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Claude Cowork: What Every Team Needs to Know

Everything you need to know about Anthropic's desktop AI agent—what it does, how to secure it, and how to use it across every department.

The Claude Cowork Cheat Sheet by What About AI? covers Anthropic's desktop AI agent — what it does, how to secure it, and how to use it effectively across every department. Includes setup, security best practices, and practical use cases for non-technical professionals.

Source: What About AI?

Key Insights from This Guide

Here are some of the most important findings. Download the full guide for complete analysis, action steps, and checklists.

Built After Security Failures in Unofficial Tools

Anthropic built Claude Cowork after the unofficial Claudebot tool gained one million users but exposed major security vulnerabilities including password and data exposure. Cowork delivers equivalent agent functionality with enterprise-grade security from day one.

A/B Testing Completed in Hours, Not Weeks

Using Cowork with marketing skill files containing past performance data, bounce rates, conversion data, and brand voice guidelines allows A/B testing to be completed in a single day—a process that would normally take weeks of human effort.

End-to-End Sales Pipeline Automation

Cowork auto-transcribes calls, extracts key details, updates CRM automatically, scrapes prospect profiles and purchase history, and drafts personalized outreach—converting a manual, multi-step sales process into an automated pipeline.

Plugin Ecosystem Expanding Daily

New integrations ship daily across CRM platforms (Salesforce, Apollo, HubSpot), transcription tools, and communication channels including Slack. The rapid expansion creates adoption opportunities but requires dedicated tracking to stay current.

What's Inside the Cheat Sheet

What Cowork Is

How Anthropic's desktop agent works, what it connects to, and why it's different from chatbots.

Security & Enterprise

How Cowork handles data security compared to Claudebot, and why businesses can actually approve it.

Sales Use Cases

CRM automation, call transcription, cold outreach research, and prospect tracking with Cowork.

Marketing Use Cases

Skill files, performance-based content, A/B testing at speed, and personalized copy generation.

Claudebot vs Cowork

The backstory on Claudebot, Moltbot, and why Anthropic built their own secure alternative.

Getting Started

Step-by-step setup for beginners, casual users, and professionals building with AI.

From the What About AI Podcast

This cheat sheet is based on our latest podcast episode about Claude Cowork. We break down what the desktop agent means for every department and how to get started securely.

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