If I set up Claude from scratch tomorrow for my business, here's what I'd turn on first. Not for coding. For running a service business.
The strongest model for hard thinking. The fast one for everyday work. Most owners run the expensive one for everything and wonder why it costs so much.
It decides how hard it thinks before answering. Almost nobody knows the setting is there.
Your numbers, your client stories, your prices, your voice. This is the step everyone skips, and it's the only reason my output sounds like me instead of like everyone else's AI.
Your email, your docs, your calendar. Whatever you can open at work, it can open. Whatever you can't, it can't.
Nothing goes out without my click. Not because the work is bad. Because my name is on it.
Mine keeps a fact bank. It never asks the same question twice. It gets smarter about my business every week.
That's the setup. Six things, one afternoon. Most people spend that afternoon collecting prompts instead. Then wonder why the output feels generic.
The setup is the leverage. The prompts are just the steering wheel.
Steps 3 through 6 are the same ground the 7-step employee build covers, just from the owner's chair instead of the builder's. If you've already read that one, this is the short version. If you haven't: How To Hire Your First AI Employee →
This guide is one piece. First Site is where you use it. Three days, one website, sent to the business it's for. You answer four questions and a Claude Skill does the building. No code. I did it once and got paid $6,350.
See First Site →One payment of $27. Nothing renews.
Want the whole plan? paidwith.ai · sell is my Skool community. 7 days free, then $149 a month. Or get the library, $297 once.