Tools

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Triages support tickets: extracts the issue and urgency signals, categorizes and assigns P1 to P4 priority, checks for duplicates or known issues, suggests the team to route to and drafts the first response. Part of Anthropic's official customer-support 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.

Writes competitive briefs on one or more competitors or a feature area: researches websites, pricing and reviews online, then compares features, pricing, positioning and go-to-market for prioritization, sales battlecards or board decks. From Anthropic's product-management plugin.

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.

Quickly pre-screens incoming NDAs and sorts them green, yellow or red into standard approval, legal review or full review, focusing on non-competes, non-solicitation and missing carve-outs. Part of Anthropic's official legal plugin.

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.

Account health checks for customer success managers: pulls CRM, email, calendar and call notes to score relationship, engagement, commercial (renewal and expansion), support and value delivery red/yellow/green, and can prep a QBR agenda. CRM preferred; uploads work. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.