What you'll accomplish
By the end of this guide, you'll be able to paste an entire SME content dump — a 100-page policy manual, a 60-slide deck, a transcript of a 2-hour SME recording — into Claude Pro and get a structured course outline, learning objectives, and narration draft back within minutes. No more summarizing your own notes at the end of a five-hour discovery process.
What you'll need
- A Claude Pro account (claude.ai/upgrade)
- SME content in text form (paste from Word, PDF, PowerPoint exported to text, or meeting transcript)
- Your learning objectives or performance goals for the course
- Time needed: 15 minutes to set up; 20–40 minutes per course analysis
- Cost: $20/month
How-To Guide: Analyze Long SME Documents with Claude Pro
Step 1: Create a Claude Pro account
Go to claude.ai → click Upgrade to Pro → enter payment information → confirm your subscription.
What you should see: Your Claude dashboard with a conversation interface. Pro accounts have a significantly larger context window (100K+ tokens — roughly 75,000 words of input). Troubleshooting: If you see "message limit" warnings, you're still on the free tier. Verify your subscription completed.