The idea for Claude Co-work, as a thinking partner for general knowledge workers, has been considered by Anthropic for approximately a year prior to its launch.

Anthropic's Claude model was the first agentic AI system capable of productive work like software coding.

The Claude Co-work team at Anthropic stays close to user feedback through traditional UXR, internal dogfooding, a running Slack channel, and monitoring social media and passionate users.

Jenny Wen uses Claude Co-work for most of her design tasks at Anthropic, excluding very nitty-gritty production code work.

Anthropic developed a new tool called Claude Code-work, a non-coding version of Claude Code, in a week and a half, almost entirely with Claude Opus.

Claude Co-work can be scheduled to perform tasks, such as generating product ideas and presentations, every Monday morning at 10 AM.