What Is Claude?
Claude is an AI assistant for life and work
Claude’s Capabilities
Writing and content creation
Claude can collaborate with you on social media posts, professional emails, and complex reports.
Research and analysis
Claude helps you explore research angles, compile findings, and analyze data to surface meaningful insights. You can upload documents and Claude will help you make sense of complex information.
Coding assistance
Claude can help you write, debug, and explain code across multiple programming languages.
Problem-solving and reasoning
Claude handles complex cognitive tasks, mathematical problems, strategic thinking and analysis, and research.
Learning new things
Whether you’re learning a new skill, exploring unfamiliar domains, or working through complex challenges, Claude can adapt to your learning style and pace.
Accessing Claude
Claude.ai
- The primary way most people interact with Claude. Here, you can ask questions, brainstorm ideas, create and edit documents, and a lot more.
- Claude.ai is ideal for conversations, writing assistance, research, analysis, and creating files.
Claude Code
- An agentic coding tool that is designed for developers but can be used for all kinds of file manipulation on your desktop.
- Claude Code can directly edit files, run commands, and create commits.
Claude Tag
- Brings Claude directly into Slack. You can chat with Claude in the AI assistant header from any channel or conversation, or by tagging Claude in threads.
- When you connect Slack to Claude, Claude searches your workspace’s channels, direct messages, and shared files to find the context you need for better responses and research.
Claude Design
- Turns ideas into working interfaces. Describe what you want — or start from a sketch or screenshot — and Claude builds an interactive prototype you can refine and hand off to your team.
- It works inside any conversation with Claude on paid plans, and as a dedicated space at claude.ai/design.
Claude for Microsoft 365
- Brings Claude into Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook as a sidebar, so you can analyze, draft, and edit inside the document you already have open — and carry context from one app to the next.