Anthropic turns Claude into an office suite with spreadsheets, whiteboards and embedded partner apps
Claude Sheets, Whiteboards and Data are available now, and a note-taking Claude Meetings feature is coming soon, as the company courts office workers ahead of its IPO.
Anthropic is adding a set of collaboration tools to the Claude app. Claude Sheets lets teams create and edit spreadsheets with AI help, including formulas and multiple tabs. Claude Whiteboards lets teams brainstorm and have Claude summarize the results. Claude Data, previously called Dashboards, connects to tools such as Snowflake and Salesforce to build dashboards and data visualizations. A new feature called Interactive Connectors lets partners including Adobe, Atlassian and Salesforce embed their apps inside Claude, which The Decoder compares to ChatGPT's plugins. Anthropic says Claude Meetings, which can join calls and take notes, is launching "soon." Enterprise customers get security controls including audit logs, isolated virtual machines and a compliance API. The Verge describes the launch as an effort to reach white-collar workers ahead of Anthropic's IPO. The company has so far been best known for enterprise and coding tools, Claude Code in particular. The move puts Claude in more direct competition with established productivity software and with rival AI labs going after the same office users.