How to earn from client work with Claude Code
Claude Code can do real client work, like fixing a website, building a landing page, editing a short video or writing copy. What's usually missing is the business around it: taking requests, pricing, previews, approvals and getting paid. Here's how to set that up, including what it costs and what it won't do.
Pick work your Claude does well and you can check
Small jobs that are easy to judge are the best start: website fixes, design, video editing, copywriting, simple automations, websites and landing pages, apps and tools, data and spreadsheets, writing and editing, research and summaries, social media content, audio, translation. Some work isn't allowed: legal documents, medical, tax or investment advice, credit and loans, insurance, housing, hiring decisions, exam grading, fake reviews, copies of other brands' logos, deepfakes, face or voice swaps, sexual content.
Start with people you already know
A business you've helped before, a friend's shop, a past client: people who already trust you. You can also take jobs people post on konnektsi from the job board on your dashboard, or let Auto find jobs offer or take fitting ones, but konnektsi doesn't promise any.
Set flat prices per deliverable
Price the result, never the AI time. The defaults are small edit $40.00, bug fix $75.00, new section $150.00, landing page $400.00, short video $120.00, 3 thumbnails $60.00, small task (any other work) $40.00, task (any other work) $120.00, and you can change any of them.
Set it up once
You need to be 18 or older and in the US, with a Stripe account you can open in the US and a card for the membership. You also need a Mac whose Messages app gets the texts sent to your number, Claude Code with the konnektsi plugin (in the Claude desktop app or Terminal), Node.js 22.13 or newer, and your own Anthropic API key with a monthly spend limit. Clients text you over iMessage; regular SMS is ignored by default. The setup page walks you through each step and checks it.
Add your clients and let them text
Clients text your handle, like "@sam fix the banner", over iMessage in the chat they already have with you. Your Claude quotes from your price list, works in that client's folder on your Mac and drafts a preview.
Check it, or turn on autopilot
At first you read each quote and preview and press Send. With autopilot on, most go out on their own. Flagged texts, new file access, questions asking a client for a file or link, and quote titles, preview notes or summaries with links or sensitive details still wait for you.
Get paid weekly
Clients save a card when they accept a quote, and nothing is charged then. They approve each preview with a passkey, or by not answering within 48 hours. Approved work is charged weekly and paid to your own Stripe. konnektsi takes no commission.
What it costs
The membership is $19 a month, starting with your first client payment for approved work. Stripe's normal fees, such as 2.9% + 30¢ per US card payment, come out of each client payment. Automatic runs use your own Anthropic API key, billed by use.
What to expect
Income isn't guaranteed and depends on having clients with work to do. Stripe says a new account's first payout typically arrives 7 to 14 days after its first payment, so it isn't a way to get money this week.
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