I've spent over 1,000 hours inside

Claude, and I use it every single day to

build tools, run workflows, and even

launch million-dollar companies. And

look, you might feel super productive

using Claude right now, but what if I

told you you're barely scratching the

surface? In this video, I'm going to

walk you through every level of Claude

user from the amateur all the way to the

one who builds fully autonomous systems

that run without lifting a finger. Let's

start with level one, the amateur.

See, the amateur treats Claude like a

fancy Google search. One question in and

a response back, and then they close the

tab. There's no memory, there's no

projects. Claude has no idea what you're

working on, and you're using maybe 5% of

what Claude can do. It's like having

access to a NASA supercomputer and

calculating 2 + 2. So, if you're in this

level, here are two pro tips to help you

level up. Number one, make Claude

interview you first. For example, you

can tell Claude, "Before you answer, ask

me any questions that you need to

perform this task properly." And watch

it ask you the questions that provide

the context that it needs to give you

the best answer. The second thing is you

got to make Claude check its own work.

Watch it catch its own mistakes, which

is annoying cuz you think it would do it

in the first place, but it will give you

a better output. You can use this every

day by just saying, "Check your work."

Now, before we go to the next level, we

have to stop working from scratch every

time. So, how do you make Claude have

persistent memory? Level two, the

regular.

The regular treats Claude like a

workspace. They don't just chat with it,

they use projects, which is feature

within Claude, for their role. They use

it per initiative, they use it per

client, they're using it per workflow.

And what's cool is Claude finally

remembers who they are every time they

come back, so the work gets better. And

this is how you set them up the right

way. So, number one, on the left side,

you will see create a new project. Click

that. And then name the project the role

you work in, and in this example, we'll

just say marketing. Okay, that's your

role. Second, we need to build a master

prompt for your role, so every time you

chat with it, it knows who you are and

what you're trying to accomplish. Now,

the cool part is you can ask Claude,

type this in, "Interview me to build a

master prompt for my role as a

marketer." Watch Claude ask you

questions, you answer it, and then you

get a file that is your master prompt.

And what a master prompt is is a file of

instructions that tells the AI

everything about you, how you like to

work, what your team looks like, what

tools you use, everything about your

role so that every time it gives you an

answer, it can use that information to

guide its output. The third is we're

going to add the file. So, now that we

have the master prompt, let's go back

into the project, add that as a project

file, then any other documents you have

within your company. Maybe it's sample

data, maybe it's examples, maybe it's

files, maybe it's processes, put that in

the files directory with your master

prompt. Now, you have a customized space

that has memory, that has context, and

has your specific workflow for how you

like to work. So, for example, every

time I sit down to create a YouTube

video, I have a project folder to help

me ideate and give me outlines and

strategies. In my files, I gave it

everything that it would need. I gave it

my voice document, my branding document,

my examples of previous scripts that I

like. It has everything that it needs to

create outlines based on how I've done

them in the past. And then I just direct

it, and then I hit enter, and Claude

gives me the outlines. Here's a pro tip.

If you want to take projects to another

level, do this. Ask the AI to interview

you to create a system prompt for a

specific workflow that you're trying to

create with your chats. The master

prompt is like your ingredients. That is

everything about you, your context, etc.

The system prompt is the recipe, it's

the instructions, it's the process. So,

you probably already have a process, you

just never documented it, so the AI can

interview you so you get that as the

output. So, once you get that, just copy

and paste the system prompt into your

custom instructions and watch this thing

run like a machine. That way, you have

the same quality, the same format every

freaking time you use that project. And

look, if you want to go even deeper in

how to incorporate Claude or any AI into

every department within your business, I

have my AI company OS the exact playbook

I used to integrate AI into all my

businesses and I'm giving away for free.

If you want it, just DM me YouTube OS on

Instagram and I'll send it over. So now

your projects turn Claude into a

workspace, like a desk with a process

and the whole thing's automated. But

what about everything else? Think

emails, calendars, work you have to do

in the browser. Level three, the

integrator.

The integrator plugs Claude into the

tools where work actually lives. We use

Gmail, calendar, drive, Slack, Notion.

