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  1. 0:00So, Anthropic just released Claude for
  2. 0:02small business. It's their new free
  3. 0:03plugin that includes 15 AI workflows
  4. 0:05across areas like finance, operations,
  5. 0:08and marketing. Honestly, this is a gold
  6. 0:10mine for finally automating repetitive
  7. 0:11work. Before this plug-in was released,
  8. 0:13it was pretty difficult for the average
  9. 0:15small business owner to build effective
  10. 0:17workflows in Claude. But because this
  11. 0:18plug-in was specifically designed for
  12. 0:20small business use cases, it's super
  13. 0:22valuable right out of the box. So, in
  14. 0:24this video, I'll break down what the
  15. 0:26small business plug-in is, how to set it
  16. 0:27up, then we'll rapid fire through 13
  17. 0:29tactics to make sure you're getting the
  18. 0:31most out of it. I'm Thaddius. I'm a
  19. 0:32former senior data scientist and the
  20. 0:34founder of Elevate. We build AI systems
  21. 0:36for small businesses every day. And
  22. 0:37every week, I break down what works here
  23. 0:39so you can use AI better in your own
  24. 0:41work, even if you don't have a technical
  25. 0:43background. Let's get into it. First,
  26. 0:44let's go over what Cloud plugins are and
  27. 0:46why everyone's freaking out about them.
  28. 0:48To put this in perspective, when
  29. 0:50Anthropic released Cloud Co-work, the
  30. 0:51app these plugins run inside, investors
  31. 0:54in Wall Street were really shook and
  32. 0:56started moving their investments. In
  33. 0:57February 2026, a single AI release wiped
  34. 1:00out about $300 billion in software stock
  35. 1:03value. In a matter of days, people
  36. 1:05started calling this selloff a SAS
  37. 1:07apocalypse. Anthropic's own CEO, the
  38. 1:09makers of Claude, even said this at a
  39. 1:11recent JP Morgan event. I don't know
  40. 1:13what will happen to the current cohort
  41. 1:14of SAS companies. The situation is
  42. 1:16highly uncertain. It is very possible
  43. 1:17that some of them will lose value, go
  44. 1:19bankrupt. It all depends on their
  45. 1:21response. All that to say, these plugins
  46. 1:23are really powerful and it's still
  47. 1:24early. So now is definitely the right
  48. 1:26time to really jump in and take
  49. 1:28advantage. So let's break down what
  50. 1:29Cloud plugins actually are because there
  51. 1:31are three pieces working together here.
  52. 1:33A skill, a connector, and a plug-in. I
  53. 1:35know there are a ton of new releases in
  54. 1:37the AI space each week, but these three
  55. 1:39concepts are very important because
  56. 1:41these are the standard building blocks
  57. 1:42that every AI company is now adopting.
