Cowork is Anthropic's agent mode for knowledge work. It takes the Claude Code approach of planning and running multi-step tasks and applies it to files, spreadsheets, reports and research, with no terminal. Anthropic is now merging it into the main Claude app, so chat and Cowork share one message box and Claude decides when a request is a task.
You get a short list of genuinely unpublished drafts ranked by how close they are to done, with the top pick named and a brief reason why.
Before your first meeting you have one short brief per external meeting, with sources for every claim about each guest.
You have a folder of interlinked markdown pages with an index and a change log, built from your sources, that you can read in Obsidian and query through the agent, with every change reviewable in git.
You get a screening log, an evidence table with one row per included paper, a synthesis that cites only papers you hold, and a reference list where every entry resolves to a real record.
You get a draft issue with a short, sourced summary of each link you saved, grouped by theme, plus a list of links the agent could not read.
Each new lead gets a researched summary, a score, a route and a draft reply, and a person approves the action before anything changes in the CRM or reaches the lead.
Your accountant gets one tidy folder, a list of every form with its key figures and source, a list of missing documents, and your open questions.
Each morning you read one short digest with links to the emails that need you, and nothing in your inbox has changed.
You get a table of researched accounts with a fit score, sources and one draft email each, and nothing is sent until you approve it.
You get a structured dossier covering the key data points for a specific property, with sources for each claim, ready to cross-check before you rely on it.
You get a table of real matching records from official state sites, each with a link, and you file the claims you choose on those sites yourself.
Your folder is sorted into a small set of named subfolders, nothing is deleted, and you have a log of every move that you can reverse.
Every new support email gets a label, a priority and a draft reply grounded in your docs, and a person sends each reply after reading it.
Each morning you get one brief with the emails that need you, draft replies waiting in your drafts folder, and a list of calendar problems to fix.
Every booking in the date range sits on your calendar once, at the right local time, with the confirmation number and address in the event.
Every real commitment from the meeting is a task in your tracker with the right owner, a due date and a quote from the transcript, and nothing is invented or duplicated.
Every week you get a short briefing of meaningful changes to competitors' pricing and product pages, each with the before text, the after text and a link to the saved snapshot.