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Day 10 of 14 Β· Claude Cowork Challenge

Sales & Marketing Plugins

Today we focus on two plugins that sit at the revenue-generating heart of most organizations: Sales and Marketing. These plugins turn Cowork into a revenue team member who never sleeps, never forgets a detail about a prospect, and can draft a campaign brief in minutes instead of hours.

If you work in sales, marketing, or any revenue-adjacent role, these plugins will change your daily workflow. If you work in a different function, pay attention anyway β€” understanding how these plugins operate will help you collaborate more effectively with your go-to-market teams and will give you ideas for how to structure plugins for your own domain.

The Sales Plugin

From Prospect Research to Deal Close

The Sales plugin covers the full sales cycle, from initial prospect research through deal preparation and CRM management. Its most popular feature is the `/sales:call-prep` slash command, which has quickly become a fan favorite among sales teams.

Prospect Research β€” Before any conversation with a prospect, Cowork can compile a comprehensive briefing: company background, recent news, key decision-makers, technology stack, competitive landscape, and potential pain points. This is the kind of research that used to take 30-45 minutes of manual searching β€” now it takes seconds.

Deal Preparation β€” When you are preparing for a specific deal, the Sales plugin helps you build a strategy. It can analyze the prospect's situation, map your solution to their likely pain points, anticipate objections, and suggest talk tracks. Combined with your customized company context (your value props, case studies, pricing), this becomes an incredibly effective preparation tool.

CRM Integration β€” Through MCP connectors, the Sales plugin can read from and write to your CRM. After a call, you can ask Cowork to update the deal record, log notes, and set follow-up tasks β€” all without switching to your CRM interface.

The `/sales:call-prep` command brings all of this together. Type it before any meeting, provide the prospect's name or company, and Cowork delivers a structured briefing that makes you walk into every call prepared and confident.

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Claude Cowork
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/sales:call-prep Acme Corp, meeting with their VP of Engineering tomorrow at 2pm
**Call Prep: Acme Corp** **Meeting:** Tomorrow, 2:00 PM | VP of Engineering --- **Company Overview** - Acme Corp: Mid-market SaaS company, ~500 employees, Series C ($85M raised) - Primary product: Infrastructure monitoring platform - Recent news: Announced expansion into European market last month; hired 50 engineers in Q4 **Key Contact: VP of Engineering** - Likely focused on: scaling engineering team, maintaining velocity during growth, infrastructure reliability - Potential pain points: tooling fragmentation as team grows, onboarding new engineers quickly, maintaining code quality at scale **Opportunity Analysis** - Their rapid hiring suggests growing pains around tooling and process - European expansion means compliance considerations (GDPR, data residency) - Engineering leadership is likely evaluating tools that reduce cognitive load **Recommended Talk Track** 1. Open with congratulations on the European expansion β€” shows you've done homework 2. Ask about challenges scaling the engineering org β€” let them tell you the pain 3. Connect to how your solution addresses growth-stage engineering challenges 4. Reference similar customers who went through rapid scaling **Objection Prep** - "We're too busy to adopt new tools right now" β†’ Position as reducing existing tool overhead - "We've built internal solutions" β†’ Acknowledge, then discuss maintenance cost at scale Want me to pull any additional details or update this briefing?
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The Marketing Plugin

Content, Campaigns, and Launches

The Marketing plugin covers the three pillars of modern marketing work: content creation, campaign planning, and launch management.

Content Drafting β€” The Marketing plugin helps you draft blog posts, email sequences, social media copy, ad copy, landing page text, and more. What sets it apart from generic AI writing is context. Because the plugin can be customized with your brand voice guidelines, messaging frameworks, target audience profiles, and competitive positioning, every draft starts from a place of strategic alignment rather than generic output.

You are not asking a general AI to "write a blog post." You are asking a marketing-aware AI that knows your brand, your audience, and your strategy to draft content that fits within your broader plan.

Campaign Planning β€” When you are planning a multi-channel campaign, the Marketing plugin helps you structure the effort. It can help you define campaign goals, select channels, draft messaging for each channel, create content calendars, and identify metrics to track. This is the strategic planning work that usually involves multiple meetings and documents β€” Cowork can help you create a solid first draft of the plan in a single session.

