Source : The Verge
SAN FRANCISCO, November 10, 2026 – Anthropic has unveiled a set of workplace tools intended to bring its Claude assistant into meetings, spreadsheets and shared whiteboards, as the company seeks to reach office workers beyond software engineers. The announcement, made on Tuesday at an event in San Francisco, was reported by The Verge and TechCrunch.
The new tools include Claude Meetings, Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards. Anthropic also said Claude Data, formerly known as Claude Dashboards when it was introduced in beta in October, is now generally available. The Verge reported that Whiteboards and Sheets are in beta on all paid plans, while Meetings is in beta for Team and Enterprise subscriptions. According to Anthropic, Claude Data can connect to systems such as a data warehouse or a customer relationship management platform, and can answer questions with dashboards, written data stories or narrated videos.
According to TechCrunch, teams can add Claude to a video call as a visible participant. As people talk, it can draft a plan, map a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and retrieve information from connected work apps, such as the previous year’s figures. After the call, meeting notes, action items and other materials are available on claude.ai. Anthropic said Claude will identify itself as a participant and post a notice in the meeting chat. It will not join calls with external guests unless an administrator has authorised it, and will leave automatically if an external guest joins. At launch, TechCrunch reported, Meetings works with Google Meet, with support for additional platforms expected later.
Claude Whiteboards is a shared board on which a team can talk through a plan while Claude turns it into an organised visual workspace with timelines and deadlines, according to Anthropic. When the brainstorming is finished, Claude can turn the board into a document or a slide deck. Whiteboards also work inside Claude Meetings, so the board can be built while people are still talking.
Claude Sheets lets teams ask Claude to build a working spreadsheet, such as a campaign tracker or a hiring budget, with multiple tabs, formulae, formatting and drop-down menus. Anthropic said Claude can edit cells alongside the team and outline each change. Both Whiteboards and Sheets are available in beta on paid plans, on the web, desktop and mobile, according to the company’s own product pages as well as the two outlets.
Anthropic also announced interactive connectors that open the full version of apps from partners such as Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot inside Claude, so users can work in those tools without switching tabs. The new artefacts join existing tools such as Claude Docs, Slides, Design and Motion. The Verge reported that Claude can also turn a presentation into a one-minute explainer video.
Nicholas Lin, who works on product at Anthropic, told The Verge that Claude Code “changed how engineers work a year ago”, and that the company now wants to close the gap for knowledge workers. “I think there’s still a lot of friction when it comes to adopting AI for non-developers,” he said.
The launch comes as Anthropic courts a wider audience of white-collar users. The Verge noted that the company is under pressure to deepen product engagement ahead of a planned initial public offering.
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