Quick Summary
- Claude AI offers 45+ practical applications across personal, professional, educational, and enterprise contexts
- Businesses report 25-75% productivity improvements when implementing Claude AI workflowsâ
- Key strengths include exceptional long-document handling (200,000-token context window), coding assistance, and content generationâ
- Claude AI prioritizes safety with advanced security measures and responsible AI frameworksâ
- Applications span from customer support automation to complex data analysis and creative problem-solving
Claude has introduced a dedicated âUse Casesâ section on its website that curates practical examples of how people can use the AI assistant for research, writing, coding, analysis, and everyday tasks, available globally via claude.com. The hub organizes scenarios by category and goal, helping users understand what Claude can do and how to prompt it effectively, especially for work and personal projects. Each example highlights a concrete outcomeâsuch as building a custom webpage or practicing case interviews with feedbackâand walks users through how to collaborate with the AI step by step.â
The new resource matters because many users still struggle to translate general âAI capabilitiesâ into specific, reliable workflows for their jobs and side projects. By framing Claude around clearly described, repeatable use cases, Anthropic is positioning the assistant less as a generic chatbot and more as a flexible tool for targeted tasks in areas like business analysis, learning, and personal productivity. The move also aligns with a broader trend in AI where providers supplement raw models with guidance, templates, and domain-specific patterns to reduce trial-and-error for end users.â
Categories and features


Claude use case category and features
The Use Cases hub organizes examples across ten distinct categories, allowing users to filter by industry, role, or personal context. Professional categories address specific workplace needs, while broader categories span multiple use types:â
Professional categories:
- Education: Curriculum design, lesson planning, and student assessment materialsâ
- Finance: Compliance documentation, financial analysis, and reporting workflowsâ
- HR: Employee onboarding, policy documentation, and performance review frameworksâ
- Legal: Contract analysis, legal research, and compliance documentationâ
- Life Sciences: Patient education materials, research synthesis, and regulatory writingâ
- Marketing: Campaign planning, content creation, and audience analysisâ
- Nonprofits: Fundraising strategy, grant writing, and community engagementâ
- Sales: Lead qualification, proposal development, and customer communicationâ
General categories:
- Personal: Learning projects, creative work, and individual productivityâ
- Professional: Cross-functional workplace tasks and collaborationâ
- Research: Literature review, data synthesis, and academic explorationâ
Feature filters
Each use case is tagged by Claude capabilities, helping users identify which features are demonstrated in specific examples:â
- Artifacts: Creates interactive, editable content like code snippets, documents, and visual components that appear in a dedicated panelâ
- Connectors: Links Claude to external data sources, APIs, and third-party tools for real-time information accessâ
- Extended Thinking: Enables deep, step-by-step reasoning for complex problems, with Claude "thinking out loud" before delivering answersâresulting in a 54% improvement on challenging coding tasksâ
- Projects: Organizes context, files, and custom instructions across multi-session workflows, maintaining continuity over timeâ
- Research: Performs comprehensive information gathering with proper citations, combining multiple sources into structured reportsâ
- Skills: Reusable, modular task components that encode organizational methodsâsuch as report formats or communication protocolsâso Claude automatically applies them when relevantâ
- Web Search: Retrieves real-time, factual information from the internet to supplement Claude's training dataâ

Research mode represents Claude's most comprehensive feature, combining extended thinking with web search and tool use to plan approaches thoughtfully, execute multi-source information gathering, and produce longer reports with citations. Skills, launched in October 2025, allow organizations to codify expertise so teams can apply consistent methods across projects. Together, these feature filters transform the Use Cases hub into a navigable library where users can find examples matching their exact workflow needs.
Anthropic also ties the hub into its broader push around âClaude for work,â where guides outline how teams can apply the model across departments such as engineering, human resources, marketing, and product. Industry analyses of Claude usage suggest that common business cases include application development assistance, content creation, academic research, and strategic planning, which mirror many of the examples highlighted in the library. For individual users, companion resources emphasize writing support, research synthesis, customer support automation, and coding guidance as accessible starting points.