Anthropic announced new workplace features on Tuesday, led by Claude Meetings, which adds Claude to video calls as a visible participant that begins working on tasks while team members are still talking. The company also introduced Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets, expanding its push into collaborative productivity software.
The launch comes a few weeks after OpenAI unveiled a set of workplace tools that let users collaborate with ChatGPT to visualize company information and create presentations. Both companies are competing to turn their AI assistants into office suites that can challenge Microsoft and Google. Meta has also entered the field with its Muse AI agent, which can build mini-apps on the fly to help users complete specific tasks.
Claude joins the call as a participant
With Claude Meetings, teams can add Claude to a video call as a visible participant. Claude follows the conversation and works on tasks in real time. As participants talk, it can draft the plan under discussion, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information such as last year’s figures.
After the call, the meeting notes, action items, and other materials Claude created are available in claude.ai. Anthropic says work from a meeting usually starts after everyone hangs up, but the new feature lets teams turn discussions into actions while the conversation is still underway.
Claude identifies itself as a meeting participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. It will not join calls with external guests unless an administrator authorizes it, and it automatically leaves if an external guest joins. Claude Meetings is launching in beta on Team and Enterprise plans. At launch, it works with Google Meet, with support for additional plans expected to follow.
Whiteboards build while teams talk
Anthropic describes Claude Whiteboards as a collaborative board where teams can talk through a plan and have Claude turn it into an organized visual workspace with timelines and deadlines. The company notes that many people already brainstorm with Claude, but sharing the results with others has required copying and pasting them somewhere else. With Whiteboards, a team can work directly with Claude on the same board in real time.
When the brainstorm is finished, Claude can turn the board into a document or a slide deck. Whiteboards also work inside Claude Meetings, so the board can build while people talk, Anthropic says. Claude Whiteboards is available in beta on paid plans across web, desktop, and mobile.
Claude Sheets and data tools
Claude Sheets lets teams create and collaboratively edit spreadsheets with Claude. A team can ask it to build a campaign tracker or a hiring budget, and Claude will generate a working spreadsheet. Anthropic says Claude handles the initial setup of trackers and budgets while allowing teams to continue refining and updating the same spreadsheet.
Each spreadsheet can include multiple tabs, formulas, formatting, and dropdown menus. Claude also makes edits directly in cells alongside the team and outlines each change so users can see what it did. Claude Sheets is available in beta on paid plans across web, desktop, and mobile.
Anthropic also announced that Claude Data, formerly known as Claude Dashboards, is now generally available. The feature connects Claude to systems companies use to keep their numbers, such as a data warehouse or a CRM. Users can ask questions, and Claude responds with dashboards, written data stories, or narrated videos.
In addition, Anthropic announced interactive connectors that open the full version of apps such as Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot inside Claude. The company says teams can now open these apps directly alongside their Claude conversations and ask the assistant to work within them, bringing existing workflows into the same workspace.