The Best Claude Cowork Feature Of The Year (it's hidden)

There's a hidden feature inside of Claude Co-work that has completely changed how I'm using it. And it's a glimpse into the future of how work is going to change in the new era of AI. I personally think this is one of the biggest fundamental shifts I've seen in the AI space. And in this video, I'm going to break down what it is, how anybody can begin using it right now and show you exactly how I'm leveraging it to help me run my business. So, without further ado, let's dive into it. All right. So, there's a hidden feature inside of Cloud Co-Work that most people are not using and I am baffled that more people are not talking about it because genuinely for me, this has been one of the biggest changes that I've had when using co-work. So, first of all, let's talk about the problem that this solves and that is that most HTML dashboards go stale very fast. Basically, if you've ever generated a dashboard inside of Cloud Co-work, it's great. It's pretty cool. It's pretty novel. But the problem with it is if you built it on Monday, it's basically going to be useless by tomorrow. In order for you to get up-to-date information, you have to run an automation or refresh it. And that wastes tokens. It has to generate from scratch every single time. And I'm telling you, that will burn through your clawed tokens that you spend your hard-earned money on. Before this new feature came out, I had to run a scheduled task, which is basically an automation that runs every single day at a specific time in order to rescrape my email, pull every link from Bit.ly, and pull information from my Google calendar as well as it had to rebuild that dashboard from scratch every single time. And again, this was wasting me tons of credits. But with a new hidden feature inside of Claude Co-work, this completely solves this problem. It's called Claude Co-work Live Artifacts. And I'm going to break down exactly what it is in depth and show you different use cases you can use that I found for myself that you can copy from me. So, what this is is a self-contained HTML page that calls from all the different connectors we have inside of Claude. So if you're connected to Gmail, you're connected to Google Calendar, Notion, any of these different applications, we can not only pull information from in real time, but we could also make changes to those apps directly inside that dashboard as well. This right here is a perfect graphic of exactly what this is. So think of this. We have Claude as the brain. It has all the knowledge on us, our business, all of those different things. We have the live artifact, which is basically our own mini software that we have inside of Claude that automatically pulls from our different tools. So, if you don't know what a command center or like a daily operating system is, this is basically our command center that we can customize to our liking. And I don't think enough people are talking about how important this is. Having a custom operating system for yourself as well as for your team is the future of AI. It's a way to stay organized and do different things throughout your business or your work without you needing to use each of these different applications directly. And this is a fundamental shift that I'm seeing in AI that is really going to change how we work in the future. And so this is the first glimpse I've seen to where it feels like we're making a big step in the right direction when it comes to building custom software for our own use cases for oursel but also for our entire team if we have a team that we manage. First things first, in order to begin using the Co-work Live Artifacts, we need to have the desktop app downloaded. We're not able to access this on the web application. So if you don't have it downloaded, make sure to download it now. There's going to be a link in the description to sign up. Next, once we download the app and we have it open, we are going to see this interface. And one thing I want to mention is it's going to start in chat mode. This is basically how we use Claude like chatbt. We could go back and forth, but we can't spin up live artifacts and do plenty of other things we could do inside of co-work. So, if you've never used it before, up here on the left hand side, we basically have our different versions that we can use. First of all, we have chat mode right here. We have co-work mode and then code mode. So, make sure to click on this little checklist button. That will take you to Claude Co-work. And now we're going to see this interface. From here, we just need to make sure we're working inside of a folder. So, I have Claude Code short system folder pulled up. What we could do is we could just come here and select any existing folder we have on our computer that we want to store this information on. Or we can create a new one from scratch. So, we could come here and just give it a name something like live artifacts or honestly whatever you want to call it. Create that folder. Click on allow. And then now you could see right here we have live artifacts and that's the folder we're working inside of. Now let me show you the live artifacts I'm personally using so you could get a sense of what this is capable of. Before we dive deeper into exactly how to use this. In order to show you exactly what I mean let me come over to claude. Right now we are inside of co-work. And if you've never used co-work before we are going to see it up here on the top left hand side. First of all we have our chat mode which is this little chat button. We have co-work mode which is right here. and the button on the right is cla code. Make sure we have co-work selected because right now this is the only place we can begin using the live artifacts that we're talking about in this video. First thing that we're going to notice is in the left-hand sidebar, we now have this live artifacts button that we can click on. I'm going to show that here in a second. But also, one of the best parts about this is we have all of our live artifacts pinned right here in our menu. If we have a specific live artifact we want to access, we don't need to go and search for any of the chats, we just automatically have them directly right here and we could click on them and pull them up at any