Nate Herk | AI Automation — Every Level of Claude Explained in 21 Minutes
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Every Level of Claude Code Explained in 21 Minutes — I’ve spent over 400 hours inside Claude, and I’m breaking down exactly what separates someone stuck on level 1 from someone running five parallel sessions while they sleep. Every Level of Claude Code Explained in 21 Minutes, with the cheat codes to jump between each stage. Hope you enjoy!
Timestamps: 00:00 400 hours in 00:12 Level 1 01:03 Level 2 02:13 Hidden artifacts 03:35 Office takeover 04:54 Level 3 07:21 Figma killer? 09:24 Level 4 10:40 Shift tab twice 13:54 Slash rewind 15:56 Level 5
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So, I spent over 400 hours inside of Claude, and I’ve mastered it at a pretty high level. So, in this video, I’m going to take you through every level of Claude in just about 20 minutes and cover what challenges you need to overcome in order to break through into the next stage, step by step. So, let’s start with level one, the enthusiast. So, this level, you open Claude, you ask a question, you get an answer, you close the tab. Maybe you have it help you write an email, maybe a quick script, maybe you ask it to explain something that you read. And that’s basically it. That’s level one. A quick upgrade that most people miss at this level pays screenshots. Claude can read images. Half the people stuck here are typing out what a screenshot would show in 2 seconds. Now, here’s why most people stay stuck at level one forever. They don’t realize that Claude can hold context across conversations, that Claude can organize work into projects, or plug into the tools that they already use every day. They keep treating it like a search bar that happens to return paragraphs. It’s very useful, but it is the floor. You’re saving maybe 30 minutes a day on small things. So, the cheat code to level two is to create your first project. Pick something that you keep coming back to, your business, a side hustle, a recurring type of work. Drop in a few reference docs, write a quick system prompt about who you are and how you want Claude to respond. And now every chat inside that project starts preloaded. That one move is the doorway into level two, which is the beginner. If you took the cheat code from level one and you created your first project, congratulations. You’ve already taken the biggest step, because projects are the spine of level two. Everything else you’re about to learn either feeds into a project or builds on top of it. So, picture this. You open a fresh chat next Tuesday inside of that project and you ask, “What was the thing that we decided about the Q2 launch last week?” And Claude pulls it up. It cites the conversation, it picks up right where you left off. And suddenly, Claude isn’t a stateless tool anymore. It’s something with continuity. Now, there are six more features that define this level, and they all stack on top of what you just set up. So, first we have memory and past chat search. Claude can now remember things across conversations like your role, your preferences, decisions that you made weeks ago. Memory works on every plan, including free. The ability to actually search and pull from past chats is a paid feature, but combined with your project’s knowledge base, this is what kills the starting from zero every time problem pretty much forever. Second, we have connectors, Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, GitHub, Notion, Calendar. There’s over 50 of them. You just click the plus button in your chat, you pick the tool, you sign in with OAuth, and you’re basically done. And now you can stop pasting. You can just start asking Claude to summarize threads from your channel last week, or pull the latest spec doc from Google Drive, or even check what’s on your calendar for the week. It just goes and it gets it. Third, we have file creation. This one’s huge, and most people don’t know it shipped to everyone. Claude can now create real Excel spreadsheets with working formulas, PowerPoint decks, Word docs, and PDFs straight from the chat interface. Not just artifacts that you preview, but actual files that you can download and that you could send to a client. And free users have this ability, too. This is when chat stops being a brainstorming tool and starts being a deliverable tool. Fourth, we have artifacts, but the version most people don’t know about yet. You’ve probably seen artifacts before, the side panel where Claude, you know, builds a quick interactive thing. Most people think of it as like a code preview, but it’s not. Because now we have artifacts with persistent storage, and they remember data between sessions. They can
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