Claude Duet: business software for professionals and small business owners
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Claude Duet helps you automate repetitive work by this route: anthropic’s proactive agent app: a morning brief, background tasks and approval before it acts. It is best for professionals and small business owners who want one assistant to watch their inbox and calendar and do the prep work. People also use it to capture meetings and notes.
What it does
You message Claude Duet like a teammate, by text or voice, in one ongoing thread. Anthropic says it carries over the memory, skills and connected apps from your Claude account, runs on Claude Opus 5.5, and checks your connected accounts every few hours. It can draft replies, chase threads that went quiet, and return bigger work as files such as a research brief, a financial model, a slide deck or a dashboard. It is available on iOS, Android and claude.ai, per Anthropic.
Official site:claude.com/product/claude-duet.
Editorial note
Claude Duet is a new Anthropic app where Claude works as a proactive agent. Anthropic says it sends a morning brief, keeps working on its own cloud computer while you are away, and asks for your OK before it sends, pays, signs or deletes anything.
Who it’s for
- For: Professionals and small business owners who want one assistant to watch their inbox and calendar and do the prep work.
- Not ideal for: teams on Claude Team or Enterprise plans, people outside the US, or anyone who needs it to make phone calls or texts.
Key use cases
- Automate work
- Meetings & notes
What you can do with it
- Free access: Anthropic says Claude Duet is a research preview on a waitlist for Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the US. It is included in those plans and shares their usage limits. This matters when you want to test before you pay.
- Claude Max plan: Claude Duet research preview by waitlist (US), with 5x or 20x more usage than Pro, per Anthropic. This matters when the free tier is not enough.
- Team and Enterprise plan: Anthropic says it plans to bring Claude Duet to these plans later. This matters when the free tier is not enough.
- Help documentation: Official pricing and product pages at claude.com/product/claude-duet. This matters when you set it up yourself.
How to use Claude Duet: step-by-step tutorial
Five to eight steps from the account to a first useful result. Where the official guide names a control, the step uses that name. Where it does not, the step stays general.
- Open claude.com and create an account. Read the plan list on the official site before you pay.
- Join the Claude Duet waitlist from Anthropic’s product page (US Pro or Max plan needed).
- When you get access, open Claude Duet on claude.ai or the iOS or Android app.
- Connect the apps it should watch, such as your email and calendar.
- Tell it what you want in your morning brief and how often to message you.
- Review every draft and approval request before you confirm it.
These steps follow the official guide: Claude Duet product page (Anthropic).
Frequently asked questions
What is Claude Duet?
A research-preview app from Anthropic where Claude works as a proactive agent: it brings you what needs attention, does tasks in the background and checks with you before acting, per Anthropic.
Who can use Claude Duet?
Anthropic says it is a waitlist research preview for Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the US. Team and Enterprise plans are not included yet, checked October 26, 2026.
Does Claude Duet cost extra?
No separate price is listed. Anthropic says it is included in Pro and Max and shares your plan’s usage limits, and its background checks count toward them.
Will it send emails without asking?
Anthropic says it shows you exactly what it is about to do and waits for approval before it sends a message, makes a payment, signs a document or deletes anything.
What can’t it do yet?
Per Anthropic’s help center, you can’t choose the model, watch or take over its browser, or have it call or text people, and Microsoft 365 isn’t available yet.
Pricing
Prices checked on the official pricing page.
- Claude Pro
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$20/month, or $17/month billed annually
Claude Duet research preview by waitlist (US), shares Pro usage limits, per Anthropic
- Claude Max
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From $100/month
Claude Duet research preview by waitlist (US), with 5x or 20x more usage than Pro, per Anthropic
- Team and Enterprise
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Not included yet
Anthropic says it plans to bring Claude Duet to these plans later
- Limits: Research preview on a waitlist; Anthropic says it may misread a thread or misjudge what is urgent, and it checks accounts at set intervals, so something can arrive between checks.
- Plans change: vendors update limits and prices; confirm on the official page before you buy.
Facts
- Access
- Paid
- Paid plans from
- $20/month (Claude Pro)
- Checked
- Category
- Category: Business and productivity tools (153 in the library).
- On the record
- Anthropic says Claude Duet is a research preview on a waitlist for Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the US. It is included in those plans and shares their usage limits.