Anthropic Adds Claude Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets to Its Workplace Lineup

Anthropic rolled out a set of workplace features on Tuesday, led by Claude Meetings, which puts Claude into video calls as a visible participant so it can start on tasks while the conversation is still happening. The company also introduced Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets.

The release lands a few weeks after OpenAI unveiled workplace tools that let users collaborate with ChatGPT on things like visualizing company information and building presentations. Both companies are racing to turn their products into office suites that can challenge Microsoft and Google, and Meta is in the mix too with its Muse AI agent, which builds mini-apps on the fly for specific tasks.

In Claude Meetings, teams add Claude to a call, where it follows the discussion and works in real time: drafting the plan under discussion, mapping a timeline on a whiteboard, answering questions in the meeting chat, and pulling information from connected work apps, such as last year's figures. After the call, the notes, action items and other materials Claude produced are waiting in claude.ai. Anthropic says the point is to turn discussions into actions while people are still talking, rather than after everyone hangs up.

Claude identifies itself as a participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. It will not join calls with external guests unless an admin authorizes it, and it leaves automatically if an external guest joins. The feature is in beta on Team and Enterprise plans and works with Google Meet at launch, with more plans expected to follow.

Claude Whiteboards is a collaborative board where teams talk through a plan and Claude turns it into an organized visual workspace with timelines and deadlines. Anthropic notes that people already brainstorm with Claude but previously had to copy-paste results elsewhere to share them; now a team can work with Claude on the same board in real time, then have it converted into a doc or slide deck. Whiteboards also runs inside Claude Meetings, so the board builds as people talk. It is in beta on paid plans across web, desktop and mobile.

Claude Sheets lets teams create and edit spreadsheets together with Claude, asking it to build something like a campaign tracker or hiring budget and getting a working spreadsheet in return. Anthropic says Claude handles the initial setup while teams keep refining the same file, which can include multiple tabs, formulas, formatting and dropdown menus. Claude edits cells alongside the team and outlines each change so users can see what it did. Sheets is in beta on paid plans on web, desktop and mobile.

Anthropic also said Claude Data, formerly Claude Dashboards, is now generally available, connecting Claude to systems where companies keep their numbers, such as a data warehouse or CRM, and answering questions with dashboards, written data stories or narrated videos. Interactive connectors were announced as well, opening full versions of apps like Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot inside Claude so teams can work in them alongside their conversations.

Source: TechCrunch