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How to use the 3 new Claude Cowork features that have changed my life · In The Loop

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  So today's episode is about Claude's new capabilities, which
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  enable you to actually experience the phenomenon of
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  Open Claw in a much more secure and Safeway.
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  If you haven't listened to last week's episode, we'll be delving
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  into some of the most exciting things Open Claw brought to the
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  world and how Claude has now brought it to everybody else.
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  Because over the past month, Anthropic has shipped more
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  incredible features to Claude than most companies ship it a
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  year. They are on a generational run
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  and it's why we're doing a number of episodes on them.
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  Computer use, dispatch schedule tasks, and and honestly just so
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  many more. And I can guarantee most people
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  see announcements or hear about them but don't do anything with
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  it. And after just a couple of weeks
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  of using these new features, I am honestly obsessed.
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  I'm in love. It's led to the biggest impact
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  on how I work with any feature ever released, probably since
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  Chachi PT. And I'm truly not over
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  exaggerating. This is a very practical
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  episode. I'm going to walk through the
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  top three features that will most likely change how you work
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  day-to-day for the rest of your life, how to set them up, and
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  exactly the best use cases. I'd recommend you start with
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  This is In the Loop with Jack Horn.
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  Hope you enjoy the show. Obviously for all those that
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  TuneIn every single week, you'll probably know that I've done a
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  number of episodes on Claude and Claude Co work and normally I
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  wouldn't try to cover a single topic too much, but really right
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  now they are doing incredible things.
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  They've actually just taken over open AI's run rate in revenue.
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  They are blowing up and honestly, all these new features
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  are quite amazing because if you've been paying attention to
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  the AI agent space and in the loop you, you'll obviously know
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  that Openclaw has been the thing many, many people are talking
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  about right now. And I covered it in last week's
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  episode. By the end of this episode, I
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  hope many people go back and do listen to last week's episode.
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  It'll be a really helpful explainer about why all these
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  features are so important. But in short, it launched
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  earlier this year. It became the fastest growing
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  open source project in history. It literally took over Linux as
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  the most downloaded and accessed open source project ever.
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  And by the way, Linux, for those that don't know, is the basis of
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  most modern operating systems. And Open Core importantly
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  introduced a pattern of how AI agents are built that has
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  clearly resonated with basically everybody.
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  It's always on. It's running on your computer.
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  You can message it from your phone, it can browse the web, it
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  can control your screen and just do actual real amazing work.
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  And it can access skills that you've made or skills ecosystem
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  other people have made. So it can certainly string many
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  different specialized tasks together, literally set up
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  anything on your PC that you need it to and take any action
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  basically that is possible for a human to take.
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  But the problem was that open core A required quite a lot of
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  technical setup. It has a lot of security risks
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  and therefore often needed people to buy a Mac mini or some
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  sort of dedicated local machine that basically you leave turned
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  on permanently and that isn't connected to anything like your
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  banking details or IP that maybe the company you work for has.
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  Because ultimately you could access anything on your
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  computer, which is really powerful, but also, as you can
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  imagine, quite dangerous because it's an open source ecosystem
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  and people have snuck a lot of nasty prompt injections into
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  like skills and other things within the open core ecosystem
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  that are hard to prevent or sometimes spot.
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  Well, Anthropic over this past kind of two to four weeks has
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  basically been shipping the exact same set of capabilities.
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  So scheduling remote control use from, you know, any different
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  device computer use, but inside a much safer environment for
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  their Co work product. Now, if you don't know much
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  about claw Co work or skills or open claw again, go back to
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  those episodes. They'll provide a really
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  interesting basis for you to get the most out of this episode.
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  And as a result of cord shipping all these new things, you now
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  don't need a dedicated machine. You don't need to be super
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  technical. It's much safer, though still
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  can be risky if you don't take simple precautions.
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  And as a result, I think most people listening to this podcast
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  should now go and set this up ASAP.
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  And the three features that make this work and what we'll talk
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  about today, as well as the use cases that you should start with
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  are scheduled tasks, something called dispatch and then
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  computer use. Everything else like connectors,
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  skills, plugins is supporting infrastructure that makes those
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  three things just infinitely better.
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  So let's start with scheduled tasks because this is where the
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  always on agent experience starts.
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  And to be honest, once you've got a bunch of skills and you've
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  got a bunch of plugins or connectors, so so essentially
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  integrations and MCPS, this is where your life just starts to
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  get better. So for example, if you type
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  schedule into clock Co work and you say, I want to set up a task
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  that runs on a recurring basis, let's say every Monday, every
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  Friday, every few hours, whatever that task needs, you
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  then write a prompt. So that would be the instruction
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  for what clock should go. And do you choose which
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  connectors it should use. So if you connect to Gmail or
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  Slack or your CRM, the scheduled task, we'll just pull from those
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  as it needs to. You can set a frequency and then
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  it just runs. And every time it fires, Claude
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  basically runs that set of prompts.
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  You have to have your PC turned on for it to happen.
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  It will access any skills that you've got.
