§ 01 · The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Rick Mulready opens by killing the assumption: yes, you've seen Claude artifacts before — and that's exactly the problem. They go stale. You re-prompt. You burn tokens regenerating the same dashboard. Live artifacts flip that: build once, refresh on click, fresh data every time from your connected tools. The rest of the video is one tight loop run seven times — pain, dashboard tour, exact prompt — wrapped in a tutorial that's really a pitch for a new Claude primitive.
What the video promised.
stated at 00:30“In this video I'm gonna explain exactly what live artifacts are, how to set them up, and then walk you through seven use cases that I've been building.”delivered at 18:05
Where the time goes.
00:00 – 00:41
01 · Cold open + promise
Names the problem (static artifacts) and the new thing (live artifacts). Promises 'what they are, how to set up, seven use cases.'
00:41 – 01:43
02 · What live artifacts actually are
Side-by-side Regular vs Live comparison card. Three reasons they matter: persistence, interactivity, fresh data.
01:43 – 02:18
03 · Four caveats up front
Local-only storage, no sharing yet, paid plans only ($20+/mo), no context-window indicator so it silently compacts.
02:18 – 03:50
04 · Where to find them + connector setup
Cowork → Live artifacts → New artifact. Walk through Anthropic-native connectors (Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion) and permission scopes (read-only / write / always-allow).
03:50 – 04:12
05 · Custom + Zapier MCP fallback
If an app isn't in the directory: paste an MCP server URL as a custom connector, or use Zapier MCP (8,000+ apps). Five-minute setup.
04:12 – 05:54
06 · Use Case 1: Daily Command Center
One page with calendar, unopened emails, Slack mentions, revenue, tasks, plus a weekly-pulse section (MRR, signups, churn, Q2 projection, refunds). About 10 minutes to set up.
05:54 – 08:24
07 · Use Case 1: The prompt walkthrough
Shows the actual prompt — 'looks and feels like Stripe, Linear, or Vercel,' design principles, layout structure. Notes Live Artifacts default to Haiku 4.5 and you can't change the model. Compaction kicks in mid-build.
08:24 – 09:44
08 · Use Case 2: YouTube Growth Tracker
Subscribers, goal progress, 90-day forecast, top performers (last 7 days), and the 'format pulling weight' tile that compares shorts vs long-form. Powered by vidIQ MCP.
09:44 – 11:00
09 · Use Case 3: Community Member Question Radar
His favorite. Scans new-member intake Google Sheet weekly. Returns AI-level distribution, discovery channels, top 5 feedback themes with mention counts, plus content recommendations for newsletter / YouTube / school posts. Compounds with growth.
11:00 – 11:45
10 · Mid-roll: Zone of Genius app
Soft CTA tucked right after the high-engagement use case. Pitches the AI Playbook membership + Zone of Genius app (pre-built AI workflows trained on Rick's IP).
11:45 – 13:20
11 · Use Case 4: Competitor Watch
No native connector needed — Claude uses web search to track 3 competitors for uploads, blog posts, pricing changes, social posts. Adds vidIQ MCP for YouTube. Outputs competitor cards + 5 content ideas based on competitor activity.
13:20 – 14:40
12 · Use Case 5: Launch Dashboard
For live product launches — pulls from Stripe / Gmail / Bitly / Slack / affiliate platform. Units sold, total revenue, pace-to-goal, daily sales momentum, refund rate. Demoed with CSV uploads since not currently launching.
14:40 – 16:10
13 · Use Case 6: Sponsor & Collab Triage
Points at his collaborations-only Gmail inbox. Classifies inbound sponsor/affiliate emails as good-fit / maybe / not. Surfaces ~$14K of opportunity. Fit criteria baked into the prompt.
16:10 – 18:05
14 · Use Case 7: Journal + Goals + Habit Tracker
Saved for last as 'most surprising.' Three tabs — today's reflection (energy/mood sliders, what worked, tomorrow's focus), goals progress, and pattern analysis (30-day energy/mood trends, habit streaks, monthly key-action recommendation). Cross-references journal entries with Google Calendar.
18:05 – 18:55
15 · Close + final CTA
Restates the unlock: build once, lives in sidebar, updates on demand. End-roll pitch for AI Playbook + Zone of Genius app.
Visual structure at a glance.
Named ideas worth stealing.
01:07list
Three reasons live artifacts matter
- Persistence (sidebar across sessions)
- Interactivity (filters, search, drill-downs, toggles)
- Fresh data via connectors
Rick's framing of why this primitive is different from regular artifacts.
