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So, if you've been using Claude, you probably use artifacts, those visual pages and dashboards that Claude builds for you in the sidebar. The problem is is that they're static. They can go stale, and you have to reprompt every time you want updated data.
Well, Anthropic recently dropped something called live artifacts inside of Claude Co-work, and it completely changes all that. You build it once, it stays in your sidebar, and it pulls in fresh data from your actual tools every time you open it. No reprompting needed.
So, in this video, I'm going to explain exactly what live artifacts are, how to set them up, and then walk you through seven use cases that I've been building.
Okay, so before I get into the use cases, let me quickly explain what live artifacts actually are. Because, again, if you've been using Claude, you've probably seen regular artifacts, right? The problem is that they're static. They're a snapshot. Live artifacts, on the other hand, are totally different. Claude will build a page once and when you reopen it, click on refresh and it'll pull in fresh data from your connected tools. Same page, new data. You don't need to reprompt anything.
And there are three things in my opinion that make these worth using. Number one, persistence. They live in your sidebar across sessions. All you have to do is click on it, click on refresh, and your dashboard updates. And number two is interactivity. You can build into your dashboards interactivity like filters and search and drill downs and toggles.
Now, a few quick caveats before we dive in. Number one, local only storage right now. So if you have it on your if you're building these artifacts on your laptop and then you go to a desktop computer or what have you, it's not following you. It is on the computer that you built the artifact on. Number two, at the time recording this, no sharing yet, which is a little annoying. Number three, paid plans only. So you got to be paying at least the $20 a month plan in order to get access to live artifacts inside of Co-work. And then number four, this is an a very annoying thing. Because we're in co-work, we don't have any insight into how much of the context window we've used in a chat. So all of a sudden, out of the blue, it'll just start compacting, which I'm not going to lie, is pretty annoying.
Okay, so you're going to want to access the live artifacts in co-work in the claw desktop app. So that's where I am right now. You can see it along the top here. I choose co-work, and you'll see live artifacts right here on the lefth hand side. And then you can click on new artifact. We're going to do that here in just a minute.
But in order for these live live artifacts to pull your data in, you need connectors, right? So in co-work, what I want you to do is go to customize, then go to connectors, and then you can click on the plus button right here and do browse connectors. And so these are all of the quote unquote connectors or MCPs that you have access to. browse a list, pick the apps that you're going to want to be using like Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Notion, whatever, and you authorize them.
So, let's just say I want to add the Notion connector. So, I click on the plus button. So, now it's asking me to grant access to Notion, and it just popped up in my browser, which is right here. I'm just going to click on continue, and I'll say, do I want to open Cloud? Open Cloud. Now, I can go back over to the desktop app, and you will see it right here. So now this is where I can change what kind of access it has in terms of uh readon and also write and delete. What I can do here is I can change the permissions for different actions. So for example, I can make sure that it asks me for approval. If I want to just let it do that all on its own, I can click on always allow. So you can go through and just set up the permissions however you want.
Now if there's an app that you use that isn't natively supported by Anthropic here in the connectors directory. You've got a couple different options, but I'll show you two. So, if I ex out of this, go back to the plus button, I can add a custom connector. So, I can paste in a MCP server URL. If the tool that you want to be using or that you're using in your business has an MCP server, grab the URL, paste it here, give it a name, and click on add, and you're done. Or you can use a thirdparty tool. Let me pull it up here for you. You can use a thirdparty tool like Zapier MCP, which as you can see here has access to over 8,000 apps. Once you go through and add it, you click on add tool and you can just go through their entire thousands of apps and and look for it. It's a small extra step, but I think really worth it. Takes about 5 minutes to set that up if you've not already.
