This takes you from "I got an invite email" to "I'm building pages for clients." No technical background needed, and you'll never have to touch a scary terminal. Read it top to bottom — each step builds on the last.
Here's the whole mental model. You've been using Claude in a browser chat. What we use is the Claude Code app — same Claude, but it runs on your computer and can actually do things: set itself up, build pages, organize files.
Everything happens inside that one app. You type into its message box the same way you'd text a coworker — in plain English. When you see a command in this guide (like /startwork), you just type it into that same box and hit enter. You never open a separate "Terminal" program. If a command looks technical, don't worry about understanding it — paste it in and Claude runs it for you.
If you're ever unsure, just ask Claude in plain English. "What does this mean?" "What should I do next?" "Can you set that up for me?" You cannot break anything by asking, and it's almost always the fastest way through.
Do this on day one, in order. Brad is around all morning, so if a step doesn't work, say so immediately instead of pushing through it. A broken step is our bug, not yours.
Sign into your christian@landersrx.com inbox. You'll have an email from HQ inviting you to LandersRX. Open it and keep it handy — it has a one-time invite link you'll use in a couple steps. Don't share it; it's tied to you.
This is a different app from the Claude chat you've used. Go to claude.ai/code, download the desktop app for your Mac or PC, install it, and sign in with your Claude account. Open it up — that's your workspace from here on.
Already pay for Claude? Same login works.
In the Claude Code message box, type the line below and hit enter. Claude does the heavy lifting — it'll ask permission as it goes, and you just say yes.
Set up HQ for me by running: npx create-hqIf anything pops up that you don't recognize, type "what should I do here?" and let Claude guide you. When it finishes, type /setup to run the quick welcome wizard.
This is the one step where people hit friction. If it stalls, errors, or asks for something you don't have, stop and message Brad rather than trying to force it. Getting stuck here is expected and it is a five-minute fix on our end. Do not lose an afternoon to it.
This connects you to our shared workspace. Type the command below and sign in using christian@landersrx.com — it has to match the address the invite went to.
/hq-loginCopy the invite link from that Step 1 email, then type the two commands below (paste your link where shown). This downloads the full LandersRX workspace — clients, brand kits, playbooks, and the skills that build pages.
/accept <paste-your-invite-link-here> /hq-syncWhen this finishes, you're officially on the team and everything's on your machine.
This is your "I'm sitting down to work" command. Run it and Claude shows you what's on your plate.
/startworkCheck off all five: /startwork runs · /hq-sync finishes clean · you can open Motion, Figma, Replo and Slack · you've said hi in Slack · you know what you're doing tomorrow. Anything not checked, tell Brad today, not next week.
Four things to know and you'll feel at home fast. None of this is technical — it's just how to drive the app.
Press Shift + Tab to switch how much Claude checks with you. You'll see the current mode at the bottom of the screen. Three to know:
Claude figures out a plan and shows it to you before doing anything. Nothing changes until you approve. Use this whenever you're starting something new — it's the safe default.
Claude does the work without stopping to ask each step. Faster. Switch to this once you've approved a plan and just want it to run.
Claude asks permission before each action. Good when you want to watch closely. This is what you start in.
Simple rule: start new work in Plan mode, flip to Auto-accept once you like the plan.
A session is a single conversation. When you start something unrelated, begin a fresh session (or type /clear) so old context doesn't confuse things. Don't live in one endless chat — fresh and focused works far better.
Type /startwork whenever you begin — each time you sit down, and again when you switch to a different project. It catches you up on where things stand. Type /handoff when you finish a chunk of work or stop — it saves everything so your next /startwork picks up right where you left off.
Think per task, not per day: new project? /handoff to save → /clear → /startwork fresh. And /handoff again whenever you're done for the day.
Now and then Claude asks "Do you want to allow this?" That's a good thing, not an error. Read it, and if it's what you asked for, say yes.
Everything above, boiled down to a single card you can keep open or print. Pin it next to Claude Code for your first week.
Open the quick-reference cheat sheet →Everything else is detail. These two are the job.
The Playbook — how LandersRX actually works →What we sell, who does what, and the full delivery workflow from access granted to pages live. Read sections 1 through 6 in order. Skim the rest as reference.
