Claude Cowork: It’s Claude Code for Everything
Yesterday morning, talking with my cofounder, I said, "Claude Code is so great at being a generally capable AI agent platform. With skills, sub-agents, and tool use, it can do so much more than just write code. Wouldn't it be great if non-technical people could use it as well?"
Well, someone must have been spying on that conversation, because that same day, Anthropic (the company behind Claude), released Claude Cowork: https://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview
Currently just a preview on the expensive plans, I recommend checking it out. Consider it a hands-on way of getting a sense of what AI agents are capable of. The linked website already has some cool examples of what it can do, and I'm sure we'll see a ton of clever uses. For example, here is Simon Willison, creator of Django, showing how he asked Claude Cowork to analyze his blog post drafts: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/12/claude-cowork/
Other uses I've already heard about:
Link Cowork to project plans, calendars, and task lists to come up with a plan for the day
Have it organize, categorize, and file away the stuff in your messy Downloads folder
Point it to a folder of scanned receipts and have it create a spreadsheet with expenses
What's great is that you can then use Claude Skills to explain your business processes and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for easily repeatable work. We're still in the early days, but I feel that Anthropic, with Claude, Claude Code, and now Claude Cowork, has been putting a lot of care into their product decisions. Cowork isn't based on a newer, fancier AI model. Instead, it's based on smart choices in how the user experience is designed.
Now I want to know from you: What do you think about Claude Cowork? Does it seem like something you'd want to try for your business? Anything you're unsure about? Hit reply and let me know.
