# Hai vs. Claude

Canonical: https://usehai.ai/compare/claude

Markdown: /compare/claude.md

Description: Claude is strong for reasoning and writing. Hai adds the workspace layer around shared company memory, live artifacts, and governed tool use.

Page: Hai vs. Claude comparison.

For: Teams comparing Hai with Claude.

Hai can: Hai gives teams a persistent operating surface for agents, context, channels, tasks, integrations, and artifacts that survive beyond one conversation.

Claude is strong for reasoning and writing. Hai adds the workspace layer around shared company memory, live artifacts, and governed tool use.

## Summary

- **Hai:** Hai gives teams a persistent operating surface for agents, context, channels, tasks, integrations, and artifacts that survive beyond one conversation.
- **Claude:** Claude is a strong frontier assistant for reasoning, drafting, coding, and long-context analysis in chat and document workflows.

## Comparison

- **What it is**
Hai: A shared AI workspace where company context, channels, tools, live artifacts, tasks, and governed actions stay together.
Claude: A frontier assistant for individual prompting, writing, analysis, coding, and open-ended reasoning in a separate chat surface.
Takeaway: Hai is built around company execution. The other tool is strongest as a flexible thinking partner.
- **Where work happens**
Hai: Hai starts in Slack, Microsoft Teams, and the web app, then keeps the work attached to shared threads, tasks, and artifacts.
Claude: Most work happens in a standalone chat or document surface, then gets copied back into the systems where the team operates.
Takeaway: Hai reduces the gap between asking for work and moving that work through the business.
- **Business systems**
Hai: Hai is designed for governed access to CRM, finance, support, files, calendar, email, ATS, and internal systems.
Claude: Connections are useful for lightweight retrieval and personal workflows, but business-tool access is not the center of the product.
Takeaway: Hai is for cross-system work where context and action both matter.
- **Outputs**
Hai: Hai can return the right surface for the work: a booking, candidate scorecard, support triage queue, live revenue widget, task board, or drafted outreach sequence.
Claude: The default output is a response, document, or generated file that still needs to be moved into the operating workflow.
Takeaway: Hai focuses on finished work, not only answers.
- **Team memory**
Hai: Hai is built around shared company memory: files, notes, meetings, channels, artifacts, and recurring decisions become reusable context.
Claude: Memory is usually personal or conversation-scoped, which makes repeated team workflows harder to compound over time.
Takeaway: Hai is intended to get more useful as the company keeps working inside it.
- **Recurring work**
Hai: Hai supports scheduled checks, heartbeat-style monitoring, triggered tasks, and proactive suggestions for repeated business workflows.
Claude: The user usually has to start the conversation, restate the context, and manually move the result forward.
Takeaway: Hai can be present before someone remembers to ask.
- **Governance**
Hai: Hai is designed for permission-scoped integrations, reviewable actions, audit trails, and enterprise security conversations from the start.
Claude: Enterprise controls may exist, but the core pattern remains a broad assistant used by individuals or teams.
Takeaway: Hai treats access, scope, and accountability as part of the workflow design.

## Choose Hai When

- You need AI inside Slack, Teams, tasks, and shared workspace artifacts.
- Work depends on company systems such as CRM, finance, support, ATS, email, calendar, and files.
- Outputs should become bookings, scorecards, queues, widgets, tasks, or outreach, not just text.
- You want scheduled, triggered, or proactive work with clear access boundaries.

## Choose Claude When

- You need a general-purpose assistant for one-off questions, writing, brainstorming, or coding.
- You work mostly solo and can manually provide the context each time.
- You do not need governed read/write access across company systems.