What Claude is better at

Long input, one careful answer

Contracts, bundles, rulings, strata reports, plan sets, transcripts. Work where the input is long, the question is narrow, and a fluent wrong answer costs you something. Detail on long documents.

Sustained voice across many drafts

The fifteenth vendor report of the week should read like the first. Given examples and a held setup, this is where Claude is noticeably steadier — useful anywhere a team's output has to look like it came from one organisation.

Thinking with several moving parts

A scope with dependencies, a policy that has to satisfy three obligations at once, an argument with an order to it. Work where you want the reasoning shown so you can disagree with a step rather than just the conclusion.

Where we'd use something else

• Twenty short jobs in an hour — the wrong shape for it.
• Talking rather than typing, which is ChatGPT’s strength and matters enormously in the field.
• Photo-driven tasks, where ChatGPT is generally the smoother experience.

Reusable setups

Projects are the mechanism that turns a good session into a habit — how we set them up.

What it's genuinely better at

• Long inputs held consistently. A bundle of reports or a forty-page contract summarised without the quality tailing off in the last third.
• Sustained voice. A document that has to sound like your firm all the way through, not just in the opening paragraph.
• Multi-step reasoning where the working needs to be visible, so you can check the path rather than just the answer.
• Reusable setups that hold your context and examples for a whole team — covered under Projects.

Reviewed September 2026. This page describes how we teach these tools, not what either vendor's current terms say — those get confirmed at the start of every engagement.