AI in AEC: Extending Claude AI

Move from: "I've used a chat window" to "I run Claude as a working platform — connected to my tools, automating my routine work, and ready to grow into my BusinessOS.", 1 CPD SACAP and ECSA credit (Cat 1)

Extending Claude is where AI stops being a chat window and starts being a working platform.

In an interactive session, you move from one-off conversations into the full Claude environment: persistent context that remembers your practice, automations you build and re-use, scheduled tasks that run without you, and direct links to the tools you already work in.

By the end of the day you have a working setup, real automations you built yourself.


COURSE INFORMATION

Most AEC professionals using AI today are working in a chat window, copying and pasting between tools, re-explaining their practice every time they open a new conversation. They get useful results, but the same setup work gets redone, the same context gets re-explained, and nothing compounds.

Extending Claude is the workshop where that stops.

Across an interactive session, you will learn how to give Claude persistent context about your practice so it stops forgetting who you are between conversations, how to turn the work you repeat most often into reliable automations, how to set those automations to run on their own timetable, and how to connect Claude directly to the platforms your practice already runs on so the system reaches beyond a single chat window into the way you actually work.

This is a working session, not a lecture. 

The format is live demonstration, follow-along setup, and independent activities you build with your own practice context. You leave with a working setup, real automations you built yourself, a clearer picture of which external tools belong in your AI workflow, and the foundation for the BusinessOS you will build in Workshop 3.

Workshop 2 assumes the principles from Workshop 1: structured prompting, account-level settings, the difference between interface tiers. If you did not attend Workshop 1, the pre-work guide will get you to the same starting line.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

AEC professionals who have used Claude or another AI tool and want to move beyond basic conversation into a structured, persistent AI working environment.

ATTEND IF YOU ARE:

Roles: Practice Principals, Architects, Architectural Technologists, BIM Managers, Interior Designers, Project Managers, and anyone in a built environment practice with recurring tasks they would like to automate or platforms they would like Claude to reach into. 

NB: Workshop 1 attendance recommended; a paid Claude plan is essential.


COURSE INFO

CPD CREDITS AND CATEGORY

1 X Category 1 CPD Credit

DATE:
19 August 2026
TIME AND VENUE:
8AM-2AM @ CPD Central online
PRICING:
R1165 (Early Bird, Valid until 16 Aug)) R1465 (full Price)
CPD VALIDATION:
SACAP AND ECSA

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Meet your instructor

Senior Architectural Technologist Machiel Odendaal

PSAT · Founder, Digital Reframe 14 years across AEC practice, BIM consulting, and Digital Practice advisory in the South African built environment. Technical Manager at Modena AEC & Infrastructure, advising firms on BIM strategy, ISO 19650, and Digital Practice development. The AI in AEC series reflects how Machiel uses AI in his own consulting practice, the BusinessOS attendees build in Workshop 3 is a simplified version of the same system he runs at Digital Reframe daily.

Move beyond the chat window.

Build a working platform. Set the foundation for your Business Operating System.