Candy's Cupcakes is a bakery in Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester, UK, with 21 staff, selling online and on TikTok Shop. When an employee who printed orders, gift tags and labels by hand left, the owners tried Claude. The co-owner used it to build a tool in about three hours that prints all the order labels with one button and works out each morning's baking list: numbers, flavours, box sizes and cake jars. They say they have no plans to cut jobs.
Business type: Online stores, Restaurants & cafés. Tool used: Claude. Result: The owners report it saves about 86 hours a month, and they believe AI has saved about £20,000 a year in staff costs. Orders now print in seconds. Claude costs them £20 a month.
Source: This is Money (Owner's own story) · Added Wed, Oct 28 · Last updated 2026-10-28
The owners report it saves about 86 hours a month, and they believe AI has saved about £20,000 a year in staff costs. Orders now print in seconds. Claude costs them £20 a month. (as reported by the source)
Candy's Cupcakes is a bakery in Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester, UK, with 21 staff, selling online and on TikTok Shop. When an employee who printed orders, gift tags and labels by hand left, the owners tried Claude. The co-owner used it to build a tool in about three hours that prints all the order labels with one button and works out each morning's baking list: numbers, flavours, box sizes and cake jars. They say they have no plans to cut jobs.
Claude.
The owners report it saves about 86 hours a month, and they believe AI has saved about £20,000 a year in staff costs. Orders now print in seconds. Claude costs them £20 a month. (as reported by the source)
Export one day's orders from your shop as a spreadsheet. Ask Claude to build a simple tool that totals products, flavours and box sizes. Have it lay out printable labels and gift tags from the same file.
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Here is today's order export: [attach CSV]. Build me a simple tool that (1) totals how many of each product, flavour and box size we need to bake and pack, and (2) creates printable order labels and gift tags, one per order, using [label size]. Show me how to run it each morning with one click.
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