THE DROP · 004 6 FEATURES
Claude
AI HACKS · 6 FEATURES

Stop using
10% of Claude.

You commented CLAUDE. Here are the 6 features living in the other 90%. What they do, why most people skip them, and exactly how to set each one up.

Most people open Claude, type a question, get an answer, close the tab. Repeat. That's a $20/month search bar.

The people getting genuinely different output aren't prompting better. They're using the features that sit one click below the surface, the ones that turn Claude from a chatbot into something that actually knows your business, sounds like you, and runs without you.

Here are all 6. Steal every single one.


Feature 01 · Style DNA

Claude can write in your exact voice.

Every Claude output sounds like the same person wrote it. Thoughtful. Well-structured. Slightly corporate. Not you.

The Styles feature fixes this. Upload 3 examples of your actual writing. Claude extracts your rhythm, your vocabulary, your sentence length patterns, the things you never consciously think about but always do. It saves that as a Style profile you can apply to any conversation.

From then on, every output sounds like you wrote it. Not like AI wrote it and you edited it for 20 minutes afterward.

Why most people skip it

It's buried in the Search and Tools menu, not on the main interface. If you've never looked there, you've never seen it. Most people haven't.

//try:
Search and Tools menu (bottom left) → Styles → Create custom style → Upload 3 writing samples. Pick pieces that represent your actual voice, not your best writing. The more natural the sample, the better the extracted style.

Then in any conversation: click Styles and select yours before generating anything.
Works in: Claude.ai web and mobile
Feature 02 · Skills

One strong Skill beats 100 perfect prompts.

A Skill is a folder of instructions Claude reads automatically before any task in that category. Build a Brand Voice Skill. A Newsletter Skill. A Client Proposal Skill. A Social Media Skill.

The prompt works once. The Skill works forever. No more re-explaining your tone, your audience, your format requirements, your list of words you hate. You document it once. Claude follows it every time.

Anthropic built a Skill that builds other Skills. It's already in your settings. Most people have never clicked it.

The real difference

Skills survive model updates. When Claude gets smarter, your Skill gets more powerful automatically. A well-built Skill from today will still be running flawlessly in 6 months.

//try:
Settings → Customize → Skills → enable Skill-Creator. Ask it to build you a Brand Voice Skill. It will interview you about your tone, your audience, your format preferences, and build the SKILL.md file. Takes 10 minutes. Saves hours every week.
Works in: Claude.ai (Pro and above)
Feature 03 · Live Web Search

Claude is not stuck in the past.

Claude has a training cutoff. That's real. But most people treat it like Claude is permanently frozen in time, which isn't true for users who have web search enabled.

Claude can search the actual live web right now. Real results. Current prices. This week's news. Today's algorithm changes. Not a cached summary from 8 months ago.

This changes what Claude is useful for. Competitor research. Trend analysis. Pricing benchmarks. Anything that requires current data instead of historical knowledge.

When this matters most

Every time you're making a decision that depends on current market conditions, recent news, or live data. If you're using Claude for business research without web search enabled, you're working with stale information and you might not know it.

//try:
Enable web search in the Search and Tools menu (the magnifying glass icon). Then: "Search the web for the latest trends in [your niche] this week. Give me the 3 most significant developments and what they mean for someone doing [your work]."
Works in: Claude.ai web (enable in tools menu)
Feature 04 · Projects

You have 5 free AI assistants. You're using zero.

Each Claude Project is a fully configured custom AI assistant. Upload your SOPs, brand guide, client docs, competitor research, past deliverables. Write custom instructions that specify exactly what this assistant does and how.

Every conversation you start inside that Project begins with Claude already knowing your business. You never re-explain context. You never re-paste background information. It's already there.

Free accounts get 5 Projects. Pro accounts get unlimited. The average user has zero.

How to think about this

You wouldn't hire 5 specialists and give them zero context about your business. But that's what most people do with Claude every single day. Projects fix that. Build one per major area of your work: content, client comms, strategy, research, operations.

//try:
Create a Project called "Content Brain." Upload your last 10 posts, your brand voice guide, your audience description, and your content pillars. In Project Instructions, write: "You are my content strategist. You know my voice, my audience, and my goals. Always start from what's already working." Every content conversation from now on starts there.
Works in: Claude.ai (all plans, free includes 5 projects)
Feature 05 · Claude Code · The One That Changes Everything

Claude Code works while you sleep.

This is the feature that separates people who use Claude from people who run Claude.

Claude Code with Remote Control and scheduled tasks is not a chatbot you type questions into. It's an autonomous agent that ships work on a schedule. Give it a task. Walk away. Come back to a finished project.

Weekly priority briefs. Nightly code reviews. Sunday content audits. Anything that runs on a schedule, Claude Code can own it. You set it up once. It runs without you. No babysitting required.

What this actually looks like in practice

Every Sunday at 9am, Claude reviews my open tasks, scans my content calendar, checks last week's performance data, and writes me a one-page priority brief. I wake up Monday with a plan already written. I didn't touch a keyboard.

//try:
Install Claude Code (claude.ai/download). Open your terminal. Type: "Every Sunday at 9am, review the files in /my-projects, identify what's incomplete, and write a priority brief to /briefs/weekly.md."

Claude Code sets up the scheduled task. Done. That brief writes itself every week from now on.
Works in: Claude Code (CLI, requires Pro or Max)
Feature 06 · 1 Million Token Context

Claude can read your entire business at once.

1 million tokens. That is 750,000 words. An entire codebase. A year of emails. Every client note you have ever written. Your full DM archive. Every contract, every brief, every strategy doc, all of it.

Most people paste one document at a time. They think in single files. You can paste everything. All at once. And ask Claude what it sees across all of it.

This is currently in beta for Opus 4.6. The questions you can ask at this scale are genuinely different from what you can ask at the document level. Patterns across months. Contradictions across projects. Decisions you have been avoiding for years, visible only when all the data is in the same room.

The prompt that unlocks this

Don't ask Claude to summarize at scale. Ask it to find what you can't see yourself. Patterns, contradictions, things you keep almost doing and then not doing. That's where the million-token window earns its keep.

//try:
Paste 6 months of your sent emails (export from Gmail as .mbox or copy-paste). Then ask: "What decisions have I been avoiding? What patterns do you see in what I prioritize vs what I say I prioritize? What am I circling around without committing to?"

Use Claude Opus 4.6 for this. The answer will be uncomfortable in the best way.
Works in: Claude.ai with Opus 4.6 (Pro/Max, 1M context in beta)

The honest truth

Most people use none of this.

Not because it's hard. Because nobody told them it existed.

The gap between someone using Claude as a chatbot and someone using it as infrastructure is not skill. It's awareness. Now you have it.

One feature at a time. Start with the one that solves your most immediate problem. Don't try to implement all 6 this week. Pick one. Run it for 7 days. Then add the next one.

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That's the drop.

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Mike
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