Tool · 26 cases
Use cases: Claude
Claude, from Anthropic, appears in these cases as an assistant for reading long documents, careful writing, data analysis and programming. Many accounts highlight using projects and attached files to give context before asking for anything. Here are cases from professionals and consumers, with what they did, where the tool helped and where it got things wrong. Use each page's prompt as a starting point and adjust it to your case.
26 cases, 7 of them from Brazil, from newest to oldest. The most common topics are productivity, rights and bureaucracy, and education and study. People who show up most: developer, job seeker, and tenant. Each case links to the original source, shows a verification date and includes a prompt we wrote.
The cases
26 cases
01One week to find an apartment in San Francisco
A new hire used Claude and ChatGPT to list property managers and filter listings by price and area.
02Agents search for new magnetic materials
A team of agents ran simulations and found candidates for room-temperature magnetic semiconductors.
03University recovers US$100,000 with a treasury skill
Cornell's finance and AI teams built a skill to identify and chase unidentified payments.
04New York tenant uses AI to document building violations
An agent cross-referenced the city's violations database with the housing code and drafted complaints.
05Applying to jobs in bulk with computer use
A user says they sent 50 applications in under 30 minutes with Claude controlling the computer.
06Filing Indian income tax on the portal with an agent
A user handed the income statements to Claude, which checked the data on the portal and submitted the return.
07Charting your own blood tests from PDFs
Matt Stockton attached lab reports from different years and Claude built a tool that shows the trends and highlights abnormal results.
08Building a dossier to fight for your consumer rights
The author describes the problem by voice and Claude builds a dossier with the contract, the company's advertising and the regulator.
09Reducing a $163,000 hospital bill
Matt Rosenberg asked Claude to compare each billed code with what Medicare pays.
10A former tax preparer tests Claude on his own return
Ex-PwC Geoffrey Doempke let Claude classify documents and extract numbers into files he could check.
11When AI gave bad advice in a dispute with a car rental company
Charged $2,300 by Sixt, Malky followed Claude's suggestion to accuse the company of photo fraud, and the letter didn't work.
12A fit score for every LinkedIn job posting
José Antonio Morales turned his profile and a weighting system into a shortcut that scores any open job posting.
13A Great Gatsby unit planned by an agent
Ethan Mollick asked for a high school plan with reading broken into sections and tasks tied to the curriculum.
14Product manager gives Claude a robot body
Tal Raviv built a camera-equipped robot car and let Claude drive it in a loop: photo, decision, movement.
15Building browser games for your kids without knowing how to code
A Portuguese salesperson with no programming background has made more than 70 games with AI for their kids.
16Letting AI actually edit videos in Kdenlive
A dev created an open source MCP server that lets agents edit video in Kdenlive without touching the interface.
17A history teacher builds a game about Rome for their students
A middle school teacher learned Godot and used Claude to unblock the code for an RPG set in Gaul in 51 BC.
18Analyzing your own job applications with AI until you get hired
A young woman used Claude to treat her job search as a data funnel and landed a role at DoorDash.
19Building a "thinking system" with Obsidian and Claude
A developer started recording what he learns in Obsidian and using Claude to connect notes.
20Sending AI summaries and research straight to your Kindle
A developer built a Go MCP in minutes that lets Claude or Codex send texts to a Kindle.
21Testing whether AIs cite your blog
An author asked five AI assistants about topics he had already published on to see whether his content showed up.
22Making a multiplayer shooter with AI alone
A developer built a Counter-Strike-style FPS in about 10 days, using Claude for all the code.
23Let an AI send prospecting emails on your behalf
The founder of BloodLink authorized Claude to write and send emails to blood centers and hospitals.
24Building a Timing App for Cooking Several Recipes at Once
Simon Willison asked Claude for an app to coordinate timings when preparing two recipes at the same time.
25Auditing a Hospital Bill Item by Item with AI
A family used Claude to interpret billing codes and dispute a hospital bill.
26Converting Map Data with AI's Help
Simon Willison used Claude and ChatGPT to convert a shapefile of a park boundary into GeoJSON.