Anthropic's Claude joins your meetings, whiteboards and spreadsheets

Anthropic announced the new features on Tuesday, and Claude Meetings is the headline act. Teams add Claude to a video call as a visible participant, where it follows the conversation and works in real time. It can draft the plan under discussion, map a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and pull information from connected work apps, such as last year's figures. When the call ends, the notes, action items and other materials Claude produced are waiting in claude.ai.

The company is upfront about the etiquette. Claude identifies itself as a participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. It won't join calls with external guests unless an admin authorizes it, and it automatically leaves if an outside guest joins. Anthropic says the point is to move the work that normally starts after everyone hangs up into the meeting itself. Claude Meetings launches in beta on Team and Enterprise plans, starting with Google Meet, with support for additional plans expected to follow.

Claude Whiteboards gives teams a shared board where they can talk through a plan and have Claude shape it into an organized visual workspace with timelines and deadlines. Anthropic notes that plenty of people already brainstorm with Claude, but sharing the results meant copy-pasting them elsewhere. Now the whole team works with Claude on the same board in real time, and when the brainstorm wraps, Claude can convert the board into a doc or a slide deck. Whiteboards also runs inside Claude Meetings, so the board builds while people talk. It's in beta on paid plans across web, desktop and mobile.

Claude Sheets takes on spreadsheets. Teams can ask Claude to build a campaign tracker or a hiring budget, and it generates a working spreadsheet — handling the initial setup while the team keeps refining it. Each sheet supports multiple tabs, formulas, formatting and dropdown menus. Claude edits cells directly alongside the team and outlines every change so users can see what it did. Sheets is also in beta on paid plans for web, desktop and mobile.

Two more announcements came alongside the launch. Claude Data, previously known as Claude Dashboards, is now generally available, connecting Claude to systems where companies keep their numbers, like a data warehouse or CRM. Ask a question and Claude answers with dashboards, written data stories or narrated videos. Anthropic also introduced interactive connectors that open full versions of apps including Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot inside Claude, so teams can run those workflows next to their Claude conversations.

The timing is pointed. Anthropic's productivity push lands a few weeks after OpenAI revealed workplace tools that let users collaborate with ChatGPT on things like visualizing company information and building presentations. Both companies are racing to turn their assistants into office suites that take on Microsoft and Google, and Meta is chasing the same ground with its Muse AI agent, which builds mini-apps on the fly for specific tasks.