Okay, so for use case number one, I've created my daily command center dashboard. So think about what your morning looks like right now. You probably open your email in one tab, your calendar in another, Slack you've got open, maybe maybe Stripe to check your revenue. You're bouncing between five different apps just to figure out what your day looks like and what your maybe your week looks like coming up and whether your business is healthy. And this one live artifact pulls all of that into a single page like you're looking at here. It's got two sections, a daily view at the top. So, it'll show me what's on my calendar for that day. I don't have anything on the time I'm recording this. I don't have anything on my calendar for for the day. I don't have any emails. This is looking for unopened emails in the past 24 hours. I don't have any of those right now. Then also it's looking for Slack mentions again in the last 24 hours. I also have it pulling in revenue that has generated over the last 24 hours. This is hypothetical revenue. And then also it gives me a list of tasks that I have to do right here. And then I can scroll down here and this is what I call my weekly pulse. So I can check this Monday mornings and it gives me a bigger picture in terms of the business, in terms of the numbers. And again, this is all hypothetical data, but it tells me what my MR is, the number of signups in the past, my Q2 projection for revenue, my goal progress. So, I've given it what my goal is. I'm going to show you the prompt here in just a second. And then also the number of refunds. So, again, all I have to do here is come in and click the refresh button in the upper right hand corner, and it'll refresh with brand new data that has come in since you've last refreshed. This took about 10 minutes to set up and now I just click it in my sidebar every Monday morning because I have pinned it to the sidebar. Pulls in fresh data whenever I want to refresh it and I know exactly where things stand.
So let's look at how I set this up. So I'm in co-work. I'm going to click on live artifacts in the lefthand column up here. I'm going to click on new artifact. And I'm not going to lie, this is a little annoying that it does this every single time that you want to uh create a new live artifact. You click new artifact, you click chat with Claude, and it's the same thing every single time. So Claude is going to reexplain to you what a live artifact is and what to do with it. So you can see here what are live artifacts in co-work capabilities common uses and now it says let me see what connectors you have and then ask you some questions to match you with the right artifact. So I could click one of these things here. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to I already know what the prompt is. I've already written a prompt. By the way, I'm going to make all the prompts available to you for free. You can get a 7-day free trial inside my school community. You can come in, grab them, and leave if you want to or love it if you'd stay, but I'll link to it in the description below. And here's the prompt that I've given it for the command center. So, I've said create a live monitoring dashboard looks and feels like Stripe, linear or versal, premium, minimal, sophisticated. This is a dashboard for that I check every Monday to access my playbook business health in under 30 seconds. I've given it some design principles. Then, I'm telling it what the layout structure is. So, what are the things that I want it to show? So this is I think really important obviously and remember because this is my command center I'm going to come back up here and I'm going to turn on the connectors that I want it to use. So I wanted to use Gmail. I'm going to turn that on and I'm going to click on reconnect. Okay. So I've just given it access to Gmail, Google calendar, notion if I want to. I don't really need it for this one here and Slack. We're going to use Vid IQ coming up in the next use case. So because I've given it a very thorough detailed prompt here, I'm just going to click on go. So you can see here the thought process that it's doing. It's asking me to go ahead and create with those tools. Yes, go for it. Now, one side note here. You'll notice down here it says it's using the Haiku 4.5 model. Now, at the time I'm recording this video, that is the default model that this uses and you cannot change it for live artifacts. By the way, you can see here, remember I mentioned earlier, this is all we've done so far and it's already compacting. And this is what it has created for us. I asked it to be in fully my brand colors. So, the orange, the blue, and the white. Little bit of black in here.
Okay, for use case number two, I've created a YouTube growth tracker. So, if you're creating content, you probably already check your analytics, right? But the problem is YouTube's analytics dashboard doesn't really answer the questions that I truly want. So, for example, are my shorts or long form doing more work for my subscriber growth, for example? So, I built this live artifact that shows the usual stuff like subscribers, top videos, my goal progress. But one of my favorite parts of this dashboard is what I like to call the format pulling weight tile. So here is the growth tracker that I've created. Shows my current subscribers. This is roughly correct. Gives me a progress goal towards the goal, number of days remaining for the goal that I've set for myself, etc. Gives me a pace analysis, a 90-day forecast that I pulled in. Also a 30-day trajectory. Also looks at the top performers for the videos that I've done over the past 7 days. And then also the format performance down here. Again, it's comparing long form to shorts. And then also the format winner here. This is what I was talking about. It's telling me that long form is doing this multiple better, etc. And then it gives me a recommendation. Prioritize depth over velocity. This is the kind of insight that changes what I decide to publish next week or even in a few days, for example.
