Anthropic Builds Its Own Office Tools Into Claude, With Sheets, Whiteboards and a Meeting Agent

Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards arrive in beta for paid plans, Claude Dashboards becomes Claude Data, and a new Claude Meetings beta lets the assistant sit in on Google Meet calls.

SAN FRANCISCO - Anthropic wants work done with Claude to stay in Claude. On Tuesday the company introduced Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta and made its Claude Dashboards tool generally available under a new name, Claude Data. All three are included in paid plans and work on the web, desktop and mobile apps.

The pitch is that teams no longer have to copy Claude’s output into another program before they can work on it together. “Now, your documents, boards, sheets, and dashboards can stay in Claude, with access for your team to continue editing together,” the company wrote. The official Claude account announced the rollout on X the same day.

Claude Sheets builds a working spreadsheet with tabs, formulas and drop-downs from a prompt. Image: Anthropic

Claude Sheets generates spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down menus, often from a single request such as a campaign tracker or a hiring budget. Claude edits directly in the cells and outlines each change so people can see what it did, and sheets can be shared with coworkers. Anthropic says the feature set is basic for now. For full Excel functions, users can export to .xlsx or CSV, use Claude for Excel, or move the file into Airtable, Asana, monday.com or Smartsheet.

Claude Whiteboards is a shared board for planning. A user can talk through a messy plan and have Claude turn it into a timeline with owners and dates, or, in a retrospective, have it group everyone’s notes by theme and draft action items for each person. Dragging a box around part of the board lets users ask Claude about just that section. Finished boards can become a document or slide deck, or move to Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho.

Claude Data drafts a data story from a team’s sales figures. Image: Anthropic

Claude Data connects to warehouses and business systems such as Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse. Anthropic said it dropped the Dashboards name because companies use their data for more than dashboards. New features include certified queries, which let a data team mark the official version of a metric, written data stories and narrated videos, live sharing with colleagues who lack access to the underlying connectors, caching and tracked changes. Certified queries and live sharing are in beta.

Anthropic also unveiled Claude Meetings, which brings Claude into a video call as a visible participant, TechCrunch reported. While people talk, Claude can draft the plan under discussion, build a timeline on a whiteboard and answer questions in the meeting chat, and its notes and action items are saved in Claude afterward. It posts a notice in the chat, will not join calls with outside guests unless an administrator allows it, and leaves if one joins. Meetings is in beta for Team and Enterprise customers and works only with Google Meet at launch.

Claude’s announcement of Whiteboards, Sheets and Data on Nov. 10. Screenshot: @claudeai on X

Separately, partner apps from Adobe, Atlassian, Box and Notion can now open as full apps beside a Claude conversation. On Team plans, Whiteboards, Sheets and Data are on by default. On Enterprise plans, Whiteboards and Sheets start switched off, and Claude Data turns on by default on Nov. 19. Anthropic posted a short demo of the new tools.

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