Robyn AndersonCEO, Jam Ai · AI Implementation & Business Development Leader

There are four switches inside Claude that turn it from a clever chatbot into something that

8 Jun 2026 · 2 min

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In this short instructional video, Robyn Anderson (who introduces herself as Jam) explains the four Claude settings that transform the tool from a basic 2023‑style chatbot into a powerful AI assistant. Aimed at non‑technical small‑business owners, coaches, consultants, and sales & marketing professionals, she walks through each setting—Memory, Web Search, Extended Thinking, and Voice—showing where to find them in Claude’s Settings & Capabilities menu, what they do, and why they matter. Memory keeps conversation context across sessions; Web Search lets Claude fetch up‑to‑date information beyond its training cutoff; Extended Thinking slows the model to reason more deeply for high‑stakes tasks like pricing decisions or delicate client emails; Voice enables hands‑free interaction via speech. Jam emphasizes that these switches are essential for getting real value from Claude and invites viewers to a free week of her “Club Jam” training program for deeper, step‑by‑step guidance.

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There are 4 settings inside Claude that if you don't have them turned on, you may as well just be using a chatbot from 2023. Let me show you what these 4 settings are. If we haven't met yet, hi, my name is Jam. I teach non-technical small business owners, coaches, consultants, and sales and marketing professionals how to use AI. Everything from zero to Claude to AI agents that are actually doing work for you. Okay, so let's get into it. These are the 4 settings. I wrote them down so it's easy to see. We have memory, web scraping, extended thinking, and voice. So let me show you what these mean. So you're gonna go to settings and capabilities. If memory is not turned on, you're basically chatting with a new chatbot every time you log in, and that's not gonna get you anywhere. In that same area, turn on web search. So out of the box, Claude has a cutoff date of what it has for knowledge. Web search cuts that gap, and so it allows you to go out to the web and get recent information, relevant information past its training date of knowledge. Number 3, extended thinking is one of the models in here. So you just click this, you're going to hit effort, and you can see thinking right here. This one tells Claude to slow down and actually reason before it answers. You don't want it on for everything because it makes simple stuff really slow, but for the moments that matter, pricing decisions, a hard client email, This is a really great thing to flip on. Number 4 is voice. You can just click this to record, and now it's listening to me right now. So those are the 4 things that'll completely change how you work inside Claude. I'm just giving you kind of like the high level. If you want the full training, I give you a week free inside Club Jam. You can comment AI below or check out my link in bio and go see us there.