Steal forany 'why this new thing matters' explainer — name three reasons, top-bullet them, move on
01:43list
Four current limitations
- Local-only storage (doesn't follow you between devices)
- No sharing yet
- Paid plans only ($20+/mo Claude plan)
- No context-window indicator — silently compacts
Caveats stacked up front so the rest of the video isn't fighting objections.
Steal forany tutorial about a new tool — front-load the gotchas before the demo, it buys trust
04:12model
Use-case loop
- State the pain
- Tour the finished dashboard
- Show the exact prompt
The same three-beat structure repeats verbatim across all 7 use cases.
Steal forany 'X use cases of Y' video — pick one micro-pattern and repeat it; viewers get into a rhythm and stay longer
03:50list
Connector setup ladder
- Native Anthropic connectors (Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion, etc.)
- Custom MCP server URL
- Zapier MCP (8,000+ apps as fallback)
Three tiers of how to wire any app into Claude.
Steal forany 'integrate X with Y' tutorial — show the easy path first, then the escape hatches
08:30concept
Format Pulling Weight tile
Custom dashboard widget comparing how much short-form vs long-form is contributing to subscriber growth. Outputs a recommendation ('prioritize depth over velocity').
Steal forany creator analytics dashboard — don't just show the metrics, show the ratio that tells you what to publish next
Lines you could clip.
00:30
“You build it once, it stays in your sidebar, and it pulls in fresh data from your actual tools every time you open it. No re-prompting needed.”
03:35
“Takes about five minutes to set that up if you've not already.”
08:58
“This is the kind of insight that changes what I decide to publish next week or even in a few days.”
11:45
“The simple truth is this — the thing that makes these different is, again, you build them once and they stay alive.”
18:05
“No re-prompting, no burning tokens to get the same dashboard every day.”
How they spent the runtime.
Hook length41s
Info densityhigh
Filler8%
Things they pointed at.
08:45toolvidIQ MCP
11:00productAI Playbook community (Rick's school)
11:00productZone of Genius app
07:12toolClaude Haiku 4.5 (default model for Live Artifacts)
How they asked for the click.
18:05product
“If you're an online business owner and you're looking to leverage AI in your business and you're looking for the easy button, I've created an entire AI team that is at your disposal... all inside of my Zone of Genius app which all my members in the AI Playbook have access to. I'll link to it in the description below.”
Soft tie-back to the same product mentioned mid-roll. Frames the membership as 'the easy button' for the 80% of busy work — cleanly extends the video's thesis (don't re-prompt, build once) into the offer (don't build at all, use mine).
Word for word.
HOOKopening / re-engagementCTAthe pitchmetaphoranalogystory
00:00HOOKSo if you've been using Claude, you probably use artifacts, those visual pages and dashboards that Claude builds for you in the sidebar. The problem is is that they're static. , and you have to re prompt every time you want updated data. Well, Anthropic recently dropped something called live artifacts inside a Claude Cowork, and it completely changes all that. You build it once, it stays in your sidebar, and it pulls in fresh data from your actual tools every time you open it. No re prompting needed. So in this video, I'm gonna explain exactly what live artifacts are, how to set them up, and then walk you through seven use cases that I've been building. Okay. So before I get into the use cases, let me quickly explain what live artifacts actually are. Because again, if you've been using Claude,
00:41you've probably seen regular artifacts. Right? The problem is that they're static. They're a snapshot. Live artifacts on the other hand are totally different. Claude will build a page once and when you reopen it, click on refresh and it'll pull in fresh data from your connected tools. Same page, new data, you don't need to re prompt anything. And there are three things in my opinion that make these worth using. Number one, persistence. They live in your sidebar across sessions. All you have to do is click on it, click on refresh, and your dashboard updates. And number two is interactivity.
01:11You can build into your dashboards interactivity like filters and search and drill downs and toggles. Now a few quick caveats before we dive in. Number one, local only storage right now. So if you have it on your if you're building these artifacts on your laptop and then you go to a desktop computer or what have you, it's not following you. It is on the computer that you built the artifact on. Number two, at the time recording this, no sharing yet, which is a little annoying. Number three, paid plans only. So you gotta be paying at least a $20 a month plan in order to get access to live artifacts inside of Cowork.
