AI Foundations · free starter
Claude interviews you once, builds a one-screen view of your business and briefs you every morning on what needs you.
AI Foundations · free starter · about 20 minutes · no sales call
You’re the founder, the sales team, the support desk and the bookkeeper. AI can take the first pass at most of it.
Set up in the free starter
Now: You open five tabs before breakfast to work out who replied, what’s due and whether anyone paid.
With AI: One short brief arrives every morning from your inbox and calendar: yesterday’s wins, the numbers you care about and the one thing that needs you.
Set up in the free starter
Now: Some weeks you’re scared to look at the numbers, so the review slides to next week, and then the week after.
With AI: Each Friday the review guide walks you through what moved and the one thing worth fixing. See how an AI weekly business review works.
Next, with the same method
Now: Replies pile up while you’re doing the client work, and follow-ups go out days late.
With AI: Your AI already knows your business, so it drafts each reply and follow-up in your voice, and you read it and send.
Next, with the same method
Now: You know you should post more, but by the time the client work is done, so is your day.
With AI: What you already said on calls and in emails becomes a week of posts that go out on their own.
Three steps, all inside the free starter, and you can finish them tonight.
Visualize
Claude interviews you once about how money comes in, your goals and what you keep avoiding, then builds a one-screen dashboard of your business.
Automate
A scheduled morning brief turns Claude into a personal AI assistant that reads your calendar and inbox before you do.
Optimize
Every Friday you pick the one thing worth fixing, so next week runs a little smoother than this one.
Choosing what to hand to AI first? Start with how to use AI in your business, then open AI Foundations and set it up tonight.
I run four apps largely on my own with AI, and my AI briefs me at 7:56 every morning. This starter is where I began.
Danielle Thompson, founder of Switchboards
No. It’s AI Foundations, a free 20-minute starter for anyone running a business. When you want your posting handled too, The Social Machine is the live next step.
Tonight. It takes about 20 minutes, and from tomorrow the brief does the checking you currently do across five tabs.
No. You copy and paste, Claude asks the questions, and the morning brief only needs your calendar and inbox connected.
You decide what goes in. You can leave client names out, or practise on the sample business before you add anything of your own.
The sample dashboard works with no account. To build your own and get the morning brief, you need a paid Claude plan and the Claude desktop app.
About 20 minutes now, and your first brief is waiting tomorrow before you open a single tab.
It’s free, and there’s no sales call.