Who runs LearnClaudeNow

Kelly Abbott is the founder of LearnClaudeNow, former Chief AI Officer at BOL Agency and current Head of AI at Acquisition.com. A two-time exit founder with roots at Match.com and Adobe, Kelly now helps organizations stop talking about AI and start operating with it.

Through his consulting firm K-State LLC, Kelly has spent the last two years building AI-native systems for law firms, marketing agencies, and regulated enterprise teams. He’s the creator of LearnClaudeNow and the lead architect of the curriculum behind the “Claude for Law Firms” cohort-based trainings, a 16-week, hands-on program that teaches legal teams how to build, train, and manage virtual interns inside Claude.

Kelly’s approach is simple: this isn’t prompt engineering. It’s agent-building. His students don’t leave with a list of tricks. They leave with working agents, documented workflows, and a team that knows how to extend the system without him.

Ohio State alum. SOC-2 and HIPAA trained. Lives in Washougal, WA with his family. Loves writing stories and making electronic music in his spare time.

Bilal Ur Rehman is the engineer behind every working part of LearnClaudeNow: the site, the automations, the agent infrastructure, and the behind-the-scenes plumbing that keeps client engagements humming.

A full-stack engineer with a background in high-end consulting work, Bilal specializes in turning strategy decks into production systems. He led engineering on Tablecloth at Mavric, and is currently lead engineer at Wise Pelican, where he owns infrastructure and application-architecture decisions and leads a team of developers. With a decade of engineering experience, he makes sure there are no hiccups along the way.

At LearnClaudeNow, he leads development across three surfaces: the client-facing marketing engine, the internal business operations stack (support, billing, reporting), and the content and creative production pipeline that powers the training cohorts.

Bilal works the way good engineers do: fast, quiet, and without drama. When a problem shows up, the fix shows up shortly after. He partners daily with Kelly on architecture and direction, and he’s the reason law firms enrolling in our cohorts get a platform that feels less like a course portal and more like a tool they actually want to use.

Based in Pakistan. Builds on Cloudflare, Astro, and Next. Keeps the trains on time.

Chase Richardson is a technology executive, entrepreneur, and AI practitioner with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations turn complex technology into measurable business outcomes. Throughout his career, he has led software engineering, product development, modernization, and digital transformation initiatives across startups, growth-stage companies, and large enterprises.

As a technology leader, Chase is known for bridging the gap between business strategy and technical execution. He has built and led engineering teams, guided organizations through modernization efforts, improved operational performance, and helped executives make better technology decisions with clarity and confidence. His work centers on simplifying complexity, aligning teams around outcomes, and turning ambitious ideas into practical action.

Chase is passionate about the transformative potential of AI and believes the greatest opportunities come not from replacing people, but from empowering them. Through LearnClaudeNow, he helps professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs understand how to use AI tools effectively in their daily work — whether that’s improving productivity, accelerating learning, enhancing creativity, or building entirely new capabilities.

Based in Tennessee near the Smoky Mountains, Chase is a husband, father, lifelong builder, and technology enthusiast who enjoys helping others navigate the rapidly evolving intersection of business, technology, and artificial intelligence.

Jeff Winkler is a founder, builder, and operator working at the intersection of technology and education. He co-founded an immersive San Diego coding bootcamp that he grew from zero to one — designing curriculum, teaching students full-stack development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and web applications), and placing graduates into tech careers. That founder’s instinct for turning ambiguity into shipped outcomes runs through everything he does.

His background is a unique intersection of engineering and entrepreneurship. He started as a Rails engineer and spent several years as a software developer at a benchmarking platform serving higher-ed finance teams. He’s also created and hosted Chasing Squirrels, a live podcast that demystifies engineering hiring for bootcamp grads by interviewing CTOs. He pairs that hands-on engineering experience with a teacher’s gift for making complex tools approachable.

More recently, Jeff has led partnerships and business development at several home services companies, scaling relationships across large, tech-enabled marketplaces.

The through line across every role is the same: helping people adopt new technical skills and land real results. That blend of founder energy, developer fluency, and a passion for teaching makes him a natural fit to help others learn Claude.