An internal communications manager has transcripts of 30 employee focus groups and wants Claude to find common themes about workplace culture. The transcripts include employees' names, teams and some comments about named managers. Company policy restricts sharing identifiable employee information with external tools. What is the most appropriate action?

Answer: B — Replace names, team details and named-manager references with neutral labels before uploading, then run the theme analysis.

Themes come from what was said, not who said it; anonymizing before upload lets the task go ahead while meeting the policy (b). 'Internal use' (a) doesn't change where the data goes. An instruction to the model after sharing (c) is not a policy control. Cancelling (d) is unnecessary when anonymization makes the task safe.