Build AI employees.
Hand off the busywork.

Bring the work that keeps landing on your plate. In Handoff’s 90-day Academy, we’ll guide you as you build AI employees for admin, marketing, content, sales and research. With clear lessons, ready-made templates and Mai, your AI tutor, you’ll have help along the way. Nothing sends without you.

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Inside Handoff Academy.
One job at a time.

Handoff is a 90-day online Academy for business owners and the people who keep their businesses running. You’ll learn by working on your own business, with templates to build from and Mai, your AI tutor, to help when questions come up. We’ll walk you through building your everyday AI assistant in Claude, called your Chief of Staff in the Academy. From there, you can add specialists for sales follow-ups, marketing content or research. Start where you are. The lessons guide you through each stage.

Built in ClaudeNo coding, nothing to installBuilt around your business

A clear path to your first AI employee.

Bring a task from your business and follow the lessons at your own pace. We’ll show you how to build your everyday assistant in Claude and add sales, marketing or research specialists as you need them. Mai is there for questions along the way.

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not included

1 of 5 · Self-Paced Curriculum
Your business, your starting point.

Start with the work
you keep doing yourself.

A content idea, a sales follow-up, the notes you keep meaning to organize: you probably have a starting point already. We’ll help you turn it into a job for your AI team. You’ll learn how to teach your everyday assistant about your business, then add a specialist when you’re ready for more focused help.

Your business. Your real work. Guidance as you build.

Set up→

Give your AI employees the details they need.

You know your business. We’ll show you how to put that knowledge into your business brain: saved details about your offers, customers and ways of working. The template gives you a place to start, and Mai can help explain a step.

Connect→

See what needs your attention.

Follow the lessons to connect Gmail and Google Calendar, or Outlook through Microsoft 365. Your everyday assistant brings messages, appointments and open tasks into a brief you can review. You’ll also learn to prepare customer reply drafts using your saved business details.

Hand off→

Build the help your business needs.

Learn to turn work you repeat into steps your assistant can follow. When you want more focused help, the lessons show you how to add a sales follow-up, marketing or research assistant. Review the week together and choose what to improve next.

BUILD.SHARE.BREATHE.

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A BUSINESS TO RUN. PEOPLE TO ASK.

You don’t have to
figure it all out alone.

Sometimes you need to show someone what you’re working on. With Premium, start with a kickoff call to choose where AI could help in your business, then bring your questions to weekly live group calls.

Between calls, ask questions and compare notes in the members-only WhatsApp community with business owners, employees and virtual assistants doing the same work. You have somewhere to turn when a draft sounds wrong or a setup step leaves you stuck.

A plan. The tools. People in your corner.

The support
behind every
handoff.

When you sit down to build, you have a lesson to follow and instructions to adapt to your own business. If a step leaves you stuck, ask Mai, your AI tutor, to explain it so you can keep working.

Your AI employees stay yours

You build them in your own Claude and GitHub accounts, so they stay yours after Academy access ends.

Inside your membershipAssigned value
Self-paced curriculumLearn to build AI employees, with guidance at each stage.$597

The lessons walk you through building your everyday AI assistant, called your Chief of Staff in the Academy. Use your own business details to organize notes, prepare drafts and write down repeat tasks. You can add sales, marketing or research specialists when useful, with Mai, your AI tutor, to help explain the steps.

Prompt EnhancerExplain the task in your own words. Get a request to use in Claude.$197

Describe the job you need done, even if you’re not sure how to ask. Prompt Enhancer asks for missing details and turns your explanation into a request you can paste into Claude.

Skills HubAdapt the instructions, then use them again.$97

Use ready-made instructions for content, sales, marketing, business admin, design or finance. Add the details of your business, work through the steps in Claude and review the result.

Mai, your 24/7 AI tutorGet a next step when you get stuck.$497

Ask Mai in plain English whenever a question comes up, and she’ll point you to the right lesson or tool inside the Academy.

Academy-assigned component value$1,388Your membership$497One payment · 90 days · no auto-renewal
You’re saving$891

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Help with the part that’s stuck.

Meet the
Handoff team.

Why Mother of AI became Handoff Academy

Brittany Valdes, Academy co-founder
PEOPLE +POSSIBILITY ↗

Brittany Valdes

Co-founder

A fourth-generation entrepreneur and 10+ year Microsoft veteran. Brittany brings an entrepreneur’s perspective to making technology approachable and useful.