time. So, in order to show you what I mean, let me first show you my Stripe revenue dashboard that pulls live information from my Stripe account and generates this dashboard. So, that way I don't need to go inside of Stripe. For example, you can now see this interface. It's customized to exactly how I personally want it to look. We could customize it in whichever way we want. First of all, we have overview. We then have this section right here that is called brand deals. We have payments, customers, AR tracker. So, this is custom to how I want to use it. And that's one of the best parts about these live artifacts. Next, we can see revenue by brand deal. And this is all fake information. I didn't want to show you my actual Stripe account. We can even see cumulative revenue over the last 100 payments. Basically breaking down this chart here. And a couple of other different things. We could see all of our different brand deals here. So, I want you to note that inside of this live artifact, it's automatically categorizing every type of payment and then putting it into a specific section inside of this dashboard. I could see all the different payments with my Stripe payment information. I could see the different customers. And then a cool thing inside of here, let's say we want to track all the outstanding payments and invoices we sent. Well, I built out this like payment tracker system, vibecoded it directly inside of Claude, and embedded it directly into our artifact. So, I could just come here and just say invoice for Austin. I could put in an amount. Let's say $5,000. We can give it a specific date. And I could actually choose the status of this. So, let's say that this is overdue. And then I could click on payment. And then it adds to our outstanding total that you can see right here. As well as we have all of our different payments directly inside of our artifact. So, not only is this showing realtime information from Stripe, but it also has custom features like being able to track all the payments that I'm owed. I put together a guide on what live artifacts are, how you could use them, and I even give you five use cases you can steal from me to begin building these out in seconds. I even give you the exact prompt you could use to recreate the ones that I built. And if you guys want to access this, this is inside of my school community. You head over to classroom, click on community exclusives, and if you click on this here, you could see this exact breakdown as well as this PDF guide breaking this all down for you with the prompts you can steal in order to build these in literally seconds. To show you exactly what I mean, there's this little diagram as well as this prompt that you could literally just copy and paste into co-work in order to recreate these use cases that I found for yourself. To show you another example of a live artifact that I'm personally using that has been a game changer for me. Right here we have the bit.ly dashboard that I could just select in my side menu. And this is connected to my bit.ly account via the connectors inside of Claude. And instead of me needing to go to the Bitly software on the web, I can now see all this information directly inside of Claude. And this has been a game changer for me personally. If you don't know what Bitly is, it's basically a platform that allows you to track how many people are clicking on your links. So you can see where different traffic is coming from. So I personally can see how many people are clicking on my school community link from each different video. Right here, it shows that the number one link is the 15 Claude Skills resource video. It shows the amount of clicks that it has. It even shows the specific bit.ly URL there. and it breaks down by country where everybody is clicking from. It shows which platform they're coming from and it even shows which device is clicking on these different links. Before having that live artifact dashboard, I would have to come over to bit.ly. I would have to click on links and see all these different links here. And to me, this saves me a lot of time and honestly just like headache. The fact that now I could just already be inside of Claude, click on my live artifacts and see this with updated realtime information. And one key thing I want to note here is if somebody clicks on a link, I don't need to refresh this entire page. It will automatically refresh the amount of clicks without me needing to go and generate this entire page. Again, another artifact example that I want to show you guys cuz I know a lot of you use notion. This is a artifact that basically shows everything inside of notion. It makes it very easy for me to see what's going on inside of my company. So, if your company is using Notion as like a second brain and you guys are tracking all of your different projects inside of here, this could be a really helpful way to basically see what's going on across your entire business. So, for example, I have a couple of different pages inside of notion. Let me pull up my notion page here so you can see what it looks like. We have this subpage called AI for non- techies. Basically, I break down like my weekly goals. I have different subpages that track all my finances, revenue tracker, then I even have all of the different videos. So when I go and work on a video, I come inside of here. I add the different title ideas. Basically, I do a little bit of scripting in video outline. So in order for me to pull this information into Claude, I have this live artifact that will automatically populate this whenever I make changes inside of notion. And then I could see all these different pages here. For example, if I click on this one right here, this is a video that I was working on, I could then see everything that was inside of that Notion page. So if we want to view all of our different artifacts, there's a couple of different ways that we can do this. First of all, we have the left sidebar right here breaking down all of them. We can just pin the ones that we use frequently. So, for example, I use the revenue stripe dashboard a lot. I also use the bit.ly dashboard. Make sure to just pin the ones you use a lot right there so it's always easy to access as well as we have our live artifacts button right here that we can just click on