The integrator connects it to Claude so

they stop bouncing around from all these

different tools and tabs. Why would I

have to go copy and paste an email into

Claude when I can just tell Claude to go

get the email? The cool part now is that

you can build an act inside Claude. The

integrator doesn't leave the tool. They

do the work in the tool and then they

send the information that the tool

created to wherever it has to go. So

here's how you operate at the integrator

level. Number one, we use connectors,

okay? So go through and connect your

Gmail, your drive, your Slack, your

Notion, all the systems that you have it

has an ability for you to connect those

data system so that it'll search those

places next time you're chatting with

it. Two, build visualizations. This is

my favorite feature in Claude is that I

can get it to visualize things. I can

create graphs, bars, mockups, all inside

the chat. And even better, the third is

build interactive artifacts. These are

like little mini apps that you can have

outputs that are clickable and sliders

and buttons and it makes learning or

visualizing information or interacting

with data so much easier. And here's an

advanced move that nobody talks about.

You can actually paste text into chat

and tell it to put it inside composer,

which is like a Google Doc inside of

chat and then you can edit it and play

with it so that it gets the output

exactly like you want. My Claude is

connected to my Google Drive, to my

Slack, to my calendar, to my email. So,

I tell it all the time, "Hey, look at my

calendar. Tell me what I'm missing. Look

at my email. Tell me what I need to

know. I'm the CEO of my company. Scan

Slack for the last week and give me CEO

level understanding of what's going on

across the company." These are things

that I run almost on a daily basis, so

I'm always on top of it. Now, if you

want to level up with a pro tip, install

Claude in Chrome. I use this all day

long. Often times I'll have a chat ask

me to do something. I say, "Write the

instructions for me." I copy, I paste it

into Claude inside of Chrome within some

site, and I hit enter and it goes and

does my work for me. Now, this is all

super cool, but the truth is Claude's

just helping you at this level. The next

level, that's where Claude actually does

the work for us. Level four, the

operator.

The operator, this is where you stop

being the doer and you start becoming

the director. I consider this the human

in the loop where the operator, you, are

now setting up tasks that run on their

own. You just review things and you

approve it. This is where you stop using

Claude and you start deploying it to

solve problems for you. And these are

three ways any operator can deploy

Claude to do work for them. So, number

one is system prompts. Essentially, you

want to have Claude interview you to

create these system prompts for any type

of output. So, I believe that the future

of intellectual property and what makes

teams or companies valuable is that they

have system prompts defined for the

things they create. Level two is skills.

You will notice over time as you keep

doing these things, these workflows, you

can actually save them as skills. Claude

has a bunch of skills that you can

install. They've created hundreds,

everything from financial skills and

marketing skills, etc. But, you might

have some proprietary things you do

inside your company. If so, you want to

create a slash, name it, and run it, and

then make it a skill. My rule is if I'm

doing it more than three times a week, I

might as well have it as a skill. For

example, I'm always wondering what's

going on within my company. So, I

created a company status skill that

analyzes all the analytics and the

metrics and the reports and everybody's

updates, and then gives me a cute,

concise, little update on the company as

it is today. So, I just type {forward

slash} company status, and it does it

every time. Third is scheduling Co-work

tasks. Now, if you haven't heard of

Co-work, that's an app that runs on your

computer, and it can literally take over

your computer. So, you can get it to run

a job like migrate from this system to

another system, hit enter, go have

dinner, come back, and watch it get

done. So, what a great operator does is

he looks at his system prompts, and he

looks at his skills, and he goes, "Hey,

are these repeatable outputs that I can

schedule in Co-work to have it done

every day?" So, for example, every night

I get a message at 8:00 that shows me my

following day, and it looks at my emails

and my calendar, and lets me know

everything I need to do as if I had a

chief of staff, and I do, and she's

awesome, but I set it up cuz I don't

need her to do it. Then I know what

tomorrow's going to hold, so if I had to

make any last-minute changes, I can do

it. I set it up once, and it runs it

every night, and I never have to think

about it. The operator realizes with AI,

they direct the work. They don't just do

it. Now, this is a massive pro tip, and

it's called chaining your skills. So,

for example, you might have a

copywriting skill that writes in your

voice, and then you're writing emails,

which is also its own skill, and it'll

use the copywriting skill, and those two

skills might be called in a completely

different skill that's all about

automating your inbox, and those skills

are like separately packaged little

genius agents that all chain together to

create an outcome. The whole pipeline is

chained skills. The operator is now

really using AI. So, schedules and

skills, those automate with your

existing tools and connectors. But, what

if the tool doesn't exist yet? Level

five, the builder.

Not too long ago, we shut down the

company for two days. We held an AI

hackathon. We taught everybody how to

code. In those two days, everybody

on the team became builders.

