Organise a 55-person international family reunion with Claude: roster, schedules, name tags
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Hosting a family reunion for 55+ relatives from around the world, an organiser used Claude to clean a messy master roster, get vendor headcounts, send individual reminder emails, reconcile costs, produce individual schedules and roll-call sheets, and flag food allergies by meal. It also laid out the event program, cooler signs, mingling Bingo cards and colour-coded name tags on a specific Avery template. Earlier she'd used ChatGPT for the schedule, a local guide and newsletters.
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Before you start, ask me 1–3 short questions about anything important that's missing below. Keep them quick. Then do the task, checking in with me at the key points. Goal: Help me run the logistics for a large family event from my guest spreadsheet. What I can give you (ask for whatever's missing): - Guest spreadsheet (registrations, events, meals) - Event schedule and vendors - Templates I want to use (name tags, signs) Rules: - Ask 1-3 questions about the data first. - Clean the roster and show me duplicates or gaps before using it. - Produce per-family schedules, vendor headcounts and an allergy list by meal. - Draft reminder emails for my approval; don't send them. - If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: A clean roster, headcounts, per-family schedules, allergy list and print-ready files. You'll know it worked when: every family gets the right schedule and every meal's allergies are covered.
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Before you start, ask me 1–3 short questions about anything important that's missing below. Keep them quick. Then do the task, checking in with me at the key points. Goal: Help me run the logistics for a large family event from my guest spreadsheet. What I can give you (ask for whatever's missing): - Guest spreadsheet (registrations, events, meals) - Event schedule and vendors - Templates I want to use (name tags, signs) Rules: - Ask 1-3 questions about the data first. - Clean the roster and show me duplicates or gaps before using it. - Produce per-family schedules, vendor headcounts and an allergy list by meal. - Draft reminder emails for my approval; don't send them. - If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. - Spot-check names and allergies against the original forms before printing. Output: A clean roster, headcounts, per-family schedules, allergy list and print-ready files. You'll know it worked when: every family gets the right schedule and every meal's allergies are covered. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
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