Use Cases
Real things people do with Claude, straight from Anthropic’s own library, and grouped by the kind of work you would recognise.
These are real use cases from Anthropic’s use-case library, spanning every sector. This page is a curated slice: the ones a business owner or an employee would actually recognise, lightly edited for plain English. Browse the full, always-current set at claude.com/resources/use-cases →
What people actually do with Claude
Pick one that matches something on your plate, and try it this week.
Getting started
Personal · everyday- Get a personalised guide to what Claude can do for your role.
- Organise the files across your cluttered desktop.
- Sort and clear out your promotional emails.
- Compare products across sites into one table.
- Tidy up and de-duplicate your Google Drive.
Knowledge work and research
Professional- Build a daily briefing that pulls from all your tools.
- Size up a market from your own research.
- Prepare for your day from your calendar.
- Pull the numbers out of your analytics dashboards.
- Gather scattered sources into a first-draft deck.
- Capture voice notes on the move and get back finished work.
Money and spreadsheets
Finance- Reconcile transactions across your accounts.
- Organise your business finances and spot the trends.
- Understand and extend a spreadsheet you inherited.
- Build a simple financial model with scenarios.
- Stress-test a financial plan against different outcomes.
Sales and clients
Sales- Create a polished client proposal deck.
- Prepare for a deal using your CRM data.
- Turn CRM metrics into a clean sales report.
- Build a battle-card library from your wins and losses.
Marketing and content
Marketing- Adapt one piece of content for every platform.
- Analyse a campaign and get budget recommendations.
- Audit a folder of assets against your brand guidelines.
Ops, admin and team
Operations · HR- Process a batch of vendors from files to contracts.
- Prep scattered documents for an audit.
- Turn company info into a new-hire onboarding guide.
- Surface the themes across all your feedback channels.
You and your growth
Learning- Map a career path with the skill gaps named.
- Practise case interviews with feedback.
- Turn your research into a presentation.
- Build a simple webpage with no code.
This is a slice. Anthropic keeps the full library sorted by role and by sector, from finance to education to sales, and updates it as Claude grows. Browse the whole use-case library →
Find your first one
Two minutes, a pen, and the grid above.
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Write down everything you do in a working week. Include the boring, repetitive half.
- 2
Hold your list up against the grid above.
- 3
Ask one question of each job: could I hand this to Claude?
Anything you could check yourself is worth a try. Start with one, and keep the result.
Become the AI person
Found your first task above? Run this loop and it becomes a role.
- 1
Pick one painful task and name the number it costs you. The number is always one of three: time saved, mistakes cut, or money made.
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Build the fix with Claude and your real documents, and iterate until it is reliable. Then record a two-minute before-and-after demo.
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Prove the number moved, then ask your team one question: does anyone have a task they would want me to look at? No pitching.
- 4
Stack the wins, and frame every one as your boss’s win. Make the role official before the job posting exists.
Nobody has a ten-year head start on this stuff. A few months early is all it takes to be the AI person where you work.
The loop is adapted from Nate Herk’s playbook, trimmed to the in-house path. The original: How I’d Make Money with Claude →
Finding the task, naming the number, and building the fix is exactly what we do together in a lesson. Book a lesson → and bring step 1 with you.
Want the hands-on activity for this step? Build The Living Dashboard → in a style you pick, one file, on your own machine. Next step on the path: document your own job and hand off the boring half with The SOP Generator → Sharpen the ask on How to Prompt → Or go back to the framework in AI Fluency → Browse the whole resource library →