Thomas Echezabal, Co-founder and Chief AI Officer
IDEAS →ACTUAL WORKFLOWS

Thomas Echezabal

Co-founder & Chief AI Officer

Thomas builds and uses AI assistants in his own business. He’s taught AI workshops for Pfizer, the University of Florida and Northwestern Kellogg. At Handoff, he draws on that experience to guide you step by step as you build AI employees for your business.

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AI TUTORAVAILABLE 24/7

Mai

AI tutor

Mai comes with both memberships. Ask her in plain words, any time of day, and she’ll point you to the right lesson or tool.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Academy membership.
Choose your support.

Every member gets 90 days of lessons, templates and help from Mai, your AI tutor. Choose Basic to learn at your own pace, or Premium to add live guidance and community. You can join yourself or enroll an employee or virtual assistant.

One payment. No auto-renewal.

Basic

Learn at your own pace, with a lesson to follow, templates to build from and Mai to ask along the way. You’ll use your own business details and work on tasks that matter to you.

$497one time
90 days of access

YOUR EVERYDAY TOOLKIT

  • AI team lessons: Set up → Connect → Hand off
  • Team templates to shape around your business
  • Skills Hub: ready-made, step-by-step instructions
  • Prompt Enhancer: turns a rough ask into a clear one
  • Mai, your 24/7 AI tutor

Premium · VIP

Bring your business and your questions. We’ll help you choose where to start on your kickoff call, then work through questions in weekly live group calls. The WhatsApp community gives you a place to ask and compare notes between sessions.

$1,697one time
90 days of access

EVERYTHING IN BASIC, PLUS

  • A personal kickoff call in week one to choose the work your AI team will help with
  • Weekly live Office Hours (group call on Zoom): 12 over your 90 days
  • Send questions ahead for prepared help with what you’re working on
  • A members-only WhatsApp community to ask questions and compare notes
TEAM RATE

Buying for your team?

2 to 10 learners in one checkout. Each learner gets their own account and 90 days of access from activation after assignment. Learners must activate within 90 days of assignment.

Basic
$447per learner
Premium · VIP
$1,527per learner

Premium · VIP teams: 2 seats max. That keeps Office Hours small enough for everyone to be heard.

30-day money-back guarantee on the Academy offer.AI subscriptions are separate: you’ll need Claude Pro or higher and a free GitHub account. On Microsoft 365, you’ll also need a business account and your global admin’s one-time approval for Claude to save drafts. See terms
Good questions.

Your Academy
questions, answered.

Still have something on your mind?
Talk to the team

Who is Handoff Academy for?+

Business owners, employees and virtual assistants who want practical AI help with admin, sales, marketing, content or research. Whether you use AI regularly or are just getting started, we guide you as you build AI employees for your business. You don’t need to code, but you should be comfortable creating accounts and following setup steps in your browser.

What is an AI employee?+

It’s an AI assistant you set up in Claude with a job to do and information about your business. Everyone starts with an everyday assistant, called the Chief of Staff in the Academy. It organizes the business notes you give it, prepares drafts and brings open tasks and calendar information into your brief. You can add specialists for sales follow-ups, marketing content or research when you need them. Every draft stays with you to check, and nothing sends without you.

Will AI employees replace my team?+

The Academy teaches you and your people to build and manage AI help with recurring work. An employee or virtual assistant can use it to prepare content, organize business information and document repeat tasks while keeping responsibility for the result. A person checks the work and decides what to use.

Who can see my business data?+

Your AI team runs in your own Claude account, under that account’s privacy settings, and its notes live in a private copy in your own GitHub account. You connect your email and calendar yourself, whether that’s Gmail and Google Calendar or Outlook through Microsoft 365, and Handoff never needs access to any of them.

Can an employee or VA take the Academy instead of me?+

Yes. If you don’t have time to take it yourself, choose an employee or virtual assistant to take it instead. They’ll learn the tools and build AI employees for the work they already handle, and the Academy is there when they have questions. Agree on a first task together, then review what they build. Business owners have already done this in the Academy.

Can I buy the Academy for my team?+

Yes. You can buy 2 to 10 learners in one checkout at the team rate: Basic $447 or Premium $1,527 per learner. A Premium · VIP team order is capped at 2 seats so Weekly Office Hours stay small; a Basic team can go up to 10. Each learner gets their own account. After payment you set up your account in the member portal and add each learner’s name and email. Each learner’s 90 days start when they finish account setup or next sign in after assignment. Learners must activate within 90 days of assignment, and you add everyone within 90 days of purchase. Someone who already has an active or pending Academy membership can’t take a seat; that seat stays open for another learner.

