What you get
Deep concept teaching, live walkthroughs, real production scenarios, weekly hands-on builds, 3–4 full mock exams, and a self-evaluation practice tool with feedback.
Now Enrolling · Starts 10 August
Claude Partner
Claude Certified Architect — Foundations
An 8-week, hands-on live program. You don't just study for the exam — you learn to build with Claude, for real.
8 weeks · live
1 hr live + 1 hr practice daily
Certified via Growwstacks
Starts 10 August
The honest hook
Why most people struggle with this certification
When we sat the Claude Certified Architect exam ourselves, one thing became clear: this isn't something you can pass by reading. It's an architecture certification — and architecture isn't a theory subject. You understand it only once you've built things, broken them, and fixed them with your own hands.
Talking to people preparing for it, we kept seeing the same pattern: smart, capable professionals struggling — not because the material is beyond them, but because the approach is wrong. Watching tutorials, memorising concepts, never actually building. This program is built to fix exactly that.
What this program is
What you get
Honest framing
This is a teaching and orientation program. The certification is your own effort and a separate Anthropic exam — we prepare you thoroughly, but we don't guarantee a pass. We help you earn it.
Beyond the exam
The skills are industry-ready regardless of exam outcome. Qualifying participants can associate with Growwstacks as a Claude partner and take on real projects under our umbrella.
What we ask of you
What we ask of you: real commitment
Architecture cannot be learned from theory alone — it's learning by building, so each day has two halves. You join one hour of live class with Manish, then put in one hour of your own hands-on practice that same day, implementing what was just taught: writing small tools yourself, running them, breaking them, and fixing them. That cadence holds Monday to Saturday, for eight weeks — 1 hour live + 1 hour self-practice, every day. Watching the live sessions isn't enough; the real learning happens in your practice hour, in your own hands. Come in with that focus and consistency — it's what turns these concepts into real, demonstrable skill.
Eight weeks, sequenced
The 8-week curriculum
Sequenced by exam weight and hands-on dependency — not the usual "theory first." Every week's assignment is a stripped-down version of a real exam scenario.
| Week | Focus | Exam domain |
|---|---|---|
| Week 0 — Pre-start | Setup & Onboarding.Install Claude Code, get comfortable in the terminal, run your first script, understand "what is an API call." Environment check so Week 1 runs clean. | Foundations |
| Week 1 | Ground floor & first wins.How Claude works, the request/response model, your first real interactions. Everybody ships something small. | Foundations |
| Week 2 | Prompt Engineering & Structured Output.Few-shot, prompt chaining, JSON schemas, tool use for structured data — and where schemas help vs. where they don't. | ~20% |
| Weeks 3–4 | Agentic Architecture & Orchestration.The agentic loop, stop reasons, agents vs. workflows, orchestrator–subagent design, escalation & human-in-the-loop. The largest, highest-weighted domain — two full weeks of reps. | ~27% (largest) |
| Week 5 | Claude Code Configuration & Workflows.CLAUDE.md hierarchy, custom commands, skills, subagents, hooks, the SDK, and CI/CD non-interactive mode. | ~20% |
| Week 6 | Tool Design & MCP Integration.Building and consuming MCP servers, effective tool design vs. the anti-patterns the exam tests. | Core |
| Week 7 | Context Management & Reliability + Integration.Context windows, summarization, scratchpad, RAG — then tying all five domains together. | Core |
| Week 8 | Exam Preparation.Timed mock exams, scenario drills, and weak-area remediation before you sit the real thing. | All five |
The real exam is six recurring scenarios. Across the program you build a small version of every one — so by Week 8 you've practised the exact situations the exam puts in front of you.
No surprises
The investment
Program fee
₹34,900 / $390
Same program fee, shown in your currency — ₹34,900 (India) · $390 (international).
8 weeks · ~48 live sessions · pods, mocks, practice tool & portfolio build — all included.
Official exam — partner price
$125$125
We are checking for group discount off on Anthropic exam fee. You pay the exam fee separately — directly to Anthropic, through the Growwstacks partner channel.
Program fee and exam fee are separate. The discounted exam rate is a Growwstacks partner benefit; access is arranged through our portal.
Who's teaching
Your instructor
Manish Mandot
Founder & CEO, Growwstacks · Claude Certified Architect
Manish has taught 25,000+ learners across Outskill and other platforms, including multiple AI Generalist cohorts. He leads Growwstacks — a Claude Partner Network member and Make.com Platinum Partner with 2,000+ automation projects delivered across the US, EU and Australia. He has personally sat the Claude Certified Architect exam, and brings real production systems — not slideware — into every session.
Ready to join the cohort?
Seats are limited to keep pods small and support strong. Starts 10 August.