01:44And then number four, this is a very annoying thing. Because we're in Cowork, we don't have any insight into how much of the context window we we've used in a chat. So all of a sudden, out of the blue, it'll just start compacting, which I'm not gonna lie, is pretty annoying. Okay. So you're gonna wanna access the live artifacts in Cowork in the Claude desktop app. So that's where I am right now. You can see it along the top here. I choose Cowork and you'll see live artifacts right here on the left hand side. And then you can click on new artifact. And we're gonna do that here in just a minute. But in order for these live live artifacts to pull your data in,
02:18you need connectors. Right? So in co work, what I want you to do is go to customize, then go to connectors, and then you can click on the plus button right here and do browse connectors.
02:30And so these are all of the quote unquote connectors or MCPs that you have access to. Browse the list, pick the apps that you're gonna wanna be using like Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Notion, whatever, and you authorize that. So let's just say I wanna add the Notion connector. So I click on the plus button. So now it's asking me to grant access to Notion, and it just popped up in my browser, which is right here. I'm just gonna click on continue, and I'll say, I wanna open Claude? Open Claude. Now I can go back over to the desktop app, and you will see it right here.
03:01So now this is where I can change what kind of access it has in terms of, uh, read only and also write and delete. What I can do here is I can change the permissions for different actions. So for example, I can make sure that it asks me for approval. If I wanna just let it do that all on its own, I can click on always allow. So you can go through and just set up the permissions however you want. Now if there's an app that you use that isn't natively supported by Anthropic here in the connectors directory, you've got a couple different op actually, you have a lot of different options, but I'll show you two. So if I x out of this, go back to the plus button, I can add a custom connector. So I can paste in a MCP
03:38server URL if the tool that you wanna be using or that you're using in your business has an MCP server, grab the URL, paste it here, give it a name, and click on add, and you're done. Or you can use a third party tool. Let me pull it up here for you. You can use a third party tool like Zapier MCP, which as you can see here has access to over 8,000 apps. Once you go through and add it, you click on add tool and you can just go through their entire thousands of apps and and look for it. It's a small extra step but I think really worth it. Takes about five minutes to set that up if you've not already. Okay. So for use case number one, I've created my daily command center
04:13dashboard. So think about what your morning looks like right now. You probably open your email in one tab, your calendar in another, Slack you've got open maybe, maybe Stripe to check your revenue or you're bouncing between five different apps just to figure out what your day looks like and what your maybe your week looks like coming up and whether your business is healthy. And this one live artifact pulls all of that into a single page like you're looking at here. It's got two sections, a daily view at the top. So it'll show me what's on my calendar for that day. I don't have anything at the time of recording this. I don't have anything on my calendar for for the day. I don't have any emails. This is looking for unopened emails in the past twenty four hours. I don't have any of those right now. And then also it's looking for Slack mentions, again, in the last twenty four hours. I also have it pulling in revenue that has generated over the last twenty four hours. This is hypothetical revenue. And then also, it gives me a list of tasks
05:02that I have to do right here. And then I can scroll down here, and this is what I call my weekly pulse. So I can check this Monday mornings, and it gives me a bigger picture in terms of the business, in terms of the numbers. And again, this is all hypothetical data, but it tells me what my MRR is, the number of sign ups in the past, my q two projection for revenue, my goal progress. So I've given it what my goal is. I'm gonna show you the prompt here in just a second, and then also the number of refunds.
05:26So again, all I have to do here is come in and click the refresh button in the upper right hand corner, and it'll refresh with brand new data that has come in since you've last refreshed. This took about ten minutes to set up, and now I just click it in my sidebar every Monday morning because I have pinned it to the sidebar, pulls in fresh data whenever I wanna refresh it, and I know exactly where things stand. So let's look at how I set this up. So I'm in Cowork. I'm gonna click on live artifacts in the left hand column up here. I'm gonna click on new artifact.
