Claude has 50 tricks and you’re using 5

I’ll admit something. For a long time, my whole relationship with Claude was: open tab, ask question, get answer, close tab. That was it.

Then I came across a post from a LinkedIn creator who’s been building with AI since before half of these tools even existed, and it stung a little. His claim is simple: most founders use maybe 3 of the 50 things Claude can do. Most of us are still treating a full operating system like a search bar.

The example that got me was his week. He had Claude build a dashboard, summarise a contract, and pull live sports scores for a deck. Three completely different jobs, one tool. As the author puts it, “Claude stopped being a chatbot a while ago. It’s a stack now.”

🧠 Why this shift matters

The original poster makes a point I keep coming back to. The founders getting ahead right now aren’t the ones with the sharpest prompts. They’re the ones who actually know the full menu. He says he learned that the hard way, one missed use case at a time.

That reframes the whole skill. It’s less about wordsmithing a perfect prompt and more about knowing which door to walk through. A spreadsheet builder is sitting right there unused. A PDF editor nobody’s touched. A browser agent that fills out forms. A research analyst that cross-checks dozens of sources while you make coffee. Knowing they exist is half the battle.

📋 The menu, one item at a time

Here’s the chunk of the list this industry pro shared, with a bit of context on why each one earns its spot:

1. Claude Code and Claude Cowork. Hand off entire builds and multi-file edits, not just snippets. Instead of pasting one function at a time, you point it at a whole project and let it work across files. This is the difference between a code helper and a junior developer.
2. Artifacts. Turn a request into a working app, chart, or diagram instead of a wall of text. Ask for a calculator, a visual, or an interactive mockup, and you get something you can click on and share right away.
3. Claude in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. It works inside the file you already have open. No more copy-pasting data out, getting an answer, and pasting it back. Cleanup, formulas, rewrites, and slide edits happen in place.
4. Deep research. Kicks off a background investigation across dozens of sources. You ask a big question, walk away, and come back to a sourced report rather than a single quick answer.
5. Persistent memory and cross-chat search. It remembers what you told it last month. That means less re-explaining your business, your tone, or your client every time you open a new chat.
6. Projects. Every file and instruction for one client, grouped under one roof. Think of it as a dedicated workspace with its own context, so each conversation starts already briefed.
7. Claude in Chrome. Browses and fills out forms while you do something else. Repetitive web tasks, sign-ups, and data entry get handed off to a browser agent.
8. Live sports data, weather-aware planning, and full travel itineraries. The author’s words: yes, really. Pull current scores into a deck, plan around the forecast, or build a trip end to end.
9. MCP integrations. Wired straight into Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and Asana. Claude reads your actual files, drafts your actual emails, and updates your actual tasks rather than working from whatever you paste in.
10. Quizzes, flashcards, and language practice. It’ll turn your notes into a study session too. Drop in meeting notes or a course PDF and get a set of questions back to test yourself.

🛠️ How to actually use this list

I love what the post’s author did with it. He saved the list to a folder on his desktop. Not to memorise it. To remind himself how much he’s still leaving on the table most weeks.

A simple way to copy that habit:

• Audit your week. Write down every task you did by hand that felt repetitive: form filling, data cleanup, summarising documents, building slides.
• Match each task to the menu. Most will map to one of the ten items above. Contract summary? Deep research or the Word integration. Slide with live numbers? Artifacts plus live data.
• Pick one new use case per week. Don’t try all ten at once. One is enough to build the reflex.
• Keep the list visible. Desktop folder, sticky note, pinned chat. Whatever makes you glance at it.

Fifty use cases, and the author bets most of us are stuck on five. I checked my own habits after reading this and the number was uncomfortably close.

💬 The honest confession

The creator closes with a challenge: which of these 50 are you not using yet? He goes first and admits he’s never touched the sports data one. I’ll go second. I’ve barely scratched Claude in Chrome, and after seeing this list, that’s the one I’m trying this week.

He also suggests sending this to whoever on your team still treats Claude like a glorified search bar. I think that’s the right move. The gap between “chatbot” and “stack” is mostly awareness, and this list closes a lot of it.

Head over to the full LinkedIn post to see the original list and the conversation in the comments. Then pick your one new use case for the week!