Thrive AI Committee · Use Cases

What works on your setup

Every use case in this channel, mapped to how you're running Claude. Most work everywhere — a few need the desktop app, and only automation truly needs the Home Office. Find your setup, follow the step.

Three setups

The further up the ladder, the more Claude can do unattended. Each setup includes everything below it.

Setup 1

In the browser

claude.ai, any device

Ask questions across the systems you're connected to, get cited answers, and build a shareable dashboard or tool on the spot.

Setup 2

Desktop app

The Thrive standard · app + Cowork

Everything in the browser, plus Claude works with files in your own folders — producing finished Excel, Word, and PDF deliverables you keep.

Adds: your local files

Setup 3

Home Office

Claude Code, run by the Home Office

Everything above, plus work that runs on its own — scheduled jobs, dashboards that refresh themselves, and custom data feeds.

Adds: automation & hosting

Full works as shown On demand works, but you run it each time Home Office needs setup 3 to run itself

The use cases

What each one takes, by setup.

01

Ask Procore in plain English

Project lists, RFIs, submittals, statuses across ~175 jobs — no hunting for the right screen.

BrowserAdd the Procore connector and ask. You only see what you already have access to.
DesktopSame — identical connector.
Home OfficeSame, and can feed scheduled snapshots.
02

Instant loan-document lookups

Ask a plain-English question about a loan doc; get the exact term, section, and source file cited.

BrowserAdd the Egnyte connector and ask. It reads the executed documents and cites the file.
DesktopSame.
Home OfficeSame.
03

Rent roll for any property, to Excel

Live lease, unit, and charge data from Entrata, built into a clean two-tab workbook.

BrowserAdd the Entrata connector; Claude builds the workbook and hands you the file to download.
DesktopCowork writes the finished .xlsx straight into your folder — ready to forward.
Home OfficeSame, and can batch every property at once.
04

Monthly leasing trends dashboard

Leads, tours, applications, leases, renewals, move-ins/outs by community and month, from Entrata.

BrowserAsk Claude to pull Entrata and build it as a dashboard; use Publish for a shareable link. It's a snapshot — re-run for fresh numbers.
DesktopSame on-demand build.
Home OfficeThe self-updating version — same link, refreshes every morning — runs here.
05

For-sale portfolio dashboard

Sold / in-contract / available / under-construction, homes closed per year, avg $/SF, from Smartsheet.

BrowserAdd the Smartsheet connector; build it as a dashboard and Publish. Snapshot — re-run to refresh.
DesktopSame.
Home OfficeThe live, self-refreshing link runs here.
06

Dashboard from a weekly report email

Reads the Monday performance email and its spreadsheet, rebuilds an on-brand leasing dashboard.

BrowserWith the Microsoft 365 connector, point Claude at the email + attachment and have it build the dashboard on demand.
DesktopSame.
Home OfficeRebuilding itself the moment each new report lands — same link — runs here.
07

Automated morning briefing

Calendar, external-attendee backgrounds and headshots, formatted into one email before your day starts.

BrowserAsk “build my briefing for today” — it reads your calendar and researches attendees on the spot. You run it; it isn't emailed.
DesktopSame on-demand briefing.
Home OfficeThe 6:00 AM auto-emailed version runs here, hands-off.
08

Build a small internal tool

Describe a calculator or lookup in plain language; get a working web page you can open or save to your phone.

BrowserDescribe it; Claude builds it and Publish gives a link to share or save to your home screen.
DesktopSame.
Home OfficeSame, plus a permanent Thrive-hosted address if a tool graduates to daily use.
09

Leasing maps from plans + occupancy

Every unit color-coded by leased / on-notice / available — as a grid and overlaid on the real floor plans.

BrowserThe clean color-coded grid builds on demand from Entrata. The floor-plan overlay isn't practical here.
DesktopGrid works; the plan overlay is possible in Cowork if you supply the plan sheet, but it's heavier work.
Home OfficeFull pipeline — pulls plans from Procore, matches Entrata, and overlays status automatically.
10

Site aerials with proposed buildings

Current aerial imagery of a site with a proposed building composited onto it for early massing and marketing.

BrowserUpload an aerial and Claude can mark it up and annotate. Live imagery pulls and photo-real compositing aren't available here.
DesktopSame — annotation yes, photo-real building composite no.
Home OfficePulls current Nearmap imagery and generates the composited rendering. Request it from the Home Office.
11

Lender-ready financing brief from six sources

Sales status, loan balances, the proforma out of an email, contractor pay apps, listing photos, and current aerials — cross-checked and rendered as a branded PDF brief.

BrowserThe connectors (Smartsheet, NetSuite, Microsoft 365, Egnyte) answer the same questions and can build a shareable one-page Artifact; paste photos in yourself.
DesktopSame connectors plus your folders — Cowork assembles the polished PDF/Word file straight into your project folder.
Home OfficeAdds the fast parts — listing photos pulled off the website, the newest drone flight, a print-exact branded PDF, and re-issued updates in minutes.
12

Vetting an unknown inbound email

“Have we actually dealt with this person?” — answered from live mail, contacts, and calendar before you reply.

BrowserWith the Microsoft 365 connector Claude checks live mail, contacts, and calendar history. Catch: search can't see the online mail archive, so a very old relationship can be missed.
DesktopSame — identical connector and the same archive caveat.
Home OfficeAdds the full local mail archive, so relationships from years back surface too.
13

Scanned invoices → reconciled, audit-proof package

A folder of scanned invoices in Egnyte read in full, deduped, and reconciled item-by-item, ready for audit.

