Stephanie Luciano — Building with Claude

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Daily Gmail brief

The problem

My personal inbox was a daily mix of school updates, recruiter outreach, appointment reminders, party invites, and noise from newsletters I'd forgotten I subscribed to. Reading it cold every morning was eating 30 minutes before the day even started.

What I built

A Cowork scheduled task that runs every weekday morning. It scans the last 24 hours of Gmail, sorts everything into five priority buckets (school comms, recruiter outreach, appointments, birthday invites, unsubscribe candidates), flags urgency per item, and drafts a brief to my own inbox.

See the prompt

Every weekday at 7 AM, scan my Gmail for messages received in the last 24 hours. Categorize each into one of five buckets: 1. School communications (Hola! Charter, teachers, IEP, school events) 2. Recruiter outreach (new role pitches, interview scheduling, follow-ups) 3. Appointments and reminders (doctors, deliveries, calendar confirmations) 4. Birthday parties and social invites (RSVPs needed, kid party invites) 5. Unsubscribe candidates (newsletters and promo emails I haven't opened in 30+ days) For each item, flag urgency (urgent / today / this week / fyi) and pull the most important detail. Email me the brief by 7:30 AM with subject line: "Inbox brief — [date]". Keep it scannable. No fluff.

Tools

Claude Desktop (Cowork) Gmail connector Scheduled tasks

Impact

30 minutes back every morning. I open my inbox already knowing what needs action versus what can wait, and I've cleared a noticeable chunk of low-value subscriptions.

02

Interview prep system

The problem

Late-stage interviews at the Director / Senior level need to feel like you already work there. Generic prep doesn't get you to top of round.

What I built

A repeatable workflow that turns a JD plus a recruiter screen transcript and hiring manager background into a tailored prep doc. Includes a company snapshot, role-to-experience mapping, a STAR-format story bank pulled from my actual career, smart questions to ask, and an honest read on what the hiring manager will probe hardest.

Used for

Four active senior partnership and account management interview processes spanning payments, grocery marketplace, job board, and SaaS partnerships.

See the prompt

I have an upcoming interview for [ROLE] at [COMPANY]. Interviewer: [NAME], [TITLE]. Build me a prep doc with these sections: 1. Company snapshot — recent funding, ARR if public, leadership, key product moves in the last 12 months, biggest competitor and what differentiates them. 2. Hiring manager background — career arc, what they've said publicly (LinkedIn, podcasts, blog), what their team likely looks like. 3. Role-to-experience map — top 5 responsibilities from the JD, each mapped to a specific example from my career. Use my resume and past chats as source material. Be honest about gaps. 4. Story bank — 6-8 STAR-format stories covering leadership, conflict, failure, scaling, cross-functional, and influence without authority. Pull from real career events, not generic templates. 5. Smart questions to ask — 8-10 questions sorted by audience (hiring manager, peer, recruiter, VP). No "what's the culture like" filler. 6. Honest read — where will they push hardest, what's the risk in my profile they'll probe, how should I get ahead of it. Voice rules: direct, no em-dashes, no AI tells, no buzzwords. Write the way I write.

Tools

Claude Projects Web search Conversation search

Impact

I walk in with the specific phrasing of the cultural questions, the right stories cued up, and a clear point of view on the role. No improvising on the things that matter.

03

Resume tailoring Claude Project

The problem

Every application needs a different resume. Doing it by hand for 20+ roles is unsustainable. Doing it with generic AI produces output that reads like AI and gets filtered out.

What I built

A persistent Claude Project that acts as my career coach. I paste a JD or share a URL and it produces a tailored resume in my voice with the original formatting preserved, saves the .docx to my Drive folder with a consistent naming convention, and updates my Excel application tracker with the role, fit score, status, and date.

Rules built in

No em-dashes. No fabricated achievements. No inflated titles. Match the structure of my base resume exactly. Bullets stay punchy and metrics-first.

See the prompt

You're my career coach and resume strategist for this job search. When I share a JD (pasted or URL), do this: Step 1 — Read the JD and identify the top 5-7 skills, themes, and keywords the employer is actually prioritizing. Rank them. Step 2 — Score my fit 0-100% against my base resume. Flag what's a strong match and what's a stretch. Step 3 — Tailor my resume: • Match the structure of my base resume exactly (same headers, same order, same formatting) • Rewrite bullets to align with the JD's priorities, only using achievements I actually have • Lead with metrics where I have them • Keep the voice mine: casual but direct Step 4 — Hard rules: • No em-dashes anywhere • No fabricated achievements or invented metrics • No inflated titles • No AI tells (no "leveraged," "spearheaded," "passionate about," "synergies," "robust") • No filler adjectives Step 5 — Save the output as a .docx to my Drive folder "Job Applications 2026" using: Luciano_Stephanie_[Company]_[Role].docx Step 6 — Update my Excel tracker: company, role, fit score, date submitted, status = "Applied".

Tools

Claude Projects Google Drive connector Excel tracker

Impact

A tailored resume in under 10 minutes per application instead of an hour. Output reads as written by me, not by an LLM.

04

Job matching, fit scoring

The problem

Not every role is worth applying to, and the ones that look like a stretch on paper sometimes aren't (and vice versa). I needed a faster way to decide.

What I built

The analytical layer that runs before the tailoring. It reads a JD, identifies the top 5-7 skills and themes the employer is actually prioritizing, scores my fit 0-100%, and gives me a brief honest assessment that flags whether the role is a reach and why.

Example

Scored 82% for a Senior Channel Partner Manager role at a SaaS partnerships platform and flagged the agency-side experience overlap as the strongest match, even though affiliate marketing was outside my HR AdTech background.

See the prompt

Read this JD and tell me honestly whether it's worth my time to apply. Output format: 1. Fit score (0-100%) with a one-sentence rationale. 2. Top 5-7 skills, themes, and keywords the employer is actually prioritizing, ranked. 3. My strongest matches against those priorities. Cite specific roles or achievements from my career. 4. Where I'm a stretch and why. Be specific about whether the stretch is closeable in a cover letter or whether it's a real gap. 5. Final recommendation — apply / pass / apply only if [condition]. Don't soften the read. I'd rather pass on a bad fit than waste a tailoring cycle.

Tools

Claude Base resume in context Career history loaded

Impact

I only spend tailoring time on roles where the fit score and the honest read both make sense. Cuts wasted effort and helps me prioritize the pipeline.

A working portfolio of things I made with AI.

Daily Gmail brief

Interview prep system

Resume tailoring Claude Project

Job matching, fit scoring

A custom Claude skill

A Claude Code workflow

A daily HR AdTech competitive intelligence brief