Claude will read an inbox first thing in the morning, file what needs filing, and leave twenty drafts waiting for you to approve. It works on a schedule you set, in the tools you already use, and it tells you in Slack when there is something to look at. You wake up to finished work instead of a list of jobs.

I wrote the AI-Powered Coaching Business Playbook after watching brilliant coaches and consultants spend their best hours on admin that nobody needed a human for. Every automation below is one I use in my business every week. I built them all by talking to Claude.

First, connect Claude to your tools. Open Customize, then Connectors, then add your email, your calendar, your files and Slack. This takes about 30 seconds each. Until you do it, Claude can suggest things without actually doing them. Here are five automations to set up this week, what each one produces, and the three rules that stop any of them embarrassing you.

Use these Claude automations to build while you sleep

1. Outreach that finds media opportunities

My version of this looks for people to interview for my Forbes column. Claude works through a specific set of criteria, finds the contact details for their PR representative and drafts a short, offhand email from a dedicated address. The kind of message I would send a friend.

Yours works the same way with a different list. The guests you want on your podcast, the conferences you want to speak at, the journalists who cover your topic. Describe the list, describe who qualifies and who does not, and describe the email you would write if you had all afternoon. Mine pings me in Slack when 20 drafts are ready. I check them and I send.

2. Receipts, filed without you

Every receipt in my business goes to one email address. Once a week Claude opens that inbox, processes every receipt, reads what each purchase was for and files it in our receipts software. The job takes no judgment and no expertise, which makes it the first thing to give away.

If you travel often, have a team, or do anything that generates a stream of small purchases, there is no version of your week where you should be doing this yourself. Set the schedule for Sunday night. Monday morning your bookkeeping is done.

3. A weekly reading of your LinkedIn posts

Set this one up in Claude Cowork, where Claude uses your browser. Once a week it goes through your recent posts, records the likes, comments and impressions on each, and compares them to everything you published before. Then it gives you lessons for your next posts.

The output is a set of rules that go into your project, so the next time you draft a post Claude checks it against your evidence and tells you where the draft falls short. Mine knows my best opening lines have fewer than nine words.

4. What people ask the AI version of you

Deploy an AI version of you to answer questions in your funnel and it collects the most valuable marketing information in your business. Real questions, from real prospects, in the words they use, at the moment they are stuck. Coachvox connects to Claude, which means all of it becomes readable.

Once a week, Claude reads the last 30 days of conversations and reports the challenges people brought and the phrases they used. Then it writes post ideas where the opening line is a sentence somebody said, word for word, and your answer goes underneath it.

5. A Monday brief that sets up your week

Sunday night, Claude reads your calendar for the week ahead. For every person you are meeting it finds and analyzes what happened last time, what you agreed to do, what they said they were worried about, and anything that has changed since. It writes all of that into one document and puts it in front of you before Monday starts.

Sunday dread comes from not knowing what is in the week. This removes it. You open one page, you know what every meeting needs from you, and the preparation you would have done in scattered twenty-minute panics has already happened.

The three rules that keep automations working while you sleep

First: Claude drafts, you send. Nothing leaves your business without a person reading it, which means every automation above ends in a drafts folder rather than an outbox. Second: personalize less than you think you should, because the more an automation tries to be clever about each individual, the more spectacular the failure when it gets one wrong. And, lastly, make the work come to you. A Slack message when a batch is ready means you never have to remember to check.

Pick the most tedious task in your week and describe it to Claude out loud using Wispr Flow , start to finish, the way you would explain it to somebody joining your team on Monday. Ask it to build the automation and to ask you questions before it does. You will have the first one working before you finish your coffee.

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