# Why us **Early. *Embedded.* Certified.** Most studios that talk about Claude have used it. Few have studied it the way Anthropic teaches it. Orfloat's CTO has completed every relevant course Anthropic Academy publishes — eight certifications spanning the Anthropic API, Claude Code (101 and the advanced "in Action" masterclass), Model Context Protocol (intro and advanced), Skills, subagents, and the business-side AI Fluency curriculum co-developed with PayPal. The studio operates on what those courses actually teach. ## 01 — Why this matters **There is a difference between *reading Anthropic* and operating to its standards.** Most teams stop at the marketing page. A few read the blog. Far fewer follow Anthropic's formal Academy curriculum — the courses they themselves use to train customer-facing engineers and partners on the right way to build with Claude. Every Orfloat engagement is delivered by a CTO who has completed that curriculum end-to-end, verifies the certificates publicly, and continues to ship side projects with each new primitive Anthropic releases. When you hire Orfloat, you're not hiring someone who finished a bootcamp two years ago. > We do not learn Claude from blog summaries. We do the work Anthropic ships, then we ship the work for clients. ## Anthropic Academy — Akram Ahmed, CTO Eight certificates of completion. ### Claude with the Anthropic API ![Anthropic Academy certificate of completion: Claude with the Anthropic API](https://www.orfloat.com/certs/claude-code-api-certificate@2x.webp) Direct API integration patterns — prompt engineering, system prompts, tool use, structured outputs, and streaming. The foundation of everything we ship. [Verify · h6bujppcv3tk](https://verify.skilljar.com/c/h6bujppcv3tk) ### Claude Code 101 ![Anthropic Academy certificate of completion: Claude Code 101](https://www.orfloat.com/certs/claude-code-101-certificate@2x.webp) Anthropic's official curriculum on Claude Code — how to embed it in a working repository with conventions, hooks, and guardrails specific to a codebase. Certificate of Completion ### Claude Code in Action ![Anthropic Academy certificate of completion: Claude Code in Action](https://www.orfloat.com/certs/claude-code-in-action-certificate@2x.webp) Anthropic's advanced Claude Code masterclass — real-world agentic coding workflows, autonomous task execution, multi-file refactors, and the production patterns we deploy day-to-day inside client repositories. [Verify · 6uqtggo7uw5y](https://verify.skilljar.com/c/6uqtggo7uw5y) ### Introduction to agent Skills ![Anthropic Academy certificate of completion: Introduction to agent Skills](https://www.orfloat.com/certs/skill-certificate@2x.webp) Building reusable, evaluated capabilities. The right skill in scope, the wrong ones quietly out of the way — so the agent stays sharp on the work that matters today. Certificate of Completion ### Introduction to subagents ![Anthropic Academy certificate of completion: Introduction to subagents](https://www.orfloat.com/certs/sub-agents-certificate@2x.webp) Decomposing long-running tasks into specialized sub-agents that coordinate via Claude — the architectural primitive behind systems that don't fall over at 2am. Certificate of Completion ### Introduction to Model Context Protocol ![Anthropic Academy certificate of completion: Introduction to Model Context Protocol](https://www.orfloat.com/certs/mcp-certificate@2x.webp) MCP fundamentals — resources, tools, prompts. The standard that lets Claude reason over your POS, ERP, and CRM at once without bespoke glue for each. [Verify · 2oz8uc26g6ab](https://verify.skilljar.com/c/2oz8uc26g6ab) ### Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics ![Anthropic Academy certificate of completion: Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics](https://www.orfloat.com/certs/mcp-advanced-certificate@2x.webp) Authentication, transport, server design, sandboxing. The depth that separates a working integration from a production one. [Verify · yv7rbkjdzrpo](https://verify.skilljar.com/c/yv7rbkjdzrpo) ### AI Fluency for Small Businesses ![Anthropic Academy certificate of completion: AI Fluency for Small Businesses](https://www.orfloat.com/certs/AI-SME-certificate@2x.webp) Co-developed by Anthropic and PayPal for small-business operators. The vocabulary, posture, and decision framework we use to brief non-technical founders inside our engagements. Certificate of Completion ## 02 — How we stay current **Continuous, not a credential.** The certificates above are not the work. They're the receipt for the work. The actual work is reading every Anthropic news post the day it ships, building against each new primitive in a personal sandbox before recommending it to clients, and following the developer community where the hard-won implementation lessons live. We also read Anthropic's long-form enterprise material end to end — the latest field note, [Anthropic's enterprise playbook, read from Muscat](https://www.orfloat.com/notes/anthropic-enterprise-playbook), works through their 35-page guide directly. Akram Ahmed (CTO) is a daily Claude Code user across Orfloat's own codebase — including this website. Mufassir Ahmed (CEO) leads the commercial side and the engagement with the wider Omani business community Orfloat exists to serve. ## Begin **A small number of businesses *will be early.*** [Start a Discovery Phase](https://www.orfloat.com/contact) · [About the studio](https://www.orfloat.com/about)