DataDoe + Claude Cowork

Claude Cowork for Amazon: hand off the desk work

Give Cowork your fresh Seller Central, Vendor Central and Amazon Ads data, then hand it the jobs that eat your week. It comes back with a finished spreadsheet, memo or slide deck, and changes to Amazon stay off until you switch them on.

No code and no terminal. One custom connector, then plain-English briefs. DataDoe is $97 a month after a 14-day free trial.

• What comes back

Not an answer in a chat. A file you can use.

Cowork plans the job, runs code in its own workspace and saves the result as Excel, PowerPoint, Word or CSV. DataDoe is where the Amazon numbers inside those files come from, pulled fresh from your own accounts.

amazon-week-41.xlsx

The Monday numbers

The brief
Last week by marketplace and SKU: sales, Amazon fees, refunds, ad spend, landed cost, net margin. Highlight anything that fell more than five points.

An Excel workbook whose margins are live formulas, so you can change a cost and watch the sheet follow.

DataDoe supplies: orders, settlement fees, refunds, Sponsored Products spend, your COGS
reorder-plan.xlsx

A reorder plan

The brief
Using a month of sales history, estimate how long each FBA SKU will last. Apply the lead times in my supplier sheet and tell me what to order and by when.

One row per SKU with the order quantity and a ship-by date, sorted by how close each one is to running out.

DataDoe supplies: FBA inventory and inbound shipments, daily units sold
vendor-review-q3.pptx

A deck for the vendor meeting

The brief
Make six slides for Thursday’s call with our Amazon buyer: Q3 shipped revenue, how many PO units we confirmed, and the ASINs where Amazon’s forecast runs ahead of our stock.

A PowerPoint file with real charts that you can open, restyle and present.

DataDoe supplies: Vendor Central sales, purchase orders and confirmations, Amazon’s demand forecast
settlement-check-sep.docx

A settlement reconciliation

The brief
Check every September settlement against the orders, refunds and fees behind it. Write up only what doesn’t tie out, with the order IDs.

A short Word memo listing each gap and its likely cause, ready to forward to your bookkeeper.

DataDoe supplies: settlement reports, orders, refunds, fee lines
• Cowork connector setup

Add DataDoe to Cowork. One URL, no install.

Cowork reaches DataDoe as a custom connector. Because Claude calls the server from Anthropic’s cloud, there is nothing to install on your Mac or PC, and the same connector shows up in chat and in Claude Code on your account.

  1. 1

    Connect Amazon to DataDoe

    Start the free trial and authorize Seller Central, Vendor Central or Amazon Ads on Amazon’s own consent screen. The first data load starts right away.

  2. 2

    Open the connectors page in Claude

    Go to Customize → Connectors and click Add.

  3. 3

    Paste the DataDoe address

    Name it DataDoe and paste the URL below, then Continue.

  4. 4

    Sign in and approve

    Keep the sign-in Claude detects, click Add, log in to DataDoe in the window that opens and approve access. No key to paste.

  5. 5

    Switch it on in a task

    In a Cowork task, open the + menu, pick Connectors and make sure DataDoe is on. Then describe the job.

On a Team or Enterprise plan, an Owner adds DataDoe once under Organization settings → Connectors, and each person then clicks Connect on their own Connectors page. Full walkthrough in the DataDoe docs for Claude.

• Briefing Cowork

Write it down once. Delegate it every week.

Cowork gets better the more it knows about how you run Amazon. Put the standing rules in Cowork’s global instructions, then keep each task brief short: the goal, the data, the deliverable and where it must stop.

House rulesSettings → Cowork → global instructions, applied to every task
  1. Source

    Every Amazon figure comes from DataDoe. If a number isn’t there, say so instead of estimating.

  2. Scope

    We sell in the US, Canada and the UK. Report everything in US dollars at the day’s rate.

  3. Definitions

    Net margin means after referral and FBA fees, refunds, ad spend and landed cost.

