Claude Code for Salons A live AI class on Zoom

Six systems run my salon. Most owners are still using AI to write captions.

I built all six this year with no code and no developer on staff. That gap is going to get wide fast. Two mornings on Zoom, and you leave with your first one running.

You will learn Setting up Claude on your own laptop from scratch Building salon tools with no code at all Pointing Claude at your own files and exports Turning a weekly job into something that runs itself Finishing one real system in a single morning Setting up Claude on your own laptop from scratch
Session one Oct 26 Monday  ·  10am to 1pm Central
Session two Nov 2 Monday  ·  10am to 1pm Central

Two live sessions, one week apart, both on Zoom.

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Investment$599one payment, one salon owner seat

25 seats  ·  two mornings plus a 30 day sprint  ·  Money back guarantee

What a salon owner can actually build

Every one of these runs at Maximum FX right now. I built them this year with no coding knowledge and no developer on staff, and you will see them live in session one.

The redesigned maximumfx.com home page
Live at maximumfx.com

The whole salon website, redesigned

Every page of maximumfx.com, rebuilt this year without an agency. Booking, services, careers, the blog and every stylist bio on the team page, all in the salon's own voice.

The Find Your Stylist page on maximumfx.com
Live at maximumfx.com

Find Your Stylist, built into the site

A ninety second quiz that pairs a visitor with the haircutter and the colorist who fit, then sends them to book straight into that chair. A visitor becomes a booked guest without a phone call.

The recruiting engine's Monday list of student touches
Live at Maximum FX

A recruiting engine that watches the calendar

Tracks every cosmetology student we meet, nudges me when one is about to graduate, and has the text and the email ready to send at the press of a button.

The guest care training modules in the Maximum FX Portal
Live at Maximum FX

Guest care training that takes two weeks

Web based and self paced. New front desk team members are fully trained in under two weeks, with knowledge checks so we know it stuck. Part of a program that now covers every position.

The time off calendar for both locations in the Maximum FX Portal
Live at Maximum FX

Time off requests across multiple locations, managed in one spot

Requests used to arrive in three different text threads. Now every one lands on a single calendar that both front desks can see. It has never been simpler, and I say that as the person who used to chase it all down.

Three slides from the Lake Travis Hair Instagram carousel: the cover, the green tint slide and the open sun slide
Live on Instagram

Every blog post gets its own social set

Write the post, then get the carousel, the stories, the square post and the captions out of the same material, in the salon's voice. Nobody writes it twice and nobody waits on a designer.

What you leave with

No experience needed

Who this is for

Owners who want to build, not just ask questions. You have seen what AI can do. Now you want to build the thing yourself instead of waiting on somebody else to.

Owners who have outgrown the chat window. You have hit the ceiling of copying and pasting. You are ready for something that does the work rather than describing it.

Owners who are tired of being the non technical one. You do not need a degree in anything. You need somebody to show you how these tools actually work, step by step.

Anyone who can use a laptop. Seriously. We start from zero. If you can type and follow instructions, you can build with Claude Code.

The format

How it runs

Session one is Monday, October 26. Session two is Monday, November 2. Both run 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Central on Zoom.

Mon, Oct 26

Day one

Introductions, then a guided orientation to the app: where everything is and what each part does. Then demos of every system on this page running inside my own salon. After the break we build your first system for your salon, in your own voice, on your own machine.

Mon, Nov 2

Day two

You made one thing with me watching. Today you learn to work on your own: how to ask for what you actually want, how to point it at your own exports and files safely, and how to save something so it runs again in two minutes instead of being retyped. We start with whatever you tried during the week.

Nov 3 to Dec 2

The 30 day sprint

Four weeks of assignments, one a week by email, about twenty minutes a day. Two evening calls on Zoom where you bring what you have and we work on it together. You finish with one system running on its own.

Chris Murphy

Meet your instructor

Chris Murphy is co owner and Director of Operations at Maximum FX, an Aveda Lifestyle salon with two locations in Austin, Texas. A former certified Strategies business coach with a corporate finance and information systems background, he spent this year building AI into the salon's operations.

Recruiting. New employee onboarding. The apprenticeship education program. A web based guest care training system that gets new team members fully trained in under two weeks. Time off requests across both locations. The entire Maximum FX website, redesigned, with a Find Your Stylist quiz that turns visitors into booked guests by matching them with the right stylist. Web based marketing tools that drive retail sales.

He built all of it himself, with no coding knowledge and no developer on staff. This class is what he learned doing it, taught to the people it was built for.

Also the founder of LUCKY+DOG, a made to order dog gear company, since 2019, and advising salon owners through Chris Murphy & Co. since 2012.

Next class starts Monday, October 26

Investment$599

One payment, one salon per seat, as many people around the screen as you like. Capped at 25 so you are a person and not a seat number.

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Money back guarantee. If it has not paid for itself by day 30, I refund the seat. One thing that is not included: a Claude Pro plan, about $20 a month, which you start before day one. The setup email walks you through it. Questions before you book? chris@chrismurphy.co