Anthropic Launches Sheets, Meetings, and Whiteboards

Anthropic adds three major tools to Claude and evolves its integrations. A spreadsheet, a meeting agent, and a whiteboard are introduced alongside a renamed data module and a plugin system capable of opening entire applications. The launches are taking place in beta or in waves, with identified partners and explicit usage rules.

Enhanced Plugins and Data: Ongoing Deployments and Partners

Anthropic is improving Claude's plugins, which already connect services like Canva and Notion, with over 9,000 connectors available through the Claude Marketplace. Users can now open complete applications within Claude, allowing the chatbot to act directly on the displayed content. This enhancement is being rolled out in waves to an initial group of partners including Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot. Meanwhile, Claude Dashboards has been renamed Claude Data and is beginning to be deployed for all paying users. Anthropic justifies this name change by noting that its uses extend beyond dashboards. Claude Data can also be linked to a company's CRM to answer specific questions about its data.

Sheets: A Collaborative Spreadsheet, Exportable to Excel and Linked to Workspace

Claude Sheets, announced in San Francisco, allows Claude to generate and edit spreadsheets. Each file can contain its own tabs and formulas, with standard formatting options. Presented as a collaborative tool, it permits anyone with editing rights to modify the file, and changes made by Claude are noted. It is possible to export the created files to Excel, and Anthropic's Google Workspace plugin is compatible. Sheets is offered in beta to Claude subscribers on the web, desktop, and mobile.

Meetings and Ideation: An Agent for Google Meet and a Whiteboard

Claude Meetings, a meeting agent comparable to those from Otter.ai and others, is initially arriving in Google Meet, which also offers its own agent via Gemini. Claude can join video calls, take live notes, and continue discussions with participants on the plans and actions discussed. According to Anthropic, the agent identifies itself as a participant and posts a notice in the chat; it does not join calls with external guests without an administrator's permission and leaves the meeting if a guest joins nonetheless. For now, Claude Meetings is reserved for Team and Enterprise customers. On the ideation front, Claude Whiteboards organizes ideas by theme and drafts individual action items. Its use can occur simultaneously with Meetings and is described as an evolution of already common practices, where sharing results typically happened through copy-pasting. Whiteboards is accessible in beta to all paying users on the web, desktop, and mobile.