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0:00Now, every single day, Claude Co-work
0:01searches for the latest trending AI
0:03topics in my niche and writes the posts
0:06for all of my social media platforms in
0:08my exact brand voice and they get
0:10published automatically without me even
0:12having to open up a single app. Another
0:15workflow checks my emails every single
0:17morning, it drafts replies and it has
0:20all of them ready before I've even had
0:22my first cup of coffee for the morning.
0:24Before I take my first sip. Every task
0:27that used to take me all day is already
0:29done. And in this video today, I am
0:32going to be walking you through
0:33everything that you need to know about
0:35Claude Co-work from the setup and the
0:38key features to building a full workflow
0:40like this from scratch. And by the end
0:43of this video, you'll know exactly how
0:45to set this up for yourself. Not a demo,
0:48not a concept, something that is real
0:50that saves you hours every single week.
0:54And everything that I'm going to be
0:55showing you in today's video, the
0:56prompts, the brand voice template, the
0:58skill files, all of it is inside our
1:01free school community. There's already
1:02over 27,000 people already in there and
1:05they're already building and helping
1:06each other out. So, what are you waiting
1:08for? Go and check it out. The link is
1:10down in the description. But right now,
1:12let's get started. So, now starting off,
1:15it's very important that we set up our
1:17workspace, okay? So, let's start off by
1:19downloading the Claude desktop app,
1:21okay? So, you're going to go over to
1:23claude.ai
1:24and then you're going to hit download
1:26and you are going to install it. And
1:27then you're going to sign in with your
1:29existing account. You are going to need
1:31the Pro or the Max plan for Co-work to
1:34actually work for you, okay? So, once
1:36you are in, you'll see three tabs at the
1:38top. It's going to be chat, Co-work and
1:41code. Then you're going to click on
1:42Co-work and it's going to ask you to
1:44select a folder. Now, this is really
1:46important, okay? Don't point it at your
1:48desktop or even documents folder.
1:51>> [music]
1:51>> Co-work works inside whatever folder you
1:53give it, okay? So, it reads the files,
1:56it creates the files, and also it saves
1:58the output. So, all of that is inside
2:01one specific folder that you choose. So,
2:03basically, if you give it your whole
2:04computer, things are going to get messy
2:06really fast. So, what I would suggest is
2:09creating a brand new empty folder, okay?
2:12Then, you're going to call it Co Work
2:14Workspace, and then you're going to
2:15point Co Work at that folder. And now
2:17that it has a home, everything that it
2:19builds will live right here. Okay, so,
2:22let's create one file inside that
2:24folder. Then, we're going to call it
2:26about-me.md, okay? And then, you're
2:28going to
2:30write two paragraphs, basically who you
2:33are, what your business does, who your
2:35audience is, what you care about, and
2:37then [music] Claude reads this at the
2:39start of every single session. Now, you
2:42never ever have to re-explain yourself
2:44ever again, okay? And the cool thing is
2:45that Claude reads this at the start of
2:47every session, meaning that you never
2:49have to re-explain yourself ever again.
2:51Okay, so now, last thing, go over to the
2:53settings, and then you're going to click
2:54the Co Work tab, and then you're going
2:56to add global instructions. So, these
2:58are the rules that apply to every single
3:01Co Work session. Now, mine says, "Always
3:03confirm before deleting or overriding
3:06any file." It's important to keep these
3:08responses concise and to [music] have
3:10basically no filler. Now, think of this
3:12as that initial [music] brief that you
3:15would give a new hire on day one, okay?
3:18Someone just arrived in your company,
3:20and you're giving this to them on the
3:21very first day of work. Basically, you
3:23write it once, and it lasts forever.
3:25They'll always know that thing. Now, one
3:27tip that saves me a lot of headaches is
3:30basically just to set up your computer
3:32so that it never sleeps while it's
3:35plugged in. Co Work runs locally on your
3:37machine, so if your laptop falls asleep
3:39in the middle of a task, it just stops.
