Chapter 04 · Start here

    Getting started next week

    You don't need a big programme, a committee, or a six-month rollout to start. Three small, real steps get the compounding going this week.

    Do this next week

    1. 01
      Pick a data store
      Notion or Confluence are both quick to start with. You are not choosing forever, you are choosing a place to begin.
    2. 02
      Use Claude to populate it
      Distil your existing business and project documents into a small, trusted core, rather than dumping everything in at once.
    3. 03
      Create a Claude Project pointed at that store
      A Claude Project groups your instructions, files and context together in one persistent place. Run your conversations and skills inside that context from here on, and it starts working with what you actually know.

    What it actually costs

    Most of a team like this runs on Claude Team licences, not a special enterprise deal. As a rough shape at the time of writing, most of the team is on Team Standard, around $25 per seat per month, with a smaller group of power users on Premium, around $125 per seat per month. Pricing and plan names change, so check the current pricing before you budget anything off these figures. Treat them as a rough shape, not a quote.

    The constraint is the point

    TIP

    Because not everyone has unlimited usage, the team learns to manage context, tokens and model choice deliberately. That discipline would not have formed if everyone had an unlimited licence from day one, and it is a large part of why the compounding actually holds up in practice.

    Next up

    Next up
    Using Claude Cowork
    A plain-English walkthrough for handing real work to Cowork.