Anthropic adds spreadsheets, meeting notes and whiteboards to Claude

Anthropic is widening Claude's role from chat assistant to workplace tool with a set of new productivity features, Engadget reported. The announcements came at an event in San Francisco and cover spreadsheets, meeting notes, collaborative whiteboards and an expansion of the plugin system.

The most substantial addition is Claude Sheets, which lets the chatbot create and edit spreadsheet files. Each file can hold multiple tabs and formulas, and standard formatting options are included. Anthropic is positioning the feature as collaborative: anyone with editing rights can change a file, and Claude's edits are flagged so colleagues can follow what changed. Files can be exported to Excel, and there is support for Anthropic's Google Workspace plugin. Sheets is in beta for Claude subscribers on web, desktop and mobile.

Claude Meetings is a meeting agent in the mold of tools from Otter.ai and others. It launches on Google Meet, which already offers a competing agent through Gemini, and joins calls to take notes that users can later query for plans and action items. Anthropic said the assistant identifies itself as a participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. It does not join calls with outside guests unless an administrator permits it, and it leaves if such a guest appears. Meetings is limited to Team and Enterprise customers for now.

Claude Whiteboards is a brainstorming tool that groups a team's ideas by theme and drafts action items for individuals. It can run alongside Claude Meetings. Anthropic frames the tool as a way to avoid copying ideas out of Claude and into another app to share them. Whiteboards is in beta for all paid users across web, desktop and mobile.

Separately, Anthropic is renaming Claude Dashboards to Claude Data and beginning to roll it out to all paid users. The company said the new name reflects that businesses use their data for more than dashboards. The tool can connect to a company's CRM so Claude can answer questions about its contents.

Finally, Anthropic is upgrading plugins, which link services such as Canva and Notion so Claude can draw on their information. The company said the Claude Marketplace already offers more than 9,000 connectors; the update lets users open full apps inside Claude so the assistant can act on what appears in the window. The rollout starts with a small group of partners, including Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot.

What this means in practice

Taken together, the releases push Claude toward the territory of Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, which bundle similar assistants into their productivity apps. For everyday users, the practical question is access rather than capability. Sheets and Whiteboards are in beta, and Meetings is restricted to business tiers, so individual subscribers will not see the full set immediately. The plugin upgrade, meanwhile, is limited to selected partners at launch.

The collaboration details are worth watching. Anthropic's notes say Claude's spreadsheet edits are visible to collaborators and that the meeting agent announces itself and exits when outside guests join, which suggests the company is designing for shared workspaces rather than solo use. Whether those controls work as described has not been independently tested, based on the available reporting.

Anthropic has not said when the beta features will reach general availability or what they will cost beyond existing subscription tiers, according to the source material. Users who already pay for Claude and work in shared documents have the most to gain from trying Sheets and Whiteboards; Teams and Enterprise customers are the only ones who can use Meetings at this stage.