What will I build in the 90 days?+

You’ll build your everyday AI assistant and a business brain: saved notes about your customers, offers, preferred tone and ways of working. The lessons cover organizing business information, writing down recurring tasks, preparing drafts, a weekday brief and a review of the week. Add a sales follow-up assistant, a marketing assistant or a research assistant if that work needs its own specialist. You can finish with the Chief of Staff alone; the goal is useful help for your business, not a particular number of AI employees.

Do I need to know what to build before I join?+

No. Bring the work you want help with, even if you’re still deciding where to start. The lessons and templates guide you through building your business brain and everyday assistant around your own business details. Mai, your AI tutor, is there for questions as you build in your own accounts. Premium adds a kickoff call to help choose where to focus, weekly live group calls and the WhatsApp community.

Which AI do I need?+

Claude, in your browser at claude.ai/code. The lessons show you how to build your AI team there, and the team works with your email and calendar in Gmail and Google Calendar or Outlook through Microsoft 365.

I’ve tried AI, but the answers still need work. Will this help?+

The lessons show you how to give Claude your saved business details and steps for a recurring job, then check and improve what it prepares. Give it notes about a recurring task, then check whether the steps it prepares match the way you work. You also learn to set up weekday briefs and a Friday Review that run in the cloud with your computer off. Other tasks start when you ask, and you still review the work.

Are AI subscriptions included?+

AI subscriptions are separate. You’ll need a Claude plan that includes Claude Code (Pro or higher) and a free GitHub account, and everything runs in your browser, so there’s nothing to install. If your email runs on Microsoft 365, you’ll need a Microsoft 365 business account (not a personal Outlook.com or Hotmail address), and your company’s Microsoft global admin approves Claude’s Microsoft 365 connector once, including the permissions it uses to save drafts. On a Claude Team or Enterprise plan, your Claude account owner also switches on the connector and its drafting tools. Scheduled shifts are a research preview on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans; on Team or Enterprise, your account owner can switch them off. On Pro, start with one brief a day while you learn, because heavy use can reach Claude’s weekly limit.

My week is already full. How much time does this take?+

Allow two to three hours a week. As you work through the lessons on your own schedule, you’ll apply what you learn to tasks you already handle. Give yourself time to follow the steps and check the first runs; Mai can help explain anything that’s unclear. Premium’s optional live Office Hours give you another place to bring questions.

What does Premium add?+

Premium adds help applying the lessons to your business. In your first-week kickoff call, we look at the work filling your days and choose where your assistant and any specialists should help. You then have weekly live Office Hours on Zoom: one session a week for your stage, 12 over your 90 days. Send questions by 5 PM Eastern the day before so the team can review what you’re working on and come ready to help you move forward. Premium also includes the members-only WhatsApp community. If you start with Basic, you can upgrade from your Billing page for the price difference.

What happens after 90 days?+

Access to the Academy portal, lessons, tools, tutor, and membership benefits ends. The AI team you build stays in your own Claude and GitHub accounts, and its shifts keep running on your Claude plan. There is no auto-renewal. You can buy access again at the then-current price.

What if the Academy isn’t right for me?+

Your 30-day money-back guarantee starts when your Academy account is activated: when you finish account setup or, if you already have an account, first sign in after purchase. That same activation starts your 90 days of access. Buying now or signing into the Summit Guide does not start either clock, and later sign-ins do not restart them. For a team order, the whole order’s 30-day guarantee starts when the first learner activates; purchase, seat assignment and buyer-only account setup do not start it, and later learner activations do not restart it. Contact support within that window to request a refund under the Terms.

Can I enroll today?+

Yes. Choose Basic or Premium, answer four quick questions, and you’ll be taken to a Stripe-hosted checkout page to pay. Payment is one time for 90 days of access, with no auto-renewal. Your access starts when you finish account setup or, if you already have an account, next sign in after purchase. Activate within 90 days of purchase or the membership lapses. Your 30-day money-back guarantee starts at that same activation. After your payment completes, the Academy portal emails you a link to set up your account.

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Let’s check whether the Academy is a good starting point for you right now. Lessons, templates and Mai, your AI tutor, will guide you as you build for your business.

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