3:41Now, later on in the video, I am
3:42actually going to be showing you how to
3:44send tasks to Co Work straight from your
3:46phone using Dispatch. So, you're going
3:48to want to stick around for that. But,
3:49[music] also, on that note, that only
3:52works if your computer is awake, okay?
3:54So, keep that in mind.
3:55>> [music]
3:55>> Now, that's your workspace. The folder,
3:59the context file, the global
4:00instructions, the sleep settings,
4:01everything from here builds on top of
4:05this.
4:05Now, let's get into the skills and
4:08connectors.
4:08>> [music]
4:09>> So, there are two things that you need
4:11to set up before you run a single
4:12workflow. That is the skills and
4:15connectors. So, do these once and every
4:18future task get significantly better.
4:21Let's start off with the skills. On the
4:22left sidebar, click on customize and
4:24then on skills. Now, without skills, you
4:27are basically explaining how you want
4:29things done from scratch every single
4:31time. And I mean, that can take a lot of
4:33time. So, now, with a skill, you
4:35basically just teach it once.
4:37>> [music]
4:37>> You teach it the steps, the format, the
4:39rules, and then it follows that playbook
4:41every single time. And, let's honestly,
4:44it's the difference between training an
4:46employee once versus re-explaining the
4:49job every single morning during a brief.
4:52You can kind of get a why it's going to
4:53save you so much time. Now, you want to
4:55click on browse plugins. And then,
4:58you're going to search for the marketing
5:00plugin and then you're going to install
5:01it. And this gives you pre-built skills:
5:05draft content, brand review, campaign
5:07plan, SEO audit, and also email
5:10sequence. Now, you are going to
5:11customize them later. And now, let's set
5:14up our connectors. Go back to customize
5:16and then click on connectors. Now, this
5:18is where you link the tools that you
5:20already use to Co-Work. So, for example,
5:23it'd be things like Gmail, Google Drive,
5:26Google Calendar, your Slack as well.
5:29These aren't integrations that just pass
5:32data. So, Co-Work genuinely uses these
5:34tools the same way that you would. So,
5:37just connect the ones that are relevant
5:39to your workflow. Now, if a tool that
5:41you need isn't in the built-in list, you
5:43can simply just add yourself through a
5:45custom MCP connection. And that's
5:47exactly what we're doing with Blotato. I
5:51always connect Blotato as well. I use
5:53CoWork to handle my research and create
5:56posts for my audience. So, it's
5:57literally my full content agent. But, at
6:01some point, that content needs to get
6:03published. So, Blotato is what gets it
6:06there. It's a social media automation
6:08tool, which lets you connect your social
6:10accounts, and it handles the scheduling,
6:12the posting across LinkedIn, X,
6:15Instagram, TikTok, the works. And it
6:17does all of that from one place. Now,
6:20this alone it saves me hours every
6:22single week. I don't have to manually
6:23post on all of these places. And to
6:26connect it, all you have to do is just
6:27scroll down to add custom [music]
6:29connector, and then you name it Blotato,
6:31you paste in the URL, and I'll just
6:34leave that in the description to make it
6:35easier for you. And then, you're going
6:37to hit connect. [music] And now, your
6:39browser opens, you'll approve access,
6:41and that's it. Now, once you're in
6:44Blotato, all you have to do is just head
6:45over to accounts, and then connect your
6:47social profiles. So, your LinkedIn, your
6:50X, your Instagram, TikTok, whatever
6:52platforms you usually post to. Now,
6:56that's all the setup that Blotato needs.
6:59So, from here, CoWork basically just
7:01handles all the rest. Oh, and also, by
7:02the way, if you want to try it out, just
7:04type in the code Zeno 30 so that you can
7:07get 30% off for your first 3 months. The
7:09link is down in the description below.