  4. Hard stop

    Before any change to Amazon, show me the dry run and wait for my yes. Never touch prices on the Oak boards.

  5. Filing

    Save finished files to the Amazon Reports project, named by ISO week.

This week’s briefTyped into a new Cowork task
  1. Goal

    Find out why ad spend rose 30% last week while orders stayed flat.

  2. Data

    Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands search terms for the last 14 days, against the 14 before.

  3. Method

    Group terms by campaign. Mark the ones with spend and no sales, and work out break-even ACoS per SKU.

  4. Deliverable

    A spreadsheet of terms to negate and bids to lower, plus a one-paragraph summary at the top.

  5. Checkpoint

    Propose the negatives as a dry run. Don’t apply anything until I’ve read the sheet.

Working on a set of related jobs? Group them in a Cowork project with its own files and instructions, or install a plugin that bundles skills and connectors for one role. Plugins you add follow your account into chat and Claude Code.

• Two sets of brakes

Cowork asks first. DataDoe adds its own switches.

A Cowork task can read everything you let it read. Changing something on Amazon has to pass two gates: Cowork’s permission for the DataDoe write tool, then DataDoe’s own rules for that kind of change. Here is the setup we recommend.

Manual

Cowork asks before each action. The default, and the one we suggest for any task that might write to Amazon.

Per-tool settings

Under the DataDoe connector, each tool can be Always allow, Needs approval or Blocked. This is where the real control sits.

Auto and Skip

Auto lets Claude judge write actions after a safety check; Skip pauses for nothing. Keep both away from live Amazon changes.

Recommended Cowork permission for each DataDoe tool, and the DataDoe safeguard behind it
DataDoe toolWhat it doesCowork settingDataDoe’s own safeguard
Read reports and exportsexports_create, exports_getPulls sales, fees, inventory, ads or Vendor Central data into the task.Always allowRead-only. Nothing on Amazon can change.
See your accountssellers_and_vendors_listLists the Seller, Vendor and Ads accounts this login can reach.Always allowRead-only.
Propose or make a changeactions_startStarts an Action: a price, a listing field, a shipment, a campaign budget or bid.Needs approvalOff until you enable each kind of change in DataDoe. Can run as a dry run that validates and sends nothing.
Check what happenedactions_listShows the Actions that ran, with their result.Always allowEvery Action that runs is logged in DataDoe.
Scheduled tasks nobody watchesactions_startA weekly or daily run that should only read and report.BlockedOr keep Actions switched off in DataDoe altogether.
• Scheduled tasks

The Monday report writes itself at 5am.

Open Scheduled in the Cowork sidebar, or type /schedule in a task that worked, and pick how often it repeats. Tasks that only use connectors and files in your Claude account run in the cloud, even while your computer sleeps.

HourlyDailyWeekdaysWeeklyManual

Two things to know. A task that needs a folder on your computer runs only when the desktop app is open. And an unattended run should read, not write: set DataDoe’s write tool to Blocked for scheduled work and let the proposals wait for you.

  1. 05:00

    Your laptop is closed

    The Monday task starts on Anthropic’s servers, not on your machine.

  2. 05:01

    Fresh numbers from DataDoe

    DataDoe refreshed your accounts overnight, so last week is complete: orders, refunds, fees, ad spend and stock.

  3. 05:06

    The analysis runs

    Cowork joins the tables, applies your margin definition and compares with the week before.

  4. 05:14

    Files are ready

    The workbook and a short summary are saved to your Claude account, ready to open on any device.

  5. 08:40

    You read it over coffee

    Open Claude on your phone or desktop and read the flags. If a change is worth making, run it with Cowork while you watch.

• Who hands off what

Pick your seat. Here is your first week of tasks.

Cowork is built for people who don’t write code, which is most of the people running an Amazon business. These are the jobs each role tends to delegate first, all running on data DataDoe pulls from Seller Central, Vendor Central and Amazon Ads.

Monday state of the business

Sales, profit and stock across every marketplace, with the three things that changed most and why.

Comes back asweek-41.xlsx
RunsWeekly

Price check against your floor

Every SKU whose Featured Offer price drifted below the margin you set, with the fix proposed as a dry run.

Comes back asprice-floor.xlsx
RunsWeekdays

Board update

Quarter-to-date revenue, contribution margin and ad efficiency, laid out as slides.

Comes back asq4-update.pptx
RunsOn demand
• Same account, three ways in

Chat, Cowork or Code? It depends on the job.

Add DataDoe to your Claude account once and every Claude surface sees the same Amazon data and the same Actions. Choose by what you want back: an answer, a finished file or a piece of software.

Ask and get an answer

Claude chat

Quick questions in a conversation: what sold yesterday, why ACoS jumped, which listing lost the Featured Offer.

Good for: a two-minute check from your desk or your phone.
Connect Amazon Seller Central to Claude
Hand off a job

Claude Cowork

Multi-step work you would otherwise do in spreadsheets for an hour, finished as a file and repeatable on a schedule.

Good for: weekly reports, reorder plans, reconciliations, decks.
You are here
Build a tool

Claude Code

Code that keeps running without Claude: a dashboard, an alert, a pipeline into your warehouse, a bulk edit driven from a file.

Good for: developers and anyone who wants the logic in git.
Claude Code setup for Amazon
FAQ

Before you hand Cowork your Amazon account.

Cowork is the mode of Claude that takes on multi-step tasks instead of single questions: it plans the work, runs code in an isolated workspace and hands back finished files. It has no Amazon access of its own. Add DataDoe as a custom connector and Cowork can read your Seller Central, Vendor Central and Amazon Ads data, and propose changes through DataDoe Actions.

Cowork needs a paid Claude plan: Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise. It runs in Claude Desktop on macOS and Windows, and Anthropic is rolling it out on the web and in the mobile apps, with Enterprise access set by an admin. Check Anthropic's current plan page, since availability changes often.

In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, and click Add. Name it DataDoe, paste https://mcp.datadoe.com/mcp/v1, keep the detected sign-in, click Add and log in to DataDoe to approve. On Team and Enterprise plans an Owner adds the connector under Organization settings, and each member connects their own login.

Not with the setup we recommend. Every kind of change is switched off in DataDoe until you enable it, a dry run checks a change without sending it, and every change that does run is logged. On the Cowork side, set the DataDoe write tool to Needs approval, or Blocked for scheduled tasks, and use Manual mode for anything that may write.

Yes, if the task only needs connectors and files saved to your Claude account: those run on Anthropic's servers on the cadence you pick, hourly to weekly. A task that needs a folder on your computer runs only while the desktop app is open. DataDoe refreshes your Amazon data overnight, so an early-morning task sees the previous day complete.

Amazon's plugin covers Seller Central for US sellers. DataDoe adds Vendor Central and Amazon Ads in the same schema, your product costs for real profit, history and all your marketplaces, plus BigQuery and API access. For Cowork that means one task can put a vendor PO, a 3P offer and the ad spend behind it in one spreadsheet.

Yes. Cowork comes with your Claude subscription, and multi-step tasks use more of its limits than chat does. On the DataDoe side the price is $97 a month once the 14-day free trial is over, with all your linked Amazon accounts included.

Want help with your first task?

On a short call we set up Cowork on a demo account with you, then write and schedule your first Amazon brief together.

Book a demo
• Get started

Hand off Monday’s Amazon work. Keep the final say.

Link Seller Central, Vendor Central and Amazon Ads once, and Cowork turns fresh numbers into finished files — with writes to Amazon off until you switch them on.

  • One custom connector
  • Excel, PowerPoint and Word outputs
  • Writes off by default
  • $97/mo after 14 days free