Anthropic Launches Claude Meetings, Data, and Office Connectors

Anthropic generalizes access to data with Claude Data and adds connectors for Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot. Meanwhile, Claude Meetings is entering beta for Team and Enterprise, initially with Google Meet, while Whiteboards and Sheets are also opening in beta on web, desktop, and mobile. The assistant appears as a participant, with access rules in the presence of external guests.

Claude Data becomes general and connectors open full apps

Claude Data, previously known as Claude Dashboards, is now accessible to everyone. This feature connects the assistant to the systems where companies store their data, such as data warehouses or CRMs. Users can query Claude and receive answers in the form of dashboards, data narratives, or narrated videos. Anthropic also offers interactive connectors that allow users to open the full version of applications like Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot directly within Claude. According to the company, these applications can be used alongside conversations with the assistant, which can intervene to integrate existing workflows into a single space.

Meeting presence: mandatory identification and guest management

Claude identifies itself as a participant and posts a notification in the chat when it joins a meeting. It does not join a call with external guests without permission from an administrator. If an external guest appears, Claude automatically leaves the meeting.

What Claude does during and after meetings

With Claude Meetings, teams can include the assistant as a visible participant during a video call. Claude listens to what is being said and takes on various tasks live: it can draft the discussed plan, create a calendar on a whiteboard, provide answers in the chat, and extract data via connected applications, such as last year's figures. Once the call is over, notes, action items, and other generated documents are accessible on claude.ai. Anthropic states that this feature allows discussions to be transformed into real-time actions, whereas work typically begins after the meeting.

Collaborating on boards and sheets with the assistant

Claude Whiteboards offers a collaborative space where a discussed plan can be structured into an organized visual space with deadlines. Anthropic notes that many users are already brainstorming with the assistant but previously had to copy and paste their results to share them. Now, a team can work with Claude on the same board in real-time, and at the end of the session, transform that board into a document or presentation. Whiteboards can also be used in Claude Meetings, building as participants speak. Whiteboards is available in beta on paid plans, via web, desktop, and mobile. Claude Sheets allows for collaborative creation and editing of spreadsheets. The assistant can produce a campaign tracking table or a recruitment budget, handle the initial setup of trackers and budgets, and then allow teams to adjust and update that same sheet. Each sheet can include multiple tabs, formulas, formatting options, and dropdown menus. Claude makes changes directly in the cells alongside the team and details each modification made. Sheets is also accessible in beta on paid plans, on the web, desktop, and mobile.

Availability and scope at launch

Claude Meetings is launching in beta on the Team and Enterprise offerings and initially works with Google Meet. Support for other plans is expected later. Anthropic announced these new features on a Tuesday, introducing Claude Meetings among a set of tools for work and also unveiling Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets.

Race for the AI suite against OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta

OpenAI recently introduced work tools for collaborating with ChatGPT, including business information visualization and presentation creation. Anthropic and OpenAI are looking to evolve their products into office suites competing with Microsoft and Google. Meta is also participating in this dynamic with Muse AI, an agent capable of creating mini-apps on demand for targeted tasks.