Claude Sheets and Whiteboards Launch; Meetings Is Next

Anthropic is turning Claude into more of an office suite. The company has launched Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta and made Claude Dashboards generally available under a new name, Claude Data. All three are on every paid plan and work on web, desktop and mobile. In a companion post, Anthropic frames the release with an analogy to Claude Code: engineers moved from writing code line by line to describing what they want and reviewing what Claude built, and the aim now is to give other teams the same shift. The new artifact types sit next to the documents, slide decks and designs Claude can already create.

Claude Whiteboards is a shared board for brainstorming. Anthropic’s pitch is that people already think out loud with Claude but then have to copy the results somewhere else to work on them with colleagues. On a board, a team can talk through a messy plan and have Claude lay it out as a timeline with owners and dates; in a retro, everyone adds notes and Claude groups them by theme and drafts each person’s action items. Drag a box around part of the board and you can ask Claude about just that section. When the session is over, Claude can turn the board into a document or a deck, or move it into Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho.

Claude Sheets builds spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down menus, often from a one-line request such as a campaign tracker or a hiring budget. Claude edits directly in the cells and outlines every change it makes so the team can follow it, and a sheet can be shared so colleagues and Claude work on it together. Anthropic is candid that the feature set is basic for now. For full Excel functionality it points to exporting as .xlsx or CSV or to Claude for Excel, and work can continue in Airtable, Asana, monday.com or Smartsheet.

Claude Data is the renamed Claude Dashboards, which launched in beta in October for asking questions of company data in tools like Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse. The general release adds certified queries (in beta), so a data team can approve the definitions everyone else’s charts use and those charts carry a “certified” badge. Live sharing, also in beta, lets colleagues see current numbers on a shared dashboard without having access to the underlying connectors; they see the results of approved queries and cannot run their own with the owner’s access. There are also data stories and narrated videos drafted from metrics, design-system support, caching with per-dashboard refresh schedules, and tracked changes with rollback. Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog and Sigma are launch partners.

The rest of the release is about bringing other software into Claude. Interactive connectors can now open partner apps such as Adobe, Atlassian, Box and Notion as full apps beside the conversation or in full screen, where you can work in them yourself or ask Claude to make changes with you. Plugins from Salesforce (beta), NetSuite and Workday (beta) arrive with built-in skills for sales, accounting and HR tasks, and Anthropic says its marketplace now lists more than 9,000 connectors and plugins. For admins, a beta called Claude auto-connect makes connecting a tool such as Notion or Dropbox a one-time setup for the whole organisation, and connectors can be limited so Claude might read Slack without being able to post. On Team plans all three new artifact types are on by default; on Enterprise plans Whiteboards and Sheets start switched off and Claude Data turns on by default on 19 November 2026.

The piece that will draw the most attention is the one that has not quite shipped. Anthropic’s own post says Claude Meetings is coming soon and will let a team add Claude to a call to take notes and update the documents they are working on while they talk. TechCrunch reported more detail: Claude joins as a visible participant, posts a notice in the meeting chat, will not join calls with external guests unless an admin allows it and leaves if one arrives, and starts on Team and Enterprise plans with Google Meet. Anthropic’s post gives no date. The whole launch follows OpenAI’s own push into office tools in September and Meta’s Spaces for its Muse agent, and it extends a run of Claude features for everyday work that included Personal Finance days earlier. For Microsoft and Google, whose suites these products compete with, the more pointed detail may be the export buttons: Anthropic is building just enough spreadsheet to keep the work inside Claude, and offering a way out for the rest.