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Claude Gets a Desk Job: Sheets, Whiteboards and a Seat in Your Meeting
By Maya Wilson
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Anthropic is moving its Claude assistant further into the tools people use to organise projects, manage information and collaborate at work, launching shared Whiteboards and spreadsheet workspaces while making its data-analysis product generally available.
The company announced the products on Tuesday, November 10, at a launch event in San Francisco, California. “Today we’re launching Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta, and Claude Dashboards becomes generally available as Claude Data,” Anthropic said. All three are available on paid plans through the web, desktop and mobile applications.
Claude Whiteboards gives teams a shared space to develop ideas with the assistant in real time. Anthropic says users can describe a rough plan aloud and have Claude turn it into a board containing a timeline, assigned owners and dates. The assistant can also generate action items. The company says Whiteboards can be used within Claude Meetings, its separate meeting-participant feature.
Claude Sheets lets users and Claude build and edit spreadsheets together, including tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down menus. Anthropic’s examples include a campaign tracker and a hiring budget created from a single prompt. Sheets can export files in Excel’s .xlsx format and CSV, and includes a Google Workspace plugin.
The company describes Sheets as a simple spreadsheet workspace for now, rather than a replacement for full Excel functionality. It directs users who need more advanced features to export their work or use Claude for Excel. Anthropic’s help documentation sets the current limit at 100,000 cells per sheet.
The third product, Claude Data, is the renamed version of Claude Dashboards, which had been in beta since October. Anthropic says it allows teams to ask questions about company information held in Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse. The generally available release adds data stories, while certified queries and live sharing remain in beta. Use requires a connected data source, such as a warehouse or customer-relationship-management system. Anthropic names Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog and Sigma among its data partners.
Anthropic also says connectors from Adobe, Atlassian, Box and Notion can now open as full applications beside a Claude conversation, extending the assistant’s reach into connected workplace software.
The meeting feature carries a different availability status. Anthropic previewed Claude Meetings on November 10. It is designed to join a video call as a visible participant, identify itself and post a notice in the meeting chat. During a meeting, it can draft the plan under discussion, map a timeline on a Whiteboard, answer questions in chat and retrieve material from connected work applications.
TechCrunch reports that Meetings is launching in beta for Team and Enterprise customers, initially on Google Meet. Anthropic’s own product pages, however, describe the feature as “coming soon.” The company says Meetings will not join calls with external guests without administrator authorization and will leave automatically if an external guest joins. The differing launch descriptions mean the feature should not be treated as generally available.
Access also depends on an organisation’s plan and settings. Anthropic says all three products are enabled by default for Team plans. On Enterprise, Whiteboards and Sheets are off by default; Claude Data is scheduled to turn on by default on November 19, 2026. Administrators can manage the settings under Organization settings and Artifacts.
Anthropic has not published separate pricing for the new products beyond their inclusion on paid plans, or a date for wider availability of Meetings.
Maya Wilson — World Desk Lead, The Library Media
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