Anthropic expands Claude with collaborative sheets, whiteboards, and data tools

Anthropic is expanding Claude beyond chat and document generation with new collaborative tools for spreadsheets, whiteboards, and business data. The company is also broadening its interactive connectors, allowing supported third-party applications to open directly inside Claude and enabling the AI assistant to make approved changes within them.

The releases position Claude as a more central workspace for teams that want to move from an initial idea to a plan, spreadsheet, dashboard, or finished asset without repeatedly transferring information between applications. Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets are launching in beta, while the former Claude Dashboards product is now generally available under the name Claude Data.

New tools keep work inside Claude

Claude Whiteboards provides a shared visual workspace for brainstorming and planning. Teams can add notes during a meeting, organize ideas, and ask Claude to identify themes or draft action items. Users can select part of a board and ask focused questions about it. Anthropic says boards can later be converted into documents or slide decks, or moved into partner services including Lucid, Miro, and Vani by Zoho.

Claude Sheets lets users create and edit spreadsheets with multiple tabs, formulas, formatting, and drop-down lists. Claude can generate a sheet from a short description, such as a hiring budget or campaign tracker, and records its edits so users can follow changes. The tool currently offers more limited spreadsheet features than dedicated products such as Excel. Files can be exported as XLSX or CSV, while users can also continue work in services such as Airtable, Asana, monday.com, and Smartsheet.

Claude Data is aimed at teams working with company data from connected services, including data warehouses and customer relationship systems. It can create dashboards, visual data stories, and narrated videos based on business metrics. New beta features include certified metric definitions, designed to help data teams establish approved calculations that others can reuse. Charts based on these definitions receive a certified label.

Claude Data also adds live sharing, version tracking, caching, and support for company design systems. Anthropic says shared dashboards can display current results to colleagues who do not have direct access to the underlying connector. Those viewers can see approved outputs, but not the underlying data, and can run only authorized queries.

Apps can open beside the conversation

The expanded interactive connectors let supported applications open next to a Claude conversation or in full-screen mode. Users can work in the embedded application themselves, then ask Claude to edit an open page, file, or row. Claude’s proposed actions require approval, and changes appear directly in the connected tool.

Anthropic lists Adobe, Atlassian, Box, HubSpot, and Notion among the services with relevant integrations. It also says a smaller group of tools, including Asana, Canva, Dropbox, Smartsheet, Vercel, and Webflow, can open as embedded apps. The capabilities are rolling out on the web and desktop app across Claude plans as accounts receive the new Claude experience.

For developers, the integrations are based on MCP Apps, an extension of Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol. The company says the standard enables software makers to bring interfaces and tools into AI applications, rather than limiting connections to background data access.

Anthropic is pairing the new features with enterprise controls. Administrators can determine which products and connectors employees may use, restrict connector actions such as sending messages, and set spending limits. The company also says Enterprise plans include audit logs, a Compliance API, and isolated virtual machines for cloud sessions. Claude Meetings, a planned feature for taking notes and updating working documents during calls, is due later.

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• More ways to work with Claude: Sheets, Whiteboards, and Interactive Connectors – Claude
• Your apps can now open in Claude, and Claude can work in them – Claude
• Introducing Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data – Claude