Getting started with Claude.ai

Imagine this. You're looking at a blank page, wrestling with a big, [music] complex project, and not sure where to start. What if you had a partner who could help you break it down?

Claude is a powerful, intelligent [music] collaborator that amplifies your capabilities across all of your work.

Claude brings AI intelligence, >> [music] >> but you bring the context and expertise that makes the work meaningful.

Let's explore chatting with Claude, beginning [music] with the sidebar. Here, you will encounter icons for creating new chats and jumping back into old ones. There are options for projects, where you can organize your conversations with persistent [music] context and custom instructions. And

then artifacts, which allow you to turn ideas into shareable apps, tools, or content. No matter what you hope to accomplish, Claude offers support to achieve your goals.

All interactions with Claude begin with a prompt, and these prompts, combined with other context, >> [music] >> impact its response. The best approach when speaking to Claude is like you would a coworker, naturally, concisely, and conversationally. But you may ask, what is a good prompt? Before your next

conversation with Claude, consider a few things. One, [music] setting the stage. What is your role, and what are your objectives? Is there context about your work that Claude should know about? Two, defining the task. [music] What action do you want Claude to take?

Do you want Claude to write, analyze, build, etc.? Three, specifying [music] rules. What's the style or tone you want Claude to use? Are there examples that you can attach to show Claude? Let's review this prompt below.

First, we're setting the stage >> [music] >> by telling Claude this is for an investor pitch deck for a new indie streaming app. That's the context [music] and the objective.

Then, we define the task clearly by providing relevant details. Finally, we specify the rules by using current web research with citations, structuring it as a professional report, which tells [music] Claude exactly what style and format we need.

Perfect. With your basic prompt in place, now comes the real power move, adding your specific context [music] to make Claude's response truly tailored to your needs.

When you upload relevant documents or background information into a specific chat, Claude considers that context [music] in its response, whether that's company documents, project files, or background [music] research.