# AI for Financial Services Canonical URL: ## Overview Learn practical ways to incorporate Claude into financial services work while maintaining appropriate human review and verification. This course covers prompting, file analysis, client communications, portfolio commentary, compliance documentation, market research, and internal process documentation using realistic financial services scenarios. You’ll create a customized workflow with Claude Projects, Skills, Memory, integrations, and recurring Scheduled Tasks. Hands-on exercises culminate in a complete client service workflow that combines portfolio review, market commentary, compliance updates, and meeting preparation. ## What you'll learn - Construct structured prompts that yield accurate, consistent results for writing, analysis, summarization, and research - Configure Projects, Artifacts, Skills, and Memory to develop a Claude workflow tailored to how you operate, including a Skill that carries your firm's voice and a packaged, repeatable workflow - Master advanced prompting techniques including role-based prompting, chain-of-thought reasoning, and the You Ask Me method - Integrate Claude with the workplace tools you rely on most, including Google Drive, Gmail, Excel, and PowerPoint, and automate recurring work such as regulatory watch with Scheduled Tasks - Apply Claude across essential financial services workflows, from client communications and portfolio narratives to compliance documentation, market research, and internal process documentation - Build a complete financial services Claude system and finish the course with a capstone client service package that's polished and ready for professional review ## Curriculum #### 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 #### Module 6: Introduction to Claude Cowork - Explain what Cowork is and how it differs from the claude.ai chat interface - Read, write, and manage files from your desktop environment - Configure guardrails, file permissions, and network settings for safe use - Understand prompt injection risks and how to protect against them #### Module 7: Advanced Prompting & AI Tool Selection - Use role-based prompting, chain-of-thought reasoning, and multi-step workflows - Apply web search and the You Ask Me technique to complex, ambiguous tasks - Evaluate any AI tool for regulated work on a three-axis test: cost including verification, confidentiality, and audit trail - Practice advanced prompting with financial services scenarios: analyzing a portfolio allocation for a client review, building a compliance audit response step by step, and preparing a quarterly market commentary #### Module 8: Context System, Connectors & Integrations - Build foundational context files and set Global Instructions that apply to every Cowork session - Connect Claude to Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, and other workplace tools, and assess what each connection actually grants - Use Claude natively in Excel and PowerPoint with the Office add-ins - Set up Scheduled Tasks for recurring work such as regulatory watch and periodic reporting, and apply the test for what may run unattended and what may not - Configure your context system and connections for financial services workflows, including portfolio analysis in Excel and client presentations in PowerPoint #### Module 9: Core Financial Services Workflows - Draft client communications, review letters and quarterly updates, in the order that keeps a fabricated figure structurally impossible - Produce portfolio analysis narratives and performance commentary that express a conclusion you supplied, reproduced in your firm's voice - Build compliance documentation and audit-preparation materials that state evidentiary gaps plainly instead of writing around them - Summarize market research and economic commentary from multiple sources while preserving attribution and disagreement - Document an internal process as it is actually performed, including the workarounds a designed process leaves out - Complete a hands-on lab producing a client letter, performance commentary, and a research synthesis from the same verified figures #### Module 10: Capstone — Build Your Financial Services Claude System - Audit your financial services tasks and identify the highest-value opportunities for Claude assistance - Assemble a personalized financial services Claude system: a Project, context files, a Skill that carries your voice, a packaged reusable Skill, and a scheduled recurring task - Run a complete end-to-end client service workflow: portfolio review letter, market commentary summary, compliance documentation update, and client meeting preparation brief - Create a Week 1 action plan for applying what you've learned to your financial services role ## FAQ ### Who is the target audience for this course? Financial Advisors, Financial Analysts, and Portfolio Managers make up the core audience here. The course also serves Compliance Officers, wealth management professionals, and financial operations staff. No AI knowledge is required to get started, but you will need experience in financial services. ### Is this course open to beginners? Yes, this course is open to beginners. Students must be comfortable using a computer. No other prior knowledge is required. ### Do you offer payment plans or student financing for this course? This course does not qualify for payment plans or student financing. See our Payment Plan FAQ to find related programs that qualify. ### Can I take this course online (remote learning)? No upcoming live online dates are currently available. Please contact us about future availability. ### What happens if I need to miss a session? You have some options: You can watch a recording of the session. We will provide any course materials. Contact us to confirm whether remote attendance is available for your session. You can use your free retake to make up any missed class time. ### What’s included with my tuition? A hands-on learning experience working on projects and exercises, which is proven to boost comprehension, retention, and engagement Expert instructors who are industry professionals and experienced educators that are driven to help you succeed Comprehensive learning materials including proprietary workbook developed by industry experts A 1-year free retake policy which allows students to retake any part of the course or program for free to refresh the materials and gain additional practice A certificate of completion to verify your accomplishment The prestige of completing an accredited program recognized in the industry ### Are there any additional fees or expenses? There are no extra fees or taxes for our courses. The price you see on this page is the maximum you’ll pay us. ### Do you offer any discounts for this course? We don’t currently offer discounts as we do our best to affordably price our courses. ## Pricing **Tuition:** $899