Grok Bot now handles most of my day-to-day admin. I still use Claude for structured work like a detailed estimate, where I want tested skills and control over the output. For the small random jobs, Grok Bot is simpler because it writes its own skills, keeps its own memory and sets up its own scheduled tasks. All you manage is the bots. Two rules get the most out of it. First, if you're not sure it can do something, ask it. When it told me it couldn't connect to SharePoint, I asked for a workaround and it found one. Second, give every bot one clear goal. A bot doing ten different jobs gets its memory muddled. Start by telling it about your business and connecting your software. Use an MCP or API connection where one exists, and a browser login as the slower fallback. Give anything sensitive read-only or draft-only access. - Business development: finds tenders and gives a go/no-go recommendation - Pre-construction: tracks bids and follows up submissions - Commercial manager: protects margin and contract position - Finance: cash flow and getting paid - Systems and compliance: insurances, SWMS and paperwork - Project assistant: one per project, coordinating delivery A general manager bot can sit on top and hand work to the others. Which job would you hand to a bot first? Full walkthrough: https://youtu.be/0hzqCMowrys

Saw a comment about a business brain and thought I'd open a thread on it. What are people using for this purpose? Microsoft, Obsidian, Supabase, Postgres, other? I am helping a contractor digitize their job folders (10 years' worth) and want to build them a "source of truth" they can then use to better understand their business and predict needs in the future. Love to learn what has worked for others here.

Hi everyone! I'm Ayush, a junior marketing executive at Zbyte Technologies, where I'm currently working with ProjTL, a work and project management platform. I'm glad to be part of this community and looking forward to learning from people who work in the construction industry. Furthermore, I'm particularly interested in understanding how contractors and construction teams manage multiple projects, coordinate responsibilities, track deadlines, and keep everyone updated. I believe there's always something new to learn from the practical experiences of people working in the field. Looking forward to connecting, learning, and participating in the discussions here! Great to be part of the community.

I've moved from Claude Cowork back to Claude Code for nearly all my work. You open it on a folder on your desktop, type your prompts and it does the work. Cowork now runs in the cloud on copies of your files, so you can't move or delete the originals which is super frustrating. These are the things I've been using: - Side chats (/btw) for quick questions without cluttering the main chat. - /goal for long jobs, like checking every contract clause against your standard terms or categorizing 100 invoices. - Sidebar sections, so each project keeps its chats together. - The session rail, which shows how much context you've used. I set auto-compact at 400,000 tokens because results get worse as the window fills. I also built a take-off checker with Mods that flags anything Claude was unsure about, but I'm still working out where Mods are most useful. The idea seems cool, just unsure how useful it actually is Full walkthrough: https://youtu.be/fs4PGGZmp_0

The recent models, Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, have been genuinely quite amazing. I’ve built complete 3D models from a prompt + drawing and turned them into 5D project plan. They've changed how we should build skills. A skill should no longer explain how to do the task. If you over-specify the process, you're more likely to get a worse result. Instead, specify the outcome, the source information and the guardrails around the task. This week I'm giving you eight practical strategies to build better Claude skills. As always, it's structured around News, Inform and Work. News GPT-6.1 Terra. OpenAI's new mid-tier model (26 October) is built for visual reasoning, computer use and clearer writing, at half the cost of GPT-5.6 Terra. It's in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API. Read OpenAI's announcement. Claude 2.0. This is the name people are giving the rebuilt Claude desktop app. It's not a collection of new features. The features I'd try first, mostly in the Code tab: - Nested sessions: one chat splits a big job into helpers. For a bid review, that's scope, contract, programme and risk, combined into a go/no-go summary. - /goal: gives Claude a finish line, such as every requirement priced, excluded or raised as a clarification. - Docs, Slides and Design: editable documents, decks and one-pagers inside Claude, now on every plan. - Dashboards: live dashboards you share as a link (paid-plan beta). Features are rolling out in stages, so check your plan if you can't see one. Inform: about 1 in 6 US construction businesses now use AI 16.1% of US construction employers told the Census Bureau they had used AI in the two weeks to 4 October 2026, up from 7.4% in November 2025. See the Census data. My takeaway: I am consistently reminded that if you’re building skills, creating 3D models, etc. you are still part of a complete bubble. Of that 16.1% most people would be prompting it to ask questions, not really building anything meaningful.