Every cohort opens with a live welcome from the Clay team. Meet the people who built the product and named the practice.
Build hands-on from day one
You are in a real Clay table from the first minute. No passive lectures; you build as you learn.
Learn with ambitious peers
Each cohort is a small pod of operators working in the open. You trade workflows, swap feedback, and leave with a community.
Our programs
Five ways to build with Clay.
Ship in your first weekNext: Sep 30 to Oct 13
Enterprise Cohort
Build your first production Clay workflow in 10 days, with the patterns top enterprise teams already use. Go deep on one project track; the other three stay open during the cohort and after.
For beginner-level builders on an Enterprise plan with Clay.
Build an outbound campaign you can run more than once. Start with an audience worth targeting, enrich only what the campaign needs, use real signals to improve timing and relevance, and test each step in Clay before you scale it.
GTM operators running outbound today (RevOps, Sales Ops, and growth leads) who want an engine they can rerun instead of a list they rebuild every month.
2 weeks4 modules~12 hoursBeginner
Curriculum: 4 modules
Build one outbound campaign in Clay you can rerun, over two weeks.
Define who you sell to, then use Clay's Account Research Agent to build the account and people lists that match.
What you build and learn
Define your ideal customer and buyer profile
Use Clay's Account Research Agent to find accounts and people matching those profiles
Find lookalike companies that resemble your best customers today
Layer buying signals onto your account list so you reach out when something has just changed.
What you build and learn
Layer signals (job changes, funding, web intent) onto your TAM list to surface who to reach out to right now
Frame the offer each segment cares about, then automate email that still sounds like you.
What you build and learn
Frame the right offer and CTA for each audience segment
Automate personalized emails that sound like you, at scale
Connect your campaign to a sequencer, test what lands, and keep your domains healthy enough to reach the inbox.
What you build and learn
Connect your message and audience to a sequencer that auto-sends emails at the best times for replies
Run A/B tests across campaigns to find the message and offer that lands best
Warm up email domains to maximize delivery and reply rates
Cohort dates
Startup acceleratorNext: Sep 30 to Oct 14
Clay Wedge
Clay's startup GTM accelerator. Validate your ICP, write messaging in your buyer's language, and launch a live outbound engine that gets smarter over time.
Founders and first GTM hires at pre-seed - Series A, VC-backed startups.
2 weeks~12 hoursLive + asyncBeginner
Curriculum: 4 modules
Go from a validated ICP to a live, automated outbound engine in Clay.
Validate your ideal customer profile and map a segment-specific TAM.
What you build and learn
Validate your ICP
Map a segment-specific TAM
Ground it in customer calls
Hone your value propositions and write messaging in your buyer's language.
What you build and learn
Clarify value props
Write persona-based messaging
Battle-test the copy
Find creative data points and signals that build your GTM edge.
What you build and learn
Uncover creative data points
Operationalize your edge
Enrich strategically
Build automated outbound workflows and launch live sequences in Clay.
What you build and learn
Build automated workflows
Launch live sequences
Make it smarter over time
Cohort dates
GTM Engineering bootcamp
AlphaForge
Clay's flagship GTM Engineering bootcamp: 12 real projects in 4 weeks, live coaching in small groups, and direct introductions to employers hiring GTM Engineers.
Aspiring GTM Engineers from ops, sales, SE, and data backgrounds looking to land a GTME role in the next 60 days.
4 weeks6 modules~11 hrs / weekIntermediate
Curriculum: 6 modules
Learn to think and build like a GTM Engineer through 12 real projects over 4 weeks.
Pattern recognition, business judgment, and building GTM as a system.
What you build and learn
Systems thinking for GTM
Spot reusable patterns
Apply business judgment
Operationalize the signals your team should already be acting on.
What you build and learn
Source and score signals
Trigger workflows on intent
Route to the right play
Use AI and Clay Functions to build workflows that scale.
What you build and learn
Claygent for research
Clay Functions
Compose reusable logic
Source your total market and segment it with intent.
What you build and learn
Build a TAM from scratch
Segment the market
Prioritize by fit
Develop and defend a segmentation thesis that holds up.
What you build and learn
Form a thesis
Test against data
Defend your segments
Build the messaging systems that turn segments into pipeline.
What you build and learn
Persona-based messaging
Systematize personalization
Measure and iterate
Cohort dates
AlphaForge is not taking applications right now. No new dates are scheduled.
AI GTM crash course
AI Skills Cohort
Learn the foundations of AI in GTM, then stand up Clay workflows that put those foundations to work, turning messy data, unclear signals, and fuzzy prompts into AI-driven systems that hold up outside a demo.
Intermediate builders who've mastered Clay foundations and are digging deeper into AI-driven GTM systems.
10 days4 modules~2 hrs / moduleIntermediate
Curriculum: 4 modules
Learn the foundations of AI in GTM, then stand up AI-driven Clay workflows that hold up outside a demo.
A mental model for when and how to apply AI across the GTM stack.
What you build and learn
Where AI fits across the GTM stack
When to reach for AI, and when not to
A working mental model to build from
Write and chain AI formulas that automate multi-step GTM tasks.
What you build and learn
Write reliable AI formulas
Chain formulas into multi-step tasks
Automate repeatable GTM work
Advanced prompting techniques that get consistent, high-quality AI outputs.
What you build and learn
Advanced prompting techniques
Get consistent, high-quality outputs
Debug and harden your prompts
Build Claygent-powered research workflows that surface insights at scale.
What you build and learn
Build Claygent research workflows
Surface last-mile insights
Run research at scale
Cohort dates
Dates announced soon.
You leave with more than just how to use Clay.
Adaptable workflows
Clay workflows built to flex to the real world, not just a demo.
Confidence to scale
The judgment to build scalable GTM systems on your own.
A builder community
A pod of builders where you swap playbooks and feedback.
Lifetime access
Every lesson and resource, yours to revisit for good.
A graduation diploma
A digital diploma that shows what you actually shipped.
Clay credits
Credits earned to reward your build as you go.
What our graduates had to say
“
Finally, not just another mind-numbingly simple online course with a bogus certification at the end. Challenging, informative, and you'll leave with real skills you can apply immediately.
Andrew SigartoMarketing Ops Manager, Huntress Labs“
The biggest value for me was clarity. It helped simplify how to think about building TAM lists in a structured way, especially sourcing signals before enriching everything. It felt less like tool training and more like a shift in how to architect smarter GTM systems.
Lexi KelseySr. Director of Growth Marketing, NTT Data“
The cohort was great, really tested and pushed my knowledge. The chat between participants was so helpful and gave me plenty of ideas and feedback to move forward: it's a great community to be a part of.
Chloe HurcombeCampaign Architect, OneAdvanced
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