Claude Cowork for consulting firms

Anthropic's desktop agent, set up around the work consulting firms actually do. Drop a client brief in a folder. Cowork produces the market overview, the interview synthesis, the proposal draft, and the first slide draft. Your partner edits. Nobody starts from a blank page. No terminal required.

Your product is synthesis. Cowork is a synthesis machine that runs while your associate sleeps.

Consulting work is a loop. Gather. Synthesise. Present. Repeat. The gathering is faster every year because the tools keep getting better. The synthesis has stayed slow because that's the part you bill for.

Cowork moves the synthesis. It reads your firm's case library, your methods, and your house style, and turns inputs into first-draft outputs overnight. Your associate drops five expert interview transcripts in a folder on Friday. By Monday morning, the synthesis memo is sitting next to them. Your partner edits. The judgement stays with humans. The blank page disappears.

The firms that figure this out first will take the next twelve months of market share from the firms still doing it by hand.

Folder routines and scheduled tasks tuned to the consulting workflow

Market and competitor research

A folder routine on /research. Drop a client brief. Cowork drafts a market overview with sizing, players, dynamics, and trends, in your firm's house format. Your associate stops spending the first two days of an engagement in Google.

Expert interview synthesis

A scheduled task on a /transcripts folder. Cowork reads everything dropped that week, drafts a synthesis memo with themes, tensions, and evidence. The first pass your senior would rather edit than write.

Proposal first drafts

A folder routine on /proposals. Drop the intake note and a link to your case archive. Cowork drafts a scoped proposal in your firm's pricing and language. You tune. You do not retype last quarter's proposal.

Slide drafts from analysis

A folder routine on /slides. Drop an analysis Doc or an Excel. Cowork drafts a slide with a headline, evidence, and speaker notes, in your firm's voice. Your senior edits the logic. Your associate gets the Saturday back.

Case retrieval folder

A folder routine on your case library Drive. When a new engagement comes in, drop the brief into /case-search. Cowork surfaces five relevant past engagements in thirty seconds, not three days of "does anyone have an example of..."

Client status digest

A scheduled task on Friday afternoon. Reads the week's activity from your project management connector and drafts the client status email in your engagement lead's voice. Friday evening gets an hour back.

Start with one partner, or roll out to the firm

1:1 · From $999

One partner, one day

Book a Cowork Setup Day for a partner or a senior. One day to build the routines. Thirty days to see if it changes how they work. Then decide whether to roll out firm-wide. The lowest-risk way to start.

Faster research. Faster decks. Same partner judgement.

Claude Cowork is the version of the consulting upgrade your associates will actually adopt.