Think about onboarding a new hire. You hand them the binder: what the company does, who you sell to, your clients and testimonials, how you talk to people, your brand guidelines and who does what. A Claude Project is that binder.
What's inside a Claude Project?
Three things:
- Instructions: how Claude should operate in this project, its role and its rules
- Memory: a summary of what it's learned from your chats there
- Context: the files you upload, like your pricing, your services and examples of finished work
How many projects should a business have?
Start with one company project, a brain for the whole business. Then add one per department as you need it, like sales, marketing or finance, kind of like rooms in a house.
How do projects and skills work together?
The project holds what Claude knows. A skill holds how to do one job. Running a skill inside a project is the jump from the contractor level to the trained employee level. The setup is in how to set up Claude Projects for your business.