I built a Claude Cowork system that does a week of PM work in a day
Daniel Blum, a product manager at Melio, details his comprehensive Claude and Cowork personal productivity system that compresses a week of PM overhead into a single day. He demonstrates his automated Sunday weekly prep, a proactive daily morning brief that self-learns company jargon, automated self-improvement loops, and a standardized 'Workstation' onboarding plugin that scales AI adoption across his organization.
- Daniel Blum, product manager at Melio, runs an automated morning brief using Claude and Cowork that synthesizes Granola transcripts, Slack messages, and emails into one-line summaries with clear action items. Read →
- The main bottleneck stopping AI from handling product management overhead is local computer execution; agents must run in persistent cloud runtimes like OpenClaw or Hermes when your laptop is closed. Read →
- Daniel Blum runs 70 to 80 percent of his computer time through Cowork and Claude, shrinking five days of product management administrative work into one. Read →
- Daniel Blum, a product manager at Melio, built an automated weekly loop that updates his Claude setup without manual prompt tuning. Read →
- Melio abandoned terminal-based setups after non-technical product managers spent up to three days debugging installations and dependencies. Read →