How I Made ADHD My Superpower: My Daily Claude Workflow as a Mum-Founder Building AI
By Siddhi Mittal, Co-founder of yhangry*
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A few days ago I posted on LinkedIn about ADHD.
Specifically, I said: every single ADHD trait that holds people back — Claude can counteract it.
The response was overwhelming. Hundreds of you said “this is me.” So I promised I’d write up exactly how I use Claude in my daily workflow.
This is that post.
I’m not writing a listicle of productivity tips. I’m going to show you the actual system — the messy, real, working-at-9am-with-a-baby-in-a-pram version of it. Because that’s what most people won’t tell you.
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First: Why ADHD and AI is actually a perfect match
Most productivity advice is built for neurotypical brains. Linear. One thing at a time. Sit down, focus, finish.
That’s not how my brain works. My brain is parallel, associative, pattern-matching, constantly firing. It’s not broken. It’s just running different software.
The problem with traditional tools is they’re designed to replace the messy human process with something cleaner. Claude doesn’t do that. Claude meets you where you are — chaotic thought, half-formed idea, voice note at 7am, screenshot with a question typed in Wispr Flow — and turns it into something useful.
That’s why it works for ADHD. Not because it does the thinking *for* you. Because it removes the friction between your brain and the output.
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The ADHD Traits. And What Claude Does About Each One.
Here they are — most common to least common — with my honest take on how Claude actually counteracts each.
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**1. Attention and focus problems**
*Can’t focus on boring tasks. Can’t stop focusing on interesting ones.*
This is the core one. ADHD brains aren’t broken at focusing — they’re broken at *choosing* what to focus on. We hyperfocus on the interesting thing and completely blank on the important thing.
Claude fixes this by making the boring thing more interesting. The moment I type “help me structure this,” I’m already in. It’s interactive. It’s dynamic. The task now has a conversational layer, and suddenly I can engage with it.
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**2. Task initiation / inertia**
*I know what I need to do. I literally cannot start.*
This one used to destroy me. You know the feeling — you stare at the blank doc, the email, the spreadsheet, and you just… can’t. The ADHD brain resists starting almost physically.
My fix: I take a screenshot of whatever I need to do. I open Claude on my phone. I Wispr Flow a voice note describing what I’m trying to achieve. Twenty seconds. Done.
Claude responds. Now I’m in it. Now I’m excited. The task has begun, and the ADHD brain — once it’s *in* — often won’t stop.
The screenshot-to-Wispr-Flow move is probably the single most valuable thing I’ve built into my workflow.
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**3. Working memory issues**
*I forget what I was just thinking. Mid-sentence.*
Working memory in ADHD is genuinely impaired. I’ll have a brilliant idea, get distracted by a Slack notification, and it’s gone.
What I do now: I have ongoing Claude sessions that hold my context for me. Every major area of my work — product, team, strategy — has its own session. I don’t have to remember where I was. I open the session and it’s all there.
It’s like having an external hard drive for your brain.
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**4. Time blindness**
*Two hours just disappeared. I genuinely don’t know where they went.*
ADHD brains don’t experience time the way neurotypical brains do. There’s “now” and “not now.” That’s basically it.
Claude doesn’t fix time blindness directly. But it helps me front-load planning so I’m not managing time in the moment. Every morning (or the night before), I do a quick planning session: what are the three things that matter today? What might block me? How long will each actually take?
When the plan exists before I start, I’m not making those decisions under pressure. That’s where ADHD falls apart — in the moment, under pressure, without scaffolding.
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**5. Disorganisation / chaos brain**
*My brain has tabs open. Many, many tabs.*
I don’t fight this anymore. I lean into it.
I run multiple Claude sessions simultaneously. Phone and desktop. Different planning threads. Different projects. Because each session holds its own context, I can switch between them freely and not lose the thread.
I also use CoWork — Claude’s desktop agent — to action things in the background while I’m thinking about something else. I’ll throw a prompt in (“find ADHD coaches in London,” “draft the email to X,” “research Y”) and it starts executing while I’m already onto the next thought.
Parallel processing isn’t a bug of the ADHD brain. It’s a feature. CoWork makes it actually useful.
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**6. Impulsivity**
*I said yes to something I shouldn’t have. Again.*
The impulsive “yes” is real. A project comes in, it sounds exciting, I commit before thinking it through.
What helps: before I respond to anything significant, I do a quick gut-check with Claude. “Here’s what’s been asked of me. Here’s my current commitments. Does this make sense?” Two minutes. It creates a pause that my ADHD brain normally doesn’t have.
The pause is everything.
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**7. Emotional dysregulation / rejection sensitivity**
*Criticism hits differently when you have ADHD.*
RSD — rejection sensitive dysphoria — is brutal. A critical email, a curt reply, a missed acknowledgment. It can derail a whole day.
