An agentic digital secretary that watches your inbox and calendar
Monitors connected work accounts and acts as an active productivity partner, surfacing urgent items and running long tasks in the background. Claude Duet, from Anthropic PBC, targets business professionals, small business owners, and power users who manage heavy communication and administrative loads. Key capabilities include daily briefings, autonomous background workflows on a cloud computer, and channel-based organization across apps. This setup aims to reduce manual triage and keep decision points visible during busy workdays.
Duet takes initiative on routine administrative triage
Duet watches your connected accounts and notifies you when messages or calendar events need attention, using Morning Briefings that summarise emails and upcoming decisions. The app supports Gmail, Google Calendar, and Slack among others through a large connector library, which lets it detect items that require a response rather than waiting for user prompts. That proactive posture is central to its role as a digital secretary in an office workflow.
Background computing offloads long-running professional tasks
Background Task Execution runs complex workflows on a dedicated cloud computer, allowing the app to build dashboards, financial models, or slide decks while you are away. Because tasks execute independently of the local device, the app can continue work even when the mobile client is closed. The trade-off is that background activity consumes standard Claude usage limits, a point users have reported during the preview.
Controls, channels, and integrations suit collaborative business setups
Channel Organization separates workstreams and shares memory, which helps teams and individuals keep hiring, finance, or operations items distinct within the same account. Safety controls require explicit approval before sensitive actions such as sending emails or processing payments, and the product connects to over 6,000 services through the marketplace. These elements align the app with multi-account professional environments that need delegated, auditable actions rather than ad hoc automation.
Duet fits professionals comfortable delegating to a proactive agent
Claude Duet is appropriate for business users who want an assistant that takes initiative and handles complex background work, provided they accept preview limits and the agent's consumption of usage allowances. It favors those ready to grant scoped automations and to work within an account-gated research preview. For users who need passive tools or require broad geographic availability, the app may not match expectations yet.
