Golden Maple✦Group

Your onboarding

From here to Claude Certified Architect — five steps, in order.

⚑ Use your team address for every Anthropic step

Your welcome email gave you a name@goldenmaplelandscaping.ca address. Use that address — not your personal email — to create your Anthropic account and everywhere Anthropic asks for an email. The certification exam rejects personal addresses; the company name on the exam form has to match the email domain, and yours is set up to match (Golden Maple Landscaping Inc.). Mail to your team address forwards straight to your personal inbox, so you'll see everything.

How it works

  1. Create your Anthropic account using your @goldenmaplelandscaping.ca address. Verification mail forwards to your personal inbox — click it, set a password.
  2. Complete the four courses below, in order. They're free and open — no approval needed to start.
  3. Request the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations exam (link below). Use your team address; partner affiliation is already in place under Golden Maple Landscaping Inc.
  4. Sit the exam and pass it. The exam and the certificate are Anthropic's — issued by them, on their terms.
  5. Tell me you're certified — reply to your welcome email. I mark you certified on the bench and route client work your way.

The learning path — four courses, in order

Start here for the full path: Claude Partner Network Learning Path →

  1. 1Introduction to Agent Skills
  2. 2Building with the Claude API
  3. 3Introduction to Model Context Protocol
  4. 4Claude Code in Action

The exam

Claude Certified Architect – Foundations. Once the four courses are done, request exam access here — signed in with your @goldenmaplelandscaping.ca address:

Request the CCA – Foundations exam →
Stuck on a step? Reply to your welcome email, or for Anthropic-side exam questions: academy-support@anthropic.com.
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