Claude has become my “translate this” tool. Before I react, I paste in the message. “What’s the likely intent here? What’s the neutral read?” It’s not about suppressing the emotion. It’s about getting a second opinion from something that doesn’t have feelings in the moment.
It doesn’t always work. But it slows the spiral.
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**8. Hyperfocus (the double-edged sword)**
*When I’m in it, I’m unstoppable. Until I crash.*
Hyperfocus is the ADHD superpower everyone talks about. You get into flow and six hours pass like twenty minutes. But it’s uncontrollable — you can’t always summon it, and you can’t always stop it.
What I’ve found: Claude sessions are good at directing hyperfocus. When I feel the energy coming on, I go to my most important open problem. I open the session, start going, and let it take me. The structure of the conversation keeps me from completely spiralling.
The session is a container for the hyperfocus. That matters.
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**9. Overwhelm and decision fatigue**
*Too many options. Brain shuts down.*
ADHD brains can paradoxically seize up when given too much choice. The answer isn’t fewer options — it’s a faster path through them.
I use Claude to shortlist. “Here are the five approaches I’m considering. I need to pick one in the next hour. Based on what you know about where we’re at, which direction would you go?” I’m not outsourcing the decision. I’m shortcutting the analysis paralysis.
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**10. Sensory / stimulation-seeking**
*I need input to function. I get bored and self-sabotage.*
ADHD brains need stimulation. The danger is that we get it from doomscrolling, notifications, noise — the cheap dopamine that actually makes the brain worse over time.
Claude gives me stimulation that’s *generative* rather than consumptive. I’m thinking, creating, building — not just absorbing. It’s a meaningful difference. The brain gets the engagement it craves without the crash that comes from passive consumption.
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The Other Half of the Workflow: Nature
This one might surprise you.
Everything I’ve described above is about using Claude to amplify my output. But there’s an equally important part of my workflow that involves putting the phone down completely.
Every morning, 8–10am, I walk with my baby. He’s in the pram, usually asleep. I’ve got a coffee in my tumbler — lid on, won’t spill. And I walk.
I don’t consume. I don’t listen to podcasts. I don’t scroll. I think, I reflect, and sometimes I speak into my phone — capturing a thought, a question, something to pick up when I get back. But I’m not trying to input constantly.
This matters because the ADHD brain isn’t just starved of focus. It’s often overstimulated. Dopamine and serotonin — the chemicals that actually regulate the ADHD brain — aren’t found on a phone screen. They’re found in movement, sunlight, unstructured thought, connection.
The morning walk isn’t the opposite of the Claude workflow. It feeds it. I come back clearer, calmer, and with better ideas than if I’d been on my phone since 7am.
The system needs both. The tool *and* the space to think without the tool.
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The Complete Workflow, In Plain English
Here’s how it actually looks on a normal day:
**Morning walk (8–10am):** Baby in pram, coffee, no consumption. I think. I sometimes voice-note ideas into my phone to pick up later.
**Getting started:** I use Wispr Flow — voice-to-text that strips out ums and ahs — on my phone and laptop. I never have to type to get going. I screenshot something, I Wispr a quick thought, and I’m in.
> **Biggest tool recommendation in this entire article: just get Wispr Flow. Stat.**
> It works everywhere — your laptop, your WhatsApp, anywhere you type. It’s not just voice-to-text. It’s *good* voice-to-text. No ums, no ahs, no cleaning up. You just speak and it appears, clean.
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**Planning:** Multiple Claude sessions open simultaneously, each holding context for a different area. Phone and desktop. I move between them as my brain does.
**Execution:** CoWork runs tasks in the background while I’m thinking about something else. Something’s at the back of my mind? Chuck a prompt in. It actions while I move on.
**Deep work:** When the energy is there, I direct it at the most important open problem. Claude holds the structure. I bring the thinking.
**Difficult moments:** Before reacting to anything emotionally charged, I get a neutral read. Before committing to anything, I get a quick gut-check.
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## This Is a Living System
I’ve been training this workflow daily. Every day I find something new that works, something that doesn’t, a prompt pattern that unlocks something unexpected.
More is coming. I’m documenting all of it.
If this resonated — if you recognised yourself in any of those ADHD traits — I’d love to know which one hits hardest for you. Drop a comment or reply to this. The community building around this is already one of the best things to come out of posting about it.
We’re just getting started.
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I’m the co-founder of yhangry, a private chef marketplace currently building AI agents for the food and hospitality space. I write about building in public, AI workflows, and the mum-founder experience.
Follow me on LinkedIn for short snippets of building a unicorn journey, built with AI and my life learnings: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddhimittal23