6 real things people did with Claude Cowork, with the source and a prompt to try it yourself.
Every Monday a 12-tab marketing tracker got a 30-minute scroll and a vague gut check. Claude Cowork read every tab and built a color-coded dashboard inside the live Google Sheet.
Tracking which newsletters break into Substack's top 200 meant clicking and copy-pasting. Claude in Chrome now scrapes the charts every Tuesday, and Cowork turns the data into a spreadsheet report.
Result Each scrape now takes a couple of minutes
During a live call, the writer dumped nomad-job-inspect data for a 10,000-node cluster into Claude Cowork and asked for memory/CPU requirements by job, datacenter and SKU. It built the table in under 30 seconds.
Result Estimated at 3-4 hours done by hand
Watching a meal-prep video and building a shopping list by hand ate up time each week. Claude Cowork extracted the recipes, matched ingredients to past-invoice brands, filled the cart, and saved the recipes to Notion.
Result Matched an exact oat milk brand from a past invoice
Overdue German VAT statements for Q3 2025 needed filing, with no custom code written for it. Claude Cowork and the Claude Chrome extension worked from a folder of invoice and receipt PDFs and filed the statements.
Result Called it "completely off the shelf stuff from Anthropic"
Cyera rolled Claude Cowork out to 1,500 people. One team member's agent now checks every Asana ticket before it goes out, catching missing attachments and coordinating the flow.