Anthropic expands Claude into meetings, whiteboards and sheets

By Nathan Brooks

Anthropic launched Claude Meetings in beta for Team and Enterprise plans on Tuesday, with Google Meet as the first supported video-call service. Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets also entered beta for paid plans, while Claude Data, formerly Claude Dashboards, reached general availability.

Anthropic said, “The work that comes out of a meeting usually starts after everyone hangs up, but with this new feature, teams can turn discussions into actions in real time.” The company wants Claude to move beyond post-meeting cleanup and operate while decisions remain open. A modest shift, but a commercially relevant one.

What does Claude change inside a meeting?

Teams can add Claude to a call as a visible participant. It follows the conversation, drafts the plan under discussion, maps a timeline on a whiteboard, answers questions in meeting chat, and retrieves information from connected work applications, including figures from last year. After the call, Claude makes its notes, action items and other created materials available at claude.ai.

Claude identifies itself as a 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.

At launch, Claude Meetings supports only Team and Enterprise plans, and Google Meet is the only call service named. Anthropic expects support for additional plans to follow, but the announcement provides no timetable.

How do Whiteboards and Sheets extend that workflow?

Claude Whiteboards gives teams a shared board for working through a plan. Claude can organize the discussion into a visual workspace with timelines and deadlines while users work with it in real time.

Anthropic says many people already brainstorm with Claude, then copy and paste results elsewhere to share them. The shared board addresses that handoff, and Claude can turn the finished board into a document or slide deck. Whiteboards also operates inside Claude Meetings, allowing the board to build as people talk.

The Whiteboards beta supports paid plans on web, desktop and mobile. That covers the three principal surfaces Anthropic identifies for its collaborative products, though access terms and usage limits remain unspecified.

Claude Sheets lets teams create and collaboratively edit spreadsheets through Claude. A request for a campaign tracker or hiring budget produces a working spreadsheet, after which Claude handles the initial setup and the team continues refining and updating the same file.

Each spreadsheet can contain multiple tabs, formulas, formatting and dropdown menus. Claude can edit cells directly alongside the team, and it outlines each change so users can inspect its work. The Sheets beta also supports paid plans on web, desktop and mobile.

What does Claude Data add?

Claude Data, formerly Claude Dashboards, is now generally available. It connects Claude to corporate systems that hold company figures, including data warehouses and customer relationship management platforms.

Users can ask questions and receive dashboards, written data stories or narrated videos. This expands the announcement beyond collaborative documents and into reporting from connected company data.

How do the application connectors fit?

Interactive connectors open the full versions of Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot inside Claude. Users can place these applications beside a Claude conversation and ask the assistant to work within them, bringing existing workflows into the same workspace.

Which companies does this challenge?

The launch came only weeks after OpenAI unveiled workplace tools that let users collaborate with ChatGPT to visualize company information and create presentations. Anthropic and OpenAI now pursue office-suite roles against Microsoft and Google, while Meta has joined them with the Muse AI agent.

Muse can build mini-apps on the fly to help users complete specific tasks. For enterprise buyers, the contest now concerns access to calls, documents, spreadsheets, company data and established applications, not merely the quality of a chat response.

Most of Anthropic's new collaborative surfaces remain in beta. The near-term test is whether teams retain those workflows after launch, as Anthropic expands meeting-platform and plan support while its rivals press similar features into daily work.