Anthropic Adds Sheets, Whiteboards to Claude

Anthropic on Tuesday, Nov. 10, added a spreadsheet, a shared whiteboard and a data workspace to Claude, pushing its chatbot deeper into everyday office work. Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards entered beta on all paid plans, Claude Dashboards became generally available under the new name Claude Data, and a meeting agent called Claude Meetings was unveiled alongside them.

Key takeaways

• Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards are in beta on all paid Claude plans, on web, desktop and mobile.
• Claude Data, formerly Claude Dashboards, is generally available, with certified metric queries and live sharing in beta.
• Claude Meetings puts Claude into video calls as a visible participant, starting with Google Meet.

What Claude Sheets can do

According to Anthropic's product announcement, Claude Sheets builds a spreadsheet from a short prompt, such as a request for a campaign tracker or a hiring budget. The sheets can include multiple tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down menus. Claude edits directly in the cells and outlines each change so teammates can track what it did.

Anthropic is candid about the limits. It says Sheets has "simple spreadsheet functionality" for now. Users who need full Excel features can export to .xlsx or CSV, use its Claude for Excel add-in, or move the work into partner tools including Airtable, Asana, monday.com and Smartsheet.

Claude Whiteboards and Claude Data

Whiteboards is a shared board where a team brainstorms with Claude. Anthropic says Claude can turn a spoken plan into a timeline with owners and dates and draft action items for each person. A finished board can become a document or slide deck, or move to Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho.

Claude Dashboards launched in beta in October and is now generally available as Claude Data. Anthropic said it changed the name because "the way companies use their data is broader than dashboards." The product connects to warehouses such as Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse and can produce dashboards, written data stories or narrated videos.

How Claude Meetings works

Claude Meetings adds Claude to a video call as a visible participant, TechCrunch reported. During the call it can draft the plan being discussed, map a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat and pull figures from connected work apps. Notes and action items land in claude.ai afterward.

Claude posts a notice in the meeting chat identifying itself. It will not join calls with external guests unless an admin allows it, and it leaves automatically if an outside guest joins. TechCrunch said the feature is in beta on Team and Enterprise plans and works with Google Meet at launch, while Anthropic's own overview post describes Meetings as "coming soon."

Connectors and enterprise controls

Anthropic also upgraded interactive connectors so apps such as Adobe, Atlassian, Box and Notion can open as full apps beside a Claude conversation. The company says its marketplace lists more than 9,000 connectors and plugins built on the Model Context Protocol.

On Enterprise plans, each cloud session runs in its own isolated virtual machine with connector credentials kept outside it. A Compliance API works with more than 100 security and compliance tools, including Splunk and CrowdStrike, Anthropic said.

Context: AI labs move into office suites

The launch puts Claude in more direct competition with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. OpenAI introduced its own set of workplace tools for ChatGPT on Sept. 29, according to TechCrunch. Microsoft shares fell about 3% midday Tuesday after the announcement, MLQ.ai reported, citing a CNBC market update.

Anthropic pointed to early results from customers. Ash Gupta, director of financial planning and analysis at Advantage Solutions, said his team cut forecast-cycle presentation work from about 10 hours to under 30 minutes. Anthropic said its own legal team used a Claude-built review tool to bring marketing reviews down from three days to 24 hours.

What's next

On Team plans, Sheets, Whiteboards and Data are on by default. On Enterprise plans, Sheets and Whiteboards are off by default, and Claude Data switches on by default on Nov. 19, 2026. Anthropic said it is working to add more spreadsheet functions, and TechCrunch reported that support beyond Google Meet is expected to follow.

FAQ

Who can use Claude Sheets and Whiteboards?
Both are in beta on all paid Claude plans, on web, desktop and mobile. Enterprise admins must switch them on.

Can Claude Sheets replace Excel?
Not yet. Anthropic says Sheets offers simple functionality for now and points users who need full features to .xlsx export or Claude for Excel.

Does Claude join meetings with outside guests?
No, unless an admin authorizes it. According to TechCrunch, Claude leaves automatically if an external guest joins.

References

• Introducing Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data — Anthropic (Nov. 10, 2026)
• More ways to work with Claude: Sheets, Whiteboards, and Interactive Connectors — Anthropic (Nov. 10, 2026)
• Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks — TechCrunch (Nov. 10, 2026)
• Anthropic launches Claude Sheets and Meetings in a push into office software as Microsoft shares fall — MLQ.ai (Nov. 10, 2026)