Rafter vs Claude Projects
Claude Projects give a workstream its own knowledge and instructions inside claude.ai. Rafter gives your whole team one brain across every AI tool. They solve different problems — here's the honest split.
Where Claude Projects are the right choice
Zero setup and native to Claude: make a project, upload the documents, write the instructions, and every chat in that project starts primed. For a single ongoing workstream — a deal, a launch, a case — whose context is a handful of files, that's exactly the right amount of machinery.
If your whole team lives in Claude on a Team plan, shared projects may carry you a long way before you feel the edges.
Where they run out
Projects live inside Claude. The moment a teammate opens Cursor, ChatGPT or Codex, the project knowledge is invisible — and half your team's AI usage happens outside claude.ai.
Knowledge flows one way: you upload it. What Claude figures out during the work — the gotcha, the decision, the better way — evaporates with the chat instead of becoming team knowledge.
And projects are buckets. The conventions that apply everywhere get re-uploaded to every project, then drift apart quietly, one stale copy at a time.
| Claude Projects | Rafter | |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | Claude only | Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex — anything that speaks MCP |
| How knowledge gets in | You upload files and write instructions | Tools write back as the team works (add_memory, skills) — or edit in the dashboard |
| Structure | Files and instructions, per project | Typed artifacts — skills, agents, memories — wiki-linked into a graph |
| Reuse across workstreams | Re-upload to each project | One workspace, searched on demand |
| Versioning | Replace the file | Every artifact versioned; re-creating a deleted one needs an explicit confirm |
| Team model | Project sharing on Team plans | Workspaces, teams and roles |
Projects hold a workstream's documents. Rafter holds how your team works.
Using both
Keep Projects for what is genuinely workstream-scoped — the deal's documents, the launch's brief. Connect Rafter to the same Claude as a connector, and let it carry what spans workstreams and tools: how your team actually works. The two meet in the same chat.
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