Set up a daily Reddit and competitor scan
They use Cowork to gather relevant tech posts, market signals, and draft replies without checking everything by hand.
- What they did
- They scheduled Cowork to check tech-focused Reddit communities every day and email a summary at 7 a.m. with the most useful threads and takeaways. In the same workflow, they had it look for competitive and market clues online, and in separate jobs it helped turn receipts into expense emails and review weekly S3 logs. They kept it away from broader company tools like email, calendars, and chat.
- How it went
- They describe it as acting like a junior assistant that cuts down on manual scanning by surfacing useful discussions on its own. The tradeoff is that they are not comfortable giving it deeper access to core systems, so the setup stays limited.
- Tips
- Start with narrow, read-only tasks that produce a short digest or draft. Keep anything that sends, submits, or deletes behind an explicit approval step.
Try it yourself with Claude Cowork
Each day at [time], check [specific subreddits], [competitor sites], and other public sources for items tied to [my role/product/market]. Send me a brief digest with the [top 5] most relevant items, each with a link and one sentence on why it matters. Also draft a [short article/email] about the strongest item for [audience]. Before you send, publish, submit, delete, or pay for anything, stop and ask for my approval. Save the digest and draft in [folder/location].
Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.
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