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Claude for work: a practical start
Claude is strong with long documents, clear writing and thorough analysis. What you can do with it at work, and how to start safely.
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Anthropic's Claude is an AI assistant widely used for writing, reading long documents, analysing and thinking things through. Here's how to put it to work.
Features that help most
- Long documents: upload contracts, reports or manuals and ask questions about them.
- Projects: a workspace with fixed instructions and documents, for example per client or per task. Every conversation in the project starts from that knowledge.
- Creating documents and pages: have a text, table or simple page made that you can keep and share.
- Web search: for current information, with sources.
- Connections: depending on your plan, Claude can work with your email, calendar or documents, for example in Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
Which features are available depends on your plan.
Personal or business
For work with company data, you're best choosing a business version such as Claude Team or Enterprise. Your data isn't used for training by default there. On personal plans, turn off helping to improve Claude in the privacy settings.
A good start
- Create a project for a recurring task and put your fixed instructions and key documents in it.
- Provide your writing style as an example.
- Gradually build a collection of notes your assistant can use: a second brain.
Watch out for
- Check facts, especially in long analyses.
- Check which connections are active and what access they have.
- Keep confidential documents in a business environment.
Checklist
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Prompt to copy
I want to create a project in Claude for [task]. Write the project instructions: who I am, the project's goal, which documents it contains, the tone and format of your answers, and what you never do. Ask me five questions first.
