Build analysis from browser charts and folder data
Pull your quarterly revenue from scattered board decks, then grab GDP and inflation data from FRED. Cowork creates a comparison chart showing how your growth stacks up against the macro environment.
- AuthorAnthropic
- CategoryProfessional
- ModelSonnet 4.5
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Describe the task
Board presentations need context. When leadership asks "how are we doing relative to the market?" you need your internal numbers alongside external benchmarks. Cowork can extract revenue figures from multiple board decks in your folder, then pull economic indicators from FRED through your browser, and produce a chart that shows the full picture.
Point Cowork at your board deck folder and tell it which economic indicators matter. It reads the revenue from each quarterly deck, pulls the macro data, and creates a visualization you can drop into your next presentation.
I'm preparing for our board meeting and need to show how our growth compares to the broader economy.
- Pull our revenue figures Q1-Q4 2025 board decks
- Using Claude in Chrome to open FRED in my browser and grab GDP growth and inflation for the same quarters.
- Create a chart comparing our revenue growth to these economic indicators.
- Save the chart and a summary to my desktop folder.
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Give Claude context
Cowork is a workspace in Claude for desktop that reads your local files and connects to websites through Claude in Chrome. For this workflow, it extracts data from your PowerPoint decks and pulls live economic data from FRED, then combines them into a single deliverable.
Required context
Getting started:
- Download Claude for desktop and start a Cowork session
- Grant folder access to your board decks
- Install Claude in Chrome and have FRED open in your browser
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Optional context
- Additional economic indicators you want to track (unemployment, consumer confidence)
- Competitor data from public sources for additional comparison
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What Claude creates
Cowork extracts the revenue figures from each deck, pulls the economic data from FRED, and produces a comparison chart with supporting analysis.
From Claude
I've extracted the revenue data from your four board decks and pulled economic indicators from FRED. Here's the comparison:
Your Revenue (from board decks)
- Q1 2025: $12.4M (+18% YoY)
- Q2 2025: $14.2M (+22% YoY)
- Q3 2025: $15.8M (+19% YoY)
- Q4 2025: $17.1M (+16% YoY)
Full year: $59.5M, representing 19% average quarterly growth.
Economic Context (from FRED)
- GDP Growth: 2.1% → 2.4% → 2.2% → 1.9% (averaging 2.2%)
- Inflation (CPI): 3.2% → 3.0% → 2.8% → 2.6% (declining trend)
The Story
Your 19% average growth significantly outpaced the 2.2% GDP growth rate. You're growing roughly 9x faster than the broader economy.
Files Created
- Revenue-vs-Economy-Chart.png — Comparison chart ready for your deck
- Economic-Context-Summary.md — Talking points for the board discussion
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Follow up prompts
Continue the conversation with Claude to refine, expand, or explore further.
Compare against multiple economic indicators
Add more context in one pass. Cowork pulls additional indicators from FRED and updates the chart with all of them.
"Add unemployment rate and consumer confidence to the comparison. Update the chart to show all four indicators against our revenue growth."
Extend to prior years
Show the longer trend. If you have older board decks, Cowork reads those too and builds a multi-year comparison.
"I also have 2024 and 2023 board decks in the archive folder. Pull those and extend the chart to show a 3-year trend of our growth vs the economy."
Create a board-ready slide
Go straight to the deliverable. Cowork creates a formatted PowerPoint slide with the chart and key takeaways.
"Create a single PowerPoint slide with the chart, the key numbers, and three bullet points I can use as talking points. Save it to my board-prep folder."
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Tricks, tips, and troubleshooting
Claude in Chrome reads visual data
When you point Cowork at a chart in your browser, it extracts the underlying numbers — not just what's labeled, but data points it can interpret from the visualization. This works on dashboards, reports, and data tools that don't offer easy exports.
Local files plus web data in one workflow
The combination is the point. Cowork reads your scattered internal documents and pulls live web data in the same session, then merges them into a single output. You're not copying and pasting between sources.
Everything saves to your folder
Charts, summaries, and slide decks land directly in your working folder. No downloading from chat, no extra steps. When you ask Cowork to create a deliverable, it appears alongside your source files.
Ready to try for yourself?
Use Cowork to connect internal data with external context — and deliver the full picture.
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