cooling tool that you can use to vastly increase your coding output. However, Claude Code can be used for so much more than just programming. You can apply Claude Code to essentially any task you perform on your computer.
Whenever I get a new task that I have to complete, my first thought is, “how can I do this task using Claude Code?” To highlight how you can use Claude Code for non-technical tasks as well, I’ll cover three different application areas that are non-technical in which I utilize Claude Code to more effectively complete the tasks.
This infographic highlights the main contents of this article. I’ll discuss how you can apply Claude Code to non-technical work and achieve efficient results. Image by Gemini.
Why use Claude Code for non-technical tasks?
First of all, I want to make a definition. When I say non-technical tasks in this case, I mostly refer to any task you do on your computer that doesn’t consist of writing code explicitly. This is, of course, tasks that different job roles like marketing, customer success, and sales have to do, but engineers also have to do a lot of non-technical tasks. These could be tasks such as:
- Making presentations
- Answering emails and messages
- Posting on social media
Thus, I’d argue that there are a lot of non-technical tasks you should apply Claude Code too, even if you’re working a technical role.
The main reason you should use Claude Code for non-technical tasks is, of course, that it will save you a lot of time. Instead of making a presentation from scratch, you should simply have Claude Code make the presentation for you with the color theme of your company, which is vastly more effective than making the presentation yourself from scratch.
In the following section, I’ll cover three non-technical specific areas where I use Claude Code and how I use it.
Three non-technical application areas for Claude Code
Whenever explaining different concepts to people, I always like to give examples. And the best examples are my own experiences. Thus, I’ll use this section to describe my specific use cases that are non-technical where I apply Claude Code. This should give you inspiration for what kind of tasks you can complete with Claude Code and how you can do them. In general, however, I believe Claude Code and other coding agents can be applied to most tasks. And I just urge you, whenever you receive a new task, to think about how you can use coding agents to complete it. The main point I want to get across in this article is that a task doesn’t have to be technical to apply LLMs to it. LLMs can also easily and very effectively be applied to non-technical tasks as well.
1. Making presentations
One very important task I use Claude Code to perform is to make presentations. Initially, when I was using coding agents, I didn’t think about this as an application area, and I made presentations using tools such as PowerPoint and Pitch.
Then suddenly it dawned on me one day that:
Why am I not just making this with Claude Code instead?
Thus, I started figuring out how I can apply Claude Code to make my presentations and how to make it as effective as possible. Now, essentially every presentation I make is with Claude Code, and I rarely use other tools such as PowerPoint.
To make presentations with Claude Code, I tell it to write LaTeX code, which is a programming language you can use to generate PDFs, for example. LaTeX is often used in scientific papers because it’s very effective at generating structured documents. However, it can also generate PDFs where each page in the PDF is that slide in your presentation, and you can use that to present.
You don’t really need to set anything up yourself; you can simply tell Claude Code I want to make a presentation using LaTeX, please set it up for me and install the required packages. And then tell it the content of your presentation and have it make it.
Another tip I urge you to do is to have all your presentations stored in one folder, so whenever you start making a new presentation, Claude Code has access to your previous presentations. Then you can easily refer to previous presentations if you want a specific theme, pattern, graph, and so on.
One of the great benefits of using coding agents is that they can build upon previous work. They don’t just do work in isolation, like making a single presentation. They can also look at previous presentations you made, and will be far more efficient for any subsequent presentations you make after that, because they know your preferences and how you like to make presentations.
Also, if you, for example, have a theme that you always use in your company, which is very common when making presentations, you can inform the plot code of this theme and tell it to ensure all your presentations follow that theme.
2. Finding information in my knowledge bases
If you’re like me, you probably have a lot of information stored in a lot of different sources, such as:
- Email
- Notion
- Local files on your computer
- Google Drive
- Slack
And probably a large variety of different sources. This can be quite annoying at times, because if you want to find a specific piece of information, you first have to think about which application it is stored in and then find that information in the application. If you want to find a specific message that you received from a person, for example, you might have to look in both messages on your phone, your email, and your Slack before finding the correct message.
This is, of course, a very time-consuming process that can be made far more effective using coding agents like Claude Code. Instead of manually searching through these applications to find information, you can give Claude Code or another coding agent that you’re using access to all of the applications. This is made very simple using API keys that you can fetch from essentially all applications online nowadays. You can provide these API keys to Claude Code so it can access information from your email, from Notion, from Google Drive, and from Slack. And you can have your coding agent search through the information all at once.
This is, of course, far more effective than manually searching through different applications to find a specific piece of information. And this probably saves me hours every week, and of course, a lot of frustration.
3. Sales outreach
Another cool non-technical task that I use Claude Code for is Sales Outreach. Sales Outreach is, of course, a large area consisting of a lot of different tasks. However, a lot of them can be made far more effective using Claude Code.
These could be tasks such as:
- Finding prospects that fit your ICP.
- Creating custom messaging for each prospect, tailor-made for their job title and company.
- Organizing your CRM by updating it with new prospects, adding missing information, and removing irrelevant prospects.
There are probably a lot more tasks within sales outreach or sales in general that you can apply Claude Code to. However, I’m just covering some of the tasks that I’ve explicitly used it for.
Again, when doing this, I urge you to have a separate folder where you do all your sales with Claude Code so that Claude will have access to all information about the sales process. This folder should, for example, contain information such as:
- A general briefing on your company, what it does, what the goal is, and so on
- An ideal customer profile, so it knows who to target and who to ignore
Then, when you, for example, want to find new prospects, you can tell Claude Code to go online and find prospects for you, given specific criteria such as which countries to look at and what job positions to target. You can ask it to create custom messaging for each of the prospects it finds. And you can have it update your CRM with all these new prospects, adding their information, the messaging you’re sending to them, and so on.
Conclusion
In this article, I covered how you can use Claude Code for non-technical tasks. The main point I make in this article is that Claude Code and other coding agents are not only suitable for technical tasks such as programming, but they can also be applied to essentially any other task that you perform on your computer. To be specific, I gave some examples from my own experience on how I used Claude Code for non-technical tasks, where I covered making presentations, finding information in your knowledge bases, and doing sales outreach. In general, I think your first thought when approaching a new problem should be how you can use LLMs and agents to solve it. In many cases, simply prompting an agent one time will solve 80-100% of the task. Thus, I urge you to constantly keep in the back of your mind how you can apply Claude Code to any task that you encounter to become far more efficient in performing your work.
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