Claude in Action: Use Cases by Role

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Each use case below links to a detailed guide in Claude’s Use Case Gallery with step-by-step instructions you can follow.

General professional use

These use cases apply across many roles and industries.

– Keep stakeholders informed with clear, consistent updates
– Extract insights from customer comments and survey responses
– Create a reusable Claude skill that applies your brand standards

Sales

Sales professionals can use Claude to accelerate deal preparation, create compelling materials, and stay on top of competitive intelligence.

– Create competitive intelligence resources that help your team win deals
– Research prospects and organize your talking points before important meetings
– Turn your pipeline data into clear, actionable reports

Marketing

Marketers can leverage Claude to analyze performance data and efficiently repurpose content across channels.

– Extract insights from campaign metrics to inform your strategy
– Efficiently repurpose content for different channels and audiences

Finance

Finance professionals can use Claude to build models, draft documents, and make sense of complex spreadsheets.

– Create and refine financial projections with Claude’s help
– Structure and write investment analyses more efficiently
– Decode complex spreadsheets and add new functionality

HR

HR teams can use Claude to create better onboarding experiences and documentation.

– Develop comprehensive onboarding materials tailored to different roles

Legal

Legal professionals can use Claude to track complex timelines and manage discovery processes.

– Organize case timelines and identify key patterns in legal documents

Research

Researchers can use Claude to plan literature reviews and verify data analysis.

– Organize your approach to reviewing academic sources
– Double-check calculations and statistical analyses

Explore more

Visit the to browse the full collection and find inspiration for how Claude can help with your specific work.

Other Ways to Work with Claude

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Tool	Best for	Where it runs
Claude.ai	General tasks, research, writing, analysis, file creation	Web, desktop, and mobile apps
Claude Code	Software development, codebase navigation, git workflows	Terminal/command line, IDE, or your browser
Claude Cowork	Complex, multi-step tasks: research briefs, document creation, file organization, data analysis	Desktop (plus web and mobile, in beta, on eligible plans)
Claude Tag	Team collaboration, meeting prep, quick answers in context	Slack workspace
Claude Design	UI prototypes, design exploration, design-system-aware mockups	Any conversation with Claude (paid plans), plus claude.ai/design
Claude for Microsoft 365	Editing in place and carrying context across documents	Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook sidebars
Claude in Chrome	Web research, email management, browser automation	Chrome browser sidebar

Claude Code

When to use Claude Code:

You want to build features by describing what you need in plain English, and have Claude write the code, run tests, and create commits
You need to debug issues by pasting error messages and having Claude analyze your codebase to identify and fix problems
You’re navigating an unfamiliar codebase and want to ask questions about how different parts work together
You want to automate tedious tasks like fixing lint errors, resolving merge conflicts, or writing release notes
You prefer working in your terminal alongside your existing IDE and development tools rather than switching to a separate interface

Claude Tag

When to use :

You want to draft responses to messages, summarize lengthy threads, or break down complex discussions without leaving Slack
You need to prepare for meetings by having Claude pull together relevant conversations and shared documents from your workspace
You’re onboarding to a new team and want help understanding ongoing projects by reviewing channel history
You want to hand off coding tasks directly from a bug report or feature discussion—just tag Claude and it can spin up a Claude Code session using the surrounding context
You need to quickly get answers about industry trends, technical concepts, or company information during a conversation

Claude Design

Claude Design turns ideas into working interfaces.

Describe what you want in plain language — or start from a sketch or screenshot — and Claude builds an interactive prototype as an artifact you can edit directly, share with your team, or hand to Claude Code to build.
It works inside any conversation with Claude and in the Artifacts tab, and it’s also available as a dedicated space at claude.ai/design.

When to use Claude Design:

You want to go from a written brief, sketch, or reference screenshot to a working UI prototype without writing code
You’re exploring design directions and want to generate and compare several variations quickly
You need to iterate on layout, copy, or interactions without editing markup — on the canvas, with a comment, or by asking (the “Creating with artifacts” lesson covers the mechanics)
You want a prototype that uses your team’s design system, so what you hand off matches what engineering will build

Claude for Excel

When to use Claude for Excel:

You’re working with a complex multi-tab workbook and want to understand how specific formulas or calculation flows work across sheets
You need to update assumptions or inputs across your model while preserving formula dependencies and relationships
You’re debugging spreadsheet errors like #REF!, #VALUE!, or circular references and want Claude to trace them to their source and suggest fixes
You want to create new spreadsheets or populate existing templates with data while maintaining proper formula structure
You need to quickly build pivot tables or charts to visualize your data

Claude for PowerPoint

Claude for PowerPoint brings Claude into Microsoft PowerPoint as a sidebar, so you can draft, edit, and restructure presentations through conversation while keeping your existing template and brand styling intact.

When to use Claude for PowerPoint:

You want to turn an outline, document, or set of notes into a first-draft slide deck without building each slide by hand
You need to rewrite or tighten slide copy — shortening bullets, adding speaker notes, or adjusting tone for a specific audience
You’re restructuring an existing deck and want help reordering sections, splitting dense slides, or merging overlapping ones
You want consistent formatting applied across the deck — titles, bullet styles, and layouts — without manually fixing each slide
You’d like quick visual suggestions for a slide, such as which layout or chart type best fits the point you’re making

Claude for Word

Claude for Word brings Claude into Microsoft Word as a sidebar, so you can draft, revise, and restructure the document you have open — working with tracked changes and comments, and pulling context from connected sources to ground what you write.

When to use Claude for Word:

You want to turn an outline or rough notes into a structured first draft in your team’s template
You need to revise a section — tighten the writing, adjust the tone for a specific reader, or rework the structure — without leaving the document
You’re responding to reviewer comments and tracked changes and want help working through them in place
You want the draft grounded in source material you’ve connected, so claims in the document trace back to where they came from

Claude for Outlook

Claude for Outlook brings Claude into your inbox as a sidebar, so you can triage mail, draft replies with context from related threads and your calendar, and turn a long email chain into a clear summary or a set of next steps.

Claude in Chrome

When to use Claude in Chrome:

You want to summarize articles, research papers, or web pages while browsing
You need help drafting email responses or managing your inbox
You’re filling out repetitive forms and want to automate the process
You want to test website features or navigate multi-step workflows without manually clicking through each step
You need a browsing assistant that maintains context as you move between tabs and tasks. This makes it great for pulling context from niche internal tools, CRMs, or dashboards.

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