Setting Up Claude
Workspaces, projects, and skills — the setup behind a Claude-run practice.
Stop pasting into chat. Point Claude at a folder.
Claude can work in your folders now — read raw notes, write finished deliverables. What that changes for consultants, and the folder anatomy that works.
How to keep a client's context across Claude sessions (without re-pasting)
The folder structure, the per-engagement Project setup, and the three context files that make Claude operate like it actually remembers your client.
Claude Projects vs. skills vs. raw prompts — when to use which
The three Claude surfaces solo consultants confuse, and the workflow-by-workflow rule for picking between them. Plus the one combination most people miss.
Claude skills for solo consultants: what they are, and the first three to build
What a Claude skill is, why it beats a saved prompt, and the three to build first if you run discovery calls, debrief meetings, or send weekly updates.
The actual Claude workflows of a solo consultant, six months in
Six months in, here are the workflows that compound — and the ones I tried and dropped — for a one-person consulting practice.