Claude Team: Set It Up Yourself or Have It Done

Every Claude Team plan comes with the pieces: enterprise search (the "Ask Your Org" project), projects, skills, plugins, and scheduled tasks that run while your laptop is closed. Most teams turn Claude on and never set them up, so it only answers when someone asks. You can set it up yourself, with me coaching, or have me do it in 14 days. All three run on the same seats.

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Written by Gabe Pérez, who sets up Claude for small teams. Prices checked October 26, 2026.

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Set it up yourself if

Someone on your team lives in Claude and has a few hours a week
Answers from your connected tools, when someone asks, are enough for now
You want to understand every piece. Coaching gets you there in four sessions, for $1,997

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Have me set it up if

You want proposals and follow-ups drafted overnight, without anyone opening a chat
Nobody on your team has hours a week to spare
You want your prices and rules written down once, on every seat
You'd like the mistakes I already made to stay mine

Three Ways to Set Up the Same Seats

Same Claude Team plan in all three. You own everything in all three.

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	On your own	With my coaching	Set up by me
Who writes down how your company works	Whoever finds the time	You, with me on screen share	I do, and you approve it
Your rules and prices	Enterprise search runs on instructions Anthropic writes. Other projects take yours, plus whatever each person saves to memory	Your company manual, as a skill everyone gets	Your company manual, on every seat as a required plugin, from a repo you own
When it works	When someone types a question, unless someone builds the scheduled jobs	When someone asks, plus the job we build in session 3	Overnight too: proposals and follow-ups land in your drafts before anyone asks
What it reads	Whatever's connected, searched live each time. Nothing is sorted or checked first	Your sources, sorted together in the sessions	Your sources filed by client, after I trace where your real answers live
Who sees what	What each person can already open in each app	The same, plus a project per client	Access set per person and per client
How long	An afternoon to turn on. Months to get good	Four sessions over two weeks	One job live by day 14, weekly use by day 30
After	You keep up with what Anthropic ships	A recap after every session, and up to 5 questions by email in the 30 days after	A day-30 check on who's using it, then optional Release care at $997 a month
Guarantee	None	None, you keep what you built	One job live by day 14 and your team using it weekly by day 30, or your money back
10 people, first year	$2,400 of seats ($20 a seat a month, billed yearly)	$2,400 of seats, plus $1,997 once	$2,400 of seats, plus $3,997 once
10 people, three years	$7,200 of seats	$7,200 of seats, plus $1,997 once	$7,200 of seats, plus $3,997 once

The $3,997 setup pays for itself once your team gets back 80 hours. That's one workday each for 10 people, if an hour of their time is worth $50.

Prices and data policies from each vendor's own pages, checked October 26, 2026: Claude pricing, Claude enterprise search, Scheduled tasks in Cowork, Org skills.

Where Doing It Yourself Wins

If you have the time, it's the cheapest route and the best way to learn.

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What doing it yourself gets you

Enterprise search comes with the seats, and an owner can set it up this afternoon. It only shows each person what they can already open.
It's $3,997 cheaper, or you pay $1,997 for coaching instead.
You'll understand every piece, so you'll know what to fix when Anthropic changes something.
You can start today and have me set it up later. Nothing you build gets thrown away.

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Where my setup falls short

It's Claude only. If your team won't give up ChatGPT or Copilot, you'd pay for both.
It moves with Anthropic. When they change a feature, the setup has to change with it: your team does that, or I do on Release care.
One person does it: me. You're betting on my calendar, which is why the guarantee comes with all your money back.
It's priced for one team of up to 20. A bigger company, on Claude Team or Enterprise, gets scoped on a call, and needs someone in IT who owns permissions.
It drafts and never sends. Someone still reads every proposal before it goes out.
If someone on your team already lives in Claude and has the hours, coaching for $1,997 gets you most of the way.

We found six company rules living in one person's private AI memory, including "never send client email." They only applied to that person's sessions. Write down the rulings.

Why Me

Anyone can call themselves an AI expert now. I've put machine learning into production, published on it, and built the hard version of this by hand, on my own company.

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What I've built and published

Built Peer Feedback, an ML system that scored 323,000+ peer reviews for 11,000+ Georgia Tech students, then sold it
Co-authored a 2024 IEEE paper on it with Dr. David Joyner
Two IBM patents, on distributed computing with homomorphic encryption
Master's in Computer Science from Georgia Tech
Fractional CTO at CITYROW after its $12M Series A, through its acquisition by WaterRower
15+ years and 50+ production apps

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What my own company runs on

Nexrizen has run on Claude every working day since June 2026
3,474 commits on our own company brain, 86% of them co-written with Claude
1,295 emails and 727 call transcripts filed by client, and 626 owed replies caught
39 field notes on what worked and what broke, including eight times our tools lied

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Questions About Claude Team

Help Topics

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Isn't this just Claude's enterprise search?

No, though enterprise search is a good start and your team can keep using it. It answers when someone asks, searching each connected app live with that person's own access, on instructions Anthropic writes. A proper setup adds three things it doesn't do. It drafts proposals and follow-ups overnight without anyone asking. It works from a project per client, with the files that matter checked and added, so the answer doesn't depend on which copy of a file search finds first. And it follows one manual with your prices and your process, with access set per client.

Do I need Claude Team for this?

You need paid Claude seats for the people who'll use it, and Team is the usual pick for a group. Standard seats are $20 a month each billed yearly, or $25 monthly, for 2 to 150 people.

Where do I start on my own?

Turn on enterprise search, write your prices and rules into a project's instructions, and try one scheduled task in Cowork. The free setup planner gives you a plan for your own tools, and if you're technical, the free Claude Code guide goes deeper.

What does coaching include?

A 30-minute kickoff and four 90-minute sessions over two weeks for up to 5 people, a recap after each one, and up to 5 questions by email in the 30 days after. You do the typing on your own files. Details.

Does my team need to use Claude Code?

A good ops hire brings judgment. A brain does the finding and the drafting overnight. Often you want both.

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