Setup ClaudeWork for Customers

You've already paid for an agency, hired a freelancer, or stared at a vendor quote for an "AI feature" and wondered why every option costs five figures and takes eight weeks. ClaudeWork was built for the other path: describe what you need, get matched to a vetted AI Conductor in under a minute, hold the bounty under Payment Protection, and pay only when the work is approved. This is the whole on-ramp.

Step 1 — Spot your AI opportunity

You don't need a technical idea — you need a painful idea. Anything you do repeatedly, anything an employee does for you that an AI could draft in 10 seconds, anything you wish you could afford to automate. A few examples by business type:

• Ecommerce / Shopify owners — product description batches, support chatbot trained on your return policy, automated review responses, abandoned-cart email rewrites, custom Claude tool that recommends products from a customer's mood.
• Agency owners — white-label AI features for client deliverables, internal research workflows, proposal generators, prompt suites for your own team.
• Coaches and creators — a Claude tutor trained on your course material, a research assistant for your newsletter, a content engine for your podcast outline.
• Small business owners — customer support automation, internal SOP generator, document review (leases, contracts, invoices), AI receptionist for after-hours.
• SaaS founders / indie hackers — Claude integration into your product, RAG pipelines over your docs, prompt engineering for a specific feature.

If you're stuck, ask yourself: "If I had one more assistant who never sleeps, what would I hand them first?" That's the bounty.

Step 2 — Write a bounty that attracts the right Conductor

The clearest way to lose 48 hours is to post a vague bounty and get 12 wrong offers. A clear bounty does three things:

1. Describes the outcome, not the implementation. "I want customers to be able to ask my support bot about return windows and get the correct answer from my actual policy" is good. "Build a RAG pipeline with vector embeddings" is for people who already know what they want — and locks out 80% of the AI Conductors who could deliver the outcome a different way.
2. Includes examples. Real questions you want answered. Real product descriptions in your voice. Real outputs you've seen elsewhere that look right. AI Conductors brief Claude best when you brief them best — give them the raw material.
3. States the success criteria. "It's done when I can ask any of these 10 sample questions and get the right answer 9 out of 10 times." Acceptance criteria up front = fewer revision rounds + faster approval.

Step 3 — Set a fair bounty price

Most ClaudeWork bounties land in these ranges:

• $50–$200 — single-task work: a product description batch, a one-off automation, a focused research summary, a small Claude prompt.
• $200–$800 — focused builds: a Shopify chatbot, a custom Claude tool for your audience, a multi-doc research project, a small data pipeline.
• $800–$3,000 — heavier projects: production-grade RAG over a real knowledge base, a multi-step agent, a Claude integration into your existing product.
• $3,000+ — Big Projects (multi-task bundles). Break it into sub-tasks; an AI Conductor or a small team picks them up over a few weeks.

Unsure? Post in the middle of the range. If no one accepts within 24 hours, the matchmaker tells you — bump the bounty or sharpen the spec. You pay zero customer fee on ClaudeWork. The bounty you set is the bounty you pay, full stop.

Step 4 — Let the matchmaker find your AI Conductor

This is where ClaudeWork is different. You don't search 50 profiles trying to guess who's good. Once your bounty is posted, our developer matchmaker reads what you need and surfaces the AI Conductors most likely to deliver it — based on their completed work, ratings, specialties, and recent activity.

You get the power of choice: review the matched Conductors' public profiles, see their completed jobs, read their reviews, message any of them with questions, and pick the one you want. No bidding wars. No proposals. No race to the lowest price. Just a short list of qualified candidates, surfaced in seconds.

If a Conductor accepts directly off your open bounty, even better — they read it and self-selected. Approve their offer and the work starts.

Step 5 — Review the work, approve, and pay

The bounty was funded from your wallet the moment you posted, but it's held by ClaudeWork under Payment Protection — not by the Conductor. They only get paid when you click Approve.

When they deliver:

1. Open the delivery. Files, links, screenshots, walkthrough video — whatever the Conductor attached.
2. Test it against your acceptance criteria. The ones you wrote in Step 2.
3. One of three buttons:
   • Approve — funds release. 92% to the Conductor, 8% to ClaudeWork. Done.
   • Request changes — the Conductor gets one more revision. Up to 2 revision rounds are included.
   • Escalate — if the work is wrong or they go silent, ClaudeWork support mediates. Funds stay protected the whole time.

You are never forced to pay for work you didn't get.

Step 6 — Rate, repeat, and refer

After approval, leave a rating and a one-sentence review. Your rating is what makes the matchmaker smarter — the next time you post, the system surfaces the Conductors who worked best for customers like you.

Two extra things most customers miss:

• Big Projects — got a 10-task project? Post it once as a Big Project and break it into sub-tasks. You can use the same Conductor or different ones for each task, and the project chat keeps everyone aligned.
• Refer and earn 1% — forever. Every person you invite earns you 1% of every bounty they post or earn — for as long as they're a member. No cap, no expiration. Grab your referral link in your dashboard.

You're ready

That's the whole customer playbook. Post a bounty, get matched in seconds, hold funds safe, approve when you're satisfied. Most customers ship their first project within 48 hours of signing up.

Post your first bounty → Browse AI Conductors →

"AI Conductor" is ClaudeWork's term for a human who orchestrates AI tools — primarily Claude — to deliver expert outcomes for customers. External links (claude.ai, anthropic.com) are operated by Anthropic. ClaudeWork is an independent marketplace and is not affiliated with Anthropic.