AI for the whole studio: Cowork, Claude Design and Artifacts

Not every job is code

The studio is growing. Next to the code there are now receipts to sort, player emails to answer, festival slides to make and a launch plan to keep on track. These jobs keep a studio alive, and they eat hours.

Claude Opus 5.5 already helps us write code. Anthropic also makes tools for the non-coding jobs: Claude Cowork, Claude Design and Artifacts. They speed up the work. People still decide what is right, what is true and what goes out.

Claude Cowork: multi-step work on your files

• Finances"Read every receipt in the Expenses folder and build a spreadsheet by month, with totals for the accountant."
• Support"Sort these 200 bug reports (names and emails already removed) into crash, balance and idea, and count each kind."
• Planning"Turn the playtest notes into a launch checklist with an owner and a date for every task."

Claude Cowork brings the agent design behind Claude Code, Anthropic's coding agent, to work that isn't coding, with no terminal needed. You describe an outcome, and Claude plans and works through the steps: reading and writing files in folders you connect, and using apps you link through connectors. It hands back finished documents, spreadsheets or slides.

At the time of writing it runs in the Claude desktop app, on the web and on phones, on paid plans. In Manual mode it asks before each action, and it always asks before permanently deleting files.

Claude Design: visuals from a prompt

Claude Design is an Anthropic Labs product for visual work. Describe what you need and Claude builds a first version: slide decks, one-pagers, interactive prototypes, landing pages or social images. You refine it by chatting, leaving comments or editing directly.

It can read our code and design files to build a design system (our colours, fonts and parts), so everything looks like our studio. Work exports as PDF, PowerPoint, HTML or to Canva, or goes to Claude Code as a handoff bundle. It launched in April 2026 as a research preview on paid plans.

Artifacts: pages and tools Claude makes

• A press kit pageLogo, real screenshots, trailer, short description and the studio email on one page that creators can open.
• A budget calculatorType in ad spend, installs and lifetime value, and it shows the cost per install, like in the Unit economics lesson.
• A playtest feedback formTesters rate each Hyper Shards wave from 1 to 5. It asks only about the game, never for names, schools or emails.

An artifact is a standalone piece of work Claude makes and opens next to the chat: a document, a web page, a dashboard or a small interactive tool. You can edit it, come back to it and share it. Artifacts start private, and you choose who gets the link. On paid plans, at the time of writing, an artifact can also save data, like answers to a form.

Humans stay in charge

Anthropic's own safety guide for Cowork says you are responsible for what Claude does on your behalf. So our studio keeps four rules for every AI tool:

• Check its workAI can get facts and numbers wrong. A person checks every total, claim and design before it goes out.
• No secretsPasswords, API keys and bank logins never go into a prompt or a connected folder.
• No players' personal dataPlayers' names, emails and ages stay out. Remove them first, or do that job without AI (the Keeping player data safe lesson explains why).
• A parent owns the accountsClaude requires users to be 18 or older, and these tools need a paid plan. A parent signs up, pays and sets permissions, and the team works alongside.

Bolt says: Start Cowork in Manual mode with one folder made just for the task, and approve each step until you trust it.

A helper for every job

• MarketingClaude Design drafts festival slides and social images in our style. A person checks that every screenshot is real gameplay.
• FinancesCowork sorts receipts into a monthly spreadsheet. A parent and the accountant check it.
• SupportCowork groups anonymised bug reports. The team writes the replies, and a parent sends them.
• PlanningAn artifact holds the launch checklist, shared with the team.
• DesignClaude Design turns a new level idea into a clickable prototype to playtest before anyone writes code.

Bolt says: AI tools save hours, but paid plans cost money every month too. Next: keeping the plan small enough to finish, and looking after the people making it.