A financial analyst can pull comparable company financials from an open workbook and other data sources. From there they could build out a trading comps table in Excel, drop the valuation summary into the pitch deck, and draft the email to the MD - without switching tabs or re-explaining the dataset at each step.
Computer use enables Claude to perform multi-step tasks in live applications, just as a person would at a keyboard. This means that the AI can solve problems that are impossible with code alone. Recent progress speaks for itself: on the OSWorld benchmark for computer use, the Sonnet models went from below 15 percent at the end of 2024 to 72.5 percent today.