Onboard Claude Cowork the way you would a new hire, so it works like a trained employee: it reads your rules before it starts, knows what is true about your business right now, asks only what your files cannot answer, hands back a finished file, and checks its work before it says done. Twelve modules, step by step, for someone who has used AI chat but never Cowork. No code. Start with module 0, then take the 30-minute path: lessons 1.1, 1.2, 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3.

Anthropic's free Small Business plugin, running on the setup you built in Onboard Claude. Read what it can see, run the Monday brief on your own numbers, check it against something you know, put it on a schedule, and learn where a fact about your business belongs. Twelve short lessons, about an hour.

Put the four ready-made agents from the Onboard Claude plugin to work on your business. Lead follow-up and Inbound replies run every weekday morning, the Proposal writer runs when you ask, and Weekly numbers runs every Friday. You install all four in one sitting, run each once as a practice run, check what it hands back, and put it on its schedule. Nothing sends without your click. Twelve short lessons, about an hour.