AustraliaFinance and insurance2026 – ongoingAirtree
Claude Cowork skills for board preparation and research at a venture fund
Airtree cut board summaries from 30 minutes to two after rolling out Claude Cowork across the fund
Problem
Airtree is a venture fund that backs founders in Australia and New Zealand. Its investors spent hours on market research, pre-meeting preparation and board summaries.
Approach
Airtree rolled out Claude Cowork fund-wide as shared infrastructure. It started with connections to existing tools such as Notion, Slack, Google Drive, Affinity and Gmail. The team then built Skills for recurring work, including board meeting preparation, company research and board summaries.
Results
Takeaway
The firm gained most where the same task recurred, such as board summaries and pre-meeting research, because a reusable Skill could be written once and shared. The company did not say how it measured the time savings.
Categories
- Size
- Small business
- Industry
- Finance and insurance
- Business function
- Internal work and knowledge management
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Generative AI
- Adoption
- Off-the-shelf tool or platform
- Evidence
- Vendor case study
Sources
Source summaries
Anthropic's customer story describes how the venture fund Airtree made Claude Cowork shared infrastructure and built Skills for board preparation, company research and board summaries. It reports that two-day research now takes minutes, 30-minute board summaries take two minutes, and the marketing team saves two hours a month on reporting. The page carries no date; the Internet Archive first saved it on May 15, 2026.
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