BrowserAdd the Egnyte connector, point Claude at the folder, ask for the reconciliation.
DesktopSame — and the finished package lands in your folder.
Home OfficeSame.
14

Parking plan → color-coded exhibit

Hand Claude a site plan and a few plain-English rules; get back a color-coded exhibit diagram in minutes.

BrowserUpload the plan, describe the rules, download the exhibit.
DesktopSame — point at the file already in your folder.
Home OfficeSame.
15

Tech-support ticket that gets solved

Claude digs up the exact evidence — IDs, timestamps, error events, what was tried — and writes a ticket support can act on the first time.

BrowserDescribe the problem; Claude pulls the specifics from your connected systems and drafts the ticket.
DesktopSame.
Home OfficeSame, and can include logs from local systems.
16

Phone contacts in sync — bulk add and cleanup

Compare the directory and Outlook against your phone, see exactly who's missing, bulk-add and dedupe.

BrowserBuilds the compare + pick list and hands you a vCard file to import on your phone.
DesktopSame via Cowork.
Home OfficeAdds contacts directly to iPhone/iCloud — no import step.
17

Every work order for a unit, instantly

Full work-order history for any unit from Entrata — status, category, dates, description, assigned tech.

BrowserAdd the Entrata connector and ask for the unit.
DesktopSame.
Home OfficeSame.
18

Add contacts from email — skip the typing

An intro or group email arrives; every name, title, email, phone, and company extracted into ready-to-add contacts.

BrowserExtracts everyone and hands you a vCard to import — one tap on your phone.
DesktopSame.
Home OfficeAdds them straight to your contacts, no import step.
19

Track down any document — and share it

Find a document you can't name exactly — even a link buried inside an old email thread — and get the right share link.

BrowserAdd the Egnyte + Microsoft 365 connectors and describe it in your own words.
DesktopSame.
Home OfficeSame, plus the full mail archive for very old threads.
20

Notes on your phone, filled in by Claude

Type three rough lines after a meeting or a site walk, then have Claude pull the calendar entry, the prior email thread and the open items into a real record.

BrowserKeep notes in OneNote, add the Microsoft 365 connector, and ask Claude to read them alongside your mail and calendar.
DesktopSame, plus it writes the follow-up into your Outlook drafts and saves the finished summary to your folders.
Home OfficeSchedules it — a Monday digest of last week's notes with the open items already pulled out.
21

A morning briefing: your to-dos first, then who you are meeting

One email before the day starts — everything still open on your list, then today's schedule with a background line and a photo for each non-Thrive person you are about to sit across from.

BrowserAdd the Microsoft 365 connector and ask for it each morning: today's calendar, plus your flagged emails and Microsoft To Do tasks as the to-do list. Claude researches the outside attendees and cites its sources. It cannot embed photos or send the briefing to you — you read it in the chat.
DesktopSame, and it saves the finished briefing into your folders or drops it in an Outlook draft, with attendee photos pulled in. Still on demand: you ask, it builds.
Home OfficeRuns itself at 6:00 AM and emails you: open to-dos at the top grouped into overdue / today / next seven days, then each meeting with every outside attendee's background and headshot embedded inline.

Workaround if Claude cannot see your reminders: Apple Reminders is only readable from a Home Office setup — there is no connector for it in the browser or the desktop app. So keep the task list somewhere the Microsoft 365 connector can already reach: flag the email in Outlook, or add the item to Microsoft To Do. Both show up in the same briefing. Flagging mail is the lowest-effort version — no new app, nothing to maintain, and it is already a task list whether you thought of it that way or not.

22

Read it before you act on it

An LOI, a term sheet, a redlined loan agreement, a comment letter, a lease, a proposal. Before you reply or sign, have Claude read it against you rather than for you — what is buried, what is implied but not said, and where a sharp critic would push back.

BrowserPaste or attach the document and ask five things: what it says in three sentences, what most people miss on a first read, what is implied but not said, where a critic would push back, and the one next step. No connector or setup needed.
DesktopIdentical, and it can open the file straight from your folders and write the read-out back beside it. Ask it to quote every number, date and deadline rather than paraphrase — a paraphrased covenant is how a wrong reading becomes a decision.
Home OfficePulls the file from Egnyte or straight out of your mail, diffs it against the previous draft to show what changed and who the change favors, and files the review into the deal folder.

The question that earns its keep: "what is implied but not said — what is the sender assuming I already believe, or assuming I will not check?" Summaries tell you what a document says. That question tells you what it does.

23

Before you commit to something you cannot undo

A pre-mortem instead of a pros-and-cons list. You describe the decision and what you are assuming has to be true; Claude writes the story of how it went wrong six months from now, then works backward to the assumptions worth testing cheaply first.

BrowserGive it the decision, why you are leaning toward it, what it commits you to in time and money, the assumptions it rests on, and how long before you would know it was a mistake. Ask for the failure story first, then the three assumptions most likely to break, then a cheap test for each.
DesktopSame, plus it can read the actual proposal, budget or proforma behind the decision instead of relying on your summary of it.
Home OfficeRuns as a standing rule before any expensive build or analysis, so the interrogation happens automatically rather than when you remember to ask for it.

Add this line or it will just agree with you: "be willing to tell me I should not do this at all." Left out, you get a confident plan for the thing you already decided. Also ask for the smallest reversible version of the decision — that is usually the answer.

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In the browserWorks? What connector to add, or the workaround / limit.
Desktop appWorks? Anything Cowork / local files add for this one.
Home OfficeWhat only automation or hosting unlocks (scheduling, self-refresh, custom feeds).

Rule of thumb: connector Q&A and one-off builds work on every setup. Finished files land best on Desktop. Anything that has to run on its own, refresh itself, or pull a custom data source is a Home Office job.