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My Startup Is Just a Claude Wrapper, but It’s a Free Claude Wrapper

Neruthes, et al.
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Abstract

In 2025's AI frenzy, few brag sheets boast more bravado than ``We're a Claude wrapper.'' At conferences, hackathons, and booster-pitch dinners, someone inevitably leads with: ``We didn't train a model—we integrated Claude's API in 30 minutes, wrapped a lightweight UI, and voilà!'' Congratulations: your startup is officially ``innovative''—as long as flimsy UI counts as disruptive.

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