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Claude training in NZ helps business teams practise with documents, Projects and Claude Code. thecolab.ai runs independent workshops on-site or remotely, using examples suited to your work. Team workshops start from $4,000 + GST for up to 10 people. Public sessions start from $399 + GST per person, with the schedule coming soon.

Bring an approved report, policy or customer letter. Leave with a checked draft and reusable prompts.

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Run by Adam Holt and Simon Conroy, co-founders of thecolab.ai.

How much does Claude training cost in NZ?

Team workshops start from $4,000 + GST for up to 10 people, with $200 + GST per extra person. Public sessions start from $399 + GST per person; the schedule is coming soon.

How do I choose Claude training for a NZ business?

Start with the work your staff do, their current experience and the accounts they can use. Compare course topics and outcomes, then choose on-site or remote delivery. Use cleared examples and decide who will check the work.

Where can our team get Claude training?

All regional and main-city hubs. We can also train your team remotely.

Courses
8introductory, practical, organisation, advanced, role-based
Formats
Half-day to rollouthalf-day, full day, or a series of sessions
Where
On-site or remotewe come to you, anywhere in New Zealand
Training hubs
28regional and main-city training

Independent training by thecolab.ai. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Anthropic.

Prices

Team training

From $4,000 + GST for up to 10 people

+$200 + GST per extra person. Private training for your staff, with your own work as the exercises.

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Public workshops

From $399 + GST per person

Schedule coming soon. Register interest and we email you when a day is set near you.

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Prices are in New Zealand dollars and exclude GST.

8 courses, one path

Start the online introduction at your own pace, with practice lessons and quizzes. No login needed.

Start with a hands-on session, then choose team rollout or advanced training. Every course uses your own tasks and documents.

  1. 1Introductory

    Claude foundations workshop

    A hands-on first session for the whole team: prompts with real context, Projects, files, artifacts and the habit of checking answers.

    For: Anyone who reads, writes or summarises documents at work. Office managers, advisers, analysts, coordinators and team leads. No technical background is needed.

  2. 2Practical

    Claude for everyday work: the full day

    One day on your own work: research with citations, long documents, reusable Projects, Cowork tasks and finished outputs.

    For: People who already use Claude for quick questions and want a method they can repeat for bigger pieces of work. Suits managers, analysts, advisers, project staff and anyone who produces reports.

  3. 3Organisation

    Claude team rollout

    Move from a few keen users to a whole team using Claude well: plan and seats, Projects structure, usage rules, connectors, Skills and champions.

    For: Owners, operations managers, practice managers, IT leads and whoever will look after Claude once it is in place. Champions from each team join the later sessions.

  4. 4Advanced

    Claude Code and MCP for developers

    For developers and technical leads: agentic coding with Claude Code, team settings and permissions, building an MCP server, and the Claude API.

    For: Software developers, data engineers, DevOps staff and technical leads who are comfortable with git and a terminal. Also useful for an IT lead who will set Claude Code policy for a team.

Courses for specific roles

Who's behind this

Claude Training NZ is run by thecolab.ai, the people who assist with New Zealand's Claude Community meetups. We help run the events and teach at them.

Adam Holt, co-founder of thecolab.ai

Adam Holt

Adam is a co-founder and the technical lead. He's New Zealand's first Claude Ambassador and has been building software for NZ businesses for nearly a decade: PO2Order, Rapido, PricePulse NZ. He writes the code, runs the demos and builds most of the material you'll learn from.

Simon Conroy, co-founder of thecolab.ai

Simon Conroy

Si is a co-founder and the strategy lead. He has 20+ years in data and technology strategy, with senior roles at Air New Zealand, Spark, Flight Centre and Qrious, and he's run his own analytics agency, Decisive, since 2018. He's the one who asks how it fits your business, your data and your risk settings.

The community behind us has 1,000+ members, and there have been 2,000+ registrations at the Claude Community events we help run in Auckland and Wellington. We've also spoken at Connect Waikato.

Meet the team · See thecolab.ai

What AI means for work in New Zealand

63.6% of employed New Zealanders, about 1,669,000 people, work in desk-based roles: the managers, professionals, admin and sales staff whose tasks AI assistants help with most.

That share ranges from 71.1% in Wellington to 54.2% in West Coast, and varies between towns. Regional and main-city hubs show sourced local figures and what they mean for Claude training.

