Wednesday, 11 November 2026

Claude can now build spreadsheets and whiteboards with your team

Anthropic has added Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Data, with apps like Adobe and Atlassian opening inside Claude; Meetings comes later.

Key points

  • Claude Sheets and Whiteboards let teams edit one file with Claude.
  • Claude Dashboards is renamed Claude Data.
  • Adobe and Atlassian apps can now open inside Claude.

Teams that already brainstorm with Claude can now keep the result in one shared place. Anthropic has launched Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards, where colleagues and the assistant work in the same file at once, and renamed its dashboard tool Claude Data.

A third piece, Claude Meetings, was announced alongside them, but it is not out yet.

Anthropic’s announcement frames the launch around people who are not programmers. Its argument is that Claude Code showed what happens when the assistant has the full context of a project, and that office teams, whose context is scattered across mail, apps and drives, need the same thing. Sheets covers multi-tab spreadsheets with formulas; Whiteboards is a board for laying out ideas in a meeting, after which Claude summarises the findings.

Claude Data pulls from systems such as Snowflake and Salesforce. In beta it can also work from metric definitions a company’s data team has signed off, and it outputs dashboards, written explanations or short narrated videos. As an example of internal use, Anthropic describes its lawyers building a Slack tool that marks up drafts against their own playbook, which it says shortened marketing reviews from three days to one.

Partners can now embed full apps in Claude as well. Adobe and Atlassian are named, so a user can open the app beside the chat and ask Claude to work inside it. Salesforce, NetSuite and Workday are shipping plugins with prepackaged skills too, aimed at sellers preparing calls, accountants and HR staff, though two of the three are labelled beta. Anthropic puts the number of connectors and plugins in its marketplace above 9,000.

Admins get a new option, auto-connect, as a beta for eligible Team and Enterprise plans: an organisation sets up Notion, Atlassian or Dropbox once and employees are linked the first time they use it. Connector actions can be narrowed, for instance letting Claude read Slack without sending messages for someone.

Meetings is the unreleased part: Anthropic describes Claude sitting in on a call, keeping notes and editing the team’s working documents as people talk, and labels it “coming soon”. Some reports of the launch describe a beta for Team and Enterprise customers that begins with Google Meet, which Anthropic’s page does not state, so wait for it to show up in the app before relying on it.

Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and Meta are chasing the same office-suite market, and Sheets puts Anthropic directly against Excel and Google Sheets.

TPRO Team

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