  58. 1:45So, I want you to actually understand
  59. 1:46what each of these is doing. Because
  60. 1:48understanding these building blocks is
  61. 1:50going to help you use AI better than the
  62. 1:51majority of businesses. And once you
  63. 1:53understand how these three fit together,
  64. 1:55the rest of this video is going to make
  65. 1:56a lot more sense. So, first, let's talk
  66. 1:58about skill. If you've seen The Matrix,
  67. 2:01you already understand skill. That's the
  68. 2:02scene where Neo just plugs into a
  69. 2:04computer and instantly downloads the
  70. 2:06ability to do kung fu into his brain. In
  71. 2:08the movie, he just opens his eyes and
  72. 2:10says, "I know kung fu." It's like if you
  73. 2:12were able to transport a skill or
  74. 2:14ability from one person to another in an
  75. 2:16instant. This comparison, by the way, is
  76. 2:18so on point that even a product manager
  77. 2:20at Anthropic shared that this is his
  78. 2:22favorite analogy to understand how
  79. 2:24skills work. Now, what does this exactly
  80. 2:26look like in a small business? Well, you
  81. 2:28might have a specific way that you like
  82. 2:30to do your financial monthly reporting,
  83. 2:31the exact order you want to see your
  84. 2:33metrics, your favorite visualizations or
  85. 2:35charts, or just your built-up intuition
  86. 2:37on what numbers look like, good, bad, or
  87. 2:40incredible. Well, what if you were able
  88. 2:42to instantly give a new member of your
  89. 2:43team all of that expertise and knowledge
  90. 2:45that you've built up and they were able
  91. 2:47to execute that task just like you every
  92. 2:49time? That's what skills allows you to
  93. 2:51do. It's a task you teach Claude once
  94. 2:53and then from then on, it just knows how
  95. 2:55to do it and it does it the same way
  96. 2:56every time. Normally, you chat back and
  97. 2:58forth with Claude to do multi-step
  98. 3:00workflows, but now you can just select
  99. 3:02the correct skill and then the entire
  100. 3:03thing runs even if you have 5, 10, 15
  101. 3:06steps in a workflow. Now, let's break
  102. 3:08down connectors. Okay, let's just
  103. 3:10imagine for a second that Neo said to do
  104. 3:12kung fu he needed nunchucks. And I know
  105. 3:14that doesn't actually happen in the
  106. 3:16movie, but let's just go along with
  107. 3:17this. Knowing how to fight is one thing.
  108. 3:19Having access to the tool that you need
  109. 3:21to fight is a different thing. The
  110. 3:23nunchucks are the connectors in this
  111. 3:25example. It's the tool that he needs to
  112. 3:26do the job in that moment. So, here's
  113. 3:28what that looks like in a small
  114. 3:30business. If you ask a new team member
  115. 3:31to do the monthly finance reporting, the
  116. 3:33tool that they're going to need access
  117. 3:34to could be QuickBooks. So there's
  118. 3:36really no use in giving them the skills
  119. 3:38or ability to do the financial reporting
  120. 3:40unless you're also giving them access to
  121. 3:42QuickBooks where your financial data is.
  122. 3:44This problem is exactly what plugins
  123. 3:46solve. A plug-in bundles together the
  124. 3:48ability and the tools to do a job in one
  125. 3:50package. And that's the really the whole
  126. 3:52reason that this entire plugin exists as
  127. 3:54one install instead of 15 different
  128. 3:56skills that you download. Enthropic
  129. 3:58already did the work of pairing every
  130. 4:00skill with the exact connectors that it
  131. 4:01needs. So it's very easy to just share
  132. 4:04this with any small business. All right,
  133. 4:05let's set up the Cloud for Small
  134. 4:07Business plug-in. There are only two
  135. 4:08things to do and this whole thing will
  136. 4:10just take 5 minutes. First, install it.
  137. 4:12Open up the Cloud desktop app. And if
  138. 4:14you've only ever used Cloud in the
  139. 4:15browser, this is the app to download.
  140. 4:16Then go to customize, browse plugins,
  141. 4:19and then search small business. Go ahead
  142. 4:21and click install. Second, connect your
  143. 4:23apps because every skill in this plug-in
  144. 4:25works through these app. To start off,
  145. 4:26they have QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot,
  146. 4:29Canva, Docu Sign, Google, and Microsoft
  147. 4:31with more coming soon. But just turn on
  148. 4:33whatever you use most for now. And if
  149. 4:35you're connecting anything sensitive
  150. 4:36like your QuickBooks, there's one
  151. 4:37privacy setting that I would flip on
  152. 4:39first. So, we're going to cover that in
  153. 4:41tactic number three. All right. Now that
  154. 4:42you're set up, let's make sure you get
  155. 4:43the most out of it. Here are the 13
  156. 4:45tactics. Tactic number one, find the
  157. 4:47best workflows to automate. A lot of
  158. 4:48what I hear from small businesses is
  159. 4:50that they try to use Cloud Code or
  160. 4:51Zapier and it kept breaking and the
  161. 4:53output was bad. So, then they just gave
  162. 4:55up on automating workflows. If you
  163. 4:57choose the wrong workflow, you're
  164. 4:58already at a huge disadvantage because
  165. 5:00not everything is meant for AI
  166. 5:01automation. So, here's the simple
  167. 5:03framework that instantly tells you what
  168. 5:05your best AI use cases are and builds
  169. 5:07you a simple AI roadmap. It's called the
  170. 5:09AI opportunity zone. And to make it
  171. 5:11easy, I turned this entire framework
  172. 5:12into just a prompt here. So, you can go
  173. 5:14ahead and copy and paste this into your
  174. 5:16cloud. It'll ask you a couple questions
  175. 5:17and then give you back the best use
  176. 5:19cases for your work. So, make sure you
  177. 5:21go ahead and screenshot or copy them.
