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Building the World's Smartest Jewelry Brand

Our new Intelligence Engine β€” powering the next generation of Melinda Maria.

For the first time, every corner of our business β€” warehouse, wholesale, DTC, support, social, and our creative library β€” speaks to Claude in plain English. No logins. No exports. Just ask, and act.

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records Claude can query in plain English
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orders Claude can analyze
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fulfilled revenue, queryable
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wholesale line items
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brand assets searchable
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inventory movements tracked
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shipments traced end-to-end
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warehouse bin locations
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active creators & ambassadors
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connected data sources & tools
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ready-to-run skills
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creator-marketing ROAS
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team members onboard & building
Pulled live from the connectors on August 5, 2026 — ShipHero (incl. the ShipBob archive), ApparelMagic, NuORDER, Canto, ShopMy and LoudCrowd. Ask Claude “re-check the hub numbers” to refresh them.

Melinda Maria Γ— Claude

The Future is already here

Claude is wired straight into the tools that run Melinda Maria β€” predict faster, decide smarter, move first.

New here? Start with this Connect Claude to everything β€” once One 4-minute checklist. Every connector, in order, with the right login for each. You never do it again. Get connected β†’ 📊 How-to · 6 min read Create dashboards & live artifacts Stop rebuilding the same report. Ask Claude once for a dashboard that re-pulls its own numbers every time you open it — then send it to the team with a link that keeps updating itself. ↻ Refreshes on open 🔗 Share in 3 clicks 🔑 Everyone sees their own data ⚡ Or build a real app Read the how-to

See it for your role

What could you ask Claude?

Pick your team and watch the connectors light up. These are real prompts you can paste into Claude today β€” from quick lookups to custom apps that run on triggers and ping Slack on their own. Scroll each list for more.

↕ scroll for more β€” quick asks β†’ multi-connector β†’ automations & custom apps

Connectors in play

Where to actually work

Chat, Cowork, or Code?

Claude shows up in three places and they are not interchangeable. Most people default to Chat because it's familiar — and then do their real work the hard way. Here's the honest difference, and why Cowork, inside a project, is where nearly all Melinda Maria work belongs.

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Quick answers

Chat

One question, one answer. You ask, Claude replies, you copy the result somewhere else yourself.

  • Fast for a single question
  • Great for drafting a paragraph or explaining something
  • Forgets your context the moment you start a new chat
  • Can't touch your files — you upload and download by hand
Use it for: a one-liner you'd otherwise Google.
Start here
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Real work, start to finish

Cowork

You describe an outcome, not a question — then step away and come back to finished work. Claude breaks the job into steps and runs them for you.

  • Reads and writes your actual files β€” no uploading, no downloading
  • Builds real deliverables β€” spreadsheets with working formulas, decks, PDFs, documents
  • Runs multi-step jobs across several connectors at once
  • Keeps going when you close your laptop β€” it runs in the cloud
  • Follows you from desktop to phone; pick up where you left off
  • Can drive Chrome, and can run on a schedule
  • Live artifacts and dashboards are built here
Use it for: anything with more than one step, or that ends in a file.
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Engineers only

Code

A terminal tool for people working inside a codebase. Enormously powerful, and not where the rest of us should be living.

  • Built for software repositories
  • Assumes you're comfortable in a command line
  • Everything it does, Cowork can do for normal work
Use it for: writing and shipping software. Otherwise, skip it.

And do it inside a co-work project

Why a co-work project beats a one-off task

A co-work project is a persistent workspace with its own files, instructions, and memory. It's the difference between a tool you re-explain yourself to every time and one that already knows how we work — and it's what lets the rest of the team build on what you started.

It remembers

Your instructions and its memory persist. You stop re-explaining who Melinda Maria is, which warehouse is which, and how we like things written.

Your files live there

Connect a folder once and it's there for every task. No re-uploading the same spreadsheet for the fifth time.

Work compounds

Each task starts from everything the last one learned. Week three in a project is dramatically better than day one in a fresh chat.

