Course Contents
7.1 Why Claude: Positioning and Strengths
Claude's core identity is careful, context-heavy work: it reads entire books, maintains nuance across long conversations, and writes in a measured professional register. Choose Claude when the job involves long documents, subtle analysis, or content where tone accuracy matters more than flashy creativity. Choose ChatGPT when you need ecosystem breadth; Gemini when you need live search.
- I can state Claude's three strengths: long context, nuance, professional tone
- I know when to switch from my main tool to Claude
7.2 Long-Document Workflows
Contract and report review in three passes
- Structure pass: "Outline this document section by section with page references."
- Risk pass: "List every clause that creates an obligation, deadline or penalty for my side, ranked by severity."
- Question pass: interrogate specific sections; ask "what would a lawyer push back on here?"
A pet-food importer reviews 12 supplier agreements a quarter. Claude reads each in full, flags auto-renewal clauses and liability caps, and drafts comparison questions per supplier. Legal review time dropped 60%, and no auto-renewal has been missed since. The human lawyer still signs off — Claude removed the reading bottleneck, not the judgment.
- I used the three-pass method on a real document
- I keep human sign-off on all legal conclusions
7.3 Analysis and Reasoning Tasks
Claude maintains logical threads across very long inputs — ideal for "compare these five quarters" or "find contradictions between these three policies." Force step-by-step output for numeric work, and always ask for the evidence behind each claim: "quote the exact line that supports this."
7.4 Professional Writing with Claude
Claude's default register is closer to polished business writing than any competitor — useful when tone matters: client proposals, partner communications, board updates. Give it one real sample of your voice plus the four-part structure (role/task/format/constraints) and outputs land close to final.
- I trained Claude on one of my real writing samples
- My saved prompt produces near-final professional drafts
7.5 Artifacts: Interactive Outputs
Artifacts render code, documents and simple apps beside the chat — ask for a pricing calculator, a checklist app, or an HTML one-pager and interact with it live. For SMB owners this is prototyping without developers: describe the tool you wish you had, iterate in plain language.
7.6 Claude for Teams
Team plans add shared chats, central billing and (on enterprise tiers) stronger data guarantees — conversations not used for model training. The team playbook mirrors the general one: shared prompt library, one pilot scenario per month, quarterly stack review.
7.7 Prompting Claude Effectively
- Use XML-style tags for long inputs: wrapping sections in document tags helps it navigate structured material.
- Put instructions before the document, not after.
- Ask for thinking first: "reason step by step before answering" measurably improves complex analysis.
7.8 Summary
Claude is the long-context specialist: documents in, careful analysis out. Pair it with a generalist main tool and you cover 95% of business AI needs. Next tool in the stack: Google Gemini Guide →
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