Tools

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.

Lists renewals coming up in the next few months, flags churn risk and expansion opportunities from signals like usage, key contact changes and open complaints, and checks for missing or wrong renewal opportunities in the CRM. Needs a CRM or uploaded contract exports. 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.

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.

Breaks budget-versus-actual, year-over-year and month-over-month variances into volume, price and mix drivers, filters by materiality thresholds, writes variance commentary and provides waterfall breakdowns for monthly business reviews. From Anthropic's official finance plugin.

Account research skill from Anthropic's official sales plugin: give a company name or domain (and optionally a contact) to get a company overview, recent news and likely priorities, an ICP fit check and existing CRM records. Without a CRM it uses uploaded lists or web search.

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.

Drafts customer-facing replies tuned to the situation and relationship: product questions, outage notices, bad news like delays or won't-fix, declined feature requests and billing disputes, with adjustable tone. From Anthropic's official customer-support plugin; review before sending.

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.

Turns a hiring need into a job description, a structured interview guide with scorecard, resume screening criteria and an offer template, delivered as Word documents. With Claude in Chrome it can save drafts in DocuSign. Official from Anthropic; have HR or legal review offer terms.

Anthropic's official knowledge work plugin: one question searches your connected chat, email, cloud docs, wiki and project tools at once and returns a sourced answer; can also produce daily or weekly digests. Preset MCP connectors for Slack, Notion, Atlassian, Asana and more, each needing auth.

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.

Outreach skill from Anthropic's official sales plugin: uses account research and past emails to write personalized prospecting emails or multi-touch follow-up sequences, saved as drafts for your review. Works best with email and CRM connected; otherwise returns copy-ready text.

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.

Collects reviews and complaints from Google, Yelp, Facebook and more, groups them by theme with quotes, and drafts replies in the owner's voice that post only after approval; also finds lapsed customers and drafts win-back messages. Official Anthropic small-business plugin.

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.

Packages customer issues that need engineering, product or leadership into an escalation brief with scope, repro steps, business impact, asks and deadline, and decides who to escalate to. Support and CRM connectors add context automatically. Part of Anthropic's official customer-support plugin.

Before replying to a customer, verifies answers across the knowledge base, past tickets, CRM and chat history, grades confidence and cites sources; can also find whether an issue was reported before or what a customer was told. From Anthropic's official customer-support 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.

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.

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 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.

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.