Tools

Turns processes that live in people's heads into SOPs: flowcharts, a RACI matrix (responsible, accountable, consulted, informed), detailed steps and exceptions, ready for handoffs, audits and onboarding. Describe the process or paste existing notes. Official from Anthropic.

Generates people analytics reports from employee data: headcount snapshots, voluntary and involuntary attrition, diversity metrics, spans of control and flight risk, with findings and recommendations for leadership. Needs an uploaded employee CSV or a connected HRIS. Official from Anthropic.

Everyday software engineering plugin: standup summaries, code review, structured debugging, architecture decision records, incident response and pre-deploy checks. Official from Anthropic, built mainly for Cowork but also usable in Claude Code.

Screens resumes against a role rubric into a cited shortlist, ignoring irrelevant details like name and age; drafts invite, hold or decline replies, schedules interviews and builds onboarding checklists. Gmail and Calendar are optional, sending only after you confirm. Official from Anthropic.

Helps finance teams run month-end close: a close checklist sequenced from T+1 to T+5, task dependencies and critical path, a progress tracker and tips to shorten the close, useful for close calendars and status tracking. Needs professional review. Part of Anthropic's official finance plugin.

For internal auditors running SOX tests: lists key controls by area (revenue, procure-to-pay, payroll, close, ITGC) and period, sets sample sizes, samples from your population, and generates test workpaper templates and deficiency assessments. Needs professional review. Official from Anthropic.

Builds structured interview kits for a role: behavioral and situational questions by competency, follow-up probes, a 1 to 4 scoring rubric and a debrief template, so interviewers assess candidates against the same bar. Part of Anthropic's official human-resources plugin.

Answers employee policy questions in plain language, such as PTO, benefits, expenses, travel and remote work, with sources cited. Paste the handbook into the chat, or connect Notion, Confluence or another knowledge base to search automatically, cutting repeat HR questions. Official from Anthropic.

30/60/90-day cash flow forecasts for small businesses: reads receivables, payables and collections from your accounting system, PayPal or Stripe (or an uploaded CSV), gives a forecast with ranges and risk flags, and exports to Excel. Have an accountant review. Official from Anthropic.

Reorder planning for small merchants: reads sales and stock from Shopify, Square, NetSuite or CSV, projects stockout dates from 7- and 28-day velocity, sizes reorders from 60-day usage plus lead time, drafts POs and supplier emails, and flags dead stock. Nothing is sent unapproved. By Anthropic.

Builds onboarding plans for new hires: a pre-start checklist (accounts, equipment, buddy), day-one and first-week schedules, and 30/60/90-day goals. Works in plain chat; with an HRIS, knowledge base or calendar connected it pulls in team info and books day-one events. Official from Anthropic.

Account reconciliation following accounting methodology: GL to subledger, bank reconciliations and intercompany balances, with reconciling items categorized, aged and escalated. Part of Anthropic's official finance plugin; results need professional review.

Helps accountants prepare month-end journal entries: debit/credit treatment for accruals, prepaid amortization, depreciation, payroll and revenue recognition, plus required support and review checklists, following US GAAP. Not financial advice; review before posting. From Anthropic's finance plugin.

Tax prep for US small business owners: estimates quarterly taxes from QuickBooks, Xero or an uploaded P&L, and at year end lists contractors paid over $600 for 1099-NEC, flagging missing W-9s, for your accountant. US federal only; books must be closed. Not tax advice. From Anthropic.

Compensation analysis for HR and managers: market pay percentiles by role, level and location, offer competitiveness checks and equity modeling; upload a pay sheet to find employees outside their band and flight risks. Without a comp data source it uses public web data, so verify. By Anthropic.

Produces monthly, quarterly or annual income statements with prior-period, year-over-year and budget comparisons, flagging material variances. Includes balance sheet and cash flow formats plus GAAP presentation and period-end adjustment references. From Anthropic's finance plugin; get it reviewed.

Helps small business owners collect overdue payments: finds overdue invoices in QuickBooks, Xero, PayPal or Stripe and drafts reminder emails with a tone suited to each customer's payment history, sent only after your approval. Without a connection, upload an AR aging CSV. By Anthropic.

Checks hours before payroll for US small businesses: totals regular time, overtime and PTO from Gusto, QuickBooks Payroll or timesheets, and flags missed punches, overtime anomalies, rate changes and mid-period hires or exits. Prepares only, never runs payroll. Official from Anthropic.

All-in-one plugin for small business owners: 44 skills covering cash flow and bookkeeping, collections and taxes, customer acquisition and marketing, customer feedback, inventory, hiring and contract review. Anything touching money or customers needs your approval. Official from Anthropic.

Drafts offer letters from role, level, location and comp package, listing base salary, equity, signing bonus and first-year total, plus talking points for the hiring manager's negotiation. The template follows US company conventions; have legal review before sending. Official from Anthropic.

Helps with headcount planning and org design: maps reporting lines and spans of control, sequences upcoming hires, estimates people costs, and flags structural issues like single points of failure or top-heavy management. Works in plain chat. Official from Anthropic.

Anthropic's official small-business skill for bills: reads vendor, amount and due date from email, PDFs or photos, dedupes, codes to accounts, matches POs and drafts a payment plan. Posting and paying each need approval; it never auto-pays. Works with QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite or file export.

Compliance skill from Anthropic's official operations plugin: maps controls, owners and evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS, schedules audits, runs gap analyses, and outputs audit-readiness checklists and evidence collection plans. Have legal or compliance experts review.

HR plugin: drafts offer letters, generates onboarding checklists, runs performance reviews, answers policy questions, and produces compensation benchmarks and people analytics reports. Can connect to HRIS and ATS systems. Official from Anthropic.