Notes from the studio.
- Compliance
Claude's memory is on by default: what compliance must review
Aug 25, 2026: Anthropic turned Claude's persistent memory on by default in chat and cowork. For a compliance lead, that is a retention decision, not a feature.
- Finance
AI for bank reconciliation: clear the breaks before close
A controller's guide to AI bank reconciliation. It pairs the routine lines, flags the exceptions, and posts nothing to the ledger without a human sign-off.
- Customer support
Worked example: agent-side retrieval for a support team
An illustrative worked example of agent-side retrieval for a support team. The team and numbers are assumptions, not a client result. No customer-facing bot.
- Product
Claude's watermark is your EU AI act disclosure layer
August 2026: Anthropic now watermarks all Claude output for the EU AI act's article 50 rule. What that hands a product lead shipping a feature into the EU.
- Marketing
AI for competitive intelligence: a weekly rival digest
Stop getting blindsided by a competitor's price or positioning change. A claude-based system that tracks rival moves and ships your team a ranked weekly digest.
- Sales
Worked example: AI follow-up for stalled B2B deals
An illustrative worked example of AI follow-up for stalled B2B deals. The sales team and numbers are assumptions, not a client result. What to measure.
- Operations
The audit trail that unblocks your ops AI rollout
August 2026: Anthropic's compliance API now covers Claude cowork and Claude code. Here is what that audit trail means for the ops rollout security froze.
- Customer support
AI for support replies: agents edit and send
AI for customer support replies drafts the first response in your voice from past tickets and docs. Your agent edits and sends. A human stays on every ticket.
- Product
Worked example: replacing retool with a tool you own
An illustrative worked example of replacing a retool app with an owned internal tool. The SAAS team and numbers are assumptions, not a client result.
- Marketing
What Claude Opus 5 means for your marketing report
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 on jul 24 at the same price as Opus 4.8. The real gain for a marketing lead is trustworthy synthesis of messy data.
- Product
AI for user feedback: rank the signal pile
How a head of product uses AI to cluster 2,000+ feedback items each month into ranked, deduplicated roadmap themes. Built from the sources you already pay for.
- Product
Worked example: taking an AI prototype to production
An illustrative worked example of taking an AI prototype to production. The fintech team and every number are assumptions, not a client result or a promise.