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- Claude can now build spreadsheets and shared whiteboards together with a team.
- Both tools are in beta on all paid Claude plans.
- Claude Data turns company numbers into dashboards and is now generally available.
- Anthropic says Claude Meetings, which joins video calls, is “coming soon”.
- Beta
- An early version that people can use, but that may still change or have problems.
- Generally available
- Finished and open to every customer it is meant for, not only to testers.
- Connector
- A link that lets Claude read from, or work inside, another app such as Notion.
Anthropic makes the Claude AI models. Claude could already write documents, slide decks and designs, and Claude Code changed how many programmers work. The new tools aim at the rest of the office: plans, numbers and meetings.
Sheets and Whiteboards
Claude Sheets builds spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down lists, often from one request such as a hiring budget. Claude edits the cells alongside the team and marks each change it makes.
“For now, sheets have simple spreadsheet functionality, but we are working on adding more,” Anthropic says. Users who need all of Excel’s features can export a file to .xlsx or CSV.
Claude Whiteboards is a shared board where a team lays out ideas. Claude can sort notes by theme, draft action items, and turn the board into a document or a slide deck.
Both are in beta on all paid plans, on the web, desktop and mobile.
Status and plans from Anthropic’s pages. Meetings is disputed.
Claude Data
Claude Dashboards, launched in beta in October, is now generally available under a new name, Claude Data. It connects to company data in tools such as Snowflake and Salesforce, and builds dashboards, written data stories and short narrated videos.
A data team can certify the queries everyone should use, so charts don’t show conflicting numbers. Those certified queries, and live sharing of dashboards, are still in beta.
On Team plans, the three tools are on by default. On Enterprise plans, Sheets and Whiteboards start switched off, and Claude Data turns on by default on November 19, 2026.
Partner apps inside Claude
With “interactive connectors”, partners can embed their apps in Claude, so users can work in Adobe, Atlassian, Box or Notion without switching tabs. Anthropic says its marketplace lists more than 9,000 connectors and plugins.
Anthropic also names plugins from Salesforce, NetSuite and Workday, with built-in skills for sales, accounting and HR work. The Salesforce and Workday plugins are in beta.
Meetings: now or later
Claude Meetings will let a team add Claude to a video call to take notes and update documents during the conversation. Anthropic’s own page says it is “coming soon” and gives no date.
TechCrunch and The Verge report that it launches in beta on Team and Enterprise plans. TechCrunch says it works only with Google Meet at first, and that Claude leaves a call if an outside guest joins.
The race for the office
Google’s Gemini can already join meetings and take notes, and so can ChatGPT in some cases, The Verge notes. Android Authority sees the tools as a challenge to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.
“I think there’s still a lot of friction when it comes to adopting AI for non-developers,” Nicholas Lin, who works on product at Anthropic, told The Verge.
Sources
Every fact in this story comes from the sources below. Open them to check our work.
- 1Primary source · November 10, 2026More ways to work with Claude: Sheets, Whiteboards, and Interactive Connectors Anthropic
- 2Primary source · November 10, 2026Introducing Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data Anthropic
- 3Research · November 10, 2026Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks TechCrunch
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- 5Research · November 10, 2026Anthropic turns Claude into a full workspace with Plugins, spreadsheets, whiteboards, and soon Meeting notes The Decoder
- 6Research · November 11, 2026Claude now has its own workplace tools, taking on Microsoft Office, Google Workspace Android Authority
Features, plans and dates come from Anthropic’s pages. Whether Claude Meetings is already in beta is unclear: Anthropic says “coming soon”, while TechCrunch and The Verge report a beta.
Anthropic adds Sheets and Whiteboards to Claude. Silicon AI News, November 11, 2026. https://siliconainews.com/stories/anthropic-claude-sheets-whiteboards-data
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