The owner of Discount Catholic Products, a store selling thousands of products, used to spend hours combining spreadsheets to see how fast each item sells and how much to order. He built a system with Claude that has all that data and context, and now gets it done with a handful of prompts.
Business type: Online stores, Retail shops. Tool used: Claude. Result: Work that used to take hours now takes about 20 minutes, he says. He says most everything in his business is now done through Claude.
Source: X post by the store owner (Owner's own story) · Added Thu, Oct 22 · Last updated 2026-10-23
Work that used to take hours now takes about 20 minutes, he says. He says most everything in his business is now done through Claude. (as reported by the source)
The owner of Discount Catholic Products, a store selling thousands of products, used to spend hours combining spreadsheets to see how fast each item sells and how much to order. He built a system with Claude that has all that data and context, and now gets it done with a handful of prompts.
Claude.
Work that used to take hours now takes about 20 minutes, he says. He says most everything in his business is now done through Claude. (as reported by the source)
Export your sales and stock data from each place it lives into spreadsheets. Give them to Claude along with notes on your suppliers and how you reorder. Ask it to work out how fast each product sells (sales velocity).
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Our own prompt for copying this setup. Swap in your details. Not quoted from the source.
Here are my sales export for the last [X] months and my current stock list. For each product, work out how many I sell per week. Then list what I should reorder and how many, so I have [X] weeks of stock. Flag anything selling faster or slower than usual.
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