Repurpose a newsletter into social content
How I turned Claude from a chatbot to a real agent that runs my business and personal brand. Task: How I turned Claude from a chatbot to a real agent that runs my business and personal brand Welcome to the 1,135 of you who have joined us since last newsletter! I couldn’t be happier to have you as part of this community. Claude has kindly given us double limits for Cowork for a limited time only. Almost everyone I speak to gets stuck with what to actually use Cowork for, so I built this library to give you some of my best ideas. Enjoy, and feel free to share with a friend or coworker it might help. Last weekend I went to open Claude Chat to draft a quick caption for an Instagram reel, and I sat there for a second trying to remember the last time I’d actually used it. Three days. Maybe four. Which is wild, considering I spent six weeks building an entire Claude MBA Action Plan around it. But I now run about 80% of my work through Cowork and am utterly obsessed. I barely open a normal chat anymore and don’t think I could go back. However, if you’re just getting started with Cowork, you’ve probably run into a problem. The first thing I ever set up in Cowork was a daily brief with my priorities, inbox triage, and a news rundown waiting for me at 6am. It felt like magic for about a week, but I had no idea what else to do next. Everyone shows you the daily brief, desktop organisation and competitor research (I have no idea who actually wants to analyse their competitors on a daily basis…). But after building things that honestly saved me over 10 hours a week, I promise you that those use cases are just scratching the surface. The only thing holding you back is vision. It’s hard to build things when you don’t know what’s actually possible. So this whole edition is the picture: a library of the use cases I actually run with Cowork that I think are worth your time. From 5 June to 5 July, Anthropic have doubled the Cowork session limits on Pro, Max and Team plans, which means more room for Claude to do long, background work for you, free, for a few weeks. I do not want you to let that window pass running the same daily brief as everyone else, which is exactly why I’m sharing this now. I want to say upfront, most of these get dramatically better once Cowork understands your context extremely well, and has the skills set up to execute properly. That will be next week’s newsletter. For now, I want to give you a starting point so that when I hand you the system, you already know what to do with it. P.S. I’ve also included a prompt at the end that you can use to get Cowork to reveal your own personalised use cases, based on what it knows about you. The high-value tasks I never see anyone post about I never see these in a Cowork post, but they’re the ones that changed how much I actually get done. Take these as inspiration and customise to your situation. Connect Cowork to your inbox and have it read back through your last 12 months of emails, then build you a proper CRM in Notion. Every client, prospect, brand sponsor, partner, colleague and collaborator, with the last time you spoke, what it was about, where the relationship sits, and who you owe a reply. This is the job you know is valuable and have been meaning to do for a year, but never had a free weekend for. It runs in the background while you do something else. To brief it: connect Gmail and Notion, tell it your categories and the fields you want, and let it run. Give Cowork your website, Instagram, Substack, ad library or whatever social platforms you use and ask it to audit everything by doing a SWOT analysis and giving you a prioritised list of recommendations. This will tell you what’s performed well and why, what’s flopped and why, where opportunities lie that you’ve missed, and any threats you should keep an eye on. It is an outside eye on your own presence, except this eye has read every word you have published (and can compare it to everything else out there on the internet). To brief it: give Cowork context about your business or brand, plus the links to the channels you want analysed. Ask for an in-depth SWOT analysis plus a ranked recommendations list. If you record your calls through Fathom, Zoom or anything else, you are sitting on a gold mine of insights you have probably never actually read back through. Feed a batch to Cowork and ask it to find the patterns. For sales calls, have it compare the ones that closed against the ones that didn’t For sales calls, have it compare the ones that closed against the ones that didn’t; tools: Claude Cowork. Human role: The original post does not say how a person stayed involved.; limitations: This approach requires substantial upfront effort to build and refine voice guides, skills, and context files. It is not a 'magic' solution; poor setup leads to low-quality, generic content. The workflow assumes the user has a consistent 'hub and spoke' content strategy..
