How many times have you rewritten the same email this month? I winced when I read this post, because it describes a habit that’s painfully easy to fall into. Its author, a founder who has spent years building companies and running teams, says most people use Claude like a search box. They type a question, read the answer and close the tab.
Meanwhile, the same tool can build apps, run analysis and send emails. Nobody told them. As the author puts it, that’s not because it’s hard. It’s because nobody shows you the full menu.
What I like here is the honesty. The original poster admits to being in that same group for months, chatting with Claude daily and barely scratching the surface. So this isn’t a lecture. It’s a map from someone who hit the wall first.
The wall most people keep hitting
You probably know the routine the author describes:
- You’re still copying data between tabs.
- You’re still rewriting the same email for the fifth time.
- You’re still building decks from a blank slide.
The author used to have a team for all of this. Now, working differently, this founder went looking for what Claude could take off the plate, and it turned out to be a lot more than expected.
The shift that changes everything
Here’s the idea that changed the author’s mind: Claude stops being a chat tool the moment it connects to your work. That means your files, inbox, calendar, spreadsheets and code. Once that happens, it starts acting like a hire.
Building companies taught the author one rule: if a task repeats, hand it off.
With that rule in mind, the map in the post makes a lot more sense. Each area below is a group of jobs you could start handing over, and together they make up the 60 uses the author is talking about.
The full menu, area by area
- Write and think. Get drafts in your voice, edits and translation, or talk through ideas in voice mode. This is the easy entry point, and it’s where that fifth rewrite of the same email can finally stop.
- Pick the right model. The author suggests Opus 5.5 for heavy reasoning and Sonnet 5.5 for daily work. Think of it as matching the job to the right person on your team.
- Research and learn. Ask for sourced web answers, cited reports, PDF summaries and document comparisons. Sources matter here because they let you check the work instead of taking it on faith.
- Create. Claude can produce apps, Docs, Slides, designs, Word and Excel files, plus shareable links. That’s a direct answer to the blank slide problem.
- Analyze data. Use it for charts, messy data cleanup, financial models and executive summaries. If you’ve ever lost an afternoon fixing a spreadsheet export, this one’s for you.
- Organize knowledge. Projects, memory, past chat search and incognito chats help you control what Claude remembers. You spend less time re-explaining your business in every new conversation.
- Connect your apps. Link Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Notion and Microsoft 365, or use MCP, a standard way to plug AI into outside tools. This is the step where the “hire” idea really kicks in.
- Work inside your apps. Claude can show up in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Google Workspace and Slack. You stay where you already work, so there’s no more bouncing between tabs.
- Build with the API. This covers your own apps, agents, computer use, prompt caching and batch jobs. Prompt caching reuses repeated context, while batch jobs handle big piles of requests in one go.
- Build with Claude Code. Ship features, fix bugs, refactor code, review PRs and use subagents, which are helpers that each take on part of a bigger task. It’s a big step up from pasting code snippets into a chat.
- Automate your work. Cowork, scheduled tasks, Claude in Chrome, skills and plugins sit at the far end of the map. This is where the author’s handoff rule pays off most, since recurring work can run without you starting it each time.
What you get for free, and what you pay for
You don’t need a paid plan to start exploring. According to the post, the free tier already includes chat, web search, artifacts, files, memory, connectors and up to 5 Projects.
Paid plans add Research, Cowork, Claude Code and the Office add-ins. So you can test a good chunk of this menu before spending anything, and upgrade only when you run into a real limit.
The one rule you shouldn’t skip
All this handing off comes with a guardrail, and I think it’s the smartest line in the post. It comes straight from the author’s experience of running teams:
A human checks anything that sends, publishes, deploys, decides or pays.
It’s a simple test you can apply to every workflow. Claude can draft the email, but you approve it before it goes out. Claude can build the financial model, but you make the call based on it. A new hire wouldn’t get unchecked access to your bank account on day one, and the same logic applies here.
How to put this to work this week
Sixty uses can feel like a lot, so here’s how I’d turn the author’s map into action:
- List your repeats. Write down three tasks you did more than once this week. The author’s handoff rule starts right here.
- Match each one to the map. A recurring report might land under “Analyze data,” while a weekly client update fits “Write and think.”
- Connect one source. Add the one app that task depends on, like your inbox or your Drive, rather than wiring up everything at once.
- Add your check. Decide where a human reviews the output before it sends, publishes, deploys, decides or pays.
Start small, and let the list grow as you build trust in the results.
Why founders should care
The author’s closing point is that the founders who get this early will run leaner than everyone else. I think that’s the real takeaway. It’s less about one clever trick and more about steadily moving repeat work off your plate.
The author also asks a good question: which of the 60 surprised you most? For me, it’s how much is available before you ever pay. And if you know a founder still using Claude as a search box, the author’s advice is simple: send them this.
Head over to the full LinkedIn post to see the complete map in the original image and to share your own pick in the comments.