05:54And I'm not gonna lie, this is a little annoying that it does this every single time that you want to create a new live artifact. You click new artifact, you click chat with Claude, and it's the same thing every single time. So Claude is going to re explain to you what a live artifact is and what to do with it. So you can see here what are live artifacts in Cowork? Key capabilities,
06:17common uses, and now it says, let me see what connectors you have and then ask you some questions to match you with the right artifact. So I could click one of these things here, but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna I already know what the prompt is. I've already written a prompt. By the way, I'm gonna make all the prompts available to you for free. You can get a seven day free trial inside my school community. You can come in, grab them, and leave if you want to or love it if you'd stay, but I'll link to it in the description below. And here's the prompt that I've given it for the command center. So I've said create a live monitoring dashboard. Looks and feels like Stripe, Linear, or Versal. Premium, minimal, sophisticated. This is a dashboard for that I check every Monday to access my playbook business health in under thirty seconds. I've given it some design principles. Then I'm telling it what the layout structure is. So what are the things that I want it to show? This is I think really important,
07:05obviously. And remember, because this is my command center, I'm gonna come back up here and I'm gonna turn on the connectors that I want it to use. So I wanted to use Gmail. I'm gonna turn that on and I'm gonna click on reconnect. K. So I've just given it access to Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion if I want to. I don't really need it for this one here. And Slack, we're gonna use vidIQ coming up in the next use case. So because I've given it a very thorough
07:27detailed prompt here, I'm just gonna click on go. So you can see here the thought process that it's doing. It's asking me to go ahead and create with those tools. Yes. Go for it. Now one side note here, you'll notice down here it says it's using the Haiku 4.5 model. Now at the time I'm recording this video, that is the default model that this uses and you cannot change it for live artifacts. By the way, you can see here, remember I mentioned earlier, this is all we've done so far and it's already compacting. And this is what it has created for us. I asked it to be in fully my brand colors, so the orange, the blue, and the white, little bit of black in here. Okay. For use case number two, I've created a YouTube growth tracker. So if you're creating content, you probably already check your analytics. Right? But the problem is YouTube's analytics dashboard doesn't really answer the questions that I truly want. So for example,
08:16are my shorts or long form doing more work for my subscriber growth for example? So I built this live artifact that shows the usual stuff like subscribers, top videos, my goal progress. But one of my favorite parts of this dashboard is what I like to call the format pulling wait tile. So here is the growth tracker that I've created. It shows my current subscribers. This is roughly correct.
08:38Gives me a progress goal towards the goal, number of days remaining for the goal that I've set for myself, etcetera. Gives me a pace analysis, a ninety day forecast that I pulled in, also a thirty day trajectory. Also looks at the top performers for the videos that I've done over the past seven days. And then also the format performance down here, again, it's comparing long form to shorts. And then also the format winner here, this is what I was talking about. It's telling me that long form is doing this multiple better, etcetera. And then it gives me a recommendation, prioritize depth over velocity. This is the kind of insight that changes what I decide to publish next week or even in a few days, for example. So again, here's the prompt that I used to create this dashboard. So I'm telling it to build a live artifact called YouTube growth tracker, which is what you saw just a second ago. And I'm asking it to use the vidIQ
09:27MCP to pull from my YouTube channel. So you can see the MCP, they're connected right here. So So I would just turn it on. But I'm telling it exactly what I wanna see on the dashboard. And when you go through and what this prompt builds is this dashboard that I just showed you right here. Okay. For use case number three, I think this one is my favorite. If you run any kind of community or membership, I really think you're gonna like this one. So here's the problem. When people join the AI playbook, they fill out a form with the top three things that they wanna get from the community. And then also, I ask them what level what AI level that they're at. And that data goes into a Google Sheet. And it's incredibly valuable data as you might imagine. But honestly, I was really never going back and reading through hundreds of responses. This live artifact that I've created scans those responses every single week and tells me what my community's actually asking for right now. So here's what this dashboard looks like. So it gives me the new new members this week. The AI level distribution between beginner, intermediate, and advanced advanced tells tells me me what what the the top discovery channels are.
10:31Then down here, it gives me the top five themes from member feedback. And then it breaks down by the number of mentions that people have asked for this specific topic which I think is really, really powerful. And you can see down the bottom here, the dashboard, it's telling me what the priority is for this week. And then it recommends content for me for my newsletter, for my YouTube channel here, for a school post, for in the community. So it's a really powerful dashboard. Again,
10:55CTAthis just compounds over and over and over the more members join the community and fill this information out. By the way, if you just want the easy button, you want AI to do the 80% of your busy work that you do day in and day out so that you can be focusing on the 20% via zone of genius stuff. Well, that's why I created the your zone of genius app which is exclusively for my AI playbook members. It gives you a complete AI team done for you workflows.
