Give Claude your company once
Lesson 1 of 3 · Claude & Cowork mastery
1 · Learn the move · Context + audience
Stop re-typing who you are every session. Write your trade, your market, your pricing rule and your exclusions standard once as a Claude Project's instructions, and every conversation inside that Project starts already knowing them. The move is context + audience: name the situation and who the instructions serve - you, on every job - so it stops guessing.
These are the standing instructions for my Claude Project. I run a [trade] company in [market]. My voice: plain, the way I talk to an owner. Standing rule: my numbers only, no invented unit prices, every unknown marked. When I paste a task, apply all of this without me repeating it.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
You open a fresh session five times a day and retype the same setup - your trade, your market, your pricing rule - before you can ask for anything. Write the Project instructions that carry all of it.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.