Get inspired by what you can do with Claude

Claude’s advanced artificial intelligence capabilities enable a wide range of applications across professional, educational, nonprofit, and personal workflows. From automated folder audits and interactive visual simulations to seamless integration with daily tools through Cowork and Chrome extensions, this comprehensive guide showcases real-world templates and projects to help you maximize Claude's potential.

These use cases leverage advanced automated frameworks like Claude Cowork, Chrome integrations, and dedicated Projects to manage complex, multi-step actions and organize files directly across your workspace.

Audit a folder of visual assets against your guidelines

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Cowork

In Claude Cowork, Claude Opus 4.7 can read a large folder of image exports at full resolution to spot off-brand colors, outdated logos, and missing legal copy. Point Claude at your assets folder and your brand guidelines, and get back a categorized list of violations with a confidence rating on each one.

Audit a folder of visual assets against your guidelines

Adapt a standard textbook page to every reading level

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Cowork

Opus 4.7 reads a single source page in detail and returns a finished file for each audience that needs it. Here, one textbook spread becomes a slide deck and reading handouts at three levels.

Adapt a standard textbook page to every reading level

Organize files across your desktop

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Grant Cowork access to your cluttered desktop and walk away. It reads your files, figures out what they are, and sorts them into folders while you do something else.

Organize files across your desktop

Process batches of vendors with Cowork

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Onboard several vendors in one session — with Cowork, Claude can read a folder of vendor files, adds each to your tracker, generates their contracts, and fills multiple intake forms in your browser.

Process batches of vendors with Cowork

Organize files in Google Drive

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Claude in Chrome

Claude in Chrome sorts through your Drive, creates a folder structure, moves files where they belong, and flags duplicates and old files for you to review. You approve the changes instead of doing the sorting yourself.

Organize files in Google Drive

Log sales calls to your CRM

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Claude in Chrome

Claude in Chrome can read your calendar, match attendees to Salesforce contacts, and draft activity logs for each call. You add notes and approve before anything gets created.

Log sales calls to your CRM

Prepare and plan from your calendar

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Claude in Chrome

Claude in Chrome reads your calendar, pulls context from email threads, flags which meetings need prep, and books rooms for the ones missing them. Run it every evening and start each day knowing what's coming.

Prepare and plan from your calendar

Pull metrics from analytics dashboards

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Claude in Chrome

Claude in Chrome can navigate your analytics dashboards, extract the numbers you need, and compile them into a summary. No exports, no tab-switching, no manual copying.

Pull metrics from analytics dashboards

Compare products across sites

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Claude in Chrome

Claude in Chrome reads the specs from multiple product pages you have open, normalizes the data, and creates a comparison table in Google Sheets. You stop tab-switching and start deciding.

Compare products across sites

Clean up promotional emails

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Claude in Chrome

Claude in Chrome can scan your inbox, identify promotional and marketing emails, and flag them for your review. You decide what to delete in bulk rather than clicking through one by one.

Clean up promotional emails

Organize your legal workflows using Projects

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Legal

Stop explaining your review standards for every contract. Claude Projects let you upload your playbooks once and reference them automatically across hundreds of reviews.

Organize your legal workflows using Projects

These specialized tools help charitable organizations map strategic visual layouts, plan budgets, manage campaigns, organize proposals, and scale volunteer programs.

See your theory of change in chat with Claude

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Nonprofits

Describe your program and Claude draws the causal chain inline, inputs through impact, with every arrow clickable to show the assumption behind it. For when you know what you do but have never drawn why it works.

See your theory of change in chat with Claude

See what your campaign goal actually requires

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Nonprofits

Type a campaign goal and Claude draws the gift pyramid inline, tiered from the lead gift down, with each tier showing how many gifts you need and how many qualified prospects that realistically takes. Drag the goal and the whole shape rebuilds. For when you're wondering whether a campaign is feasible before you say yes to it.

