Paul BarnhurstFP&A Expert Empowering Finance Professionals to Excel Everday

Your next hire might be an AI agent.

5 Jun 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief conversation, Paul Barnhurst and Speaker B discuss a paradigm shift for using cloud and AI services: instead of viewing them as deployable software, they should be treated like new hires that are onboarded and managed. They explore how to structure AI agents as separate folders, each representing a distinct workflow or project, with tailored skills and data access within each folder. The discussion also touches on the practical aspect of loading these customized skills into Claude, the AI model, to enable flexible updates and usage across different contexts.

Cloud is the way you see it, it's not really a software you deploy. You shouldn't think of it as a software, but you should think of it as someone you onboard as a new hire. Talk to why you think about it that way and what's the difference when you treat it like a new hire versus a software.
When you go and use Cloud, you don't have just one. You might have a different one for each workflow you do. It could be one for data analysis.
And when you say one, you're saying one project, one skill. What do you mean by one?
The way I think about agents or Cowork is the folder is the agent. So I will have a different folder for different types of work. And inside that folder I have different skills that are specifically tuned to what the work I do inside that folder. And it might have different data access inside those folders.
And do you have to also load those skills into Claude? So you just keep them in case you need to change them in the folder, but they're also loaded into Claude, or how's that work?
So I use Claude Code. Most of everything I have is saved locally on my computer.