I Texted Claude From the Subway — Came Back to a Finished Slide Deck on My Mac

I was standing on a crowded subway platform when I pulled out my phone, typed "take yesterday's meeting notes and turn them into a slide deck," and put my phone back in my pocket. Twenty minutes later, I walked into my office, opened my MacBook, and the slides were done. Not a draft. Not an outline. A finished deck , built from my local files, sitting right there on my desktop. This is Claude Dispatch. What Even Is Dispatch — And Why Should You Care? Dispatch is the newest piece of Anthropic's Cowork framework, and understanding Cowork first makes the whole thing click. Cowork launched as a research preview on January 13, 2026 , positioning itself as the desktop AI for knowledge workers — not developers, everyone. If Claude Code is the terminal agent for engineers, Cowork is the agent that operates your entire Mac. It opens files, drives your browser, connects to Gmail, Slack, Google Calendar, and Salesforce through plugins. Sessions persist across hours and days, so multi-step workflo