See what your campaign goal actually requires

See budget futures side by side, in chat with Claude

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Nonprofits

Type your budget split and the thing that might change, and Claude draws three scenarios next to each other with a toggle between dollars and percentages. Click any scenario for a one-line read on where the real pressure lands.

See budget futures side by side, in chat with Claude

See why donor retention beats acquisition, in chat with Claude

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Nonprofits

Claude builds a five-year donor projection with sliders for retention and acquisition. Drag either one and the curve redraws, and it becomes clear fairly quickly why a modest retention bump does more than doubling the acquisition spend.

See why donor retention beats acquisition, in chat with Claude

Workflow improvement planner

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Nonprofits

Turn process pain points into structured improvement plans. Claude helps nonprofits define workflow challenges and design AI-powered solutions that save time and increase capacity.

Workflow improvement planner

Grant proposal assembly line

• Creator: GivingTuesday | Tag: Nonprofits

Build a modular content library from your successful proposals and organizational materials then produce foundation-ready submissions in a fraction of the usual time.

Grant proposal assembly line

Develop a program toolkit

• Creator: GivingTuesday | Tag: Nonprofits

Generate complete program design frameworks for new initiatives with logic models, evaluation plans, and resource guides that transform concepts into implementation-ready programs.

Develop a program toolkit

Visualize program data

• Creator: GivingTuesday | Tag: Nonprofits

Transform spreadsheets of program statistics into presentation-ready charts, infographics, and dashboards that tell your impact story visually and help demonstrate program satisfaction to stakeholders.

Visualize program data

Create a volunteer management system

• Creator: GivingTuesday | Tag: Nonprofits

Create comprehensive volunteer documentation including role descriptions, onboarding processes, communication templates, and tracking tools that professionalize volunteer management and scale your program effectively.

Create a volunteer management system

Analyze fundraising performance

• Creator: GivingTuesday | Tag: Nonprofits

Analyze performance across email, events, direct mail, social media, and other channels to identify highest-return investments and optimize resource allocation for maximum fundraising impact.

Analyze fundraising performance

Generate an AI policy

• Creator: GivingTuesday | Tag: Nonprofits

Create organization-specific AI usage policies covering data privacy, appropriate use cases, staff guidelines, and ethical considerations tailored to your nonprofit's mission and beneficiary protection needs.

Generate an AI policy

Write an impact report

• Creator: GivingTuesday | Tag: Nonprofits

Turn raw program data and participant outcomes into compelling narratives with data visualizations, stakeholder-specific insights, and authentic success stories that demonstrate real impact.

Write an impact report

Empower teaching and academic analysis through tools designed for syllabus optimization, interactive formula teaching, literature reviews, and visual lecture enhancement.

Plan your syllabus

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Education

Attach your syllabus and Claude shows which weeks are locked by real prerequisites and which you're free to rearrange — right in chat as you work through the order.

Plan your syllabus

Work through grant options in chat

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Education

Claude plots every funder in one view — odds, award, deadline, effort — and you filter, test scenarios, ask for a prioritization, narrow down together. For decisions where no single sort order shows the full picture.

Work through grant options in chat

Apply a formula as you learn it

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Education

Claude builds a blank scatter right in the conversation — you place the points, drag them, watch what happens to the fit. For when you can do the calculation but don't yet have a feel for it.

Apply a formula as you learn it

Bring your whiteboard lesson to life

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Education

Work through how to teach a concept with Claude sketching alongside. The visual streams in as part of the back-and-forth — a thinking tool for your prep first, and a teaching tool if you take it further.

Bring your whiteboard lesson to life

Visualize the mechanism behind an explanation mid-chat

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Education

Claude builds an interactive visual inline as you talk through the problem — shaped to the specific question you're asking, with controls you manipulate and buttons that drill deeper. Useful when a concept has moving parts text can't show.

Visualize the mechanism behind an explanation mid-chat

Map your lit review mid-conversation to surface the underlying debate

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Education

Claude reads your stack of papers and draws the argument structure inline — clusters by claim, tension lines where camps disagree, blind spots per group. A reading of the debate you test against your own, as you work through the set.