7:12Now, once it's connected, CoWork
7:14actually controls Blotato. Okay? So,
7:16writing the captions, scheduling the
7:17posts, managing your queue, even
7:19generating the carousels. There's no
7:22dashboard, no manual work on your side.
7:24So, two rules that you have to remember
7:26before you start, read every permission
7:28request before clicking allow, and one
7:31job per task. Never stack multiple
7:34objectives
7:35>> [music]
7:35>> in one prompt. If you split them, the
7:38output quality is so much better. So,
7:42skills gives Co-Work expertise,
7:44Connectors gives it hands. [music]
7:46And now, let me show you the workflow
7:49that I use every single week. Now,
7:51before I write anything, there's one
7:53thing that Co-Work needs that it doesn't
7:55have yet. It needs to know how you
7:58write.
7:59>> [music]
7:59>> So, it's basically like teaching Co-Work
8:02your brand voice. All you have to do is
8:04just start a new task in Co-Work and
8:06then type in this exact prompt.
8:08"Interview me until you are 95%
8:12confident that you can write content in
8:14my brand voice. Ask me one question at a
8:16time." Simply just put that in and then
8:19answer every question that it asks.
8:21"What's your niche? What's your
8:22audience? What tone do you use? What do
8:24you never say? What does a great post
8:28look like to you?" Just paste in
8:30examples of your best content and this
8:32might take you about 15 to 20 minutes
8:35the first time, but if you do it
8:36properly, you only ever need to do this
8:39once. Now, when Co-Work says that it's
8:41confident, just tell it to save
8:42everything as a file called a
8:44brand/voice.md
8:46or brandvoice.md file. And you want it
8:49to be saved in your Co-Work workspace
8:51folder. And then simply just tell it,
8:53"Update all my content skills so they
8:55always read the brand-voice.md
8:58file before writing anything." [music]
9:00Now, every skill that you installed in
9:02step two, every time it runs, it reads
9:05your brand voice document first. Your
9:08voice is baked into every output from
9:11this point on. You never ever have to
9:13explain your tone ever again. So, what
9:15you want to do now is you want to start
9:17a new task and here's the prompt.
9:19"Search for the top three trending
9:21topics in AI automation for on the last
9:2448 hours. Now, for each one, pull the
9:26key inside the engagement angle and why
9:29it's resonating right now. Save
9:31everything as a research report called
9:34weekly-research.md
9:37in my Co-Work workspace folder. Now,
9:41watch that I 10 panel. Co work bolts its
9:43plan before it does anything, okay? So,
9:46it searches the web, it cross-references
9:48the sources, it extracts insights, it's
9:50formatting the report, it's saving it to
9:53a folder, and if the plan looks it on,
9:55just stop it before it starts.
9:58>> [music]
9:58>> Catching a mistake here basically takes
10:0010 seconds. Catching it when it's three
10:02steps later is going to take you about
10:0410 minutes. Okay? So, save yourself a
10:05lot of time. Now, once the plan looks
10:07right, then just let it run. In about 3
10:09to 5 minutes, a research report will
10:12land in your folder. You'll have the
10:14real source, the real insights, and it
10:16will all be formatted and ready for you
10:18to use. [music] Now, it's time for us to
10:20give it a little task. So, let's test
10:23out the research. And now for task two,
10:25let's let it create some content, okay?
10:27So, you're going to start a new task,
10:29and then here's the prompt you want to
10:31use. Read the weekly research.md file in
10:35my co work workspace using my brand
10:37voice document and the draft content
10:40skill, and then write one post for each
10:42of the three topics. Each topic gets
10:44four versions, LinkedIn, X, Instagram,
10:47[music] and TikTok. Each version should
10:49be formatted and toned for that specific
10:51platform. Save everything to a file
10:53called this week's content.md.
