The exact plugins, skill prompts, and setup I use daily to run sales, marketing, legal, finance, and ops. No coding required. No fancy wrappers.
They open it like a search engine. Type a question. Get a generic answer. Close the tab. That's not a system. That's a slightly fancier Google.
This guide shows you the two things that actually make Claude useful: plugins that connect it to your real tools, and skills that tell it exactly how to behave. Together, they turn Claude into a system that runs parts of your business without you babysitting every output.
No coding required. Everything in this guide works on Claude Pro ($20/month) or Team plan. Each section tells you exactly what to click.
What's a plugin?
Think of it as giving Claude a direct line to one of your tools. Connect the HubSpot plugin and Claude can read your CRM. Connect the Slack plugin and it can post messages. Without plugins, Claude can only talk. With them, it can actually do things inside your business.
What's a skill?
A skill is a set of instructions you give Claude once, and it follows them every time. Like hiring someone and giving them your SOPs. You write it once, save it, and Claude behaves consistently without you re-explaining.
What do I actually need?
A Claude Pro or Team account. A few minutes to connect each plugin. The skill prompts in this guide are ready to copy-paste.
Each section follows the same pattern. Here's what to do with it.
Go to claude.ai → Settings → Connectors. Search for the plugin name. Click Connect and follow the login steps. Takes 2 minutes. You only do this once.
Copy the skill prompt from the dark code block. Go to Claude Projects → New Project → Instructions. Paste it in. Now Claude follows those rules for every conversation in that project.
Open a new conversation inside your project and just talk to it naturally. "Prep me for my 2pm call with [Name] at [Company]." It knows what to do. No prompting from scratch.
Every skill prompt in this guide is available as a standalone file you can download, browse, and use directly. Clone the repo once and you'll always have the latest versions.
Open any skill file on GitHub, scroll to the Skill Prompt section, and copy it straight into your Claude Project instructions. Each file includes setup steps specific to that plugin.
Pre-call intel, objection handling, and follow-ups. Automated.
Apollo is a B2B database with 275M+ contacts. This plugin gives Claude a direct connection to it. Ask Claude to "research [Company Name]" and it pulls their headcount, tech stack, recent news, decision-makers, and verified contact details. All without you opening Apollo.
claude.ai → Settings → ConnectorsYou type a name and company. Claude pulls everything from Apollo, adds its own analysis, and hands you a complete call brief: talk track, discovery questions, likely objections, and a recommended CTA. What used to take 45 minutes now takes 90 seconds.
Connects Claude directly to HubSpot. Claude can read contact records, deal history, activity logs, email threads, and notes, and write back to them too. No more opening HubSpot just to check what happened on the last call. Ask Claude in plain English and it tells you.
claude.ai → Settings → ConnectorsBefore any call, Claude reads the deal's full CRM history, every note, every email log, every stage change, and builds you a personalized objection prep sheet. Not generic. Based on what actually happened with this specific prospect.
Gives Claude read and write access to your Slack workspace. It can read channel history, summarize long threads, draft messages, and post directly to channels, all from a Claude conversation. Built by Anthropic, completely free to use.
claude.ai → Settings → ConnectorsYou paste your raw call notes, even messy, half-sentence notes from the call itself, and Claude turns them into a clean, professional follow-up ready to send or post. It extracts action items, formats them clearly, and optionally posts to the right Slack channel automatically.
Content in your voice, campaigns planned fast, one idea turned into many
Connects Claude to your Notion workspace. Claude can read any page in real time, your brand guide, past posts, content templates, competitor notes, anything. This is how you stop getting generic AI content and start getting content that actually sounds like you.
claude.ai → Settings → Connectors, search "Notion", click ConnectBefore writing anything, Claude reads your Brand Voice page in Notion and extracts your exact tone, style patterns, and rules. It then applies them to every piece of content it writes. The result sounds like you wrote it, because Claude learned from your own writing.
Zapier connects 8,000+ apps. This plugin gives Claude access to all of them through a single connection. If a tool you use doesn't have its own Claude plugin, Zapier is the bridge. One message to Claude can trigger actions across your CRM, email tool, calendar, and more simultaneously.
zapier.com/mcp and generate your personal MCP URL (takes 2 minutes)Settings → Connectors → Add Custom ConnectorGive Claude one offer, ICP, or idea. It plans a complete multi-channel campaign, copy per channel, sequence logic, and timing, then optionally fires the sequence through Zapier across your actual tools. Plan and launch, not just plan.
Firecrawl turns any website into clean, readable data that Claude can work with. Give it a URL, your own blog post, a competitor's landing page, a LinkedIn article, a news story, and it strips out all the clutter and returns just the content. Claude then has that content in full to work with.
firecrawl.dev/app/api-keys (takes 1 minute)Settings → Connectors → Add Custom Connectorhttps://mcp.firecrawl.dev/YOUR_API_KEY/v2/mcpGive Claude any URL. It scrapes the content, finds the core insight, and turns it into 5 different assets, each formatted and toned for a different channel. One piece of existing content becomes a week's worth of distribution.