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How I turned Claude from a chatbot to a real agent that runs my business and personal brand
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How I turned Claude from a chatbot to a real agent that runs my business and personal brand Welcome to the 1,135 of you who have joined us since last newsletter! I couldn’t be happier to have you as part of this community. Claude has kindly given us double limits for Cowork for a limited time only. Almost everyone I speak to gets stuck with what to actually use Cowork for, so I built this library to give you some of my best ideas. Enjoy, and feel free to share with a friend or coworker it might help. Last weekend I went to open Claude Chat to draft a quick caption for an Instagram reel, and I sat there for a second trying to remember the last time I’d actually used it. Three days. Maybe four. Which is wild, considering I spent six weeks building an entire Claude MBA Action Plan around it. But I now run about 80% of my work through Cowork and am utterly obsessed. I barely open a normal chat anymore and don’t think I could go back. However, if you’re just getting started with Cowork, you’ve probably run into a problem. The first thing I ever set up in Cowork was a daily brief with my priorities, inbox triage, and a news rundown waiting for me at 6am. It felt like magic for about a week, but I had no idea what else to do next. Everyone shows you the daily brief, desktop organisation and competitor research (I have no idea who actually wants to analyse their competitors on a daily basis…). But after building things that honestly saved me over 10 hours a week, I promise you that those use cases are just scratching the surface. The only thing holding you back is vision. It’s hard to build things when you don’t know what’s actually possible. So this whole edition is the picture: a library of the use cases I actually run with Cowork that I think are worth your time. From 5 June to 5 July, Anthropic have doubled the Cowork session limits on Pro, Max and Team plans, which means more room for Claude to do long, background work for you, free, for a few weeks. I do not want you to let that window pass running the same daily brief as everyone else, which is exactly why I’m sharing this now. I want to say upfront, most of these get dramatically better once Cowork understands your context extremely well, and has the skills set up to execute properly. That will be next week’s newsletter. For now, I want to give you a starting point so that when I hand you the system, you already know what to do with it. P.S. I’ve also included a prompt at the end that you can use to get Cowork to reveal your own personalised use cases, based on what it knows about you. The high-value tasks I never see anyone post about I never see these in a Cowork post, but they’re the ones that changed how much I actually get done. Take these as inspiration and customise to your situation. Connect Cowork to your inbox and have it read back through your last 12 months of emails, then build you a proper CRM in Notion. Every client, prospect, brand sponsor, partner, colleague and collaborator, with the last time you spoke, what it was about, where the relationship sits, and who you owe a reply. This is the job you know is valuable and have been meaning to do for a year, but never had a free weekend for. It runs in the background while you do something else. To brief it: connect Gmail and Notion, tell it your categories and the fields you want, and let it run. Give Cowork your website, Instagram, Substack, ad library or whatever social platforms you use and ask it to audit everything by doing a SWOT analysis and giving you a prioritised list of recommendations. This will tell you what’s performed well and why, what’s flopped and why, where opportunities lie that you’ve missed, and any threats you should keep an eye on. It is an outside eye on your own presence, except this eye has read every word you have published (and can compare it to everything else out there on the internet). To brief it: give Cowork context about your business or brand, plus the links to the channels you want analysed. Ask for an in-depth SWOT analysis plus a ranked recommendations list. If you record your calls through Fathom, Zoom or anything else, you are sitting on a gold mine of insights you have probably never actually read back through. Feed a batch to Cowork and ask it to find the patterns. For sales calls, have it compare the ones that closed against the ones that didn’t For sales calls, have it compare the ones that closed against the ones that didn’t
Reported result
The author reports that this workflow saves significant time, though exact metrics are not provided. They note that without the specific context and skills setup, the output becomes 'generic slop.' The success depends heavily on the quality of the pre-loaded voice guides and reference materials.
Human role
The original post does not say how a person stayed involved.
Limitations
This approach requires substantial upfront effort to build and refine voice guides, skills, and context files. It is not a 'magic' solution; poor setup leads to low-quality, generic content. The workflow assumes the user has a consistent 'hub and spoke' content strategy.
Try it
I want to set up a content repurposing workflow using Claude Cowork. First, help me create a 'Voice Guide' by analyzing [replaceable input: 5-10 samples of my best past content]. Then, define specific 'Skills' for [replaceable input: target platforms, e.g., LinkedIn, Instagram]. Once these are saved, I will provide a new [replaceable input: newsletter/blog post URL or text]. Use the saved Voice Guide and Skills to generate: 1) A LinkedIn post, 2) An Instagram carousel outline, and 3) A short video script. Ensure the tone matches my voice guide exactly. Do not publish anything; just show me the drafts for approval.
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