If you run a Laravel or PrestaShop app, "add AI to it" arrived on your roadmap sometime in the last twelve months. Probably from a CEO who saw a Claude demo, or a customer-success person watching support tickets pile up. The wrong answer is to rewrite. The right answer is to find the 5 places in your existing stack where an LLM call collapses 20 lines of brittle code into 2 lines of Claude SDK — and start there. These are the 5 I keep returning to in client work, ranked roughly by how fast they break even. 1. Support-inbox triage The use case. Every incoming support email goes through Claude before a human sees it. The model assigns a category, severity, and language; drafts a suggested reply; and routes it to the right inbox. Your team opens 50 emails and sees 50 pre-categorized rows with draft answers, not 50 unparsed strings. The failure mode if you do it badly. You let Claude auto-send replies.…