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Anthropic butts in to small business, promises help with payroll and other core tasks
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But Pro or Max biz users should know that the company may train its AI on your data.
Key facts
- As for the connectors themselves, Anthropic specifically mentions seven of them included in Claude for Small Business: Intuit Quickbooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, Docusign, Google Workspace
- But Pro or Max biz users should know that the company may train its AI on your data
- An Anthropic spokesperson told The Register in an email that CSB isn’t limited to those connectors, but the skills and workflows rolling out for the plugin were only optimized for those connectors
- As Anthropic notes in the announcement, and as many analysts have pointed out, AI adoption among SMBs has historically lagged enterprises
Summary
Anthropic is pushing into the small business space with a set of new plug-and-play tools designed for those without a tech team budget, but be warned: Depending on your Anthropic subscription tier, some business data might get sucked up to train Claude. Anthropic announced Claude for Small Business (CSB) on Wednesday, describing the new plugin as a way for SMB owners without AI expertise to automate the basic business tasks they’re saddled with, like payroll, chasing payments, and launching campaigns, that are usually the purview of different departments at the enterprise level. Installation is designed to be dead simple, with Pro, Max, and Teams plan users able to add it as a plugin from the Cowork space in the Claude Desktop app. Users will find “a package of connectors and ready-to-run workflows” inside the CSB plugin, according to the announcement.