Map your lit review mid-conversation to surface the underlying debate

Chart your data in conversation with Claude before you commit to a reading

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Education

Upload a CSV and Claude builds the correlation grid inline, flagging the patterns worth a second look. The flags are a starting point — you click into what's interesting and the conversation goes from there.

Chart your data in conversation with Claude before you commit to a reading

Turn research into presentations

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Education

Learn how to turn research into presentations that stick. Claude helps translate findings into slide outlines and speaker notes that show what's compelling, how to structure the story, and which visuals would help—giving you the framework to build your presentation.

Turn research into presentations

Verify statistics from raw data

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Research

Learn to evaluate published statistics by checking them against raw data.

Verify statistics from raw data

Plan your literature review

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Research

With Claude as your research assistant, find relevant research, prioritize what to read, and organize evidence as you work through papers.

Plan your literature review

Create custom course materials

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Education

Transform handwritten equations and notes into formatted LaTeX documents without manual typesetting.

Create custom course materials

Practice case interviews with feedback

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Education

Work through consulting cases with structured frameworks, guidance, and intelligent feedback.

Practice case interviews with feedback

Plan your career path

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Education

Map the jobs you want to a career plan—skill gaps, timelines, people to contact, and specific next steps.

[Plan your career path]

Boost productivity inside your corporate organization by automating financial models, generating reports, managing campaigns, and performing deep-dive business analytics.

Draft a credit memo from spreads and statements with Claude for Excel

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Finance

Cowork pulls the borrower's filings and spreads through the S&P Capital IQ connector and reads the underwriting workbook from your deal folder. You take the ratios and exceptions into Claude for Excel to update the model, then bring the writeup into Claude for Word for the credit memo.

Draft a credit memo from spreads and statements with Claude for Excel

Validate reserves and draft filing narrative with Claude for Excel

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Finance

Cowork reads your reserve workbook from the valuation folder and pulls prior filings and bulletins through the NAIC connector. You take the formula flags and reserve walk into Claude for Excel to clean the workbook, then bring the narrative into Claude for Word for the filing memo.

Validate reserves and draft filing narrative with Claude for Excel

Update your financial model after earnings

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Finance

Cowork pulls the release and transcript from S&P and checks them against your financial model. You take the flags into Claude for Excel to edit the cells, then open the deck in Claude for PowerPoint to build the page.

Update your financial model after earnings

Build analysis from browser charts and folder data

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Pull your quarterly revenue from scattered board decks, then grab GDP and inflation data from FRED. Cowork creates a comparison chart showing how your growth stacks up against the macro environment.

Build analysis from browser charts and folder data

Size a market using your research

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

With Cowork, ask Claude a market question and get back an analysis with professional deliverables. Claude researches, calculates, and outputs a PowerPoint presentation, Excel workbook with detailed methodology, and Markdown source document with citations.

Size a market using your research

Reconcile transactions across your accounts

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Finance

Hand Cowork your bank exports and ledger files. It matches transactions across sources, flags discrepancies, and outputs an annotated reconciliation report.

Reconcile transactions across your accounts

Create brand assets

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Generate professional business cards, flyers, and marketing materials that match your exact branding guidelines—ready to print or edit.

Create brand assets

Contract redlining and negotiation

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Legal

Analyze agreements to spot terms affecting your work, with suggested redlines and negotiation points.

Contract redlining and negotiation

Package your brand guidelines in a skill

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Package your brand guidelines into a skill to create presentations, spreadsheets, or documents that automatically match your preferred style.

Package your brand guidelines in a skill

Understand and extend an inherited spreadsheet

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Finance

Understand existing formulas and structure then add new data while preserving the original logic.

Understand and extend an inherited spreadsheet

Explore what Claude can do for you

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

New to Claude? Start here. Tell Claude your role and get a personalized guide to the capabilities that will matter for your work.

Explore what Claude can do for you

Prep scattered documents for a compliance audit

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Legal

Turn a folder of scattered policy documents, contracts, and records into an organized, clearly named collection ready for regulatory review.

