☀️ AI Morning Minute: Dispatch
Your phone becomes a remote control for your desktop AI
The best ideas for what to delegate to AI don’t hit you when you’re sitting at your computer. They hit you in the car, in line at the grocery store, or walking into a meeting you forgot to prepare for. Dispatch is built for that moment.
What it means
Dispatch is a feature inside Claude Cowork that lets you assign tasks to Claude from your phone, and Claude completes them on your desktop computer while you’re away. You scan a QR code to pair your phone with your desktop, and from that point, you have a single persistent conversation thread that syncs between both devices.
Ask Claude from your phone to compile a report from a local spreadsheet, draft a briefing from your email and Slack, or build a presentation from files in Google Drive. Claude uses everything already configured in Cowork (your connectors, plugins, and file access) without any additional setup. Your desktop needs to be awake and the Claude app needs to be open.
Why it matters
It separates where you are from where your work is. Your files, your apps, your connected services are all on your desktop. Dispatch means you don’t have to be. Send a task from your phone on the train, and come back to finished work when you sit down.
The conversation is persistent. Unlike regular chats that reset, Dispatch maintains a single thread that carries context across tasks. Claude remembers what you asked yesterday and picks up where you left off. You don’t re-explain your project every time.
It’s early and honest about its limits. MacStories reported that initial testing landed at about a 50/50 success rate on tasks. Summarizing and finding data worked well. Sharing outputs was unreliable. Anthropic released it as a research preview, not a finished product, and is updating it regularly. That transparency matters in a market where most companies announce features as polished when they’re not.
Simple example
You’re running late for a meeting and realize you never prepped the slide deck. You pull out your phone at a red light and type “export the pitch deck as a PDF and attach it to my 10am calendar invite.” By the time you park and walk in, Claude has opened the file on your desktop, converted it, and attached it to the meeting.
You didn’t touch your laptop. You didn’t remote in. You told your AI what you needed, and it handled the rest on your machine while you drove.