Teams use Claude for work the same way in every department: one shared Project holding the context of the job, one skill carrying the method of the role, and short, repeatable prompts run against both. Claude for business is a habit, not a product: context once, method once, prompt many times. This page gives you that setup for eight departments, each with a copy-paste prompt, a template structure and the real skills and prompt libraries that do the work, priced and linked.
How teams actually use Claude for work
The teams that get value from Claude for work are the ones who stopped re-explaining their business every morning. Three things separate them from people pasting prompts into a blank chat:
- Context lives in a Project. Product, customers, tone rules, pricing, policies. Written once, read by every conversation.
- Method lives in a skill. A skill file tells Claude how a bookkeeper closes a month or how a code reviewer orders findings. Without it the output drifts.
- The prompt is short. It only names the deliverable and today's specifics, which is why the prompts below are four sentences, not forty.
The earlier version of this article listed forty prompts built on role, context, task and format. That structure still holds; what changed is where each layer lives.
Set up: Claude Projects plus one skill per department
About twenty minutes per department, done once.
- Create a Project per department. See how to use Claude Projects if you have not done this before.
- Add the department's context to the Project knowledge: what you sell, to whom, tone, the policies that never change, two examples of good output.
- Add one skill for the role from the Claude skills marketplace: upload the .md file to the Project, or to Customize and Skills on a team plan. The same file works as a custom GPT, a Gemini Gem or in Copilot.
- Save the department prompt below where the whole team can find it.
Each department below has one prompt in a box, one template structure, and the products that carry the method.
1. Sales
Template: outbound sequence. Five emails, in this order: value with no ask, proof, a different value frame, a 15-minute ask, a breakup that leaves the door open. Subject line and under 100 words each.
Liam - AI SDR Skill ($19): researches accounts, writes and personalises sequences, handles replies and objections.
Sales & Marketing Prompt Library ($9): the full set of sales prompts, from ICP definition to win/loss analysis.
Role page: prompts for sales. Deeper guide: Claude for sales enablement.
2. Marketing
Template: monthly content plan. Four weeks, three posts a week across two channels and email. For each: platform, format, topic, hook, and the goal (awareness, engagement or conversion). Mix 70 percent value, 30 percent commercial.
Olivia - Copywriter AI Skill ($19): landing pages, ads, emails and product copy against a stored brand voice.
The Sales & Marketing Prompt Library above covers marketing too: brand audits, ad testing, press releases, SEO outlines. Role page: prompts for marketers.
Deeper guide: Claude for marketing.
3. Finance
Template: monthly close checklist. Bank and card reconciliations, accruals and prepayments, revenue recognition, fixed assets, unusual journals, variance commentary, sign-off. Owner and due day per line.
Selma - Bookkeeper AI Skill ($19): transactions, reconciliations, month-end journals, and what does not tie out.
Petra - FP&A Analyst AI Skill ($19): budgets, forecasts, variance analysis and leadership commentary.
Legal & Finance Prompt Library ($9): prompts for cash flow, pricing models, board reporting and the legal side covered below.
Not financial advice. An accountant signs off on statements.
Deeper guide: the best Claude skills for finance teams.
4. HR and people
Template: 30-60-90 onboarding plan. For each phase: what the person should understand, what they should do independently, who they should have met, and the checkpoint that shows it is going well.
AI Job Description Generator Skill ($19): structured, bias-checked job descriptions from a title and a few bullets.
Alex - Resume Screener AI Skill ($19): scores CVs against the scorecard and writes a shortlist rationale you can defend.
HR & People Prompt Library ($9): performance reviews, engagement surveys, difficult conversations, exit interviews and the rest of the people calendar.
Deeper guide: Claude as an HR generalist.
5. Operations and project management
Template: weekly status update. Under 300 words: what shipped, what moved, what is blocked, what I need from you. Lead with the item this audience cares about most.
Cressida - Program Manager AI Skill ($19): plans, dependencies, RAID logs and stakeholder updates across workstreams.
AI SOP Writer Skill ($19): turns a rough description or transcript into a numbered, testable SOP.
Business & Operations Prompt Library ($9): vendor scorecards, capacity plans, post-mortems, meeting agendas and handovers.
Role page: prompts for project managers. Deeper guide: Claude as an operations manager.
6. Legal
Template: policy for humans. What it applies to, what people should do, who decides edge cases, what happens if it is not followed. Under 500 words, plain language, with the parts needing legal review marked.
Leon - In-House Counsel AI Skill ($19): contract review, policy drafting and everyday commercial questions, with in-house caution.
AI Contract Template Generator Skill ($19): produces NDAs, service agreements and other standard templates with placeholders and clause notes.
The Legal & Finance Prompt Library above covers the recurring legal asks. Not legal advice: a lawyer reviews anything you sign or publish.
Deeper guide: the best Claude skills for legal teams.
7. Customer support
Template: macro library. For each of your ten most common tickets: trigger phrase, reply skeleton with slots, the policy it relies on, escalation condition.
Sam - Customer Support AI Skill ($19): drafts on-tone replies, triages tickets and turns repeat issues into help centre articles.
Drusilla - Technical Support & Escalation Engineer AI Skill ($19): for technical queues: reproduces the problem, writes the escalation and the customer explanation.
Deeper guide: Claude for customer support.
8. Engineering
Template: technical design doc. Problem and constraints, options considered with trade-offs, chosen approach, data model and interfaces, rollout and rollback, open questions. Two pages maximum.
Yuri - Code Reviewer AI Skill ($19): consistent, severity-ordered reviews in Claude Code or chat, with fixes rather than complaints.
Tech & Dev Prompt Library ($9): architecture reviews, debugging, test generation, documentation and release notes.
Deeper guide: Claude as a backend developer.
Everything above is a one-time purchase with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Equipping several teams? The bundles collection is cheaper than buying one at a time.
The bottom line
Claude for work is a setup, not a trick: one Project for the context, one skill for the method, short prompts that name today's deliverable. Do that per department with the prompts and templates above, and the output stops depending on who wrote the prompt that morning.
Browse every role in the Claude skills marketplace and the bundles at KissMySkills.
