FileMaker Development with Agentic AI for Beginners
Live attendance at all five sessions — two hours a day, Tuesday September 8th through Saturday September 12th, 2026 — where you can ask questions as we go. Every session is also recorded, and full access to those recordings is included with your registration, so you can rewatch anything at your own pace afterward.
You can, but if you’re new to agentic development our recommendation — which is also Claris’s recommendation — is to start with Claude Code. Claude Code and Codex are very similar, competing products, so what you learn carries over either way. Several of our workshop instructors use both and can point out any meaningful differences if you’d like to go the Codex route.
Yes. The workshop has instructors who focus on Mac and instructors who focus on Windows, so both platforms are fully covered — whichever one you use, you’re good.
No. Everything covered in the workshop works with FileMaker 22 — the version you likely already have. You’ll probably want to move up to FileMaker 26 eventually, especially if you get into more advanced work like patching the underlying XML, but that’s an advanced topic the workshop doesn’t cover in detail. To follow along in class, your current version is fine.
You’ll need a few tools on your development machine: Claude Code, ProofKit, and a few supporting files. Getting installed is the first step toward success and is genuinely part of the workshop — we walk through real installation issues on both Mac and Windows, and because you’re attending live, you can ask questions and get unstuck on the spot. You won’t have to figure it out alone.
No. Nothing needs to be installed on your FileMaker Server for the workshop — you’ll be using our servers during the class. Once you’ve seen how it all works, you’ll be able to take what you’ve learned and deploy it to your own server afterward.
For your own server you’ll want FileMaker Server 26 with the latest updates, and OData enabled as a connection capability — a simple on/off switch on the FileMaker Server. If you’d like a hand getting one set up, let us know.
Either works. The tools run fine on both macOS Sequoia and Tahoe (Richard is personally on Tahoe). There’s no need to rush an OS update for the workshop — and, as above, you don’t need FileMaker 26 either.
No. There’s more material than time, so the workshop focuses on the most important pieces. OttoFMS matters if you want to run an MCP server, but we don’t set one up (at least not with Otto) during the training — so you don’t need it to follow along.
Yes — building a public-facing, web-based front end to an existing FileMaker solution is a big part of what makes this exciting, and it’s exactly what Richard has been doing. Other instructors also have hands-on experience using agentic AI to alter scripts, schema, and more inside the FileMaker platform, so we’ll cover that side too. (Fair warning: every so often you’ll still want to wring the AI’s neck — that’s part of the ride.)
Now’s a great time to learn the AI basics through the workshop — and learning it yourself will be far cheaper than hiring the cleanup out. Being straight with you, though: today’s AI tools still have real limitations when it comes to aggressively cleaning up an existing multi-file FMP12 solution, so for now serious cleanup is still best handled in scripting. Claris is also working on new AI capabilities — expected to be shown publicly soon and likely finalized later this summer — and that tooling is what you’ll really want for the heavy lifting. So: learn the basics now, then use the Claris tools for the big cleanup once they land.
Every session is recorded, and full access is included with your registration. They are not posted publicly — this is a paid workshop, so registering is the way to get them.