Launch Management β€” Product launches involve dozens of coordinated tasks across multiple teams. The Marketing plugin helps you build launch checklists, draft launch communications, prepare FAQ documents, create internal briefing materials, and track launch readiness. Combined with the Productivity plugin's task management features, you get a powerful launch coordination system.

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Claude Cowork
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We're launching a new feature next month β€” AI-powered analytics dashboards. Can you help me draft the launch email for our customer base?
Here's a draft launch email for your AI-powered analytics dashboards: --- **Subject:** Your dashboards just got smarter **Preview text:** AI-powered analytics are here β€” see what your data has been trying to tell you. **Body:** Hi [First Name], Starting [launch date], every dashboard in your account comes with a new AI layer that does something simple but powerful: it tells you what matters. **What's new:** - **Smart Summaries** β€” Every dashboard now includes a plain-language summary of what the data shows, updated in real time - **Anomaly Detection** β€” Get flagged when a metric moves outside its normal range, before it becomes a problem - **Natural Language Queries** β€” Ask questions about your data in plain English. No SQL, no filters, just questions. **What this means for you:** Instead of spending 20 minutes scanning charts every morning, you'll spend 2 minutes reading what the AI found. The time you save goes back to acting on the insights. [CTA Button: See It in Action] We built this because we heard you: data is only useful if you can understand it quickly. This is our answer. Best, [Your team] --- Want me to adjust the tone, add a section about pricing, or draft a companion blog post to go with this?
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Bringing It Together

Real Workflow Examples

The Sales and Marketing plugins are powerful individually, but they become even more effective when combined with other plugins and with each other:

Sales + Research β€” Use the Research plugin to conduct deep market analysis, then use the Sales plugin to translate those insights into prospect-specific talk tracks. The research gives you the macro view; the sales plugin makes it personal.

Marketing + Productivity β€” Plan a campaign with the Marketing plugin, then use the Productivity plugin to break the campaign plan into tasks, assign deadlines, and track progress. The marketing plugin handles strategy; the productivity plugin handles execution.

Sales + Marketing Alignment β€” Both plugins can share context. When the marketing team drafts new messaging, the sales plugin can incorporate it into call prep. When sales identifies a common objection, the marketing plugin can address it in upcoming content. This shared context layer is one of the most powerful β€” and underused β€” aspects of the plugin ecosystem.

The pattern here is that plugins are not isolated tools. They are parts of a connected system, and the real power emerges when you think about how they work together.

Knowledge Check
What does the /sales:call-prep slash command do?
A
Records and transcribes an ongoing sales call
B
Compiles a structured briefing about a prospect before a meeting
C
Sends a follow-up email to the prospect after the call
D
Automatically schedules a sales call on your calendar
The /sales:call-prep command compiles a comprehensive briefing about a prospect before your meeting β€” including company background, key contacts, pain points, recommended talk tracks, and objection preparation. It consolidates research that would typically take 30-45 minutes into seconds.
Knowledge Check
What advantage does the Marketing plugin's content drafting have over generic AI writing?
A
It automatically publishes content to your website
B
It uses a more advanced language model
C
It can be customized with your brand voice, messaging frameworks, and audience profiles
D
It can only write in formal business English
The Marketing plugin's content drafting is powerful because it can be customized with your specific brand voice guidelines, messaging frameworks, target audience profiles, and competitive positioning. Every draft starts from strategic alignment rather than generic output.
Knowledge Check
How does the Sales plugin integrate with your CRM?
A
It only works with Salesforce
B
It uses MCP connectors to read from and write to your CRM
C
It replaces your CRM entirely
D
It requires a custom API integration built by your engineering team
The Sales plugin uses MCP (Model Context Protocol) connectors to integrate with your CRM. Through these connectors, Cowork can read deal information, log call notes, update records, and set follow-up tasks β€” all without you switching to your CRM interface.
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Day 10 Complete
"The Sales and Marketing plugins turn Cowork into a revenue team member β€” one that researches prospects in seconds, drafts on-brand content in minutes, and keeps your CRM updated without manual data entry."
Tomorrow β€” Day 11
Finance & Legal Plugins
Discover how the Finance and Legal plugins help you analyze numbers and review contracts with AI-powered precision.
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