The File That Stops You From Re-Briefing Claude Every Monday
A CLAUDE.md file is a plain text file, saved at the top level of a project folder, that Claude reads automatically at the start of every session, before anyone types a word.
Topic
Process
A collection of 20 issues
Are you saving prompts yet?
Here's the part I want you to sit with: no one convinced her she needed something more than prompts. No vendor pitched her, no course sold her the upgrade. The pull came from her own friction.
Struggling to build a Claude skills.md file?
Claude has a built in tool that help you build skills.md files
Where Your Claude Settings Actually Live: Mobile vs. Desktop vs. Browser
That's the thing nobody tells you about using Claude across a phone, a laptop, and a browser tab. It isn't one uniform tool that happens to have three windows. Some settings live on your account and follow you everywhere the moment you set them.
Abacus.ai: What It Is, and Three Ways It Fits a PM's AI Stack
Abacus.ai and its chat product, ChatLLM, gives you access to a long list of models in one place (GPT, Sonnet, Opus, Gemini, Grok, and a rotating cast of others added within days of public release) instead of picking one vendor and living with it.
The Credibility Moment
Most AI training for project managers fails before anyone opens a laptop. The failure point is sequence, not content quality.
How Markdown Has Come to Rule the World
What if the tool you're already using spoke a language you've never learned?
The format that powers GitHub, Obsidian, and every AI model you've ever used — and why project managers need to know it.
You've already seen it hundreds of times. Maybe
The Ladder Most PMs Don't Know They're On
What if your AI already knew your project?
Project managers have been using (or trying to use) GenAI for a few years now.
Status reports, meeting prep, risk summaries, funder updates.
It saves time. The outputs are decent. We keep using it.
But...is that beginning to bother you?
Do
What would change if you held your AI tools to the same standard you're held to?
Seven principles. In my experience, most tools fall short on at least three. Here's what you have the right to expect.
Here's a scenario.
Six months ago you signed up for a new AI tool. You asked all the right questions first:
Does it integrate with
Are you using AI to go faster or to think better?
Hammer Mode is useful. It's also the least valuable way to use AI.
Picture this.
A PM opens their AI tool and types: "Draft a stakeholder update for my digital transformation project."
Thirty seconds later, there's a polished, confident paragraph ready to go. They