Hi Reader,

Claude has a mode called Cowork.

It works on your desktop while you do other things.

Here’s what it handled for me this week— while I was doing the work that only I can do:

• Fixed my DMARC records to rescue email deliverability
• Journaled accrual accounting entries (and caught mistakes I’d made)
• Organized my client project folders
• Built a new onboarding sequence in Kit, complete with automations
• Turned sales calls into proposals
• Cleared my inboxes. Four times.

*Who loves figuring out their DNS settings?*

These Are the Parts Worth Letting Go

Every one of those tasks was real work. Important work. The kind I’d put off for weeks because it’s tedious, technical, or just plain boring.

And that’s the point.

AI taking your busy work is the easy part. The harder question is what you do with the time it gives back.

For me, the answer was clear: client relationships, strategy, the thinking that actually moves things forward.

That’s the real job. Everything else is setup.

The Full Setup Guide

I put together a complete Cowork setup guide— 7 sections, 30 copy-paste prompts, 3 starter missions to warm up with, and a troubleshooting reference.

It’s the same system I’m working clients through. Takes you from first install to first real result in under 30 minutes.

​Grab the Cowork Setup Guide here →​

Try one of the starter missions this week. Pick the most annoying task on your to-do list— the one you keep pushing to tomorrow— and hand it off.

BEFORE YOU GO:

If you haven't had a chance, make sure to catch the AI masterclass on the Nathan Barry podcast.

It's been blowing up.

We talk about skills and a TON of other good stuff.

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Keep building,

-Dan

P.S. If you want help building AI workflows like this for your team— the kind that handle real work, on real systems, with your actual tools— that’s what I do. Let’s talk.