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Anthropic Claude Certified

Empowering Leaders to
Win the AI Era.

I'm Vaishali Shah — a 7-figure CEO, tech educator for over eight years, owner of multiple businesses, and one of only a few hundred people globally certified in AI Agent Mastermind. With multiple Claude certifications, I teach and implement Agentic AI for the operators, founders, and small businesses ready to lead in the AI era.

Multi-Certified by Anthropic · Claude ★ 1 of ~Few Hundred Globally · AI Agent Mastermind 40 Under 40 · Hartford Business Journal
2026
AI Agent Mastermind
15+
Years in Leadership
7-Figure
CEO
400+
Hired
4X
Scaled
Vaishali Shah — AI Agent Mastermind Certified, Founder theCoderSchool CT
Vaishali Shah with Dr. Neeta Bhushan on The Brave Table — AI saved me 20 hoursWatch the 40-sec clip
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The Brave Table with Dr. Neeta Bhushan

7-Figure CEO & AI Educator

Vaishali sits down with Dr. Neeta Bhushan to talk about the road from healthcare to a 7-figure business — and how operators, small-business owners, and parents can build their AI advantage without a tech background. Agents, automation, and how to get 20+ hours a week back.

Episode released August 17, 2026 · The Brave Table · 38 min

Multi-certified by Anthropic in Claude — the same AI Vaishali runs her businesses on, every day. Not theory. The operator's playbook.See the credentials →

October 15 Thursday 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET Live on Zoom
One-Day Live Workshop · For Adults

Build Your First AI Agent

A hands-on Claude workshop. No tech background needed.

Designed for anyone who has never built an AI agent. We start at the very beginning, and by the end you'll have built your first one, for your work or your home. No tech jargon, just practical steps you can use right away.

  • Build along with me, live
  • Live troubleshooting if you get stuck
  • The full recording to rewatch
  • All slides to keep as a guide
What you'll need: a laptop or desktop (not a phone), the free Claude desktop app, and a Claude Pro plan. I'll send easy setup steps after you register.
Vaishali Shah
Vaishali Shah · Founder & Agentic AI Educator

About Vaishali

She's automated 40% of her tasks to AI and can show you the way.

In 2017, a single Google search my husband made in hopes of looking for STEM activities for my son, sparked the beginning of my entrepreneurial journey. At the time, I wasn't an entrepreneur—I had spent 12 years building a career in healthcare, working in clinical, management, and teaching roles. Like many people, I went to school expecting to work a traditional 9–5 career. But deep down, I knew I wanted more.

With no partners, no investors, and no financial backing from friends or family, I made the decision to go all in. I took a significant leap by investing our own savings and betting on myself and my family.

With no MBA, no marketing background, no technology background, and no business blueprint—just determination, resilience, and a willingness to figure things out—I built a 7-figure technology education business: four theCoderSchool locations across Connecticut, hiring 400+ people along the way.

What began as a leap into the unknown became a mission to help prepare the next generation for the future of technology. Along the way, I was recognized as a 40 Under 40 honoree by Hartford Business Journal.

Now I'm writing the next chapter. I'm AI Agent Mastermind certified — one of only a few hundred people worldwide with this credential — plus multiple Anthropic certifications.

I teach and implement Agentic AI for the operators who built businesses the hard way. Because the people who already know how revenue, ops, and teams actually work are the right ones to lead the AI era — not watch it pass them by.

The biggest lesson I've learned is this: leadership isn't about the titles on your wall — it's about the resilience you build along the way. The same is true for AI. It isn't about which model you can name. It's about whether you can put it to work in your real business.

If you're ready to lead in the AI era, let's get started.

Anthropic · Claude

Multi-Certified in Claude

A growing stack of certifications — kept current because the AI playbook keeps evolving, and the work Vaishali brings into your business has to evolve with it.

AI Fluency for Small Businesses · Certified

Anthropic Education

Anthropic's certification in AI fluency for small-business owners — Vaishali's exact audience. She's not learning alongside you; she's already credentialed in the playbook she'll teach and build for your business.

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Claude 101 · Certified

Anthropic

Anthropic's foundational certification on building with Claude — the AI model powering Vaishali's day-to-day automation work. Continuous learning, current credentials.

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Claude Cowork · Certified

Anthropic Education

Anthropic's certification on Claude Cowork — the agentic AI platform Vaishali uses to run her own day-to-day operations. Built and shipped, not just studied.

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Claude Code 101 · Certified

Anthropic Education

Anthropic's certification on Claude Code — Anthropic's agentic developer tool. Rounds out Vaishali's command of the full Claude stack: chat, small business, agentic platform, and code.

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AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations · Certified

Anthropic Education

Anthropic's foundational AI Fluency course — the 4D framework (Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence) Vaishali uses as the conceptual spine of every class she teaches.

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Recognition

Awards

Recognition for the journey — the businesses built, the people served, and the doors that opened along the way.

