If you’re a small business owner looking to tap Anthropic’s Claude for the first time, perhaps start with a Monday morning brief that sifts through emails, sales data, and financial reconciliation to supply five key priorities for the week.

That’s the advice of Lina Ochman, Anthropic’s head of US small and medium-sized businesses and product-led growth GTM. She recently oversaw the rollout of the AI lab’s new small business-focused workflow product, Claude for Small Business, that integrates with popular business tools.

Small business owners have much different needs than a big enterprise, Ochman said. They’re often juggling “13 jobs on their plate and a long to-do list” and don’t have the luxury of, say, an entire department building dashboards to forecast cash flow.

“With enterprises, all of these workflows are just so specialized and so much more robust,” Ochman said. “We thought about it from the ground up—how does the small business owner…operate, what are the tools that they use, and what are the items on their to-do list that they think about?”

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Kevin Flynn’s escapades in the 1982 sci-fi/adventure flick Tron made such an impression on a young Jim Gibbs that it put him on the path to becoming a founder.

“‘I want to do that,’” Gibbs recalled telling his mom. “‘Whatever it was that they were doing, that’s what I want to do.’ And so my parents cashed [in] bottles and pinched pennies and dug in couch cushions. While all my other friends were going off and learning how to go camping and make fires and stuff, I went off to programming camp. And I’ve been doing it pretty much ever since.”

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Marie Hunter was in the kitchen with her mother when a news alert flashed across her phone on Feb. 28, announcing that the US and Israel had launched airstrikes in Iran.

“And so it begins,” Hunter recalled thinking.

Hunter is CEO of KRG Fuel and Energy, a wholesale supplier and distributor of petroleum products and one of the few Black-owned energy companies in the US. Because trucks move more than 70% of the country’s freight—from groceries and medicine to retail goods—shifts in oil markets ripple quickly through the broader economy.

Oil prices surged following the attacks, with Brent crude peaking at $100 per barrel by March 12, according to CME Group. That’s a major swing in a market where small movements can carry big consequences for distributors buying fuel in bulk.

Hunter was busy calling suppliers to secure fuel while also weighing whether to say something publicly about the conflict and what message that might send to her team.

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