I started with Claude because I was struck by how well it wrote. Clean, well-formatted, intelligent output. For anyone who has ever stared at a blank screen, you will understand immediately why that matters.

I was job hunting, facing a mountain of CVs and cover letters, and Claude helped me get started. But it quickly became clear we could go much further.

I used Claude's browser tool to build a database of 70 named contacts at universities, in the right roles, at the right level. Claude then helped me run a mail merge through Gmail, sending individually addressed emails to 120 organisations. It saved me hours.

That was just the beginning.