40 Under Forty

Hartford Business Journal

Recognizing Connecticut's top leaders under 40 making a significant impact in business and their communities.

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Women of Innovation

Good Morning Connecticut · WTNH

Featured live discussing the importance of women in STEM as a Women of Innovation Award finalist.

Watch the interview →

Coding for Good

WNPR · Connecticut Public Radio

Featured on "Where We Live" discussing introducing Connecticut children to computer science.

Listen to the interview →
The Operator's Edge

You can't automate a process you don't understand.

Most AI implementations fail because nobody mapped the work first. Vaishali spent a decade building processes that have been proven to work and actually scale. That's the prerequisite to making agentic AI actually land in your business.

Built & Live · Proof

Vaishali's Digital Workforce.

CEO · Chief of Staff · Advisor · Six Directors · Seventeen Specialists

Vaishali
CEO
Summer
Chief of Staff · Opus
chief-of-staff
Rose
Memory Curator · Advisory
consolidate-memory
Allie
Daily TCS Ops
Sonnet
Aurora
Full sunrise schedule email
morning-tcs-schedule-check
Lark
Flags-only quick check
tcsmorningschedule
Malachite
People & Payroll
Sonnet
Scout
Candidate screening
hiring-agent
Penny
Biweekly Pike13 hours
run-payroll
Quartz
All-staff team emails
team-email
Atlas
Performance & Goals
Sonnet
Compass
Monday weekly KPIs
kpi
North
Manager accountability
goals
Citrine
Marketing & Growth
Sonnet
Beacon
Paid ads playbook
google-business-ads
Sunny
Daily GBP posts
google-business-post
Stella
5-star review graphics
coderschool-review-graphic
Spark
Per-lead parent SMS
texting
Sapphire
Finance & Bills
Sonnet
Ledger
Monthly bill tracker
bills
Onyx
Public Brand & Audience
Sonnet
Velvet
Burgundy/Sapphire branded decks
vs-branded-pptx
Slate
vaishalipshah.com operator
vaishalipshah-website
Glow
SEO YouTube descriptions
vaishalipshah-youtube
Prism
Branded Instagram reels
video-editing
Fire
AI business strategy
ai-business

A digital workforce is how you scale — and how you get your time back.

The point isn't to automate everything. It's to clear the recurring work off your calendar so you can spend it on the high-end, visionary thinking only you can do. The goal is to take the AI agents that are built and create an operating system for only your business.

1 CEO · 1 Chief of Staff · 1 Advisor · 6 Directors · 17 Specialist Skills · 26 Total Agents

No Code · No CS Degree

Anyone can build AI agents.

You don't need to be an engineer or a software developer.

I'm not one either. I spent 12 years in healthcare, then built four schools and hired 400+ people — and I learned to build agents the same way you will: by starting with the work I already understood.

If you can describe how your business runs, you can build an agent to run part of it. Plain language, your own accounts, no code. The hard part was never the technology — it's knowing which work is worth handing off.

Vaishali Shah on The Brave Table podcast — “You can make AI agents”
How I Teach

Why my teaching is different.

You don't just watch me build. We build it together.

Most AI classes

An hour of lectures. Then you're on your own.

You sit through slides, take notes, and go home to figure it out by yourself. Most people never do.

Working with me

The basics that matter. Then we build it together.

I spend about 20 minutes on the essentials, then we build side by side, on your real work, for the rest of the session. You leave with something that already works.

What a session with me looks like
~20 minutesThe most important basics
The rest of the hourHands-on: we build it together, live
Let's build yours together →
Partner Sessions

Bring a friend. Learn together.

AI is easier with someone in your corner. Bring a fellow business owner, a partner, or someone on your team. You'll share one session at one price and build side by side. You'll both leave with something that already works, and someone to keep you going after.

Two of you.
One session. One price.
Hands-on, built around both of your businesses.
Ask about partner sessions →
Work With Me

Ways to Bring AI Into Your Business

Whether you want to build it with me one-on-one, have it done for you, or bring me in to speak — there’s a path that fits how you work.

Build-With-Me Coaching

1:1 · Ongoing monthly · Pricing on request

We build your agents together, on your real business, until you can do it yourself. An ongoing monthly partnership — continue as long as it’s valuable, cancel anytime.

  • Two live 1:1 working sessions every month
  • Async help between sessions so you’re never stuck
  • Built on your own Claude — you own everything
  • Safe setup: connectors and guardrails done right
  • Month-to-month — cancel anytime
Most hands-onAsk about pricing →

Done-For-You Agent Builds

Built for you · Pricing on request

Don’t want to learn it? I build the agent for you, on your accounts, and hand it over running. You never touch the technical side.

  • I build and test the full agent
  • Runs on your accounts — I never hold your passwords
  • 30 days of fine-tuning included
  • Short walkthrough so your team can run it
Fully done for youAsk about pricing →

Speaking & Workshops

Keynotes · Panels · Half-Day Workshops

For conferences, corporate L&D, leadership academies, and founder communities. Vaishali brings the operator’s perspective on AI — pragmatic, energizing, and grounded in real businesses.

