Anthropic expands the Claude product with office tools Meetings, Sheets, and Whiteboards
Anthropic has launched Claude Meetings, Sheets, and Whiteboards in beta for non-technical workers, and brought Claude Data into general availability. Connectors to HubSpot, Adobe, and Atlassian have also been added directly within Claude.
At an event in San Francisco, Anthropic unveiled a set of new office tools in the Claude product aimed at non-technical workers: Claude Meetings, Claude Sheets, and Claude Whiteboards, all available in beta. Claude Meetings allows the Claude model to appear as a visible participant in a video call, follow the conversation, and work on tasks in real time – building a plan, mapping a timeline on a whiteboard, or answering questions in the meeting chat. After the call ends, notes and tasks are available in claude.ai. At launch, the feature supports Google Meet and is available only for Team and Enterprise plans; according to the company, support for other platforms will follow.
Claude Whiteboards offers a shared visual space where Claude, while brainstorming with a team, creates an organized space with timelines and deadlines, and once finished can convert it into a document or presentation; it also works inside Claude Meetings. Claude Sheets allows teams to create and edit spreadsheets together with Claude – according to the company, the model can handle the initial setup of a tracker or budget, writes directly into cells, and explains what it did with each edit. The spreadsheets can have multiple sheets, formulas, formatting, and drop-down menus. Both features are in beta for all paid plans on web, desktop, and mobile.
The company also announced that Claude Data (formerly Claude Dashboards, in beta since October) is now generally available (GA) for all paid plans and allows connecting Claude to data warehouses or CRMs to get answers in the form of dashboards, text analyses, or narrative videos. Also new are interactive connectors that open full versions of the HubSpot, Adobe, and Atlassian apps directly within Claude, without switching between windows; the Model Context Protocol marketplace, launched two years ago, now has, according to the company, over 9 000 plugins.
According to The Verge, the launch comes amid competitive pressure – OpenAI unveiled a similar set of collaborative tools for ChatGPT and connectors for its Dots agents a few weeks ago, Google Gemini can already join meetings and create spreadsheets, and Meta is entering the fray with its Muse agent. The Verge also states that Anthropic faces investor pressure to grow revenue and demonstrate a path to profitability ahead of a planned IPO.
Why it matters
These tools target non-technical workers outside the developer community, where Claude has not had strong traction so far – making them direct competition for office suites from Microsoft and Google as well as similar tools from OpenAI and Meta. For companies, this means the ability to handle meetings, spreadsheets, and brainstorming without switching between multiple apps; for individuals, it means less manual work with notes and data after meetings.
Two audiences, two different impacts
What this means
For individuals
Users on paid Claude plans can now have the AI directly join video calls, co-create spreadsheets and whiteboards in real time, which may reduce the time spent transcribing notes or manually compiling spreadsheets after a meeting.
For a business
Companies paying for Claude Team/Enterprise gain a tool that can replace part of the work done with external SaaS tools (meeting notes, spreadsheets, whiteboards) and connect Claude directly to HubSpot, Adobe, or Atlassian without switching between apps – raising the question of consolidating licenses and office software costs.
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