Running a smaller business or start up means you're also doing payroll. And chasing invoices. And trying to figure out if last month closed in the black, while also building a proposal that's due tomorrow and following up with the three leads who went quiet last week. Not to mention marketing! The admin never stops, and you're always the one doing everything.

Anthropic's new Claude for Small Business package doesn't fix that, but it does something almost more useful. It runs your most time-consuming jobs directlly in the tools you're already paying for like, QuickBooks, HubSpot, PayPal, Canva, and more.

In this episode, Jess and Kyle get into what Claude for Small Business actually includes, how the workflows and skills fit together, what it looks like in practice, and what you need to know before you connect anything. If you've listened to our Cowork, Skills and MCP episodes, this is where those pieces click into place.

They also give an update on last week's jobs episode, which already has multiple updates in the week since it was published.

Full list of workflows & skills: https://claude.com/plugins/small-business

The setup command: /smb-onboard

Tools we use:

Wispr Flow - AI-powered voice dictation that works across every app on your desktop - https://ref.wisprflow.ai/early-adoptr

Granola - The best AI meeting notes! New users get 100% off for their first month - https://www.granola.ai?via=early-adoptr

What You'll Learn

Why Claude for Small Business isn't just another AI chatbot layer
What the 15 pre-built workflows are and what they actually do
The difference between a workflow (the full job you trigger) and a skill (the reusable technique running underneath it)
How the approval model works
The permissions issue to be aware of
How to work out whether this is the right tool for you right now

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