Anthropic Launches Claude for Small Business with Automation Workflows

Summary

Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business, its fifth market-specific Claude offering since early 2025. Built on Claude Cowork (the agentic capability launched in January), the package supports multistep task automation across applications and can repeat tasks on user-defined schedules. The release adds 15 new skills (instruction-and-resource folders) plus an equal number of plugins that bundle multiple skills with broader functionality. Many prepackaged automations target SMB accounting and o