Anthropic adds meeting, whiteboard and spreadsheet tools to Claude

In a call, Claude appears as a visible participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. It can draft a plan, build a timeline on a whiteboard, answer chat questions and retrieve information from connected work apps, including figures from the previous year. Notes, action items and other materials are available at claude.ai after the meeting.

Anthropic says Claude will not join calls with external guests without administrator authorization and will leave automatically if an external guest joins. Meetings is launching in beta on Team and Enterprise plans. It initially works with Google Meet, with support for additional plans expected later.

Whiteboards lets teams develop a plan with Claude on a shared board, which the assistant can organize into a visual workspace with timelines and deadlines. Anthropic says the board can take shape during a Claude Meeting, and teams can turn completed brainstorms into a document or slide deck. The feature is in beta on paid plans across web, desktop and mobile.

Sheets, also in beta on paid plans for web, desktop and mobile, lets teams create and edit spreadsheets with Claude. Users can request items such as a campaign tracker or hiring budget. The assistant can set up spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting and dropdown menus, then make and explain changes directly in cells.

Anthropic also made Claude Data, previously called Claude Dashboards, generally available. It connects Claude to company systems such as data warehouses and CRMs and can produce dashboards, written data stories or narrated videos in response to questions. New interactive connectors let users open apps including Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot inside Claude and work with them alongside conversations.

The workplace launch comes weeks after OpenAI introduced tools for collaborating with ChatGPT, as both companies seek to build office suites that compete with Microsoft and Google. Meta is also pursuing workplace use with Muse, an AI agent that can build mini-apps to help complete specific tasks.