20+ years in IT leadership, with Microsoft certifications across productivity, Microsoft 365, and Windows administration.
Wellforce IT is a managed IT and cybersecurity firm serving professional services organizations, nonprofits, and associations across the Washington DC metro and central North Carolina. A lot of Scott's day-to-day is helping those organizations work out where AI tools fit into their workflows, and where they do not.
He writes the Claude Cowork guides on this site and records the walkthroughs, which are run against real files rather than slides.
Written by Scott
What is Claude Cowork? The plain-English guide
What it is, what it actually does, who it is for, and how teams use it.
Claude Cowork pricing
What Claude Cowork costs, plan by plan, plus what a real team rollout runs.
How to use Claude Cowork
Step-by-step setup and a first-week playbook for business teams.
Claude Cowork vs Claude Code
Two Anthropic agent products, two different jobs. Which one fits yours.
Claude Cowork vs OpenClaw
Managed knowledge-work agent or self-hosted personal assistant: the practical choice.
Is Claude Cowork free?
The direct answer, what each paid plan includes, and what can cost extra.
Claude Cowork use cases
Eighteen real workflows, by team type: nonprofits, legal, and growing businesses.
Claude Cowork vs Microsoft Copilot
An honest comparison for SMB stacks, from a Microsoft shop that deploys both.
Claude Cowork security & data privacy
What it can touch, what it cannot, and the controls that make it safe for real data.
Claude Cowork for nonprofits
Grants, donor emails, and board packs: the nonprofit playbook.
Claude Cowork for law firms
Intake, review, and records work with the controls partners expect.
Legal intake automation, step by step
Four intake files to a reviewed matter summary, with the conflict surfaced, in under five minutes.
Claude Cowork for small business
Official workflows, Team plan costs, and a rollout that prevents AI shelfware.
Claude Cowork Dispatch
Assigning desktop tasks from your phone: what it needs, which plans have it, and the trade-off.
Claude Cowork plugins & Skills
Skills, connectors, and plugins: what each one is, when to build, and how to govern them.
Recorded walkthroughs
Getting Started with Claude Cowork
Scott Midgley walks through Claude Cowork end to end: how it differs from Claude chat, installing the desktop app, setting global instructions and permission modes, then pointing it at a folder of messy weekly notes and getting back an organized client recap with a follow-up list.
Claude Cowork for Law Firms
A matter-intake walkthrough for law firms: Claude Cowork reads an intake email, a dictated voice memo, a conflicts check, and fee notes, then produces a matter intake summary that surfaces a conflict blocker and an EEOC filing deadline. Covers firm-specific global instructions, permission modes, and the confidentiality controls behind Rule 1.6.
AI in the Practice of Law: Navigating ABA Formal Opinion 512
Free on-demand webinar: navigate ABA Formal Opinion 512. How law firms govern attorney AI use while meeting confidentiality and competence duties.
Responsible AI Governance for Nonprofits
Free on-demand webinar: responsible AI governance for nonprofits. A budget-conscious framework to protect donor data and set workable AI policy.
Nonprofits Are Finally Automating Everything
A working session on where AI fits inside a lean nonprofit team: the role-task-context prompting formula, then five workflows worked end to end - grant statements of need, donor communications, board report synthesis, batched content, and internal operations. Covers building a shared prompt library and the data-hygiene mistakes to avoid.
Which AI Should Your Nonprofit Actually Use?
Watch our webinar comparing Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot for nonprofits. See which AI platform fits your workflows and budget.