  • “Lead the AI Era” keynote
  • “AI for Operators” workshop
  • “The Operator’s Path to AI” panel
  • Custom topics for your audience
  • Virtual or in-person
Book Vaishali to Speak
The Payoff

What Could AI Give Back to Your Business?

Most teams lose hours every week to repetitive, automatable work — inbox triage, scheduling, follow-ups, data entry, reporting. Move the sliders to your reality and see what an AI agent could hand back to you.

Email, scheduling, follow-ups, reports, data entry — the work a human doesn't need to do.
Roughly what an hour of that person's time costs you, all-in.
A realistic range for well-scoped agents is 50–80%. Start conservative.
$20,280
Estimated value reclaimed per year
Hours reclaimed per week9.8 hrs
Hours reclaimed per year507 hrs
Full-time weeks given back12.7 wks

This is a planning estimate based on the numbers you enter, not a guarantee. On a discovery call we map your actual workflows, pick the highest-leverage agent first, and scope what's realistically automatable in your business.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★   Testimonials

What People Who've Built With Vaishali Say

Real words from people who've worked alongside Vaishali — building businesses, leading teams, and trusting her judgment in the room.

★ 1:1 COACHING
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Working with Vaishali has been incredibly valuable. As a fellow business owner, she understands the operational challenges I face and has shown me practical ways to use AI and automation to save time and run my businesses more efficiently. I’m already implementing what I’ve learned and am excited to keep building. I highly recommend working with her if you want practical, real-world guidance on using AI in your business.
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Dipali
1:1 Coaching
★ COHORT 1
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I joined Vaishali's AI Accelerator with an eye toward figuring out how to let the robots handle some of our lower level admin work, but she opened my eyes to not only how much more powerful and productive Claude can be, but also how to approach it in an organized way so we're getting the best out of it (and not just getting distracted by it). Today, only a few weeks in, I've built an incredibly impactful customer-facing AI Coach with 15 skills based on our proprietary methods, an internal AI assistant for our team with 20+ skills, and feedback loops to keep them getting better all the time with minimal lift from me. Vaishali's approach is empowering and eye-opening, without being overwhelming. Highly recommend.
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Whitney
AI Accelerator · Cohort 1
★ COHORT 1
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Vaishali made Claude make sense. She taught me how to build agents and how to fix them when they break, which is the part nobody else bothers to teach. Then she showed me how to build an entire AI workforce and completely changed how I think about my own capacity. Multiple moments genuinely blew my mind. Great for total beginners, and still great if you’ve already been playing with AI for a while. She meets you where you are and takes you further than you expected.
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Assia
AI Accelerator · Cohort 1
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Vaishali mentored me from coach to coordinator to manager in just four years, and I would not be where I am without her. Recently she trained me to use AI, specifically Claude, to automate my tasks, and it has saved me so much time. She understands how a process works and exactly which tools reach the goal, and she knows how to make AI useful in your day to day. The impact she's had on my career, and my confidence with AI, is hard to overstate.
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Kyra
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
What makes Vaishali different is that she has lived the journey she teaches. I've worked for her for four years at theCoderSchool CT, and I've seen firsthand how she leads and builds. She was the person who introduced me to how useful AI can be in my daily work. Before, AI felt abstract and pretty intimidating; Vaishali made it practical. She showed me how the right tools and agents can save time, simplify repetitive tasks, and help you work with more clarity and confidence. Her guidance comes from real-world experience, and that makes it easy to trust her.
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Eddie
FAQ

Questions? We've Got Answers.

Is there a free trial or introductory session?
I offer a 30-minute discovery call at no charge. This is to determine if the cohort, an implementation engagement, or a speaking opportunity is the best fit — and it's where the conversation can start. What are your three top tasks that you would like automated to AI?
Can you bring this work to my company or community?
Yes. I run private versions of the Agentic AI cohort for executive teams, leadership academies, and founder communities. I also speak at conferences and corporate L&D events on AI for operators. Let's connect and we'll scope it.
Do I need a tech background to work with you?
No. Everything I teach is built for non-technical operators — no coding required. We work in plain language, step by step, on your real business.
Can you just build an agent for me instead of teaching me?
Absolutely. That's the Done-For-You option — I build the agent on your own accounts and hand it over running. You never touch the technical side, and I never hold your passwords. Pricing depends on scope, so let's connect and I'll walk you through it.
Can you help me set up Claude for my small business?
Yes. I'm multi-certified by Anthropic in Claude, and I run my own businesses on it every day. We'll set Claude up around your real work (email, scheduling, reports, the tasks that eat up your week) and build it together, so you know exactly how it works when we're done.
Is this a lecture or hands-on?
Hands-on. I spend about 20 minutes on the most important basics, then we build together, live, for the rest of the session. You leave with something that already works, not a page of notes to figure out on your own.
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