Claude Expert Guide: Architect
Design systems that keep working when things go wrong.
By Paul B · Edition 1, November 2026
Level 4 is about designing, measuring, securing and scaling systems built on Claude, including recognising when AI is the wrong tool. It assumes you have already built something small, as in Level 3.
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What you’ll learn
- Production AI principles and the trade-off between quality, cost and speed
- Workflow and agent patterns, and choosing the simplest one that works
- Context and tool design, including retrieval basics
- Evaluation: test sets, graders and release gates
- Cost, speed and scale, using unit economics
- Reliability engineering and failing safely
- Threat modelling, privacy and governance
- Prompts as versioned, tested assets
- Product and business thinking before you build for others
- Three worked design sketches to adapt
Also included
- 90-day roadmap with a tick-box tracker
- Architecture decision checklist
- Production readiness checklist
- Glossary
Who it’s for
Level 4 is about designing, measuring, securing and scaling systems built on Claude, including recognising when AI is the wrong tool.
Before you start: Level 3, or experience building a small Claude-based tool.
Honest notes. This guide is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. Claude’s features, plans and prices change, so it shows you where to check the official sources. Code samples were checked for valid syntax but not run against the live service, so test them before real use. It teaches skills and makes no promises about income or results.