So You Got Claude at Work. Now What?
You got access. Congratulations — welcome to the club everyone keeps telling you to join.
Your manager wants you using it. Your manager's manager wants a slide about it. Your teammates are swapping prompts in Slack. Even your mom asked if you've tried "the Claude thing" yet.
And like with any tool, "use it because everyone says so" is the worst possible reason to start. Adoption for adoption's sake produces exactly what you'd expect: a half-used tool, a guilty conscience, and a slide nobody believes.
So how do you actually start — in a way that sticks?
The one-question test
Here's the filter I use, and it's simpler than most "AI adoption frameworks" you'll find:
Pick something from your actual week. Then ask yourself one question:
Could I hand this off to someone else and trust them to do it?
If yes — keep going. If no, it's not a starting task. Some things genuinely require your judgment, your relationships, your context. Don't force those onto an AI tool just to "use it." That's how trust gets burned in week one.