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  It'll access any MCPS that you've got access to and it will
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  just run the task and it will pop up called scheduled tasks on
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  your left hand NAV on Claude and it will literally come up.
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  So like morning e-mail triage with all the, you know, emails
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  that have come through, prioritize based on where you
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  should respond and it can even write them and you can just
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  approve send this e-mail, don't send that e-mail.
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  And it really is that simple for anybody that uses claw code a
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  lot in Visual Studio Code or whatever IDE that you might be
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  using, you'll be very familiar with the fact that you just tell
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  Claude to go and do it for you. And because it can access your
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  PC, which will come on to you in a minute through bash commands
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  and things like that, or it can go install things from the web
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  and set it up for you to help you actually set things up
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  without having to manually click around.
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  You get very used to saying you go do it for me, or if it says I
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  can't do that, you're lying. Go and do that for me until you
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  reach a point where it truly can't do that.
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  As you'll start to learn there's very few things that it cannot
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  do on your PC. So yeah, every time you want to
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  do something, I just want you to go to the chat and say do this
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  for me. Set up this scheduled task.
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  And I'm going to give you a few example, you know, use cases
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  that you should start with with scheduled tasks.
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  And if you dedicate, let's say one hour of your time, don't
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  overthink it at all. Just set it up.
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  I promise that you'll have some really, really helpful tasks set
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  up that are going to change how you look at AI.
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  So one of my favourites is a morning e-mail and Slack triage.
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  So I've connected my Gmail and my Slack and my calendar to it.
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  It also has access to other sources of information.
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  So it has access to HubSpot. It also has access to
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  monday.com, which is a project management tool that we use.
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  So it finds all the different emails and then essentially
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  based on a criteria that I've given instructions for, it
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  triages it. So I wake up literally, and it
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  says these are all the emails, Top priority, medium, low
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  priority. It also provides a summary of
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  any newsletters or potential just emails I've been CC Ed on
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  that I don't need to take action on and a suggested reply to each
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  one of them. Now I might think, well that's
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  not helpful. It doesn't know how I speak.
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  Well, because it has access to my Gmail and my Slack, I've
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  actually created a skill which is essentially my tone of voice
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  based on the medium I'm speaking in.
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  So it literally has a skill called Jack's tone of Voice and
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  that basically summarizes the way that I speak.
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  And it will then draft responses it based on that.
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  And because it's connected to Gmail, it can draft and then
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  send an e-mail. The only thing it can't do
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  unfortunately is delete things for me.
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  And as well as that skill for my tone of voice, I've created
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  another one, which is my categorization rule.
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  So how do I decide what's high, medium and low priority?
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  So again, that scheduled task, which is triage my emails then
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  says use XYZ skills that you've made and it already has access
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  to the integrations that I've set up.
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  And the way I set those integrations up, by the way, is
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  you've got a connectors library on cloud or go and say to cloud,
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  find the MCP server for Gmail or whatever software you use and go
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  and set it up for me. And it will just go through
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  processes. Now on the connector library for
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  those that have got Mac or if you look for a specific tool
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  called desktop Commander, it can actually access your terminal.
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  So it can act as a human on your PC.
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  So it can literally set up anything.
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  So I always often just say go and find the MCP server for X
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  system. Go set it up for me.
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  And if it says I need you to do these things, just go, no,
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  you're lying. I want you to do them for me.
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  Use desktop commander. Now you can find desktop
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  commander. I've also got control your Mac
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  and also clawed in Chrome. These are tools on the clawed
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  library of connectors that you can just add in a couple of
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  minutes. And then from there it can
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  basically set up anything for you through conversations.
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  So you don't need to be super technical.
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  Another use case, for example, that's a scheduled task is a
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  meta automation workflow. So I plugged it into Slack
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  Calendar Monday, all the different systems, and it
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  basically once a week does a massive scan of all tasks or
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  things that I might be doing. And it suggests exact ways to
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  automate specific tasks. And it gives me a prompt to give
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  to Claude, which would then create a scheduled task and any
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  skills that it needs or integrations that it needs to go
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  and automate that task for me. Again, the objective is to
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  constantly minimize the amount of things I'm doing that I don't
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  need to do. So yeah, I've got prep meetings.
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  I've got a daily slot catch up. I've got one which is customer
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  voice, so it scans all information from all customers.
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  The list kind of goes on. So yeah, the pattern's always
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  the same. A scheduled task for when to run
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  it, the right connectors, which you can set up by giving access
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  to Desktop Commander Control, My Mac, and Claude in Chrome.
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  And then it will do it all for you.
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  And every time you want to improve a task, you just tell
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  Claude, I want to improve the scheduled task and it can do it
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  for you through a conversation. OK, so let's move on to feature
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  #2 which is dispatch. Dispatch lets you control all of
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  this from your phone. So it's a basically a persistent
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  conversation with Claude that runs on your desktop, but you
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  can access it remotely. For those that made the switch
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  to Claude Co work, you will now know that essentially because it
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  runs on your PC and it's saving files to your PC, you have to
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  access it from your PC. Whereas what happens here is
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  that you can essentially force your Mac or your PC to stay
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  turned on when dispatch from your phone is on.