Prep scattered documents for a compliance audit

Surface themes from all your feedback channels

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Research

Synthesize feedback from call transcripts, Slack, CRM notes, and Linear issues to identify cross-platform patterns and generate prioritized product ideas.

Surface themes from all your feedback channels

Build a daily briefing across your tools

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Generate a daily briefing that pulls from Slack, Notion, and your team dashboard to surface priorities and connections you'd miss scanning each platform separately.

Build a daily briefing across your tools

Source insights from your tools to build a deck

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Claude Opus 4.6 chases leads across scattered sources, surfaces what no single source shows on its own, and builds a presentation around the through-line.

Source insights from your tools to build a deck

Evaluate a company from the science to the balance sheet

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Claude Opus 4.6 runs due diligence across SEC filings, clinical trial data, and patent documents at once, evaluating the science, modeling the financials, and catching where one contradicts the other.

Evaluate a company from the science to the balance sheet

Create a sales proposal presentation

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Sales

Create a polished client proposal deck with professional layouts data visualizations and cohesive design—then refine through feedback until it matches your standards.

Create a sales proposal presentation

Build financial models

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Finance

Create investment analyses with complete financial models, scenario planning, and risk evaluation.

Build financial models

Draft investment memos

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Finance

Generate investment memos from platform data, formatted to match your firm's structure and requirements.

Draft investment memos

Generate project status reports

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Pull status updates from your emails, Slack channels, meeting notes, and project tools to create a tracker that shows who's working on what, what's blocked, and where things stand—all in one place.

Generate project status reports

Adapt content across platforms

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Marketing

Transform one piece of content into multiple formats adapted for different platforms and audiences.

Adapt content across platforms

Analyze patterns in user feedback

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Find recurring themes and pain points across user feedback to separate meaningful patterns from noise.

Analyze patterns in user feedback

Analyze campaign performance

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Marketing

Analyze campaign performance data to identify your best and worst performing channels, then get specific budget reallocation recommendations for next quarter.

Analyze campaign performance

Track discovery timelines and analyze patterns

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Legal

Build chronologies and identify document patterns across large discovery productions.

Track discovery timelines and analyze patterns

Create new hire onboarding guides

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: HR

Turn standard company information and a new hire's specific details into a personalized welcome guide. Claude organizes logistics, schedules, and key contacts into one clear document that helps new employees feel prepared from day one.

Create new hire onboarding guides

Prepare for sales deals

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Sales

Pull relevant CRM data, like details on comparable opportunities, to prepare for upcoming sales conversations.

Prepare for sales deals

Quickly prep for your week

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Prepare and prioritize for your upcoming week through connecting your calendar and mail platforms.

Quickly prep for your week

Compare and analyze competing options

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Upload vendor proposals in any format and get a normalized comparison spreadsheet that extracts pricing structures, contract terms, and feature differences.

Compare and analyze competing options

Create sales reports

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Sales

Pull metrics from your CRM, analyze trends, and generate polished reports with data visualizations and strategic insights—all without manual data formatting.

Create sales reports

Create interactive PDF forms

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Turn forms from static documents into professional, interactive forms that people fill out right in their PDF reader.

Create interactive PDF forms

Create a process flowchart

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Turn written procedures into visual flowcharts that make complex processes easier to follow and share.

Create a process flowchart

Turn emails into an event tracker

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Build an event tracker by extracting dates, locations, and logistics from email threads.

Turn emails into an event tracker

Build a battle card library

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Sales

Turn sales losses and competitive data into ready-to-use battlecards with winning talk tracks, objection handlers, and differentiation strategies your team can use during actual calls.

Build a battle card library

Create a company newsletter

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Professional

Stay informed with a publication-style digest that synthesizes company news from all your channels.

Create a company newsletter

Build customer personas

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Marketing

Create personas with demographics, goals, and pain points synthesized from your research data.

Build customer personas

Organize daily schedules, explore health research, map biological frameworks, and develop custom, interactive tools to track goals or plan future trips.

