🧠Personal Productivity · Step-by-step guide

Turn Claude into a business partner that remembers your projects, numbers and decisions

Instead of starting every chat from zero, one founder made a Claude 'Project' with a Business Tracker document (projects, deadlines, blockers, cash snapshot, decisions) and a weekly review checklist. Saying 'weekly review' now runs a focused 15-minute session.

⏱️ 45 minutes🎯 Easy💵 Paid Claude plan (Pro from about USD 20/month)📋 6 steps
🧡 Claude
🎯 What you'll have at the endYou'll create one Claude Project that holds your business 'memory' and a weekly review routine, so every conversation starts with full context.

⚡ One-click install

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🧰 Before you start

⏱️ Time needed45 minutes
💵 Rough costPaid Claude plan (Pro from about USD 20/month)

🪜 Step by step

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    Create a Project

    In Claude, open Projects and click New project. Call it '[Business name] HQ'. (A Project is a folder of chats that share the same instructions and files.)

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    Write your Business Tracker

    In a document, write: current projects and deadlines, blockers, a cash snapshot (MYR), key decisions made, and your stage (pre-revenue, early revenue or scaling). Upload it to the Project.

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    Add a weekly review checklist

    Make a second short document with questions for each week: what shipped, money in and out, what's stuck, top 3 priorities. Upload it.

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    Set the instructions

    Paste the 'Project instructions' prompt below into the Project's instructions box.

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    Run your first weekly review

    Start a chat in the Project and type 'weekly review'. Answer its questions.

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    Update the tracker

    At the end, ask Claude for an updated tracker and replace the old file. Do this every week.

💬 Copy-paste prompts

Tap Copy prompt, paste it into your AI (Grok, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini), then replace the [yellow bits] with your own details.

💬 Project instructions
You are my business operations partner for [business], a [type of business] in Malaysia.
Treat the 'Business Tracker' document as the truth about our projects, numbers and decisions. Check our stage in it before giving advice, and fit advice to that stage.
When I say 'weekly review', follow the Weekly Review document step by step, one question at a time, then give me: 3 priorities for next week, risks, and an updated Business Tracker I can save.
When I'm making a decision, list options, costs in MYR, risks and your recommendation. Use British English.

⚠️ Tips & common mistakes

🌟 Why it's worth it

💡 Why it mattersGeneric advice is useless. When Claude knows your stage, numbers and priorities, its advice fits your actual business.
🏷️ Real exampleThe poster also tells Claude the business stage (pre-revenue, early revenue, scaling) so it doesn't give advice meant for a much bigger company.
🔌 Connects to:Claude ProjectsDocuments you upload
📰 Found via Reddit · r/ClaudeAI: Reddit r/ClaudeAI: 'How I engineered a Claude Project to run my business operations' ↗

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