Nothing gets lost

Decisions, drafts, and half-finished work stay in one place instead of scattered across chats you'll never find again.

It's resumable

Start on your desktop, check progress from your phone, come back tomorrow. The work keeps running without you babysitting it.

Share the dashboard, not a screenshot

Anything you build in a project can go to the whole team with one link — and it opens filled with their data, through their own sign-ins. Nobody sees more than they should, and nobody waits on you for a refresh.

Handoffs stop starting from zero

Because the project holds the context, a teammate picking it up gets everything you'd otherwise have to explain in a 30-minute call. Chat can't hand anything off — it lives in your window and dies there.

It works while you don't

Tasks keep running after you close the laptop and can land in Slack or your inbox on a schedule. Your work overlaps with everyone else's instead of blocking on you being at your desk.

If you'd have to re-explain your context, or the job takes more than one step, or it ends in a file — that's Cowork, in a project.
Chat is for the quick one-off. Code is for engineers. Everything else at Melinda Maria — the reports, the reconciliations, the decks, the research, the dashboards — belongs in a Cowork project. Start one per area of work you own, not one per question.
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Prompting for dashboards, apps & automations

The prompts above ask questions. These four ask Claude to build something that keeps working after you walk away — and they're the ones that change how a week feels. Each pattern below is a real thing people here have shipped.

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A live dashboard

A page that re-pulls its own numbers every time you open it. Name the connector and say “live artifact” — that's the whole trick.

“Create a live artifact: a wholesale money dashboard using ApparelMagic — open invoices, payments and credit memos, this month vs last, refreshed every time I open it.”

A scheduled task

Work that runs on its own and lands in your inbox or Slack. Say the day, the time, and what you want — Claude sets up the schedule.

“Every Monday at 6am, email me a one-page exec brief: sales vs last week, open exceptions, AR at risk and creator ROAS.”

A standalone app

A real tool with its own web address, behind our team login, for people who'll never open Claude. This site and the roadmap board were both built this way.

“Build this as a standalone site and deploy it to Cloudflare Pages, behind Access so only our team can see it.”
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A multi-step workflow

One ask that spans several systems and ends in a draft you approve. Claude never sends anything without showing you first.

“Every Friday, compile a sales-and-AR scorecard as a PDF and draft an email to leadership with a 3-bullet summary.”
Do this every time
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Build in a Refresh button

Claude puts a refresh control in the artifact's header, but people don't find it. Ask for one inside the dashboard and say where — then anyone you share it with can pull current numbers without asking you how.

“Add a Refresh data button at the top of each section, and show the time it last pulled next to it.”

Make it worth looking at

A dashboard nobody opens twice is a wasted ask. Lead with one headline number, keep it to five or six things, colour only the exceptions, and always show when the data was pulled. Say the brand and Claude handles the rest.

“Headline number at the top, five tiles max, Melinda Maria brand colours, red only for things that need action, last-updated stamp in the corner, readable on a phone.”
Easy tip Tell Claude to create a live artifact from any prompt on these pages — the more complex, the better. It turns the answer into an infographic data dashboard instead of a wall of text.
💡 The pattern behind all four: name the connector, name the output (a live artifact, a spreadsheet, an email draft, a site), and say how often. Vague asks get you a paragraph; specific asks get you something that keeps working. Full walkthrough — including how to share a dashboard with the team — is on the Live artifacts & reporting page.

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Explore the hub

Three areas, plus this overview. Jump into the connectors your team uses most, browse the skills, dip into the brand docs, or check what's still in flight.

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Connectors & Skills

Everything Claude can read or do β€” the connectors we custom-built for our own systems, the ready-made ones, and the skills it can run.

Browse connectors & skills β†’
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Brand Knowledge

The brand & knowledge library that teaches Claude who we are β€” voice, design system, product knowledge, customer β€” plus the source data behind it.

Open foundational docs β†’
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Pending Work

Where the rollout stands: what's still being built, the bigger project ideas on the roadmap.

See what's in flight β†’