  178. 5:22There are three qualities that your
  179. 5:24workflow needs in order to be a good
  180. 5:26candidate for AI automation. High
  181. 5:28friction. Is this repetitive or
  182. 5:29annoying? High value. Is this tied to
  183. 5:31money, client work, or any outcomes that
  184. 5:34matter for your business? And then
  185. 5:35feasible. Can this actually be broken
  186. 5:37down into a clear set of steps for AI to
  187. 5:40follow? For most small business owners,
  188. 5:41that ends up being something related to
  189. 5:43sales or marketing. Things like chasing
  190. 5:45invoices, following up with leads, or
  191. 5:47creating content that allows you to get
  192. 5:49more customers. So, once you found your
  193. 5:50top few workflows, you can compare these
  194. 5:52against the included skills in the small
  195. 5:54business plug-in and then choose the
  196. 5:56ones that align best with your use
  197. 5:58cases. Everything about trying to use AI
  198. 6:00better is going to be much easier when
  199. 6:01you just start in the right place.
  200. 6:03Tactic two, make your skills
  201. 6:05automatically self-improve. Honestly,
  202. 6:07social media videos make setting up AI
  203. 6:09workflows for your business way easier
  204. 6:12than they actually are. If you just use
  205. 6:13generic skills that are meant for
  206. 6:15everyone, then they're not going to be
  207. 6:16specific to how you work. Maybe the tone
  208. 6:19is off or misses details specific to how
  209. 6:22you like to run things. So, we need to
  210. 6:23adapt these skills to how we work. And
  211. 6:26that's where a self-improving loop comes
  212. 6:28in. Which, by the way, the idea of a
  213. 6:29self-improving loop is what all the tech
  214. 6:31and AI founders have been obsessed with
  215. 6:33recently because it is a very powerful
  216. 6:35concept. Now, don't make the mistake of
  217. 6:36trying to customize an entire skill at
  218. 6:38once. It's hard to know exactly how your
  219. 6:40process or reasoning is different from
  220. 6:42how these skills are set up. The easiest
  221. 6:44way to create a self-improving loop is
  222. 6:46to use what I call a close skill. Here's
  223. 6:48how it works. At the end of your work
  224. 6:50session in cloud co-worker code, you've
  225. 6:52probably given it a ton of feedback or
  226. 6:54revealed the way you like something done
  227. 6:56throughout your chat. So, this close
  228. 6:58skill is a skill that you run at the end
  229. 7:00of each of your session and you can
  230. 7:01trigger it in one of two ways. You can
  231. 7:03navigate with a slash and find the skill
  232. 7:05or you could just say you're done for
  233. 7:07the day or you want to wrap up and
  234. 7:08Claude will recognize what you mean and
  235. 7:10then run the closed skill. So, the first
  236. 7:12thing it does is read back through the
  237. 7:14entire session and then presents a
  238. 7:15summary of the session to me along with
  239. 7:17three questions. First, what did I get
  240. 7:19done? I tell it and that gets logged to
  241. 7:21my change log, which is a running
  242. 7:23history of what I got done. Second, what
  243. 7:25did I decide and why? And this is the
  244. 7:27important part. By default, Claude can
  245. 7:29see the files you've created or edited,
  246. 7:31but it can't see why you made the call
  247. 7:33unless you specifically tell it. The
