You do not need to learn to code to get real work off your plate. You need to describe the job clearly, look at what comes back, and approve it. That is the whole method in this book, and you will use it to ship your first working automation with Claude Code in under 20 minutes.
Written for people who have never opened a terminal: project managers, analysts, founders, support leads, anyone with a repetitive task and no programming background. Every chapter follows Dana, a project manager at a small agency, as she turns her Friday spreadsheet-to-report routine into something that runs on request.
Inside: your first 20 minutes, from a blank prompt to a finished document; talking to Claude Code without writing code (ask, review, approve); connecting it to your files and tools safely, with the confidentiality rules that matter; hooks, sub-agents and skills explained in plain terms; guardrails to stay in control before anything touches your files; a reusable skill your team can run; planning mode; a lab chapter on how this very book was produced and checked; and a 7-day plan to keep your automation running after the first success.
No invented statistics, no hype: every figure comes from the tool's own documentation, and the numbers in the title are the ones measured in the book. Ship It With AI, book 1.
This book was written with AI assistance and reviewed before publication. Claude and Claude Code are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC; this book is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.