How do I use Claude to automate my business?

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Start by pointing it at one repetitive writing-or-reading task with a clear input and output — summarising inbound emails, drafting replies from a template, extracting fields from documents. The value comes from wiring it into a system that triggers on its own, not from opening a chat window and pasting. Most businesses stall at the chat window. Someone gets a good result manually, but nothing changes operationally because a human still has to remember to do it. The step that produces savings is connecting the model to a trigger — a form submission, an inbound email, a new row — and to a destination, so the output lands where the work already lives. Good first candidates: classifying and routing inbound messages, extracting structured data from PDFs and statements, summarising calls into CRM notes, drafting first-pass replies for a human to approve. Bad first candidates: anything where a wrong answer is expensive and nobody checks it. We build these as background jobs against your own accounts, so the automation keeps running whether or not anyone opens a browser.