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I Built an Interactive Voice-Narrated Masterclass From My Book in One Weekend

Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker March 1, 2026
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I turned my recently published book Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change into a free, interactive, voice-narrated masterclass.

No production team. No studio. No six-month timeline. No $10K budget required.

One AI-powered workflow. One conversation. One weekend.

Here's exactly how I did it, because this is what the future of content creation looks like, and most leaders still aren't seeing it.

It started with a simple question: what if Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change wasn't just something you read, but something you experienced?

I'm talking about an 8-episode interactive course with animated slide presentations, my voice narrating every framework, quizzes that challenge your assumptions, and action plans you build in real time. The kind of production that would normally require an instructional designer, a web developer, a voice-over studio, and a project manager holding it all together.

I did it with Claude Opus 4.6 on a Max plan and a systematic process. Let me walk you through it.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€

๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐Ÿญ: ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฎ-๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜

I wrote a detailed instruction set, not a casual "summarize my book" request, but an architectural blueprint. It told Claude exactly how to analyze the book, extract the frameworks, and structure them into 8 episodes that tell a coherent transformation story for senior leaders.

๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐Ÿฎ: ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ ๐—”๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜†๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€

Claude mapped every chapter, framework, and concept into an 8-episode arc. From the wake-up call of exponential change, through the technology deep-dives and risks, into the human capital challenge, and finally my WAVE framework with a concrete 90-day action plan. Every episode builds on the last. Not a summary, a learning journey.

๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐Ÿฏ: ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€

8 fully interactive HTML presentations. Not PowerPoint, living web experiences with animated reveals, a dark premium aesthetic, progress tracking, keyboard navigation, quizzes, and reflection exercises. Each one is a standalone application.

๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐Ÿฐ: ๐—ก๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐˜๐˜€

Over 13,000 words of presenter scripts, written to match my speaking style, synced to every slide transition and element reveal.

๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐Ÿฑ: ๐—–๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ

A dashboard tying all 8 episodes together with progress tracking, a transcript panel, and an audio-sync engine that auto-advances slides as the narration plays.

๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐Ÿฒ: ๐—ฉ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—น๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด + ๐—”๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ผ ๐—š๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป

This is where it gets wild. I connected ElevenLabs directly to Claude Code via MCP. My cloned voice. All 8 episodes of narration generated automatically. Slides advancing in perfect sync with my voice.

๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐Ÿณ: ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜†๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜

Deployed to thedigitalspeaker.com with a gated enrollment form feeding directly into my Ghost CMS. I connected my Figma to Claude via MCP to leverage the designs I have there to ensure the form looked exactly like the rest. Name, email, newsletter subscription. One command and Claude Code deployed it directly to my Github. Live within five minutes.

Book โ†’ Interactive masterclass โ†’ Voice-narrated โ†’ Deployed. One workflow.

๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€

I've always insisted that AI doesn't replace expertise, it amplifies it. This is proof.

The ideas are mine. The WAVE framework is mine. 15 years of research, fieldwork, and lived experience behind every concept, that's mine. What AI eliminated was the production bottleneck between having deep knowledge and delivering it at scale.

That's the shift I keep driving home to every leadership team I work with. The competitive advantage isn't "using AI." It's combining human expertise with AI execution at a speed that was physically impossible two years ago, or even two months ago.

I went from a 300-page book to a fully interactive, voice-narrated digital masterclass in a single workflow. No team. No budget. No waiting.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ป'๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ. ๐—œ๐˜'๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚'๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป.

Every leader reading this has intellectual property sitting in documents, decks, and books that could be transformed into interactive learning experiences. The technology exists right now. The question is whether you'll use it, or watch someone else do it first.

This is what riding the tsunami looks like. Not talking about change. Building with it.

The masterclass is free, available here.

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