and it will pull up all of our different artifacts. So, let's say we have tons of them added. This is an easy way for us to sort through and just click on any of these. So, for example, if I click on this, here is my morning inbox dashboard that pulls from my Google calendar. And this essentially acts as my entire operating system across my business. So it's able to pull from the different apps I use as well as I can see all of my bit.ly data and information inside of here as well. So let me show you now how we can begin using and creating artifacts from scratch. So once we have co-work open, there's a couple of different ways we could do this. We could come over to the lefth hand sidebar where we have our live artifacts. We can click on this. Obviously we're going to see all the ones that we've generated before. We can now click on new artifact. On the top right hand side, we have this black button. We click on this. We can click chat with Claude and basically just explain in plain English what it is we want to create. Then next up, it's going to ask you a series of a couple of different questions. So, it's asking if I want to create a school revenue tracker, video pipeline, and YouTube performance. And this is all custom basically based on who you are. So, all the context that Claude has on me, it's recommending different use cases for me personally. So, this can be a great place to start if you don't know what to begin building. So, personally, I think I'm going to go with the daily command center just to show you exactly how that works. It's pretty universal for everyone to use. So, I'd assume that you could probably get value from that instantly. Next, how often do you actually open it, multiple times a day, and what matters most for the design? Numbers and charts, mix of both, to be honest. So, now once we give it that information, it will go ahead spin up this artifact and I'll show you exactly what it looks like. In the meantime, what we need to do is make sure to add our specific apps that we have that we want to connect to. If you've never done it before, in order to add connectors, we need to come over to the left hand sidebar. There will be this little customize button. So, make sure to select that. Once I select that, we are going to see a couple of different things. We have all of our different skills here that we have. We have our connectors and plugins. Next, we need to add connectors. So, click on this. I personally have a big list of different connectors that I personally use. These are apps I use every single day in my business, but also directly inside of Claude. So, select any of the ones that you want to use. And in order to do that, just come over to browse connectors. From here, we're going to have basically a marketplace of different apps we can connect to. I have Gmail added, Google Drive, Google Calendar. Looks like we could even add Spotify. That's pretty cool. So, let's say we want to add Spotify, for example. We just click on this and it's automatically connected. And so, now I can begin asking Claw to pull information from Spotify. So, make sure to configure all the different apps that you use because otherwise live artifacts aren't going to be as useful cuz we do want to pull live information from those different applications and you need to set up connectors first and able to do that. And let's say you go through all these different connectors that are inside of Claude and the app that you want to use is not added here. Well, there is a way around this. So, let me show you exactly how I'm personally doing this right now. I'm personally using Zapier. So, I set up a Zapier MCP server. And Zapier basically connects to 9,000 plus different applications. So, in order to do this, we can click on this plus button. It's going to take you to Zapier MCP. We're going to click on allow. Then, it's going to pull this up in your browser. So, I could just click on open claude. And we basically just need to grant access to Zapier. And once we're inside of Zapier MCP, there's a couple things we need to do to configure this. So, we're going to click on add new MCP server. And then for our clients, we want to select Claude Co-work. Right here I have a couple of different apps already connected like HubSpot, Stripe, School, etc. So, in order to add your tools, you just come here, search for the tools that you want to add. Let's say I want to add ClickUp. I could select all these different actions. These are different things it can perform for you. You click on connect. And then all you have to do is configure your ClickUp account. And just like that, we now have ClickUp added to our MCP server. So, we could add all the different apps we use. There's 8,000 plus we can connect to. And then, in order to connect this to Claude, we just click on connect. Click add to Claude. It's going to bring you back to Claude and then just hit connect and we will be connected here. I do want to preface and say that's only necessary if there's an app inside of Claude that you can't natively connect to. That's just a hack that honestly has saved me and my community members so much time. All right, and it spit out this new daily command center, Live Artifact. Looks like we have nothing on the calendar right here. It shows that we have zero meetings, zero hours. It shows we have 16 different emails I need replies to. And then I also connected Slack and there's no messages that I personally need to reply to in Slack. Then we have all our Gmail triage which is basically all these different emails here. And guys, this is what it was generated from one single simple prompt. So we could customize this however we like. But that is how simple it is to generate these different live artifacts. Again, if you don't want to go through the hassle of writing out a specific prompt in order to generate these live artifacts inside the school community, we do have this guide. and it breaks down five different prompts you could use with different use cases that are universal to everybody. So, this is a resource that you can definitely use if you want to access it. And guys, I just want to say I hit 100,000 subscribers on YouTube this week. I cannot thank you guys enough for being a part of this community. 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