Tools

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.

Designs multi-email marketing sequences for onboarding, lead nurturing, win-back and launches, with full copy for each email, timing, branches and exit conditions, benchmarks and A/B test ideas. No email tool required. Part of Anthropic's official marketing plugin.

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.

Anthropic's official business operations plugin: vendor evaluations, process docs (flowcharts, RACI, SOPs), change requests, capacity planning, status reports and runbooks. Works without external tools and does more with ITSM and project management tools connected.

Performance review season helper: generates self-review and manager review templates and calibration materials, summarizes rating distributions and promotion cases, and rewrites vague feedback into specific behavioral examples. Works in plain chat. Official from Anthropic.

Tracks the hiring funnel through sourcing, screening, interviews, debrief and offer, watching stage time and conversion, source effectiveness, offer acceptance and time to hire. With an ATS connected it pulls candidate data and updates status. A brief skill from Anthropic's human-resources plugin.

Writes stakeholder updates by audience and cadence: weekly or monthly reports, launch announcements or risk escalations, and can rewrite the same progress as an executive summary, an engineering deep dive or a customer-facing version. From Anthropic's official product-management plugin.

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.

Month-end reconciliation for small businesses: matches QuickBooks or Xero line by line against PayPal, Stripe and Shopify payouts, flags likely duplicates and missing receipts, explains the P&L in plain terms and exports a close package (Excel and PDF). CSVs work too. Official from Anthropic.

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.

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.

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.

Skill from Anthropic's official sales plugin: before a customer meeting, pulls together attendees, account history, past call notes and deal status into a one-page brief with suggested discovery questions. Works best with calendar, CRM and email connectors; uploaded files also work.

Runs compliance checks on planned features, marketing campaigns or business initiatives: identifies applicable regulations such as GDPR and CCPA, required approvals and risks, and concludes go, go with conditions, or needs further review. From Anthropic's legal plugin; not legal advice.

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.

Helps in-house legal score and rank risks in contracts, deals and disputes on a severity-by-likelihood matrix, write risk memos, and know when to escalate to senior or outside counsel. No other tools needed. From Anthropic's legal plugin; not legal advice, have a lawyer review.

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.

Anthropic's official knowledge work plugin: manages tasks in TASKS.md, remembers colleagues, projects and internal jargon with two-tier memory, and generates a local dashboard. Can sync to-dos with calendar, email and chat tools.

Makes social media routine for small business owners: keeps a rolling content calendar, learns the owner's voice before writing captions, adapts one image per platform, and waits for approval on each post. Image creation needs Canva; Shopify, HubSpot and Mailchimp are optional. 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.

Creates, updates or reprioritizes a product roadmap: decides what moves when new work comes in, shifts timelines after dependency slips, or builds a Now/Next/Later view from scratch. Reads existing items from your project management tool when connected. From Anthropic's product-management plugin.

Reviews contracts clause by clause against your organization's negotiation playbook, flags deviations, proposes redlines and analyzes business impact. A skill from Anthropic's official legal plugin; conclusions need review by a legal professional.

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.

Product management plugin: writes PRDs from a problem statement, plans and updates roadmaps, generates stakeholder updates, synthesizes user research, and runs competitive analysis and metrics reviews. Official from Anthropic.