For administrators & IT leads
10 concepts · ~57 minSetting up Claude for your company
Three stages, in the right order. Whether you're doing this on top of your other job or it's your whole role — this path takes you from evaluation to running Claude confidently across your whole organization.
Before you start
— EvaluationYou've been handed this job
Where to start
What the first two weeks actually look like — the four things to figure out before you configure anything, how to find the right Project owners, and what good looks like at 30 days.
Which plan is right for your company?
Claude Plans
Free, Pro, Team, and Enterprise — what you actually get at each tier, the decision framework for choosing, and why most admins get this wrong in one of two predictable directions.
Setting it up
— Initial deploymentYour first 30 minutes as a Claude admin
Admin Setup
The exact sequence: provisioning accounts, setting org-level defaults, and the decisions you need to make before anyone on your team logs in for the first time.
Structuring Projects across the whole org
Claude Projects
How to architect Projects at an org level — naming conventions, who owns what, system prompt governance, and what to upload. One focused Project per team beats ten generic ones.
Which Skills to enable where
Skills
Not every Skill makes sense for every team. How to decide what to turn on, what to leave off, and how to avoid giving access to things your team isn't ready for.
What to connect — and what to leave off
Connectors
The framework for deciding which data sources to give Claude access to. Not everything should be connected — here's how to evaluate each integration before enabling it.
Controlling costs from day one
Tokens
How token usage translates to spend, where most teams leak budget without realizing it, and the configuration choices that keep costs predictable as usage grows.
Running it well
— Ongoing managementIs it actually working?
Evals
How to measure whether your rollout is delivering — beyond adoption metrics. The lightweight evaluation process any admin can run, even without a data team.
Rolling out the new stuff responsibly
Cowork & Dispatch
Cowork and Dispatch are powerful and easy to misuse. How to introduce agentic features to your team in stages — so they extend capability without creating chaos.
Staying current as Claude evolves
Managed Agents
Claude ships major capability updates every few months. How to keep your organization's setup current without constant fire drills — and how to evaluate new features before rolling them out.
Keep exploring
See everything Claude can do
A full map of Claude's features — organized by capability group — for admins doing due diligence or planning what to roll out next.