So again, here's the prompt that I use to create this dashboard. So, I'm telling it to build a live artifact called YouTube growth tracker, which is what you saw just a second ago. And I'm asking it to use the Vid IQ MCP to pull from my YouTube channel. So, you can see the MCP. They're connected right here. So, I would just turn it on. Then, I'm telling it exactly what I want to see on the dashboard. And when you go through and what this prompt builds is this dashboard that I just showed you right here.
Okay, for use case number three, I think this one is my favorite. If you run any kind of community or membership, I really think you're going to like this one. So, here's the problem. When people join the AI playbook, they fill out a form with the top three things that they want to get from the community. And then also, I ask them what level, what AI level that they're at. And that data goes into a Google sheet. And it's incredibly valuable data, as you might imagine. But honestly, I was really never going back and reading through hundreds of responses. this live artifact that I've created. Scans those responses every single week and tells me what my community is actually asking for right now.
So, here's what this dashboard looks like. So, it gives me the new new members this week, the AI level distribution between beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Tells me what the top discovery channels are. Then down here, it gives me the top five themes from member feedback. And then it breaks down by the number of mentions that people have asked for this specific topic, which I think is really, really powerful. And you can see down the bottom here, the dashboard, it's telling me what the priority is for this week. And then it recommends content for me for my newsletter, for my YouTube channel here, for a school post, for in the community. So, it's a really powerful dashboard. Again, this just compounds over and over and over the more members join the community and fill this information out.
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For use case number four, this is what I call my competitor watch. And again, this one doesn't even need connectors. Claude just uses web search to track five competitors or in this case here, I think I did three competitors for new uploads, blog post, pricing changes, any kind of social posts that they've put out. Now, in this case here, I'm also going to include the Vid IQ MCP cuz I want it to be looking at my competitor's YouTube channels as well. So this is a demo dashboard to show you exactly the same thing of what I created, but it gives me the biggest moves this week by my competitors, price increases across the board, AI implementation, momentum, community over courses. So this is going to be your snapshot about what are the biggest things that your competitors have done over the past week. Also, I've asked it to give me what I call my competitor cards. So, per competitor, it's breaking down the recent content, pricing strategy, the YouTube performance, and then down at the bottom here, I've asked it to give me five content ideas for my audience based on what my competitors are talking about.
Okay, so here's the prompt. It's actually really, really simple. Build a live artifact called competitor watch. Track these three competitors. This is where you put the competitor name and their URL. Now, if you want to look at multiple URLs, like their website, you know, if you have social media URLs or what have you, or YouTube URLs, what have you, just put them in here. And then this is where I just go through and tell it what I want it to look at. So, because I wanted to look at the YouTube channel, I'm going to make sure it's using the Vid IQ MCP. And then again, once I've customized the names and URLs, I just click on go. And again, this is what it created for me.
Use case number five is for anybody who does live product launches. If you've ever launched anything, you know the chaos when you're launching. You're checking Stripe for sales, Gmails for support tickets, meta ad dashboard, what have you. And you're doing all this while trying to actually run the launch. Now, this live artifact is a launch dashboard that pulls all of that data information into one live view. And the setup is actually the most impressive part to watch. Claude asks which connectors it will need. You approve, say like Stripe, Gmail, Bit.ly, Slack, one by one, for example. your dashboard is pulling from all these different tools all at once. And then again, I'll show you the prompt here in just a second, but this is an example of the dashboard. Now, I'm not currently running a launch right now. So, the data here is sample data, but this is a very simple type of dashboard that you can create. It's going to give you the number of units sold, the total revenue, your paste the goal, what the status is based on your goal. It'll give you your daily sales momentum and you just mouse over it. It tell you exactly how many units sold on that particular day, give you their refund rate. And again, you can customize this any way that you want. And then as promised, this is the prompt that I use to create the product launch dashboard. I just told it that I'm uploading four CSV files to use as data sources. So, you know, this data might normally come from Stripe, like Bit.ly, Gmail, an affiliate platform that you're using, um, Google Sheets or what have you. And then this is where I tell it what I want the dashboard to include and the type of information that I want it to include.