Contract review, risk flagging, and document summarization, no law degree needed
Gives Claude access to files on your computer, specifically, a folder you choose. You point it at your contracts folder and Claude can read any document inside it without you uploading anything anywhere. Your files stay on your machine. Nothing is sent to a third party.
claude.ai/download if you haven't alreadySettings → Developer → Edit ConfigYou give Claude a contract filename. It reads the whole document, flags every clause worth paying attention to, rates risk level, and tells you in plain English what to push back on before signing. Saves hours with a lawyer, because you arrive knowing exactly what to ask about.
Connects Claude to your Google Drive. PDFs, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Claude can read any of them without you downloading or uploading anything. Ask it to summarize a 40-page document and it does it in seconds. No copy-pasting, no uploading to external services.
claude.ai → Settings → ConnectorsGive Claude any document link or filename. It reads the whole thing and returns a structured summary that only surfaces what actually matters, decisions made, commitments given, numbers worth tracking, and who needs to do what next. No fluff.
Plain-English numbers, gaps you would've missed, messy data made clean
Composio is a managed connector hub that handles all the authentication complexity for you. Through it, Claude gets access to Google Sheets in real time. Connect your P&L, revenue tracker, or pipeline sheet and ask Claude questions in plain English, no formulas, no pivot tables, just answers.
mcp.composio.dev and create a free accountSettings → Connectors → Add Custom Connector → paste the URLClaude reads your Google Sheet, identifies what you're tracking, explains the numbers in plain English, and flags anything that looks wrong, unusual, or concerning. Like having a CFO on call, without the $300k salary.
Attio is a modern CRM built for how sales teams actually work. This plugin gives Claude direct access to your pipeline, accounts, contacts, and relationship data. Unlike older CRMs, Attio's data structure is optimized for AI queries, meaning Claude can actually reason about your revenue, not just read it.
claude.ai → Settings → ConnectorsClaude reads your Attio pipeline, runs a systematic scan for stalled deals and at-risk accounts, and surfaces the ones that need attention today. It's the morning revenue check you should be doing but never have time for, done automatically in 30 seconds.
Structure, priorities, and the layer that ties all 12 plugins together
E2B gives Claude a secure sandbox to actually run code, not just write it. Think of it as Claude getting a private workspace where it can process files, run calculations, and return results. You don't see any code. You just get the answer. Completely isolated from your machine.
e2b.devSettings → Connectors → Add Custom Connectorgithub.com/e2b-dev/e2b-mcp)You drop any messy file, a CRM export, ad spend CSV, contact list, whatever. Claude uses E2B to run a cleaning script in its sandbox, then returns a structured summary and clean dataset. What you'd spend an hour doing in Excel takes 60 seconds.
Native Claude connector for Asana. Claude can read your task boards, create new tasks, update statuses, check project timelines, and surface blockers, without you opening Asana. This is the plugin that ties the other 11 together: everything gets organized here.
claude.ai → Settings → ConnectorsEvery morning, one Claude message reads your Asana tasks, checks your Google Calendar, scans Slack for anything urgent, and outputs a ranked, prioritized action list for the day. Not a dump of everything. A clear "this is what matters today" list. Sets the day before the day sets you.
All 12 plugins and skills, what to connect, where to find it, what skill to pair it with
| # | Plugin | Area | Skill Name | Where to Get It |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Apollo MCP | Sales | call-prep | mcp.apollo.io |
| 02 | HubSpot MCP | Sales | objection-handler | developers.hubspot.com/mcp |
| 03 | Slack MCP | Sales | follow-up-writer | claude.ai/connectors → search Slack |
| 04 | Notion MCP | Marketing | brand-voice | makenotion/notion-mcp-server |
| 05 | Zapier MCP | Marketing | campaign-planner | zapier.com/mcp |
| 06 | Firecrawl MCP | Marketing | content-repurposer | firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server |
| 07 | Filesystem MCP | Legal | contract-review | Claude Desktop → built-in |
| 08 | Google Drive MCP | Legal | doc-summary | claude.ai/connectors → search Drive |
| 09 | Google Sheets (Composio) | Finance | finance-analyst | mcp.composio.dev |
| 10 | Attio MCP | Finance | revenue-gap-finder | claude.ai/connectors → search Attio |
| 11 | E2B MCP | Ops | data-cleaner | e2b-dev/e2b-mcp |
| 12 | Asana MCP | Ops | daily-kickoff | claude.ai/connectors → search Asana |
It's turning it into a system. Here's the difference.
Without plugins, Claude can talk about your business but can't touch it. It doesn't know what's in your CRM, your files, your calendar, or your task board. Plugins change that. They give Claude direct access to your actual tools, so it can read real data and take real actions, not just give advice.
Every plugin in this list is official, verified, and used by real teams. Not demos. Not experiments. Production tools.
A skill is what turns "pretty good AI output" into "this is actually better than what I'd produce myself." It's the instruction layer that defines how Claude behaves: what format it uses, what it always includes, what it never says, and how it makes decisions when the input is ambiguous.
The prompts in this guide aren't generic. They're designed for real B2B work. Copy them, customize the bracketed parts for your business, and save them as Project Instructions. Done once, runs forever.