Claude Visual Bible: A step-by-step, screenshot-by-screenshot guide to writing, researching, analyzing, and automating with Claude

Learn the fundamentals, complete professional assignments with Cowork, create reliable automated workflows, and develop your skills in your current role, learn new skills before career switching, and design and sell services and products.

Key features

1. Learn through concise, lessons featuring readable screenshots, explanatory diagrams, guided activities, and practical examples.
2. Complete realistic projects that reflect how managers, researchers, writers, marketers, analysts, consultants, and other professionals work.
3. Develop responsible AI practices by applying verification, privacy controls, permission boundaries, and human approval throughout your work.

Book 1: Ask Claude

• Set up and secure your Claude account, select an appropriate plan and model, and navigate its essential features.
• Write well-structured prompts and improve weak responses through evaluation, follow-up questions, and revision.
• Search the web, assess sources, analyze uploaded files, and check Claude’s output for unsupported claims.
• Configure Styles, preferences, Memory, Projects, and sessions to create an organized personal environment.

Book 2: Get Real Work Results

• Install Claude desktop app and understand when to use conversational Chat instead of delegated Cowork tasks.
• Give Claude controlled access to local folders and applications while protecting original and confidential files.
• Produce professional documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and evidence-based reports.
• Plan and supervise multi-step assignments, recover failed tasks, schedule recurring activities, and establish a weekly work system.

Book 3: Automate Recurring Tasks

• Compare Claude’s automation building blocks and select the simplest appropriate option for each task.
• Find, install, create, test, and manage reusable Skills and plugins.
• Connect Claude to workplace services and custom tools through connectors and MCP.
• Coordinate agents and subagents while controlling permissions, resisting prompt injection, and adding approval and quality gates.

Book 4: Advance Your Career and Income

• Use AI to become more valuable in an existing career
• Use AI to learn new skills, prepare for interviews, and switch to a new career.
• Define, demonstrate, package, and price a professional service, product, training program, or workflow solution.
• Find suitable clients, conduct discovery conversations, write precise proposals, and manage delivery and handover.
• Plan and launch a 30-day income plan.

Target audience

This book is for managers, administrators, consultants, analysts, researchers, writers, marketers, sales professionals, project managers, educators, trainers, recruiters, freelancers, entrepreneurs, and career changers. It is designed for readers who are comfortable using web browsers, desktop applications, and common office files but require no previous experience with Claude, prompting, automation, agents, MCP, or running an AI-assisted business.