What Is Claude Cowork? Complete Orientation

This is the orientation session — the one that gives you the full picture of what Claude Cowork actually is before we go deep on email, calendar, research, and client work in the sessions ahead.
45 minutes, live screen share, no slides. We build a real working setup during the session — not a demo. Yours.
What we cover:

• Cowork vs. Chat: the practical difference and when to use which
• Memory: what to put in it, what to leave out, how it changes every interaction
• Projects: setup, description, context files — built live on screen
• Tasks: one-off vs. recurring, what automation looks like in practice
• Files: what to attach and why

If you've been to a previous session and felt like you were missing the foundation, this is it. If you're joining Above the Model for the first time, same thing.