  248. 7:35voice over of the reason behind your
  249. 7:37actions is what really teaches Claude
  250. 7:39how to do your work. And if you think
  251. 7:40about it, this is how your colleagues or
  252. 7:42employees work. Also, you don't just
  253. 7:44give them a step by step. You tell them
  254. 7:46the steps and also why you're performing
  255. 7:48each of those steps. That's how you
  256. 7:50really transfer your expertise. Third,
  257. 7:52did anything change about how I work? Is
  258. 7:54there a new rule or a new preference
  259. 7:55that I discussed? Claude then updates
  260. 7:57any skills or instructions that it needs
  261. 7:59from your feedback. Self-improving loops
  262. 8:01are the difference between AI that just
  263. 8:03creates more admin work for you and then
  264. 8:05AI that can actually eliminate
  265. 8:07repetitive work and free up your time
  266. 8:09and energy. Tactic number three, don't
  267. 8:11train AI on your sensitive data. This is
  268. 8:13an important one and I don't see anyone
  269. 8:14really talking about it. So, if you care
  270. 8:16about data privacy, you're going to want
  271. 8:18to pay attention to this one. On pro and
  272. 8:19max plans, so not Team or Enterprise,
  273. 8:21Anthropic may use your chats to help
  274. 8:23improve Claude. And this setting is on
  275. 8:25by default. Most people don't know that
  276. 8:27this toggle is there. Now, to be fair,
  277. 8:29the raw data a connector pulls in, like
  278. 8:31your QuickBooks numbers, aren't
  279. 8:33automatically sent to Enthropic to train
  280. 8:35on. But if you're going back and forth
  281. 8:37in a chat and you mention any of these
  282. 8:39sensitive numbers, that information
  283. 8:41could be sent to Enthropic to train
  284. 8:42Claude. And honestly, in practice,
  285. 8:44you're going to paste these numbers and
  286. 8:46talk through your business, and it's
  287. 8:47really easy for sensitive data to just
  288. 8:49slip out in your chats. So, if you want
  289. 8:51to make sure none of that is used to
  290. 8:52train Claude, follow these steps. Go
  291. 8:54into your settings, go to privacy, turn
  292. 8:56off the toggle that says, "Help improve
  293. 8:58our AI models. Or if you're running on
  294. 9:00team or enterprise plans, this setting
  295. 9:02doesn't apply to you, so you're good."
  296. 9:04Tactic four, turn a one-time report into
  297. 9:06a live dashboard. Sometimes you have a
  298. 9:08workflow that you run often to monitor
  299. 9:10where you're at. For example, you might
  300. 9:12run the cash flow snapshot skill and see
  301. 9:14where your profit is month-to- date. If
  302. 9:16you catch yourself running a skill
  303. 9:17repeatedly to get business metrics, for
  304. 9:19example, you might be better off just
  305. 9:20turning that into a live dashboard. And
  306. 9:22Cloud Co's life artifacts is the easiest
  307. 9:24way to build this with just natural
  308. 9:26language. That's the dashboard that
  309. 9:28connects to your data and then refreshes
  310. 9:30every time you open it. So you can stop
  311. 9:31rerunning those same snapshot or
  312. 9:33reporting skills every week. And the
  313. 9:35same idea applies to almost any report
  314. 9:37that this plug-in produces. Things like
  315. 9:39a sales pipeline, a weekly op summary or
  316. 9:42a marketing performance recap or a
  317. 9:44dashboard of your content analytics.