10:57Okay. And then, co work reads through
10:59the research report and it reads your
11:02brand voice document, and then uses the
11:04draft content skill, and then it writes
11:0712 [music] posts. Three topics, four
11:09platforms each, and it's all in your
11:11voice. All of it is formatted correctly
11:14for each platform. So, LinkedIn gets a
11:17professional structure with line breaks.
11:19X is going to stay under 280 characters
11:22with a hook. Now, each platform gets
11:24what actually works on that platform,
11:26okay? Not just the same caption that's
11:29copy and pasted four different times.
11:31>> [music]
11:31>> So, what you want to do is review the
11:32file, make any edits that you want, and
11:34then comes the final piece. This is the
11:36last task that we're going to be giving
11:37it, and we are going to publish it
11:39through Blatato, okay? So, you're going
11:41to start a new task, and here's the
11:43prompt that you want to use. Read this
11:45week's content.md from my Co-Work
11:48workspace using the Blatato connector.
11:51Schedule all posts to their respective
11:53platforms. Split them across Tuesday,
11:55Thursday, and Saturday this week. Use
11:58peak engagement times for each platform.
12:01Okay.
12:02Now, Co-Work connects to Blatato and
12:04checks which accounts you have
12:06connected, and it figures that out
12:08automatically, and you don't need to
12:10look up any account IDs. It simply just
12:12schedules each post to the right
12:15platform at the right time. And all of
12:17it is queued, all of it is formatted
12:18correctly, and all of it is done. That's
12:21three tasks. Your entire week of content
12:24is now handled.
12:26>> [music]
12:26>> But, the coolest part is it doesn't stop
12:28there.
12:29Once your posts are scheduled, you can
12:31actually manage your entire content
12:33calendar without ever leaving Co-Work.
12:36All you have to do is just start a new
12:37task, and then just simply just talk to
12:39it. Say, "Show me everything scheduled
12:42for this week through Blatato." And
12:44then, you'll notice that a full queue
12:46appears, and every single [music] post,
12:49every single platform, every single time
12:51slot is all there. And then, you can
12:53simply just say, "Move the LinkedIn post
12:55to Thursday at 2:00 p.m." And there it
12:58is now moved. "That X post feels too
13:02safe. Rewrite it with a stronger hook
13:04and reschedule for Friday morning." You
13:06can put that in, and then Co-Work
13:08actually rewrites the caption, and it
13:10updates the schedule. See, just like
13:12that, so simple, and it's done. Then,
13:14you can even put in, "What's scheduled
13:16for next week?" Okay? Nothing yet. Then,
13:19you're going to take the same research
13:21and create three more posts for next
13:24week. Okay? 1/3 on X, one LinkedIn
13:27article style post, one Instagram
13:29carousel caption. Okay. Now, Co-Work
13:32actually writes all three, it schedules
13:34them, and now you have two weeks of
13:36content from one research [music]
13:38report. Your entire content calendar
13:41becomes a conversation. There's no
13:43switching apps, no dashboard clicking.
13:45Simply just tell Co-Work what to change,
13:47and it handles it through Platypus. Now,
13:50here's what makes this better every
13:52single time that you run it. Remember
13:54the brand voice document that we spoke
13:56about earlier? Every time an output
13:58isn't quite right, [music] all you
13:59simply have to do is that you just tell
14:01Co-Work what to fix, and then you tell
14:03it to update the brand voice file with
14:06that specific correction. Once you get
14:07to the 10th [music] time that you've run
14:09the system, it's a dialed into your
14:11exact voice, your exact style, and your
14:14exact preferences in a way that would
14:17take a human assistant so many months or
14:20even years just to learn. Now, that's
14:23the connected workflow. Research,
14:25create, publish, manage, all inside
14:28Co-Work, all in [music] just one
14:30workspace.
14:32And now, let's make it run without you.
