Aquilon Academy · Free to start
Run your business with Claude
Short, practical courses for owner-managers who want the admin, quoting and reporting off their desk.
Module 1 · Lesson 4 · 6 min
The quote cover letter
Quote request · 08:12
Morning. Could you price twenty-four oak fire doors, FD30, hung in pairs, for a school refurbishment? Drawings attached. Delivery early next month if you can.
Cover letter, draft
You check it- Thanks for the enquiry and the drawings···
- 24 oak FD30 doorsets, hung in pairs···
- Ironmongery to your schedule···
- Delivery in the week of 6 October···
From your bullet points to a letter that sounds like you, in your tone, in about two minutes.
Who it is for
Written for the person who runs the firm
01
You run a firm of 20 to 200 people.
And more of the admin still comes back to your desk than it should.
02
The quoting lives in a spreadsheet.
It works, mostly, and one person really understands how.
03
The CRM is half right.
So the real pipeline sits in inboxes and in people's heads.
The free course
Claude for the owner's week
Six jobs you already do every week, each one done with Claude in under ten minutes. No setup and no connectors, just a Claude account. It ends with a two-week trial, so something is still running when you finish.
Lesson 1.1
The call you just had
Turn a site visit, a supplier call or a rambling voicemail into a clean list of actions, each with an owner.
Lesson 1.2
The email you keep putting off
Chasing a late payment, pushing back on a spec change, turning down a job. Three versions, and you pick one.
Lesson 1.3
The forty-page document
A tender, a contract or a supplier's terms, cut down to what matters, what is missing and what to ask.
Lesson 1.4
The quote cover letter
From your bullet points to a letter that sounds like you, in your tone, in about two minutes.
Lesson 1.5
The meeting tomorrow
Prepare for a client, bank or supplier meeting from last time's notes: what happened, what is open, what to ask.
Lesson 1.6
The decision you are not sure about
A hire, a price rise or a new supplier. Have Claude argue the other side before you commit.
Where it leads
The courses that go deeper
Goes deeper
Off the spreadsheet
Work out whether your spreadsheet has quietly become your system, and what it takes to replace it properly.
- Reports you can run the business onComing soon
- Found by machinesComing soon
- From spreadsheets to systems£395
- Run the business on ClaudeComing soon
Built with Claude
What it looks like when the job runs itself
The courses teach you to do the job with Claude. For clients, we build the version that runs without anyone starting it, and leaves the owner the part that matters.
Requests arrive by email and wait until the one person who can price them is free.
Each request is read as it lands, the lines are matched to the price list, and a draft quote and cover letter are waiting by the morning.
Overdue invoices get chased when somebody remembers, in whatever tone they are in that day.
The ledger is checked each morning, a chaser is drafted in a tone that fits how late it is, and every reply is logged against the account.
Quote requests · this morning
Three drafts waiting for you
- Check prices
Oak fire doors, 24 doorsets, school refurbishment
Arrived 21:40 · quote and cover letter drafted
- Check prices
Replacement boiler and flue, three-bed semi
Arrived 23:05 · quote and cover letter drafted
- Check prices
Steel lintels, repeat of last month's order
Arrived 06:12 · quote and cover letter drafted
- Sent after sign-off
Kitchen worktops, supply only
Arrived Yesterday · quote and cover letter drafted
Who teaches it
The people who do the client work
We run Aquilon on Claude, and built this Academy with it. The courses come out of the scoping calls, builds and campaigns we run for firms like yours, and the same people read your assignments.
More about who writes these01
Course authors
The people who write the lessons and read what you send in. Every course starts from something an owner asked us on a call, and the assignments are answered by the same people who do the client work.
02
Systems and software
They scope and build the internal tools: quoting, stock, job tracking and the reporting that sits over them. They teach the courses on spreadsheets, systems and reports.
03
Search and growth
They work on being found and chosen, including by the buyers who now ask Claude or another assistant before they open a browser. They teach Found by machines.
Free workflow review
Bring one process, and see what would run without you
Thirty minutes with the people who build this for clients. You leave with a written view of what could run on its own and what it would take. No charge, no obligation.