  318. 9:46After you run the skill, just ask for a
  319. 9:48live artifact so that this becomes a
  320. 9:50dashboard. Then you're going to see a
  321. 9:51new dashboard created in your artifacts
  322. 9:53tab on the left and you can even pin it
  323. 9:55for easy access. Tactic five, redirect
  324. 9:58skills to your actual tool stack. Here's
  325. 10:00something most people don't realize when
  326. 10:02they first install the Claude for small
  327. 10:03business plugin. These skills are
  328. 10:05unlocked to the exact tool they're named
  329. 10:07after. There are instructions that
  330. 10:08Claude could read and then apply to any
  331. 10:10app. For example, let's say the plug-in
  332. 10:12connects to HubSpot, but you don't use
  333. 10:14HubSpot. These skills could still be
  334. 10:16really valuable. You could have Claude
  335. 10:18read that skill and then adapt it to
  336. 10:20whatever CRM you actually use instead.
  337. 10:22Most of these tools do the same handful
  338. 10:24of things under the hood, so Claude can
  339. 10:26usually retarget it without much
  340. 10:28trouble. And plenty of CRM have MCP
  341. 10:30servers, which stands for model context
  342. 10:32protocol, which is basically just a
  343. 10:34standardized way for any AI tool to
  344. 10:36connect into Cloud. So, if you want to
  345. 10:37do this, here's the workflow. Let's say
  346. 10:39you use the Relatable CRM instead of
  347. 10:42HubSpot, but you're interested in the
  348. 10:43HubSpot skilled. Once you make sure
  349. 10:45Relatable has their own MCP, which I
  350. 10:48checked and they do, you would connect
  351. 10:49it to Claude by using Claude's
  352. 10:51connectors and adding a custom MCP and
  353. 10:53then grabbing the MCP URL from Relatable
  354. 10:56setup guide. Then go ahead and add
  355. 10:57whatever HubSpot skill you were
  356. 10:59interested in and tell Claude the
  357. 11:01following prompt. I have the following
  358. 11:02skill file meant for HubSpot, but I use
  359. 11:04Relatable as my CRM. Rebuild the same
  360. 11:07workflow and adapt this skill to work
  361. 11:08with a relatable MCP. Cloud will then
  362. 11:11guide you from there and a few minutes
  363. 11:12later you should have a working scale.
  364. 11:14Tactic six, build your own mini software
  365. 11:16tools. And if you don't want a big CRM
  366. 11:18or SAS tool at all, that's also fine.
  367. 11:21You can have Cloud build you a much
  368. 11:22simpler version that's actually tailored
  369. 11:24to only the features you want. Say you
  370. 11:26just want to see your sales pipeline as
  371. 11:27a bar chart and then a dashboard of the
  372. 11:29leads you need to follow up with and
  373. 11:31nothing else. All you need to do is
  374. 11:32describe exactly that hand claw or one
  375. 11:35of these skills as a reference of what a
  376. 11:36good version looks like and then it'll
  377. 11:38build a stripped down version right
  378. 11:40inside tools like notion, air table or
  379. 11:42even Google Sheets that's shaped
  380. 11:44specifically for the use case you're
  381. 11:45looking for. I personally tested three
  382. 11:47different task tracking tools that
  383. 11:49integrated with AI, but honestly I found
  384. 11:51that all of the tools had way too many
  385. 11:53features that I would never really
  386. 11:54touch. So, I just told Claude the
  387. 11:56exactly the user experience that I was
  388. 11:58looking for. And then it just helped me
  389. 11:59build my own custom project and task
  390. 12:01management system in Notion, which by
  391. 12:03the way, I can just update through
  392. 12:04Cloud. So, I rarely ever even open
  393. 12:06Notion. And by the way, I made that
  394. 12:08Notion template completely free in the
  395. 12:10AI workflows academy. So, you can grab
  396. 12:12that at the link below. So, I was
  397. 12:14personally able to cancel some
  398. 12:15subscriptions. And maybe this is
