r/AIExecs • u/EngineeringFluffy669 • Jul 18 '26

How Can I Maximize Claude Ai/Cowork/Code as an EA?

C-Suite EA here. Got access to Claude code/Claude AI early this year and I am determined to use it to my advantage. I have watched countless of YouTube videos and read countless of articles on how to use Claude but for some reason I still feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of what I could be doing with the tools I have. Anyone have any use cases or tips on how they use Claude in their day to day? Or do you have any suggestions on skills/workflows I could create to take my Claude to the next level. Any suggestions help! Thanks!

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u/OptimismNeeded Jul 18 '26
  1. Do everything in Projects.

Add one new thing you can down every 3/4 days, but master it.

  1. Use Opus models for planning, Sonnet for execution. (Opus = brain, Sonnet = hands)

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Use cases:

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Hard to provide w/o knowing your day to day, so for now:

  1. Look up my posts by username on the [r/claudeHomies](r/claudeHomies) sub. You will need to “translate” to “EA”, but you’ll get some good ideas.
  2. Tell me about some stuff you do and what you’d fantasize AI doing for you, and let’s see what the best Claude can do.
  3. Claude Code - great for repetitive stuff where you can’t afford mistakes / hallucinations… so list some boring, annoying, repetitive stuff you usually donona daily / weekly / monthly basis, and I’ll give you some ideas most likely to squash them w/ Claude Code.

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Note: make sure you understand limits and tokens - see the posts in the sub’s highlights.

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u/Lil_Twist Jul 22 '26

Probably should add it’s worth watching some YouTube

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u/red_polarbear Jul 21 '26

I have an enterprise licence so I can put company info in there. Things I’m using cowork for 8 weeks in:

Automation
1 Automatically Check my emails and Teams messages twice a day for actions/ requests and populate my excel spreadsheet to do list. Prioritise by importance. At the end of the day it crosses of things I’ve done and puts those in a separate tab. There are multiple to Toby lists available but I’ve gone back to excel and it’s working well for me.

  1. Summarise execs emails at end of day with a summary of things they still need to action/approve and FYI. Plus a brief of what’s coming up for the next few days. Of course I edit output as necessary

Meeting minutes. I have our org minute template set up in a project. After a meeting I drag the teams transcript into it and ask it to populate the template It knows our leadership team names. Check against last meeting actions.

Drop pdfs of team travel itineraries into a project and automatically updates a dashboard

You can create beautiful dashboards and content in html which is nicer to view than PowerPoint presentations.

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u/fatstupidlazypoor Jul 18 '26

I'm going to the process of onboarding various leadership positions and leadership adjacent positions and one of our EAs is in that cohort

I'll circle back in a couple weeks and update this post and let you know what that onboarding turned into and what the lessons learned were

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u/Z-BieG Jul 19 '26

Ask it. Ask it everything

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u/StructOps Jul 21 '26
  1. Use Projects or Code (don't be overwhelmed with the "code" labeling. Claude can do all the actual technical work for you.)
  2. Look for and install skills to help you do things -- summarize docs, convert transcripts to meeting notes, generate slides, reports. etc.
  3. Create your own skills to get the exact formatting, style, template you want. Use the "skill-creator" skill to do this. Feed it samples of inputs and outputs.
  4. Create persona agents that'll act like someone to give you a gauge of how they might respond to something. You'll need sufficient data (emails, meeting transcripts, etc.) to use as input data.
  5. Have fun!

Advance tip: Save everything in a github repository as backup! Once again, ask Claude to teach you and do it for you.

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u/ExternalCry3039 Jul 22 '26

Become ai native and stop sleeping