Give Claude your firm once
Lesson 1 of 3 · Claude & Cowork mastery
1 · Learn the move · Context + audience
A project is the folder the model reads before you type: the firm's practice, its voice, the tools it has approved, and the two rules that keep a client out of the window. Write it once, and every session starts from the firm instead of from zero. What never goes in the project: a matter, a client, a caption.
Create project instructions for a law practice. Include: what the firm does, in three lines; the voice (plain, no predictions); the approved tools by plan; RULE 1: parties are lettered and the parties stay lettered; RULE 2: it is not a citation until a person has opened it. Then answer my first question from the firm's point of view: [question].
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
You have pasted the same six sentences about Marchetti & Ostrow into every session this month. Put them in a project, with the two rules that keep client confidences out of it, and test it with a fresh question.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.