  399. 12:17evidence for the SAS apocalypse. I don't
  400. 12:19know. But I'm saving money. So, in
  401. 12:21summary, you can adapt these skills to
  402. 12:22your tools or use them as a blueprint to
  403. 12:25build your own custom systems like I
  404. 12:27did. Tactic seven, chain your skills
  405. 12:28into one compound workflow. Each skill
  406. 12:31in this plugin is its own block. It does
  407. 12:33one specific job, but they don't have to
  408. 12:35sit there waiting on you to trigger the
  409. 12:37next one. Here's what this could look
  410. 12:38like. Say your cash flow snapshot runs
  411. 12:40every week. If it comes back down more
  412. 12:42than 10% from last month, that alone
  413. 12:44could kick off a workflow that checks in
  414. 12:46with your content and sales and sees
  415. 12:48what the performance is. Then a separate
  416. 12:50strategy skill can look at both of those
  417. 12:52outputs and then decide what's likely
  418. 12:54driving the drop. And instead of you
  419. 12:55digging through three different reports,
  420. 12:57it could just send you a short brief in
  421. 12:59Slack and say, "Here's the issue and
  422. 13:01here's what I would recommend doing
  423. 13:02about it." So notice what you didn't
  424. 13:04have to do. You didn't have to check the
  425. 13:05snapshot. You didn't have to go around
  426. 13:07clicking different dashboards and
  427. 13:08looking for your content and sales and
  428. 13:10trying to diagnose the problem. The
  429. 13:12repetitive work was done and then you
  430. 13:14just got a brief. This is where it gets
  431. 13:16really powerful. You're not the one
  432. 13:17triggering each workflow and reviewing
  433. 13:19all of the output anymore. The workflows
  434. 13:21can be connected and then you can show
  435. 13:23up when something's actually worth your
  436. 13:24attention. If there is something bigger
  437. 13:26to decide, like increasing your ad
  438. 13:28spend, that's exactly when your AI
  439. 13:30systems could then ping you and then
  440. 13:31wait for your judgment call. By the way,
  441. 13:33if you're thinking, "Wow, these
  442. 13:34workflows are great, but I'd rather have
  443. 13:35an AI team just save me the headache and
  444. 13:37come in and set this all up." That's
  445. 13:39exactly what we do at Elevate. We build
  446. 13:41out AI operating systems for small
  447. 13:43businesses. That includes building out
  448. 13:44your company's AI brain and building AI
  449. 13:47workflows that you fully own in just 14
  450. 13:49days. So, if you want to learn more
  451. 13:50about that, there's a link in the
  452. 13:52description. Tactic eight, trigger
  453. 13:53skills dynamically. There are three ways
  454. 13:55to trigger a skill. You can call it by
  455. 13:57name, like run my close skill. You can
  456. 13:59select it from your skill menu by typing
  457. 14:01in a slash and then navigating to your
  458. 14:03skill. Or you can just describe what
  459. 14:04you're trying to do. And if Cloud
  460. 14:06recognizes your request matches a skill
  461. 14:08you've built, it'll use it
  462. 14:10automatically. And that third one is the
  463. 14:11one that most people miss. Earlier when
  464. 14:13I was talking about my close skill that
  465. 14:15makes the whole system self-improve, I
  466. 14:17don't need to even remember that there
  467. 14:18is a skill called the close skill. I
  468. 14:20just say I'm wrapping up for the day and
  469. 14:22the whole thing runs. But we need to
  470. 14:24make sure Claude has clear instructions
  471. 14:25on what each of these skills are. And
  472. 14:28that's why a good description of the
  473. 14:29skill itself is crucial for Claude to
  474. 14:32reliably select the right one. At the
  475. 14:34top of each skill here in the customize
  476. 14:36menu is where you write the description.
  477. 14:38It's the only part of the skill that
  478. 14:39Claude has context on across every chat.