11:20CTAYou put in your information. It's customized to your business specifically, personalized to whatever it is that you're working on, all based on my proprietary IP and frameworks already baked in. My members are loving it. I'll link to it in the description below. For use case number four, this is what I call my competitor watch. And again, this one doesn't even need connectors. Claudius uses web search to track five competitors or in this case here, think I did three competitors
11:43for new uploads, blog posts, pricing changes, any kind of social posts that they've put out. Now in this case here, I'm also going to include the vidIQ MCP because I wanted to be looking at my competitors' YouTube channels as well. So this is a demo dashboard to show you exactly the same thing of what I created, but it gives me the biggest moves this week by my competitors, price increases across the board, AI implementation momentum, community over courses. So this is gonna be your snapshot
12:12about what are the biggest things that your competitors have done over the past week. Also, I've asked it to give me what I call my competitor cards. So per competitor, it's breaking down the recent content, pricing strategy, the YouTube performance. And then down at the bottom here, I've asked it to give me five content ideas for my audience based on what my competitors are talking about. Okay. So here's the prompt. It's actually really, really simple. Build a live artifact called competitor watch, track these three competitors. This is where you put the competitor name and their URL. Now if you want to look at multiple URLs like their website, you know, if you have social media URLs or what have you or YouTube URLs or what have you, just put them in here. And then this this is where I just go through and tell it what I want it to look at. So because I want it to look at the YouTube channel, I'm gonna make sure it's using the vidIQ MCP. And then again, once I've customized the names and URLs, I just click on go. And again, this is what it
13:03created for me. Use case number five is for anybody who does live product launches. If you've ever launched anything, you know the chaos when you're launching. You're checking Stripe for sales, Gmail for support tickets, meta ad dashboard, what have you. And you're doing all this while trying to actually run the launch. Now this live artifact is a launch dashboard that pulls all of that data information into one live view. And the setup is actually the most impressive part to watch. Claude asked which connectors it will need you approve say like Stripe,
13:31Gmail, Bitly, Slack, One by One for example. Your dashboard is pulling from all these different tools all at once. And then again, I'll show you the prompt here in just a second, but this is an example of the dashboard. Now, I'm not currently running a launch right now, so the data here is sample data, but this is a very simple type of dashboard that you can create. It's gonna give you the number of units sold, the total revenue, your pace to goal, what the status is based on your goal. It'll give you your daily sales momentum, and you just mouse over it, tell you exactly how many units sold on that particular day, give you their refund rate. And again, you can customize this any way that you want. And then as promised, this is the prompt that I use to create the product launch dashboard. I just told it that I'm uploading four CSV files to use as data sources. So,
14:16you know, this data might normally come from Stripe, like Bitly, Gmail, an affiliate platform that you're using, Google Sheets, or what have you. And then this is where I tell it what I want the dashboard to include
14:29and the type of information that I want it to include. For the next use case, if you have brands and agencies reaching out to you wanting to collaborate with you in some way or you have a whole bunch of affiliate requests for example, it can be super easy for these emails to get lost in the noise of the day to day of running your business and thus you could be missing out on a ton of revenue opportunities. So for example, here is my YouTube collaborations
14:52email inbox and it has tons of emails in here that I get. So what I've done is I built a sponsor and collaboration dashboard here with live artifacts that captures all my inbound sponsor inquiries from that specific Gmail account. So you can see here total number of opportunities that have come across. Two of them are a good fit, is only 7%. 16% are not a good fit, which is 57%
15:14of the overall. $14,000 potential revenue sitting on the table here. So this is really good for me to for me to know. And then down below here, it has all the specific emails which I can sort by fit over here. So these are all the maybes, good fits, etcetera. And then of course, here's the prompt to be able to create that dashboard here. So I'm telling it to create a live artifact dashboard that looks and feels like Stripe, Linear, Reversal, and then I'm giving some context as to what this dashboard is about. And then in the middle of prompt here, this is where I have my criteria for what I feel is a good fit. So pretty basic prompt honestly, but yet a really powerful dashboard that saves me a ton of time. Alright. Use case number seven. Well, this is the last one. And I save this for last because I think it's the most surprising, frankly. So most of us have tried journaling at some point. Right? Maybe tracking habits or goals. The problem is it's just text. Right? Sitting in a notebook or a notes app. You write it, you forget it, and you never go back to actually see the patterns. Well, this artifact, this live artifact is a journal.
16:11It's a goal tracker and a habit tracker all in one. But the real difference is is you connect it to your Google Calendar. And this is what the dashboard looks like. As you can see here, it's got three tabs. So this is where I can enter my own information. So today's reflection. So I'd do this at the end of the day, for example, what was my energy? I can move this up and down. So I let's just say it was an eight. What was my mood today? I'm gonna say, oh, it's a five. And then I can I can type in what worked, what didn't work, what tomorrow's focus is? So did I get eight hours of sleep, walk or exercise, deep work, inbox only after one? Sure. And then I click on, uh, save entry here. The other tab, the other two tabs at the top here, number one is goals progress.
