Anthropic launches Claude Sheets and adds Meetings and Whiteboards to its workplace push

Anthropic launched Claude Sheets on 10 November at an event in San Francisco, alongside Claude Meetings, Claude Whiteboards, a renamed data tool and interactive connectors. Sheets lets a team build and edit spreadsheets with Claude and is in beta on paid plans across web, desktop and mobile. Anthropic frames the push as bringing office workers the gains that coders have already had from Claude.

A sheet can hold several tabs, formulas, formatting and dropdown menus. Claude edits cells next to the people working in the file and outlines each change so they can see what it did. Anyone with edit access can change the sheet, which exports to Excel or CSV and works with Anthropic's Google Workspace plugin. Example requests include a campaign tracker or a hiring budget.

Claude Meetings joins a call as a visible participant and starts on Google Meet, in beta for Team and Enterprise customers only. It stays out of calls with outside guests unless an admin allows it, and leaves if one joins. Whiteboards, in beta on paid plans, groups a team's ideas by theme, drafts action items and can turn a board into a document or slide deck. Claude Dashboards is now Claude Data, open to paid plans and connecting to a CRM or data warehouse; Anthropic says it changed the name because companies use data for more than dashboards.

More than 9,000 connectors are available, and full apps can open inside Claude, starting with Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot. Microsoft's shares fell more than 2% after the news. OpenAI showed its own workplace collaboration tools a few weeks earlier, Meta has its Muse agent, and Google Meet already has a Gemini meeting agent, with note-taking agents such as Otter.ai's long in use. All of them are chasing Microsoft and Google. Anthropic says many people already brainstorm with Claude, but sharing the results used to mean pasting them elsewhere, which the shared tools are meant to end. Teams already do much of their work in apps like these, the company says, and can now open the full app beside the conversation and ask Claude to work in it with them.

Meetings is to spread beyond Google Meet to other video platforms. The launch came the same day Anthropic opened its IPO roadshow, with the listing set for as soon as next week. Fortune noted that the tools could win subscribers but might also burn tokens on AI material nobody uses.