An indicative measure of where AI assistance applies, not a forecast of job change.

Share of employed residents in desk-based roles, by region

Desk-based share by region, 2023 Census
RegionChartShareNZ
Wellington 71.1% 63.6%
Auckland 67.0% 63.6%
Canterbury 61.4% 63.6%
Bay of Plenty 61.3% 63.6%
Waikato 61.2% 63.6%
Nelson 60.8% 63.6%
Northland 60.4% 63.6%
Otago 59.9% 63.6%
Taranaki 59.4% 63.6%
Tasman 59.3% 63.6%
Hawke's Bay 58.7% 63.6%
Manawatū-Whanganui 58.5% 63.6%
Gisborne 56.7% 63.6%
Marlborough 56.0% 63.6%
Southland 55.6% 63.6%
West Coast 54.2% 63.6%

Desk-based roles: managers, professionals, clerical and administrative workers, and sales workers (ANZSCO major groups). These are roles where AI assistance is most applicable. This broad proxy is not measured adoption or a forecast of job change.

Source: Stats NZ, 2023 Census, usually resident employed people; ILO, Generative AI and jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposure (2025).

Every town on this site, by the share of its workers in desk-based roles.

40%50%60%70%80% New Zealand 63.6% MatauraMotuekaAucklandWellington
Desk-based: managers, professionals, clerical and sales workers, roles where AI assistance is most applicable. Broad proxy, not measured adoption. Stats NZ, 2023 Census; ILO, 2025.

Examples from your industry

Examples for each sector, its privacy and compliance requirements, and where its jobs are in New Zealand.

How we train

  • Practise on your documents

    We ask for a few real, non-sensitive examples first. People practise on the reports, policies and correspondence they write every week.

  • We say when not to use it

    Independent means we will tell you when a different tool, a template, or no AI at all is the better answer.

  • Numbers you can check

    Every figure on this site comes from Stats NZ or a cited source, with the method one click away. We do not publish testimonials we cannot show you.

Illustration generated with AI.

Which plan? Claude Team suits most small and medium teams. It has shared Projects, admin controls, and business terms that keep your data out of model training by default. Sole traders can start on Pro.

Pro or Max
Individuals and sole traders. Good for learning, but no shared admin or central billing.
Team
Most small and medium teams. Shared Projects, admin controls, and business terms under which your data is not used for model training by default.
Enterprise
Larger organisations that need SSO, audit logs, bigger context and tighter data controls.
API and Claude Code
Developers building on Claude or using Claude Code with an API key or a team plan.

Training is delivered by practitioners from thecolab.ai, New Zealand’s community of people building with AI. thecolab.ai also runs ChatGPT training and Microsoft Copilot training.

Common questions

Is this training run by Anthropic?

No. This is independent training from practitioners in the thecolab.ai community. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Anthropic.

How much does team training cost?

Team training is from $4,000 + GST for up to 10 people, then $200 + GST for each extra person. Public workshops are from $399 + GST per person. Schedule coming soon. Send an enquiry and we reply by email with a suggested course and format.

Do we need Claude accounts before the session?

It helps. Free accounts are fine for a foundations workshop. For team rollouts we will talk through whether Pro, Team or Enterprise suits you before anyone buys anything.

Is our data used to train Claude?

Under Anthropic’s commercial terms, which cover Team, Enterprise and the API, customer data is not used for model training by default. Consumer plans have their own settings. We cover how to check this, and what not to paste in, in every course.

Can non-technical staff learn Claude Code?

Claude Code is aimed at developers. Non-technical teams get more from Projects, artifacts and connectors, and those are what the foundations and rollout courses cover.

Train your team

  1. You tell us about the teamSize, where you are, the documents people work with, and what you would like to change.
  2. We suggest a course and formatBy email, with a few questions about the tasks and documents you want to train on.
  3. People practise on real workOn-site or remote. Everyone leaves with Claude set up for tasks they do every week.
  • In person
  • Remote
  • Half-day workshop
  • Full-day workshop
  • Team rollout

Independent training by thecolab.ai. Not affiliated with Anthropic.

Enquire

Tell us about your team. We reply by email with a suggested course and format.

Team workshops from $4,000 + GST for up to 10 people. +$200 + GST per extra person.

Public sessions from $399 + GST per person. Schedule coming soon.

No payment now. We reply by email with a suggested course and format.

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