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  So you can force your PC to stay on while it's running tasks on
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  your phone, and you can just give it more and more
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  instructions. Setting it up takes minutes.
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  You literally just open the core desktop up, click dispatch on
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  the left hand sidebar, Click to get started.
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  And essentially you can scan the QR code with your phone and it
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  will pair with your desktop. So yeah, you can then send it
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  tasks. It'll do it for you.
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  You can interact it from your phone.
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  And this is where scheduled tasks become really powerful
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  because you can check the outputs, you can look at this
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  information, or you could just get it to go and do a really big
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  chunky, powerful task whilst you're on the move.
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  If anyone remembers or listened to the episode of of why AI
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  doesn't reduce the amount of time you spend working well,
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  this is another good example of it.
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  Suddenly you just have this hugely powerful system at your
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  fingertips 24/7. So every idea that pops into
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  your head, you can just quickly voice note it into this into
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  Claude on your phone and away it goes.
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  And Paval Haran, who who wrote a really detailed and great
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  breakdown about all these new features after about 48 hours of
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  testing, described this shift quite well, which is your phone
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  is now the command chair. Your desktop does the heavy
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  lifting and and then said dispatch didn't fill my dead
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  time. It changed how I structured my
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  day. I went to the jump arena with my
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  kids because I could direct work async from the sidelines.
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  Now the same constraint applies. So your desktop must be open and
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  the app must be open. But once it's running, you can
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  do this work from anywhere. OK #3 computer use.
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  So desktop commander control your Mac clawed in Chrome, these
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  amazing abilities to allow claw to completely take over your
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  computer. You know, once it's on, it can
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  see your screen, it can control your mouse, it can access your
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  terminal. It can literally set up any
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  application when you ask cloud to do something and if it has a
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  connector for that service, it you know, Slack, Gmail,
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  whatever, it can use that connector first.
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  It's super, super easy. And when there's no connector,
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  it could then open up a tab on your laptop and access the
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  website through SSO. So through a normal like Google
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  sign in. So as long as you sign into the
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  application, it will work. Or with those three
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  applications, and I'm going to keep saying them because they're
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  important, Desktop Commander, control your Mac Claude in
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  Chrome, suddenly it can actually set up integrations for you.
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  So again, if you use those three applications and tools, it can
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  quite literally access and do anything you want.
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  And it can set up integrations for anything you need as long as
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  there's an MCP server out there in the world by this company.
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  And most of the big, big companies have provided MCP
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  servers for pretty much everything you can imagine.
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  Claude can connect to it. You can then literally have one
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  place where you can scan every system in the entire world and
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  run scheduled tasks on it. It's that amazing.
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  And like, just to give you an example, I've set it up in
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  literally took me about an hour, set it up to monday.com
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  fireflies. I set it up to Gong, which is
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  where the team essentially have all like calls with prospects
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  into it. I've got Slack, I've got
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  HubSpot, I've got Google Calendar, Figma, G Drive, Gmail.
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  And because I've got about 25 different skills that are really
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  appropriate for everything from work to personal life, suddenly
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  from my phone, I can now just do almost anything.
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  It is truly that magical and it will change how you think about
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  work forever. And the best bit is, and I'm
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  going to keep saying this because it's not important.
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  If you need help, go to Claude on Claude Co work just like you
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  would on Claude code in Visual Studio Code and say, help me set
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  this thing up. And as long as you've given it
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  the right access, it can do it for you.
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  And if it says no, I can't do this, you go, you are lying.
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  Go and do it for me anyway.
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  So what does all of this mean? Well, the combination of these
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  three new features is such a major development for people
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  using AI every day. Scheduled tasks means work
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  happens automatically for you, dispatch enables you to direct
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  it from everywhere, and computer use control your Mac desktop
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  commander. These new tools allow you to get
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  AI to do everything for you to set these things up together.
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  They give you something genuinely resembling an always
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  on assistant which can truly do things that are remarkable,
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  which is exactly what Opencloud demonstrated that people wanted.
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  And now it's just delivered in a way that doesn't have as much
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  risk, is super simple, super friendly and all bundled into
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  your $20.00 or £20 a month license.
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  And the only problem with it is that you will consume more
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  credits than you ever imagined. So you do have to set it for a
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  smaller language model or a cheaper language model.
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  So yeah, the gap between people who have seen this and people
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  have set this up is going to continue to widen.
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  We're in AK shaped economy where on the one hand, those people
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  that adopt this quickly are going to be 10X people and in
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  10X the output and 10X more valuable and those that don't
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  are going to fall behind so quickly.
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  It's worrying. See, I start with scheduled
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  tasks, dispatch computer, use command my PC, set up the
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  morning triage or a task that is really simple for you to get
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  your head around and then go from there.
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  Anyway, thanks for listening and I'll see you next time.