Last week you built your AI coach. This week I'm going to show you features that launched this month that most people don't even know exist yet — including one from 3 days ago.
Let's see how the AI coach held up in the real world.
Before we dive in — who used their AI coach this week? What did you use it for? What surprised you?
Share in the room. The best use cases usually aren't the ones you'd predict — they come from people applying the coach to problems they deal with every day.
"The people who get the most out of AI aren't the ones with the best prompts — they're the ones who actually use it consistently. If you used your coach 3+ times this week, you're already ahead of 95% of people."
Tonight we go deeper. Same AI, way more capability. Let's get into it.
Not all models are created equal. Picking the right one for the job saves time and gets better results.
Using Opus for every quick question, burning through your usage limit by lunch
Using Sonnet for fast tasks, switching to Opus only when you need deep reasoning
Fast, efficient, great for 90% of daily tasks. Emails, brainstorming, quick analysis, first drafts. Your everyday workhorse.
Deep reasoning, nuanced writing, complex analysis. Use for strategy, long documents, or when Sonnet's output feels shallow.
Opus has a feature most people don't know about: Extended Thinking. Instead of answering immediately, it reasons through the problem step by step — like watching someone think out loud before giving you an answer.
Watch what happens when we give Opus a real business decision with Extended Thinking turned on:
"Extended Thinking is for decisions you'd normally agonize over for days. Let Opus do the agonizing in 30 seconds, then use its output as a starting point for your own thinking."
Claude has capabilities most people never discover. We're going to fix that right now.
Claude can remember things about you across conversations — your name, role, preferences, how you like responses formatted. It's not just nice-to-have: it means you stop repeating yourself every time you start a new chat.
How to see it: Open Claude → Settings → Memory. You'll see everything Claude has remembered about you. You can edit or delete any of it.
Why it matters: Memory is what turns Claude from a generic tool into your tool. The more it knows about you, the less prompting you need to do. Tell it your role, your industry, your communication style — and it will adapt automatically in every future conversation.
This is the main hands-on exercise. Projects let you create dedicated workspaces with uploaded documents and custom instructions. Think of it as giving Claude a briefing packet it reads before every conversation. Whether you're running a business, managing work projects, or organizing personal research — Projects give you a dedicated space where Claude already knows the context.
You are my strategic business advisor for [Company Name]. You have access to my business documents — reference them when answering questions. When I ask for analysis: - Start with the key insight, not a summary - Flag risks I might be overlooking - Connect your answer to the specific numbers and facts in my uploaded docs - Be direct — I don't need encouragement, I need clarity My role: [your role] My top priorities this quarter: [list them]
You are my personal knowledge assistant for [project/subject]. You have access to my uploaded documents — reference them when answering questions. When I ask for help: - Start with the most relevant information from my docs - Point out connections I might be missing - Be specific — reference the actual content in my uploaded files - Keep it practical and actionable My context: [your role — e.g. student, employee, researcher] What I'm working on: [describe your goal]
Now test it: ask your project a question about your documents. Notice how it references your actual files — not generic advice.
When Claude generates a document, report, or piece of content, it can create an Artifact — a standalone panel that appears next to the conversation. You can iterate on it, edit it, and download it without losing the chat context.
Try it: Ask Claude to "Create a one-page executive summary of [topic]" — it'll generate it as an artifact you can refine in real time.
Paste numbers into Claude and ask for a chart. That's it. No spreadsheet, no chart tool, no formatting. Just paste your data and say "visualize this."
You can set a default response style so Claude writes the way you want — every time. Go to Settings → Styles. Choose from presets or create your own. This changes how Claude writes across all conversations.
Good candidates for custom styles: "Be concise, use bullet points, no fluff." Or: "Write in a professional but warm tone, use analogies to explain complex ideas." Whatever matches how you actually communicate.
This feature launched days ago. Most people don't know it exists yet. It changes what's possible.
Dispatch lets you send tasks to Claude from your phone — and Claude executes them on your desktop in real time. You're at lunch, on a walk, in a meeting. You think of something. You open Claude on your phone, send the task, and by the time you get back to your desk, it's done.
Watch this. I'm going to:
"This is the moment it stops being a chatbot and starts being an assistant. You give it work. It does the work. You come back to finished results."
"Go through my unread emails, summarize the important ones, and draft responses for the top 3 that need action."
"Sort my Downloads folder — move documents to Documents, images to Photos, delete anything older than 30 days."
"Draft follow-up emails to the 3 clients I met with this week. Reference the meeting notes in my Documents folder."
If you have Claude Pro and the Claude Desktop app installed, let's get you set up right now:
Set it and forget it. Claude can run tasks on a schedule — and interact with your computer like a human would.
Tell Claude to do something on a recurring schedule. Every morning, every Monday, once a week — whatever cadence you need. The syntax is simple:
/schedule every weekday at 8am Compile my morning briefing: - Check my calendar for today's meetings - Summarize any important emails from overnight - List my top 3 priorities based on what's on my plate - Flag anything that needs immediate attention Save the briefing as a note so I can review it with coffee.
That's it. Every weekday morning, Claude runs this task automatically. You wake up to a briefing that's already written.
Computer Use lets Claude interact with your desktop the way a human would: opening apps, clicking buttons, typing into fields, navigating browsers. It can see your screen and take actions on it.
Claude can launch applications, switch between windows, and navigate menus — just like you would.
Navigate to websites, fill out forms, extract information from web pages, take screenshots of results.
Combine multiple steps into one task: open a spreadsheet, extract data, paste it into an email, send it.
Here's where it gets powerful. These three features combine:
"Schedule triggers Dispatch. Dispatch triggers Computer Use. You set it up once and Claude handles it autonomously — every day, every week, whatever cadence you choose."
Every Monday morning you manually check emails, compile a summary, update a spreadsheet, and send a team update. Takes 45 minutes.
You set up a scheduled task: every Monday at 7am, Claude checks your email, compiles the summary, updates the spreadsheet, and drafts the team update. You just review and send.
Start with one scheduled task. The morning briefing is the easiest win. Once you trust the output, add more.
Individual features are useful. Combining them is where the leverage gets absurd.
Project + Uploaded Docs. Upload a contract to a Project. Ask: "What should concern me? What's missing? What are the non-standard terms?" Claude references the actual document.
Dispatch from Phone. Walking to a meeting? Send a Dispatch task: "Brief me on [client] — pull from our last 3 conversations and any docs in the project." Read it on your phone.
Scheduled Task + Artifacts. Every Friday at 4pm, Claude compiles your week: tasks completed, decisions made, priorities for next week. Delivered as a clean artifact you can share.
Pick one of these workflows — or come up with your own — and let's build it right now. The goal: leave tonight with at least one automated workflow that saves you real time next week.
Questions? Anything we covered tonight that you want to go deeper on? Let's talk through it.
Next week we connect Claude to the rest of your digital life. MCP integrations — Model Context Protocol. This is how Claude talks directly to Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, Google Drive, and more.
Instead of copy-pasting information between tools, Claude will live inside your tools. It reads your calendar to prep for meetings. It checks your email to prioritize your morning. It updates your Notion workspace based on what you tell it.
"Week 1 you built the brain. Week 2 you gave it hands. Week 3 you connect it to everything."
Real questions from the live session — the stuff that doesn't fit neatly into the lesson.
Put these features to work this week. Build a Project, try Dispatch, set a schedule. Come back next week and we'll connect Claude to everything.