Anthropic turns workplace discussions into plans with Claude

Anthropic introduced Claude Meetings, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets, collaboration features that turn discussions into plans and tasks, help teams develop ideas together and create spreadsheets. Claude Meetings joins video calls and carries out tasks during the conversation; Whiteboards turns a discussion into a visual plan, while Sheets creates working spreadsheets. All three features are available in beta on paid plans, and Meetings initially works with Google Meet. The company also opened Claude Data to all users and added interactive app integrations.

Anthropic adds meetings, whiteboards and spreadsheets for team collaboration

Claude joins the work during meetings

With Claude Meetings, a team adds Claude to a video call as a visible participant. The assistant follows the conversation and can draft a plan under discussion in real time, build a timeline on a whiteboard, respond in the meeting chat and search connected work apps for information—for example, figures from last year. After the call, notes, a task list and other materials created during the meeting are available at claude.ai.

Anthropic expects teams to move from discussion to action while the meeting is still in progress, rather than after participants have left. Claude tells the chat that it has joined the meeting. Without an administrator’s permission, it will not join a call with external guests; if a guest joins later, Claude leaves automatically.

Claude Meetings launched in beta for Team and Enterprise plans. It initially works with Google Meet, with support for other plans expected later.

Whiteboards and spreadsheets for teams

Claude Whiteboards is a shared board where a team can discuss a plan and work with Claude to turn it into a visual workspace with milestones and deadlines. Previously, teams had to copy the results of a discussion with Claude elsewhere to share them with colleagues. Now, the team can work with the assistant on the same board at the same time.

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After a discussion, Claude can turn the board into a document or presentation. Whiteboards is also available in Claude Meetings, where the board is filled in as the conversation progresses. The feature is in beta on paid plans across the web, desktop and mobile apps.

Claude Sheets lets teams create and collaboratively edit spreadsheets. A team can ask Claude to prepare, for example, a spreadsheet for tracking an advertising campaign or a hiring budget. The assistant creates a starting point, and participants can then keep editing and updating the same spreadsheet.

Spreadsheets can include multiple tabs, formulas, formatting and dropdown menus. Claude makes changes directly in cells and explains each one so the team can check the results.

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Claude Sheets is in beta on paid plans across the web, desktop and mobile apps.

Data and apps inside Claude

Claude Data, formerly called Claude Dashboards, is now available to all users. It connects Claude to the systems companies use to store and track metrics, such as a data warehouse or CRM. Users can ask questions and get dashboards, written analyses or narrated videos in response.

Anthropic also introduced interactive integrations with Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot. They bring full versions of these apps into Claude, so teams can work in them alongside their conversations with the assistant and ask it to take actions within the apps.

Anthropic’s new features arrive amid competition over workplace tools: shortly before this, OpenAI introduced collaboration tools for ChatGPT, while Meta is in the race with its Muse AI agent, which creates small apps for individual tasks. Dataist's take: Claude Meetings ties the assistant’s work directly to the flow of a meeting, while Whiteboards and Sheets give teams shared spaces to continue that work. But Meetings is still in beta, supports only Google Meet and requires caution when external guests are involved.