Anthropic launches Claude Meetings, Whiteboards, and Sheets for work

Anthropic on Tuesday announced Claude Meetings, Claude Whiteboards, and other workplace tools at an event in San Francisco, bringing its AI into video calls, shared planning boards, and spreadsheets. The features target non-technical workers who spend their days in meetings, collaborative sessions, and data review, according to The Verge.

The launch covers four products: Claude Meetings, Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data, the last of which was formerly known as Claude Dashboards. Three are entering beta on paid plans. Claude Data has moved to general availability across all paid plans.

How Anthropic launches Claude Meetings into live video calls

TechCrunch reported that Claude Meetings adds Claude to a live call as a visible participant. The AI follows the conversation while people are still talking and starts working in real time. It can draft the plan being discussed, map a timeline on a whiteboard, reply to questions in the meeting chat, and pull data from connected work apps.

When a call ends, the team can find Claude's notes, action items, and other output saved in claude.ai.

Claude Meetings also has built-in rules around outside participants. The AI announces itself as a participant and puts a notice in the meeting chat. Without prior admin authorization, it will not join calls that include external guests, and it exits automatically if an outside participant enters mid-call, TechCrunch reported.

Claude Meetings has launched in beta for Team and Enterprise subscribers. At launch, it works with Google Meet. TechCrunch reported that support for additional plans is expected to follow.

Whiteboards turn brainstorms into documents and slide decks

TechCrunch described Claude Whiteboards as a shared board where teams discuss a plan together and Claude builds out a visual workspace, adding timelines and deadlines as the conversation moves along. Teams that previously brainstormed with Claude had to copy their results elsewhere to share them; with Whiteboards, the whole group works directly on the same board in real time. When the session wraps up, Claude can turn the board into a document or a slide deck.

Whiteboards and Meetings are built to work together. The board fills in and updates while the call is still going, so everyone leaves with a finished artifact rather than raw notes to sort through later. Claude Whiteboards is in beta on paid plans, available on web, desktop, and mobile.

Claude Sheets for building spreadsheets side by side

Claude Sheets lets teams create and edit spreadsheets with Claude alongside them, TechCrunch reported. A team can describe what they need, such as a budget tracker or a hiring plan, and Claude builds a working file. Each spreadsheet can hold multiple tabs, formulas, formatting, and dropdown menus. Claude makes changes directly in cells and walks the team through each edit.

The design is meant to remain useful over time, not just at the initial setup. Claude handles the first build, and teams can keep updating the same file as a project evolves. Claude Sheets is in beta on paid plans and runs on web, desktop, and mobile.

Claude Data moves from beta to general availability

Claude Data, the product previously called Claude Dashboards, is now generally available to all paid plans, The Verge reported. The tool connects Claude to systems a company uses to store and track numbers, such as a data warehouse or a CRM. When a user poses a question about their data, Claude can respond with a dashboard, a written summary, or a narrated video.

The Verge reported that Claude Dashboards was introduced in beta in October under that name before becoming Claude Data for this release. Moving to general availability means paid plan holders can now use it without requesting early access or joining a waitlist.

Interactive connectors and a growing plugin marketplace

Anthropic also announced interactive connectors that open full versions of partner apps inside Claude, TechCrunch reported. Teams can bring apps from companies such as Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot directly into the same workspace as their Claude conversations. They can then ask Claude to do work inside those apps without switching to a separate window.

The Verge reported that more than 9,000 plugin options are now available in Anthropic's marketplace. Nicholas Lin, who works on product at Anthropic, said the company's aim is to embed the services workers use each day inside Claude, removing the need to jump between applications. "Now we want to expand that reach toward everybody else," Lin told The Verge.

What these tools mean for workers

For people who spend a large part of their workday in meetings, the new features could shorten the gap between discussion and action. A meeting normally produces raw notes that someone has to organize after the fact. With Claude Meetings and Whiteboards running together, a team could finish a call with a completed plan already built and ready to share.

Claude Sheets targets a similar friction point. Building a tracker or budget from scratch takes time, and keeping it current with formulas can be difficult for workers without a data background. Having Claude set up the structure and explain each change as it goes could reduce the need to bring in a specialist for routine updates.

Claude Data takes that idea a step further. Rather than waiting for an analyst to pull a report, a worker could ask a plain-language question and receive a visual dashboard or a brief video in return. For smaller organizations, that kind of direct access to company metrics can fill a real gap.

What is not yet known

Several details about the new products remain unclear. Anthropic did not publish an official announcement page for Claude Meetings, Whiteboards, Sheets, or Data on anthropic.com at the time of this article's publication. The information above is drawn from TechCrunch and The Verge. It is also not known when Meetings will extend to video platforms beyond Google Meet.

Whether Anthropic explicitly framed these tools as a challenge to incumbent office suites is unclear; that competitive framing appeared in news coverage rather than in a direct statement from Anthropic. Workers who want to try the beta features will need a paid plan on claude.ai; free accounts are not included in the current rollout.