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Claude for Small Business

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Re: Claude for Small Business

#481
It's funny that DocuSign was included here — small businesses really have no business using DocuSign. It's an enterprise product, it's expensive, and there are 20+ cheaper options out there.

eSignatures are probably in the top 10 at risk businesses right now. I did eSignatures before, and even I didn't buy a project just vibe coded the signature piece for a recent product.

Re: Claude for Small Business

#482

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> that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user That's what they aim Claude Cowork at. Every executive/leader I've shown Claude Cowork to has gone from 'what is AI' to 'vibecoding whole apps' in weeks. Then when Claude is down for an hour, they get visibly angry and don't remember how to do anything pre-Claude :) I understand the impulse to provide a UI to manage codebases, etc. But my observation is…

I have seen people just generate large docs with Claude cowork and they themselves have not scrutinized it or know why/how it's useful. It's just kind of impressive in its volume and well formatedness. And then they dump it in your lap as being helpful

Yep. I got a 16,000 word doc asking for 24 pictures for our ads

Re: Claude for Small Business

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post #241

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I think everyone is making bespoke versions of what they think people want. It all feels gimmicky and dev oriented. I have a vision for what will be the next household ChatGPT: 1. An actually frictionless way of keeping the human in the loop. My product is primarily targeting that: Your tools should feel like an extension of you, not replacing you. 2. Juggling work. I feel like what I'm making here is the secret sauc…

This is not a vision…. I’m convinced most of you on here are delusional and have no conception of a great product.

:) Or you're not the audience.

Or, miscommunication.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Others pointed it out better but you jumped to a conclusion in 30 seconds pointing out pointed legal and risk asks that don’t apply to the thread. Just look at the other threads of conversation where you go massively downvoted. You can capitalize YOU all you want but my point still stands. Yall are jumping to oddly specific conclusions that don’t matter in this thread. There is an absolutely interesting discussion ar…

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Sorry we hit a sore spot and I am sorry that I started the conversation poorly but I hope you also gain some self awareness that some of it was in how rude you yourself are.

Not sure by you keep thinking I have anything to prove to you. My point stands. The governance and risk are very valuable discussion and it’s going to change between industry and the trust level of each group.

Unfortunately most IT is short sighted and trying to play catchup. We had 3 years of thinking about how these tools are going to impact the workplace and are now rushing to catch up while also being insistent that Copilot is a worthwhile alternative. I generally disagree with that. I am not advocating that IT oppressive but that unfortunately most IT leaders are not technical and it shows.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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I understand why this is a good idea. I have Claude Code hooked up to my mail synced via IMAP, my Mercury read-only token, and beancount, and it gets almost all of my invoices and categorizes them. The tedious portion for a lot of this is: * find invoice I_E for expense E * associate and categorize E based on I_E and transaction field These things are annoying but Claude Code is great at it and it leaves a much small…

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Re: Claude for Small Business

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post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think everyone is making bespoke versions of what they think people want. It all feels gimmicky and dev oriented. I have a vision for what will be the next household ChatGPT: 1. An actually frictionless way of keeping the human in the loop. My product is primarily targeting that: Your tools should feel like an extension of you, not replacing you. 2. Juggling work. I feel like what I'm making here is the secret sauc…

This is not a vision…. I’m convinced most of you on here are delusional and have no conception of a great product.

An additional comment -- I'm perplexed by the amount of pushback in this thread. You expect a bit, but delusional?

You don't normally get raked over the coals for having an idea you're still carving out -- an idea that's validated in production, even.

Re: Claude for Small Business

#487

> PayPal powers settlements, invoicing, disputes, and refunds inside Claude. > Intuit QuickBooks handles payroll planning, the monthly close, and cash-flow, along with tools to help businesses prepare for tax season, and reconciliation work that touches every other system. I can't wait for the horror stories, this is going to be fun. Remember last month when Anthropic was like: no, we're not going to refund you even…

For a preview of how this will go, take a look at this: https://accounting.penrose.com/

Wish they would update it with the newest models. Probably still fails but would be interesting to see the mistakes getting fewer.

Re: Claude for Small Business

#488

I run a small business. I used AI to do book keeping for my LLC with two members (I have a partner). We had used a bookkeeper in previous years but we couldn’t ignore the potential cost savings of using AI. We have a CPA who said the books look great so we will likely no longer need a human to do book keeping. We were able to cancel Quickbooks because of this. Quickbooks (andvanced plan) alone was $3k/year in savings…

3k is like 1/50th of the penalty you're going to get if you make a mistake on your taxes, trust me I know, and Anthropic isn't going to be covering those penalties. IRS is going to make a ton of money off you naive people. Get a better CPA who's not committing malpractice like your current one.

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Re: Claude for Small Business

#489

I run a small business. I used AI to do book keeping for my LLC with two members (I have a partner). We had used a bookkeeper in previous years but we couldn’t ignore the potential cost savings of using AI. We have a CPA who said the books look great so we will likely no longer need a human to do book keeping. We were able to cancel Quickbooks because of this. Quickbooks (andvanced plan) alone was $3k/year in savings…

3k is like 1/50th of the penalty you're going to get if you make a mistake on your taxes, trust me I know, and Anthropic isn't going to be covering those penalties. IRS is going to make a ton of money off you naive people. Get a better CPA who's not committing malpractice like your current one.

Not sure why this is getting down voted. You will get audited 3 years after the offense and they will charge you interest higher than the worst credit card for those three yrs (during which you had no clue you offended). Be fool and replace your CPA with your favorite text autocomplete machine learning model and let me know how that works out for you.

Re: Claude for Small Business

#490

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user That's what they aim Claude Cowork at. Every executive/leader I've shown Claude Cowork to has gone from 'what is AI' to 'vibecoding whole apps' in weeks. Then when Claude is down for an hour, they get visibly angry and don't remember how to do anything pre-Claude :) I understand the impulse to provide a UI to manage codebases, etc. But my observation is…

I have seen people just generate large docs with Claude cowork and they themselves have not scrutinized it or know why/how it's useful. It's just kind of impressive in its volume and well formatedness. And then they dump it in your lap as being helpful

It's a problem
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