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Anthropic Builds an Office Suite Inside Claude, Starting With Sheets and Whiteboards

Anthropic wants the spreadsheet, the whiteboard and the dashboard to live inside Claude. The company rolled out Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta on Tuesday, made its dashboard product generally available as Claude Data, and opened Claude to partner apps that now run in full beside the chat window.

Taken together, the releases move Claude further into territory Microsoft and Google have long held. They join the documents, slide decks, designs and Motion animations Claude could already produce, and they land as Anthropic courts investors for its initial public offering.

Anthropic frames the pitch around Claude Code. “We’ve seen Claude Code change how developers work,” the company wrote. “Our goal is to bring that magic to every team.”

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Sheets is the most direct shot at Excel and Google Sheets. Claude builds spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-downs from a short prompt, edits cells alongside the team and outlines each change so people can track what it did. Anthropic is candid about the limits. Sheets has “simple spreadsheet functionality” for now, and the company points users who need the full feature set to an .xlsx or CSV export, its Claude for Excel add-in, or partner tools including Airtable, Asana, monday.com and Smartsheet.

Whiteboards turns a spoken, messy plan into a shared board with owners and dates. In a retrospective, for example, everyone can add notes while Claude groups them by theme and drafts action items for each person. Boards can then become a doc or deck, or move into Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho.

Claude Data replaces Claude Dashboards, which launched in beta in October. Data teams can now certify the queries everyone else should use, and charts built on them carry a “certified” badge. Live sharing lets colleagues see current numbers without holding the connectors behind them, and viewers can’t run other queries on the owner’s access. Certified queries and live sharing remain in beta. Partners include Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog and Sigma.

The app changes reach further. Interactive connectors, built on the MCP Apps extension to the Model Context Protocol, can now open as full tools next to a conversation or in full screen. A Confluence or Notion user gets the full editor, signed into their own account, and can ask Claude to make changes they approve as they would any connector action. The first group includes Asana, Canva, Carta, Dropbox, monday.com, Smartsheet, Vercel and Webflow, and Anthropic said Figma, Harvey and Shopify are building integrations. Plugins from Salesforce, NetSuite and Workday come with built-in skills for sellers, accountants and HR teams, with the Salesforce and Workday versions in beta.

The Register’s read was blunt. Anthropic is turning Claude into “a landlord for other software applications,” it wrote, pointing to a company promotional video titled “Your apps have moved into Claude.” The same piece noted that a market of non-coders willing to pay for Claude would please investors in the pending IPO.

Corporate buyers get controls to match. On Enterprise plans, admins choose who can use which products and connectors and can set spending limits, and they can restrict what each connector does, so Claude might read Slack without being able to post. Claude auto-connect, in beta on eligible Team and Enterprise plans, makes linking tools such as Notion, Atlassian or Dropbox a one-time setup for the whole organization. Each Enterprise cloud session runs in its own isolated virtual machine with connector credentials kept outside it. Whiteboards and Sheets are on by default for Team plans and off by default for Enterprise, where Claude Data switches on by default on Nov. 19.

Customers supplied the early numbers. Ash Gupta, director of financial planning and analysis at Advantage Solutions, said his team cut roughly 10 hours of forecast-cycle slide and commentary work to under 30 minutes. At Gusto, a commercial legal team member built a tool in a few hours that cut contract turnaround from over a week to hours, Anthropic said.

The launch comes a few weeks after OpenAI unveiled workplace tools of its own for ChatGPT, TechCrunch noted. Anthropic’s next piece is Claude Meetings, which it says is coming soon. Claude will take notes and update the team’s documents while people talk. TechCrunch reported it will join a call as a visible participant, start in beta on Team and Enterprise plans with Google Meet, and leave a call if an external guest joins.

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