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The Setup Audit · The band ladder

Where does your Claude setup sit?

Five bands, 100 points. Read each row as a typical working week and be honest about which one is yours; the tell is the line that gives it away.

Ad hoc
The tell: every day starts with re-explaining.
0-20

Chats from scratch. Nothing persists between sessions. Real value happens, then evaporates when the tab closes. No file anywhere holds what Claude needs to know about your work.

Emerging
The tell: a prompt document you paste from.
21-40

Some saved prompts or notes, no durable system. You have favourites and rituals of your own invention, but they live in your head or a doc, and a colleague could not pick them up.

Systematic
The tell: you believe you are already here.
41-60

An operating manual and per-project context exist; Claude starts sessions knowing who you are. Memory is partial: decisions still get lost, and workflows are documented rather than encoded.

Compounding
The tell: last week's work is still there this week.
61-80

Memory, session rituals and first skills in daily use. Recurring deliverables run the same way every time. The week gets easier because work done once stays done.

Productised
The tell: the setup would survive you being away.
81-100

Workflows encoded, automated where safe, deployable to others. Your setup is an asset: inspectable, handoverable, and in some cases sellable to your own clients.

Scored properly by the 20-minute Setup Interview. setupaudit.com