The Quality Bar — what good looks like →Every way we've gotten a page wrong for a client, turned into rules. Never fabricate social proof. Never crop a model's head. Put our product first in a comparison chart. Roughly 90 of them, grouped so you can actually learn them.
You are not expected to memorize it. You are expected to run the pre-flight checklist at the bottom of it before anything you make goes to a client. Every time.
You'll violate some of these in your first month. Everyone does. The list exists so you violate each one once, instead of learning it the expensive way on a live client.
Short screen recordings from Brad. They cover the parts of the job that are much easier to show than to write down. Watch the first two and the last one in your first week; the Figma-to-HTML one when you need it.
How a client goes from signup to pages live — 10 min →The full flow: what happens before someone signs, how the design review loop with Figma works, where deals typically stall, and how renewal dates get set. This is the single most useful video in the set — it is the shape of the whole business.
How our ClickUp board is built — 9 min →A tour of the client work board and what each status actually means, so you can tell at a glance whether something is with us or with the client. Deliberately simple — there are no user assignments and no notifications yet.
Turning a Figma file into HTML — 2 min →Install the html.to.design plugin and go. Save this one for the first time you need it rather than watching it cold.
The stack, and how we work in it — 9 min →A tour of Slack, ClickUp, Claude and HQ, plus how the review gate works and why we want blunt feedback from you early.
The stack video was recorded for an earlier first week, so it opens with somebody else's name and then hands them two specific client accounts to start on. Your accounts will be different — Brad will tell you which ones are yours.
Everything else in it still holds. Watch it for the tools and the way we work, not for the assignment.
Watch this before your first page build. It walks the Lander — Website Inspiration Templates board: real listicles, sales pages and PDPs from brands we work with, the wireframe flows built on top of them, and the story arc almost every winning page follows. Those structures are wired into the page-building skill, so the board is where you make the human calls — which page type, which flow, how much depth. Build from the template. Starting from scratch every time is how pages get overcomplicated.
The goal of your first stretch is context, not output. You're not being tested. You're getting to the point where you can look at a client's ad account and have an opinion about it. Everything below builds toward that, in order.
Work through the Setup section above. Get into HQ, get into Slack, and confirm you can actually open every tool: Motion, Figma, Replo, ClickUp.
Don't move on until this is genuinely done. Half-finished setup is the single most common way a first week goes sideways, and it never announces itself — things just quietly don't work later.
Read the two documents linked above. Then come back with a written list of questions and we'll jam on them together.
No target number. Bring what you actually have. If you think something in there is wrong, say so — that's more useful than a clarifying question.
Start scanning our client accounts. You're not producing anything here. You're just building general awareness of who our clients are, what they sell, and what kind of work we do for them.
Poke around. Read old audits. Look at pages we've shipped. Ask Claude anything.
Brad will name the two accounts you'll be on first — you'll have them by day one. We're building new pages for both of them soon, so get ahead of it.
Work out what's actually going on in their ad accounts right now. Do your own read on it — your own informal audit, however you want to run it. Then look at the pages that are already live for them and how those are performing.
The output isn't a document. The output is that you and Brad can sit down and be on the same page about these two accounts.
Brad will pull up Claude and work through real client projects while you watch. This is the fastest way to learn how the work actually gets done — faster than any document, including this one.
Ask questions the whole way through. Interrupt. That's the point of it. Sessions get recorded so you can go back over them.
The goal is a full book of 8 to 10 clients within 60 days. Your rate steps up when you're carrying it, on the terms in your agreement. That's tied to the book, not the calendar — hit it in 30 days and it moves in 30 days.
Three things, and they never change:
You will never have to wonder whether you're doing well. If something isn't good enough, I'll tell you directly and specifically, while it's still cheap to fix. That's not criticism, it's the job. In exchange: when you're stuck or behind, tell me early. A problem I hear about on day three is a small problem. The same one on day fourteen is a client call.
Day one of anything new has rough edges. Nobody expects you to nail every step, and getting stuck is not a signal about you. Two things to lean on:
1. Ask Claude directly. Stuck on a step or staring at something confusing? Type it into the message box and ask. Nine times out of ten that's the fix.
2. Message Brad. If something is genuinely blocking you — a login won't go through, the invite link errors out, a step just won't run — reach out and we'll get you unblocked fast. In week one, no question is too small. Losing half a day to something I could have fixed in five minutes is the only real mistake here.