16:53So it will look at what my goals progress is based on the specific goals that I have set. So for example, uh, YouTube growth right here. And, again, this is hypothetical data. And then the last tab is what I think is the most important. This is where it'll give you the analysis and tell you what the patterns are based on the information that you are giving it. So it'll give you your energy trends
17:15CTAover the last thirty days, your mood trends, which I think is super cool. It'll give you your habit streaks and completion. And then also, what I like here is I asked it to give me a key action item this month. So I would never cut any of these patterns or analysis if I'm just looking at my journal or my habit tracking just one day at a time. This makes it super super easy and here's the prompt that I used. So I told it to build a live artifact called journal goals and habit tracker. I'm uploading two files. If you're journaling in a tool like Notion for example, you can connect the Notion connector to it and it will pull in your journals.
17:49CTAAgain, I'm telling it to connect Google Calendar so you can cross reference journal entries with that. Build the artifact in three sections. So number one, today's entry, which I just showed you. Number two, goals progress, and I'm telling it what I want it to include in each of these sections. Then the pattern analysis, and I'm just telling it refresh every time that I open it. So there you have it. Seven use cases of Claude's live artifacts inside of Cowork. And the simple truth is this, the thing that makes these different
18:16CTAis, again, you build them once and , if you will. No re prompting, no burning tokens to get the same dashboard every day. You build it, lives in your sidebar, and it updates whenever you open it and whenever you want fresh information being brought into it. So again, if you're an online business owner and you're looking to leverage AI in your business and you're looking for the easy button, I've created an entire AI team that is at your disposal whether it's a CEO, a CMO, a complete marketing team, an operations team, a sales team, all inside of my Arizona Genius app which all my members in the AI Playbook have access to. I'll link to it in the description below. Thanks so much for watching today's video. Again, I appreciate it. I'll see you in the next one.
§ · For Joe
Steal the 'one micro-pattern, repeated seven times' structure.
Use-case-stack playbook
The whole video is one three-beat loop — pain, demo, prompt — replayed seven times. Pick a primitive your audience just got access to, stack seven applications of it, and front-load the gotchas.
- Pick a new primitive (model, feature, MCP) your audience just got access to and could use today.
- Build 7 use cases that all follow the same three-beat micro-pattern — pain → dashboard tour → exact prompt. Don't vary the rhythm; viewers settle into it.
- Front-load 3-4 gotchas before any demo. 'It's local-only, no sharing yet, paid plan, silently compacts' — saying it up front buys trust for the rest of the video.
- End every use case with the exact prompt visible on screen. The prompt IS the gift; the dashboard is the proof.
- Specify aesthetic by reference — 'looks and feels like Stripe, Linear, Vercel.' Three brand names beat ten adjectives every time.
- Save the most surprising / most personal use case for last (his was the journal+habit+goals tracker). Recency-effect closer.
- Plug your offer mid-roll right after the highest-engagement use case, then echo at end-roll. Two soft beats > one hard pitch.
- Joe-relevant: build a JoeFlow 'morning command center' live artifact that pulls overnight transcripts + Batch run output + Sessions activity into one sidebar dashboard.
§ · For You
What you can actually build this weekend.
If you have a Claude paid plan and ~2 hours
Pick one dashboard from the seven, copy the prompt structure, point it at the data you already have, and you've got a sidebar tool you'll use every morning.
- Open Claude desktop → Cowork → Live artifacts → New artifact. That's the whole entry path.
- Start with the Daily Command Center — it's the lowest-friction win. Calendar + email count + revenue + tasks on one page, ~10 minutes.
- Wire up Anthropic-native connectors first (Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion). Only reach for Zapier MCP if your app isn't in the native directory.
- Write the prompt like a brief, not a question — name the dashboard, specify the aesthetic ('Stripe / Linear / Vercel'), list the sections you want.
- Don't trust the demo data. Test the refresh button immediately after first build to see what your connectors actually return.
- The journal + goals + habit tracker is the highest-leverage one if you've never journaled consistently — calendar cross-reference is what makes it stick.
- Caveat to plan around: artifacts are local-only and don't sync between machines (yet). Build on the laptop you actually use every morning.
