Claude Code
Four businesses, run from one folder
Thomas Scott runs four small businesses in the UK and has no developer background. His agent, Harris, is Claude Code working from one folder on his Windows PC. Each session starts with a boot file and a vault of plain notes. The morning routine reads the vault map, checks yesterday's note, and scans the priorities across all four businesses. It opens with what is open and overdue, each line dated and sourced. In the day it drafts proposals from notes, turns call recaps into filed actions, reads contracts and lists what he is agreeing to, and chases quotes that got no reply. When anything changes, it writes a checkpoint into the notes in the same pass.
How it wentIn one worked example, he handed over a spec at 1:30 PM for a system that cuts long videos into short clips and posts them. The first post went out at 4:00 PM, three channels were posting on their own by nightfall, and the 12 clips had 2,331 views by the next lunchtime. The guide's failure table is strict: the agent may not make judgement calls on money, contracts, or relationships, and anything with a real-world effect needs his plain yes first.
Try it · based on the source's workflow
Read my notes vault map and yesterday's daily note. List what is open and overdue across [businesses], with the date and source of each item. Then draft replies for every quote I sent that has had no answer in [number] days, using my notes for context. Show me every draft before sending. When anything changes, append a checkpoint to today's note. Never send, post, spend, or sign anything without my plain yes.
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Four businesses, run from one folder — from The SmallOffice Brief, a daily brief of real AI cases for small businesses: https://smalloffice.space/case-four-businesses-run-from-one-folder