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Virtually Myself® vs Claude & Claude Projects
A brilliant model vs a system built around your expertise
Claude is one of the most capable AI models available, and Claude Projects lets you give it custom instructions plus a set of reference files to work from. It is genuinely excellent. In fact, Virtually Myself® can draw on Claude among the models it uses, so this is not really Claude versus us.
The real question is what changes when a purpose-built expertise system wraps a powerful model like Claude, instead of using it on its own, one project at a time.
What Claude and Claude Projects give you
- A top-tier general model, fast and highly capable
- Custom instructions to shape tone and behaviour per project
- A set of reference files Claude can read within a project
- A clean, conversational way to work
- Ideal for focused, self-contained tasks
What Virtually Myself® adds
- A structured, searchable Vault across 15+ formats, including audio, video, podcasts, YouTube and handwritten notes, not just uploaded text files
- Dedicated voice modelling from your own material, so output sounds recognisably like you
- Source-based retrieval with links back to your material
- Content, business development and opportunity workflows, not chat alone
- Content packs from one idea, plus publishing connections like LinkedIn and WordPress
- An Australian-hosted Vault, kept private and never used to train public models
- Vendor-agnostic by design: it can use Claude and other leading models, and adapt as they evolve
The bottom line
Claude Projects gives Claude a folder of files for one project. Virtually Myself® gives your whole body of work a home, a voice and a workflow, powered by models like Claude, so your expertise compounds instead of starting fresh every time.
This is less Claude versus Virtually Myself®, and more Claude on its own versus Claude inside a system built around your expertise.