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1.1 Reading and Synthesizing

Use Claude to digest a folder of company docs and discovery notes, and produce a synthesis you’d actually defend to your VP.

This is the move you’ll use most: inheriting a product, returning from interviews, prepping a brief on a deadline. Get fast and trustworthy at synthesis and everything downstream gets easier.

  • summarize from real files, not general knowledge
  • keep quotes traceable to their sources
  • make inference visibly different from evidence

Can you point to the file behind every claim? If Claude didn’t flag its own inferences until you asked, that’s the lesson.

The full lesson (objective, why and when, files, prompts, checklist, extension, and a rescue prompt for when you’re lost) is course-materials/lesson-modules/module-1/1.1-reading-and-synthesizing/LESSON.md.