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Claude for Small Business

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Re: Claude for Small Business

#11

Waiting to hear the stories of things Claude did running amok in Quickbooks.

It's a fascinating angle they've taken to give Claude your payroll. I guess we've reached this part of the AI race and they're running ahead of people realizing what it can do.

Re: Claude for Small Business

#13
Anthropic vs OAI fierce competition, maybe, the most intense we have seen in capitalism history. They can’t let breathe each other. One declare free Codex for businesses to adopt, and a set of agents. Another instantly rolling out new products in the same niche. Heck, they even start to release their models in the same day. We just in middle May and it is already which product release from each of them?

In books of the future, if we ever hold one, I think this will be studied a lot. We have seen before competitions and rivals, but they mostly were rivalry of craft. Here it is a rivalry of velocity and reach. Who can first target user with whatever they have ready to offer.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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post #13

Anthropic vs OAI fierce competition, maybe, the most intense we have seen in capitalism history. They can’t let breathe each other. One declare free Codex for businesses to adopt, and a set of agents. Another instantly rolling out new products in the same niche. Heck, they even start to release their models in the same day. We just in middle May and it is already which product release from each of them? In books of t…

AMD and Intel in the late 90s/early 00s? Remember the race to 1Ghz (and leaving Motorola and IBM behind with the PPC)?

Re: Claude for Small Business

#15

Kinda weird to assume that a "small" business would have $16.9m cash on hand...

Small businesses are bigger than you think they are. A company with $100 million revenue per year could still be a small business.

You might be assuming small businesses have less than ten people. That’s a category of small business called a “micro-business” or microenterprise, depending on funding model.

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#16

Isn’t Cowork a tough thing to trust? What if it goes wrong, especially in the hands of users that aren’t programmers? Anthropic is releasing these vibe codes products continuously and I feel like it’s only a matter of time before something goes wrong. Shouldn’t they focus on safety and security first before releasing these?

theres a pretty clear underlying system somebody needs to make "git for business"

Re: Claude for Small Business

#17
post #13

Anthropic vs OAI fierce competition, maybe, the most intense we have seen in capitalism history. They can’t let breathe each other. One declare free Codex for businesses to adopt, and a set of agents. Another instantly rolling out new products in the same niche. Heck, they even start to release their models in the same day. We just in middle May and it is already which product release from each of them? In books of t…

It's an inconsequential competition because both are giving away products that are somewhere between non-functional and barely-functional while torching a mountain of borrowed money. Both will go bankrupt if not bailed out by the government.

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post #9

If I heard my employer was using Claude to manage payroll, I’d be looking for a new job - quickly .

If I've learned anything in my career it's that you'll find your most dependable people in payroll.

Re: Claude for Small Business

#19

What's new here? It looks good - accessing connectors using Claude but not sure whether there's something fundamentally novel

I think it's essentially this plugin? https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/ma...

Looks useful, so they are new plugins. But what are plugins vs skills vs connectors?

Re: Claude for Small Business

#20

Kinda weird to assume that a "small" business would have $16.9m cash on hand...

Small businesses are bigger than you think they are. A company with $100 million revenue per year could still be a small business. You might be assuming small businesses have less than ten people. That’s a category of small business called a “micro-business” or microenterprise, depending on funding model.

Had to look it up, but instagram had 13 employees when they sold to Facebook for $1 billion (for some reason I remembered them being 9 people). I know multiple gale devs who had single digit (or low double digits) staff when they were already making many millions in revenue/profit.
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