Essentially, what you can do is use

Claude to write code, build custom apps,

dashboards, internal tools, all inside

of Claude code. Now, Claude isn't just

answering questions anymore or setting

up skills, it's literally shipping

software. In this level, we're

introducing a new level of Claude called

Claude code. And just so you know, if

you're in this level already, you're in

the 0.04%

of the population. Most people don't

know this. Inside Claude code, you can

use three categories of building. The

first one I call loops. These are

reoccurring jobs that do work. They're

similar to co-work, but they run inside

of a server and they can talk to other

agents, they can talk to other systems,

they can use other APIs, and they're way

more advanced, but they're loops because

they're always running. Number two is

tools. These are things you build for

one-off situations. So, you might build

a tool for a project. You might build a

tool to help you accomplish something.

It's not going to be something you're

going to do forever, and that's why I

consider them disposable. The third

level is apps. I'm talking real

software. Everybody that was involved in

that hackathon I talked about built real

working production software. For

example, I have this incredible person

named Betty. She's my house manager. She

manages our lives for my wife and I. She

built a system that manages all of our

workflows. Every aspect of my personal

life, the cars, the real estate, the

investments, the budgets, everything.

And she's not a programmer. In the world

of AI, English is the new programming

language. Now, if you want a pro tip,

100% of the time before I build

anything, I use a feature called plan

mode. Essentially, you hit {forward

slash} plan, enter, and then you just

dump your idea. It hears everything you

said, and then it will ask you questions

if it needs, and then write a whole

completed plan that you approve first

before it writes any code. The reason

why plan mode is so important is because

people always complain, "Oh my gosh,

Dan, it costs so much to do all these AI

apps now." It's cuz they didn't plan up

front. If you do this, it'll save you a

ton of money. And another pro tip plus

plus is Claude code remote, and I use

this every time I leave my laptop. Where

in your terminal window where you're

writing code, you can say {slash} remote

control, and it will connect to your

Claude app on your phone. It keeps

writing code, and I did this three or

four times while I'm mountain biking on

my phone. I'm writing code. And that is

how I got this cuz I took a berm and my

front tire washed out. Now we just

talked about how you build tools, but

what if we could learn how to build team

members? Level six, the agent

orchestrator.

The orchestrator is the agent you

designed that actually runs something.

So now it's a loop that keeps running a

department, a process, a workflow, and

you're no longer involved cuz you took

all these pieces we just talked about

and you plugged it into the Claude

agent. Now you're the human on the loop,

not the human in the loop. Claude stops

being just the tool, and it now becomes

infrastructure. [music] Now there's a

million ways to build an agent, but

instead of telling you how to build just

one, I want to give you a framework to

teach you how to think about building

agents. First, you have to start with

one main agent. This is your agent. It

could be your chief of staff agent,

could be your admin agent. I've got a

CEO agent. This is your orchestrator.

Mine is called Kai. He doesn't do

anything really. He just directs the

other agents. I know this is crazy.

Next, you have to go and create

specialized sub agents, and each sub

agent owns a workflow. Your main agent

communicates with the sub agents and

tells them what to do. The third is you

connect your Telegram to talk to your

agent through your phone. Reese is my

real estate agent. He finds deals of

investments that I can do. And Kai

checks in with Reese every day and

reports back to me because he does it

with all my agents. All done without me

having to do anything. The agents think,

they decide, they execute within the

parameters. See, we're building the

machine that runs the machine. Your main

agent is that machine. Now, I use my own

platform called Apex and you can go

check it out apex.host, but you can use

Claude to do this. Actually, behind

Apex, we use Claude as the main agent

model. Apex just makes it more secure

and way easier to interact with it. Now,

here's a pro tip. I have a critique

agent that my main agent will ask to go

and review things like copywriting or

research or anything so that it's done

right. It creates a list of notes to

make it better, gives it back to the

agent, it runs it again, so I always get

the best output. So, now do you see how

I'm no longer involved in the work? I'm

the human on the loop. My partnership

with the AI allows me to do way more

than if I was having to sit there and

process information through a pipeline.

And you can do this, too. Most people

are just collecting Claude features.

They're like, "Oh, I use that. I use

this." But they don't actually make it

part of their habits. So, here's what I

need you to do. Choose one of these

features and make a commitment to do 30

days in a row of using it. Maybe it's a

Claude browser extension. Maybe it's the

advanced and say, "Okay, everyday I'm

going to work on an agent." I don't know

what it is for you. Leave a comment

below and let me know what you're

committed to. And remember, if you want

my AI company OS playbook, the same one

I use in all of my businesses, just DM

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