Anthropic announced new workplace features Tuesday, including Claude Meetings, which lets you join Claude in a video call and start working on a task while participants are talking. The company also introduced Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets.
Anthropic’s release of new productivity-focused features comes just weeks after OpenAI unveiled a suite of workplace tools that let users integrate with ChatGPT to visualize company information, create presentations, and more, as the companies race to take on Microsoft and Google by turning their products into office suites of sorts. Meta is also in the race with its Muse AI agent, which can build mini-apps on the fly to help users complete specific tasks.
Claude Meetings allows teams to add Claude to video calls as a visible participant. Claude then follows the conversation and gets to work on the tasks in real time. While participants are speaking, you can draft the plan being discussed, plan your timeline on the whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to get information like last year’s numbers. After the call, meeting notes, action items, and other materials created by Claude will be available on claude.ai.
The work that comes from a meeting typically begins after everyone hangs up, but Anthropic says this new feature allows teams to turn discussions into action in real time.
Claude recognizes himself as a participant in the meeting and posts a notification in the meeting chat. They won’t join calls with external guests unless allowed by an administrator, and will automatically leave when an external guest joins.
Claude Meetings starts in beta on Team and Enterprise plans. It will integrate with Google Meet at launch and support for additional plans will follow.
As for Claude Whiteboards, Anthropic describes the feature as a collaborative board where teams can discuss plans and turn it into an organized visual workspace with timelines and deadlines.
The company notes that many people have already brainstormed with Claude, but to share their results with others, they must copy and paste the results elsewhere. The team can now work directly with Claude on the same board in real time.
Once the brainstorming is complete, Claude can turn the board into a document or slide deck. What’s more, whiteboards also work within Claude meetings, so boards are built while people are talking, Anthropic says.
Claude Whiteboards is available in beta on paid plans for web, desktop, and mobile.
The company also launched Claude Sheets, where teams can create and collaborate on spreadsheets with Claude. Teams can ask us to build a campaign tracker or recruitment budget, and Claude will generate a spreadsheet for them to work with.
According to Anthropic, Claude is responsible for the initial setup of trackers and budgets, allowing the team to continue refining and updating the same spreadsheets. Each spreadsheet can contain multiple tabs, formulas, formatting, and drop-down menus. Claude also makes edits directly in the cell with his team, giving users an overview of each change.
Claude Sheet is available in beta on paid plans for web, desktop, and mobile.
Anthropic also announced that Claude Data, formerly known as Claude Dashboards, is now generally available. This feature connects Claude to the systems that businesses use to maintain numbers, such as data warehouses and CRMs. Users can ask questions and Claude responds with dashboards, documented data stories, or narrated videos.
Additionally, the company announced an interactive connector that opens full versions of apps like Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot within Claude. Anthropic notes that teams will now be able to open these apps directly alongside Claude’s conversations and ask the assistant to work within the app, essentially bringing their existing workflows into the same workspace.
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