Notes from the studio.
- Education
What Claude Opus 5.5 pricing does to cost per student
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 on Sept 22 at a lower price than Opus 5. Here is what cheaper tokens and cache reads do to your cost per student.
- Operations
AI for approval workflows: clear the queue before it stalls
Approval chains die in dms for days. Here is how an ops lead clears pos, vendor onboarding, access and change requests with a Slack bot that routes and acts.
- Recruiting
Worked example: resume screening for a staffing agency
An illustrative worked example of resume screening for a generic staffing agency, with assumed numbers, no client result. A recruiter approves every shortlist.
- Customer support
What Claude fable 5.1 means for your ticket cost
Anthropic made Claude fable 5.1 generally available on Sept 1, with much cheaper cache reads. Here is what that does to your support ticket cost.
- Operations
AI for data entry: stop re-keying between systems
An ops lead's guide to ending the daily csv-export-and-re-key shuffle between quickbooks, Salesforce, and your own app. Real integrations plus an AI layer.
- Finance
Worked example: catching out-of-policy expenses
An illustrative worked example of AI expense review that flags out-of-policy spend before approval. The firm and numbers are assumptions, not a client result.
- Operations
GPT-6 astra for operations teams: scope it, don't unleash it
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 astra on 3 Sept 2026. It runs multi-step back-office work on its own. Here is how an ops team scopes one workflow before the switch flips.
- Sales
AI for rfp responses: draft from your own answer library
AI for rfp responses drafts each answer from your own answer library. Your bid lead edits and signs. Nothing is submitted to the buyer without a person.
- Operations
Worked example: prior-auth prep with human sign-off
An illustrative worked example of prior-auth packet prep with a human approving each submission. The group and numbers are assumptions, not a client result.
- Sales
What claudeforce means for revops pipeline hygiene
Salesforce and Anthropic announced claudeforce on aug 26, 2026. For a revops lead: sellers update the pipeline from inside Claude, so the CRM stays current.
- Education
AI for personalized learning paths that lift completion
Adaptive learning paths re-sequence lessons around what each student got wrong, so more of a cohort finishes and passes. No new instructors, no lms rebuild.
- Marketing
Worked example: segment personalization for lifecycle email
An illustrative worked example of segment-level email personalization for a d2c brand. The brand and numbers are assumptions, not a client result.