  479. 14:41This is what it uses to route your
  480. 14:43prompt to the right skill. So, if you
  481. 14:45ever build your own skill later, spend
  482. 14:47the time to write a clear skill
  483. 14:48description that catches the key
  484. 14:50phrases, words, or scenarios in which
  485. 14:52you want that skill to activate. Trust
  486. 14:54me, it can get really messy if you don't
  487. 14:56do this, and especially if you start
  488. 14:58sharing skills across a team. If it's
  489. 14:59not taken care of, you run the risk of
  490. 15:01not really knowing how work is getting
  491. 15:03done. Tactic nine, the call this skill
  492. 15:05can make you money today. This one's
  493. 15:06easy to overlook because it's not the
  494. 15:08flashiest skill in the plug-in, but it
  495. 15:10might be the fastest way to get money
  496. 15:12that's just sitting right in your
  497. 15:13business. When you notice that one of
  498. 15:15your deals may have just gone quiet,
  499. 15:16don't just make a mental note like most
  500. 15:18people do, because of course, there's
  501. 15:20always a lot to do. Run the callless
  502. 15:22skill right then while it's fresh. This
  503. 15:24skill has Claude pull the contact
  504. 15:25history for that specific deal, draft
  505. 15:27talking points based on exactly where
  506. 15:29things left off, and then automatically
  507. 15:31free up your calendar to make time for
  508. 15:33the meeting. So instead of a stalled
  509. 15:35deal just sitting there until you happen
  510. 15:36to remember it 3 weeks later, you've got
  511. 15:38a ready to go reason to just reach back
  512. 15:40out the same day that a deal went cold.
  513. 15:42Tactic 10: Route your scheduled output
  514. 15:45to where you already were. A scheduled
  515. 15:47task can just run skills on a timer so
  516. 15:49it gets done without waiting for you to
  517. 15:51trigger it. But most people stop right
  518. 15:53there and then just let the output sit
  519. 15:54in whatever tool waiting for someone to
  520. 15:56check it. So let's take it one step
  521. 15:58further. Point that output at the
  522. 15:59channel you already check every single
  523. 16:01day. things like Slack or Google Chat
  524. 16:03and then tag the specific person who
  525. 16:05actually needs to see it. It lands
  526. 16:07directly in front of the right person at
  527. 16:09the moment that it matters instead of
  528. 16:10sitting in an untouched tool that nobody
  529. 16:12really opens. Tactic 11, start small. I
  530. 16:15know it's tempting to just turn on every
  531. 16:17connector inside this plugin the moment
  532. 16:18you install it. But I promise that's not
  533. 16:20the best strategy. If you enable
  534. 16:22everything at once, you're probably just
  535. 16:24going to lose track of what's even
  536. 16:25running. Add connectors gradually as you
  537. 16:27figure out which workflows you actually
  538. 16:29want to hand off. Now, if it's just to
  539. 16:31experiment and see which of these skills
  540. 16:32is useful, then that's fine. But here
  541. 16:34are two things to keep in mind when you
  542. 16:36do this. First, remember tactic eight.
  543. 16:38Claude reads the skill descriptions to
  544. 16:39route your prompts to the correct skill.
  545. 16:41If you have several overlapping skills
  546. 16:43that do the same thing, you're not going
  547. 16:45to reliably trigger the one that you
  548. 16:47actually want. And second, each time you
  549. 16:49use skills within this plug-in, it's
  550. 16:51pulling data from your apps, and that
  551. 16:52runs up your token usage. Tokens and AI
  552. 16:55are just like credits that you cash in
  553. 16:57every time you run a prompt through
  554. 16:58Claude. And controlling your tools does
  555. 17:01use them up way faster than just regular
  556. 17:03chats with Claude. So, build up your
  557. 17:05library of active skills and connectors
  558. 17:07gradually. Tactic 12, set per action
  559. 17:09approval tier. Let's talk about how to
  560. 17:11put guard rails on what your AI is
  561. 17:13allowed to do. In the connectors menu,
  562. 17:15you can review all the permissions
  563. 17:16you're actually giving Claude for each
  564. 17:18app. So, say you've connected your own
  565. 17:19Shopify store with all your products
  566. 17:21there. You might not want Claude to
  567. 17:23accidentally make changes to your
  568. 17:24prices. Or maybe you do. I don't know.
