Still looking for the best AI workspace for business users

I’m seeing a lot of people get excited about Claude Cowork as the new AI workspace for business users. I’m not part of the fan base yet.

I use Cursor as my all-round AI workspace for everything that I do, from technical work to commercial strategy and everything in between. It’s clearly designed for software developers, so it’s not trying to be all things to all people. But for me it has immense power and flexibility, and is very quick.

Cowork is intentionally much more buttoned down and polished for a non-techie audience; so far so good. Like the way I use Cursor, I can give Cowork context from my local folders and files, from which it can help me prepare a detailed analysis or draft a client proposal.

But Cowork is dramatically slower at turning around each request to its AI - that’s a surprise, given that Anthropic owns the app and the model.

More importantly, Cowork produces a document, but that document isn’t editable in the app. I need to switch to some other document editor and back to Cowork, and again, and again.

In that sense, it’s no more helpful than using a project in ChatGPT. And not a major gain in efficiency.

Even Cowork itself seems surprised that it doesn’t have a document editor.

So I remain on the hunt for a powerful, flexible and fast AI workspace for non-techie business users, to recommend to my clients.

Still looking. 👀 🔎