Create a custom webpage

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Build a portfolio site to showcase your work and learn how to deploy it live without writing a line of code.

Create a custom webpage

Elevate Claude's design using skills

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Design a skill that automatically activates design principles into Claude’s outputs.

Elevate Claude's design using skills

Build interactive diagram tools

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

From body systems to molecular structures, turn a detailed prompt into a working reference app with the depth and design you specify.

Build interactive diagram tools

Build a custom bucket list

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Turn any tracker, organizer, or goal system you've imagined into a working interactive tool. Describe what you want and watch Claude build it.

Build a custom bucket list

Design a local foraging guide

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Build artifacts where the map is the menu. Select your state on an interactive map browse by category and export a printable reference.

Design a local foraging guide

Preclinical study analysis

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Life Sciences

Build study reports by connecting to research platforms and compiling data across experiments.

Preclinical study analysis

Genomic data analysis

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Life Sciences

With Claude as your research partner, analyze gene expression data to identify patterns and form testable hypotheses about biological mechanisms, while Claude handles the computational heavy lifting of bioinformatics and literature synthesis.

Genomic data analysis

Turn text threads to researched notes

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Search messages for information, research answers, and create organized notes directly in your Notes app.

Turn text threads to researched notes

Organize your business finances

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Finance

Create spreadsheets that bring clarity to your finances. Spot trends, filter what matters, and understand what your numbers are telling you.

Organize your business finances

Turn inspiration into design plans

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Turn your saved design inspirations into a personalized cost-effective renovation plan with a balanced investment strategy.

Turn inspiration into design plans

Create health and exercise notes

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Research specific exercises and save organized notes directly to your Notes app.

Create health and exercise notes

Create digital recipe cards

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Turn handwritten family recipes into digitally formatted recipes to save and share.

Create digital recipe cards

Create a daily travel itinerary

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Create a customized travel itinerary with intelligent guidance, adapting to your preferences and desired activities.

Create a daily travel itinerary

Debate practice with feedback

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Test your ideas against opposing views through an interactive tool where you defend your position and get real-time pushback.

Debate practice with feedback

Research and compare travel destinations

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Create a visual comparison spreadsheet from research with images, ratings, and insights to simplify your travel planning.

Research and compare travel destinations

Thoughtful gift giving with Claude

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Turn last-minute gift panic into thoughtful, personalized presents. Claude can suggest items, search your notes for forgotten hints, find specific products you can buy locally, and help you coordinate the actual shopping.

Thoughtful gift giving with Claude

Turn transit time into research time

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Research

Capture rough thoughts by voice on mobile, then let Claude research your ideas and produce polished deliverables at your desk. Claude maintains full context across devices, so your commute becomes productive thinking time.

Turn transit time into research time

Map your understanding and build lessons from the gaps

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Claude Opus 4.6 traces your confusion to its source. It maps what you already understand, finds the specific misconception underneath, and builds personalized learning experiences around it.

Map your understanding and build lessons from the gaps

Stress-test your financial plan across scenarios

• Creator: Anthropic | Tag: Personal

Claude Opus 4.6 tests a financial plan against a full range of possible outcomes, traces how each risk cascades through the rest, and builds a working model you can adjust yourself.

Stress-test your financial plan across scenarios

• Unified Tool Integrations: Features like Claude in Chrome and Claude Cowork allow Claude to break through sandbox limitations, executing complex operations directly on your local desktop, Google Drive, CRM databases, or open browser tabs.
• Dynamic Visualization in Chat: Many of Claude's features, from Theory of Change charts to Budget Scenarios and Syllabus Builders, render custom-tailored visual components that update in real time based on active prompts.
• Deep Cross-Document Auditing: Models like Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 support full-resolution processing, permitting complex comparative reviews of entire corporate folders (e.g., visual assets matching, multi-platform feedback synthesis, and due diligence reporting).
• Democratization of Code and Design: Tools like interactive diagram builders, foraging guide generators, and portfolio page creators allow individuals to develop functional, custom web apps and references without needing to write code manually.