  569. 17:26But the point is, you can specify
  570. 17:28whether Claude should ask for approval
  571. 17:29before an action block certain action so
  572. 17:31it doesn't even try. Or if something is
  573. 17:33reliable enough, just let Cloud do it
  574. 17:35without even asking you. That same idea
  575. 17:37applies to your calendar, your email,
  576. 17:39and any other tool that you connect.
  577. 17:40When in doubt, just start with more
  578. 17:42guard rails and then slowly open it up
  579. 17:44piece by piece as you build trust in
  580. 17:46whatever skills or connectors you're
  581. 17:48using. Tactic 13. Turn your own manual
  582. 17:50process into a custom skill. And I saved
  583. 17:52this one for last on purpose because I
  584. 17:54think it's the biggest one. The most
  585. 17:55useful skills are so custom, they're
  586. 17:57built just for you. Tune to exactly how
  587. 18:00you work and all your preferences. Now,
  588. 18:02building off of existing skills for
  589. 18:04inspiration is great, but a lot of the
  590. 18:06times there might not be a strong one
  591. 18:07that you can model off of. Well, here's
  592. 18:09a simple test for what should turn into
  593. 18:10a skill. If you catch yourself doing a
  594. 18:12specific workflow more than once a week,
  595. 18:14it's worth trying that out as a skill.
  596. 18:16Here's one of mine. and I call it the
  597. 18:18daily brief. And I bet that you have a
  598. 18:19similar morning workflow, but you might
  599. 18:21just need to take some time to write it
  600. 18:23down step by step. My daily brief checks
  601. 18:25my calendar, pulls my tasks, scans my
  602. 18:27inbox or team messages, and then hands
  603. 18:29me a short brief that includes my
  604. 18:31priorities, anything that's overdue, and
  605. 18:33then my mins. And the min section here
  606. 18:35is my favorite part, and I haven't seen
  607. 18:36anyone else put this in their workflow.
  608. 18:38In my personal experience, AI is great
  609. 18:40at handing me a pile of ideas, but it's
  610. 18:42so easy to just get lost on what to
  611. 18:44actually tactically do next. So, my
  612. 18:46briefs always end by pointing out at the
  613. 18:49next smallest actionable step to do
  614. 18:51right now, which of course I can go back
  615. 18:53and agree or disagree and then
  616. 18:54eventually get it to a place that I'm
  617. 18:56satisfied with. So, with skills and
  618. 18:57connectors, you're connecting tools to
  619. 18:59AI and teaching it how to do your work,
  620. 19:01but there's still a big missing piece of
  621. 19:03your AI setup. It's still not grounded
  622. 19:05in exactly who you are. It probably
  623. 19:06doesn't sound like you, and then the
  624. 19:08visuals that it'll create might not look
  625. 19:10like your brand. That's because it's
  626. 19:11missing your business context. This is
  627. 19:13the foundation that should power every
  628. 19:15single one of these workflows. I call
  629. 19:17that your company's AI brain. You might
  630. 19:19have heard people just call this your
  631. 19:20context, your second brain. We're still
  632. 19:22early in the AI wave, so there's a ton
  633. 19:24of names to really talk about the same
  634. 19:26concept. If you want to build one for
  635. 19:27your business, you're going to love the
  636. 19:29next video where I walk through exactly
  637. 19:30how you can do that and give you free
  638. 19:32templates. All right, I'll see you in
  639. 19:34the next

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