14:35[music] Let's make this even better. So,
14:37everything that you just saw, the
14:39research, the content creation, the
14:40Platypus publishing, right now you are
14:43still triggering [music] each task
14:45manually, which is already a massive
14:47time saver, but there's also a version
14:49of this where you don't [music] trigger
14:51anything at all. Inside any Co-Work
14:54task, simply just type in {slash}
14:56schedule, and then it opens up a
14:58scheduling panel. Then, what you do is
15:00you set the time, you set the frequency.
15:02It can be daily, weekly, every Monday at
15:059:00 a.m. Pick whichever option makes
15:07sense for your content calendar. Now,
15:09here's the important thing. Every
15:11scheduled task runs as its own
15:14independent session. So, they don't all
15:17just simply chain together. One task
15:19doesn't trigger on the next. So, you
15:21have two options. Option one, [music]
15:23you can schedule them with time gaps.
15:25So, if research will fire at 8:00 a.m.,
15:27content creation will fire at 9:00 a.m.
15:30By then, the research file is already
15:32done. That's already in your folder. You
15:34can say publishing should fire at 10:00
15:36a.m. And by then, the content is already
15:39there. So, each one picks up where the
15:42last one left off because they're all
15:44reading from the same workspace folder.
15:47And then you get into option two, and
15:49that is combine the whole thing into one
15:51scheduled task. So, one detailed prompt
15:54that does all three steps. A single task
15:57that has access to all of your
16:00connectors and skills so that it can
16:02research, write, and publish to the
16:04Blurtado in one run. Now, either way,
16:07each whichever option you choose, Monday
16:09morning you wake up, you open up your
16:11laptop, your research report is in your
16:13folder, your posts are written, your
16:15Blurtado queue is filled up for the
16:18week, and you did none of it. Now, do
16:20you remember earlier on in the video
16:22when I mentioned Dispatch? Here's how to
16:24set it up. In the left sidebar of
16:26CoWork, find Dispatch, and then it gives
16:29you a QR code. You simply just scan it
16:31with your phone, or you can just open
16:33the URL in your phone, and now your
16:35phone is paired to your desktop CoWork.
16:37And then you can just queue tasks from
16:39anywhere that you are. You maybe you
16:42want to train, maybe you're in the car,
16:43and you just immediately think of like a
16:45cool content idea. All you have to do is
16:48just open up Dispatch on your phone, you
16:50type it in, and then CoWork queues it
16:52for you. And when the scheduled task
16:54fires Monday morning, that idea is
16:56already in the research brief. So, you
16:59are maybe out on a holiday or something,
17:02and you want to check your content
17:03queue. All you have to do is just ask
17:05CoWork to show you what's scheduled
17:07through Blurtado, and then it pulls up
17:09your [music] full queue, and you can
17:11just approve it from your phone, and
17:13then it's done. This is what the system
17:16looks like after about 30 days. Your
17:18folder has weeks of research reports
17:21that are all stacked up. Your brand
17:22voice document has been refined with
17:25every correction. Your Latado queue is
17:27always full, and the whole thing runs on
17:30a schedule that you simply just set
17:32once. You went from manually doing
17:34everything to having an employee that
17:37[music] can actually work for you while
17:39you are sleeping. And that is the full
17:43setup. Four steps. Set up your
17:45workspace, install your skills and
17:48connectors, build the connected
17:50workflow, and put it on a schedule so
17:52that it runs without you. Now, most
17:55people who download Claude never even
17:58find Co-Work. The ones who use it for
18:01one-off tasks and never build a system.
18:03Now, if you actually run what I showed
18:05you in today's video, you are going to
18:07be getting back hours every single week
18:10from the very first week. Now,
18:12everything from today, the prompts, the
18:13setup guides, all of that is inside our
18:16free school community. There is 27,000
18:18members in there currently that are
18:20learning from each other. Go and join
18:23them, and also, don't forget that the
18:25link is down in the description below.
18:26And also, a bunch of other links for you
18:28to check out. Thank you so much for
18:30watching, and I will catch you on the
18:32next one.

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