verified on your real work |
| Output | Knowledge of how Claude works | Proof of Work — a working prompt system, workflow, or product |
| Best for | Learning what Claude can do, one topic at a time | Changing how you work with Claude, for good |
Never opened Claude before?That's exactly who this is for.
You don't need to study Claude before you start. If you can use ChatGPT, you already have the instinct — Skilled Rabbit is where you turn it into a Claude skill by using it on your own work, not by watching someone else use it.
Finney is in the session with you from the first mission, so you're never staring at a blank screen wondering what to type. You learn Claude the way any skill actually sticks: by doing it, with someone pointing the way when you get stuck.
The first checkpoint has you build something real — not understand how building works. By the end of week one you'll have used Claude on your actual work, coached the whole way.
When each one is right.
Claude Academy is the right fit if:
- You want to understand the fundamentals of AI and Claude at your own pace
- You know which task you want help with and want a quick, ready-made recipe
- You're a developer who needs to understand MCP or the Claude API before implementing it
- Your goal is to learn what Claude can do, one topic at a time
Skilled Rabbit is the right fit if:
- You've heard Claude is powerful and want to actually use it on your own work — even if you've never opened it
- You'd rather learn by building something real than by watching another course
- You want your AI use to compound over time, not just improve incrementally
- You want something to show at the end of twelve weeks: a working system, not a certificate
The recipe is free.Finney cooks it with you.
Claude Academy gives you the recipe — free, anytime. Skilled Rabbit is where you cook it: coached by Finney, in your role, from the first week. Free during the beta. No credit card.