For the next use case, if you have brands and agencies reaching out to you wanting to collaborate with you in some way or you have a whole bunch of affiliate requests, for example, it can be super easy for these emails to get lost in the noise of the day-to-day of running your business and thus you could be missing out on a ton of revenue opportunities. So, for example, here is my YouTube collaborations email inbox, and it has tons of emails in here that I get. So, what I've done is I built a sponsor and collaboration dashboard here with live artifacts that captures all my inbound sponsor inquiries from that specific Gmail account. So, you can see here total number of opportunities that have come across. Two of them are a good fit, which is only 7%. 16% are not a good fit, which is 57% of the overall $14,000 potential revenue sitting on the table here. So, this is really good for me to for me to know. And then down below here, it has all the specific emails which I can sort by fit over here. So, these are all the maybe, good fits, etc. And then, of course, here's the prompt to be able to create that dashboard here. So I'm telling it to create a live artifact dashboard that looks and feels like stripe linear reversal. And then I'm giving some context as to what this dashboard is about. And then in the middle of prompt here, this is where I have my criteria for what I feel is a good fit. So pretty basic prompt, honestly, but yet a really powerful dashboard that saves me a ton of time.
All right, use case number seven. This is the last one, and I saved this for last because I think it's the most surprising, frankly. So most of us have tried journaling at some point, right? Maybe tracking habits or goals. The problem is is just text, right? sitting in a notebook or a notes app. You write it, you forget it, and you never go back to actually see the patterns. Well, this artifact, this live artifact is a journal, it's a goal tracker, and a habit tracker allin-one. But the real difference is is you connect it to your Google calendar. And this is what the dashboard looks like. As you can see here, it's got three tabs. So, this is where I can enter my own information. So, today's reflection. So, I had to do this at the end of the day, for example. What was my energy? I can move this up and down. So, let's just say it was an eight. What was my mood today? I'm going to say, "Oh, it's a five." And then I can I can type in what worked, what didn't work, what tomorrow's focus is. So, did I get 8 hours of sleep, walk or exercise, deep work, inbox only after one? Sure. And then I click on uh save entry here. The other tab, the other two tabs at the top here, number one is goals progress. So, it will look at what my goals progress is based on the specific goals that I have set. So, for example, uh YouTube growth right here. And again, this is hypothetical data. And then the last tab is what I think is the most important. This is where it'll give you the analysis and tell you what the patterns are based on the information that you are giving it. So, it'll give you your energy trends over the last 30 days, your mood trends, which I think is super cool. It'll give you your habit streaks and completion. And then also, what I like here is I asked it to give me a key action item this month. So, I would never have caught any of these patterns or analysis if I'm just looking at my journal or my habit tracking just one day at a time. This makes it super super easy. And here's the prompt that I used. So, I told it to build a live artifact called journal goals and habit tracker. I'm uploading two files. If you're journaling in a tool like notion, for example, you can connect the notion connector to it and it will pull in your journals. Again, I'm telling it to connect Google calendar so you can cross reference journal entries with that. build the artifact in three sections. So, number one, today's entry, which I just showed you. Number two, goals progress, and I'm telling it what I want it to include in each of these sections. Then, the pattern analysis, and I'm just telling it refresh every time that I open it.
So, there you have it. Seven use cases of Claude's live artifacts inside of Co-work. And the simple truth is this. The thing that makes these different is again, you build them once and they stay alive, if you will. No reprompting, no burning tokens to get the same dashboard every day. You build it, lives in your sidebar, and it updates whenever you open it and whenever you want fresh information being brought into it.
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