Hey Reader,

I ignored the best version of Claude for 6 months.

And I'm the guy with 25+ years of engineering experience.

If I got this wrong, the odds you're using the right one are not great.

Here's the mistake, and why fixing it gave me back 10 hours a week.

The room without a phone.

Most business owners use Claude in the browser, like ChatGPT with better vibes.

It answers questions well, and it would be easy to think that that's all you need.

But that's like hiring a brilliant PA and locking them in a room without a phone.

You can slide questions under the door, but they can'd do most of the work for you.

So you're paying full price for an under-performer. Not good.

The lesson that took me 6 months.

The value of AI in a business is not answers, but it's actual work done.

For example, my YouTube competitor research, newsletter writing, social media analytics and similar busywork uses to mean I'd have to log into every apps, copy pasting stuff into spreadsheets.

Hours of my week gone to things I knew AI should be able to do.

So now, Claude does 80 to 90% of it on my computer, and I just review and approve.

Same subscription price. Completely different output.

The only thing that changed is which version of Claude I run.

And no, it's not the magical Claude Code, which actually has a brutal learning curve for beginners.

The part I can't put in an email.

I recorded exactly which version I use, the dashboard that replaced weeks of busywork, and the pricing mistake mistake most owners make before they even start.

Just one number from that dashboard I built in it changed the way I run my business today.

Watch which Claude I actually use here:

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Talk next week,
Rob