Anthropic launches Claude Sheets, Meetings and Whiteboards in a push into office software

A spreadsheet built around Claude

Anthropic has expanded Claude's productivity tools with three new products that Turkish tech outlet Webrazzi describes as direct competition for Microsoft's and Google's office software. The headline product, Claude Sheets, lets users create and edit spreadsheets together with Claude.

According to Webrazzi, files made in Claude Sheets can contain multiple tabs and formulas. Users can ask Claude to build a sheet's content or edit existing data, and the changes Claude makes are marked so team members can follow them. People with edit rights can work on the same file, files can be exported in Microsoft Excel format, and the tool works with Anthropic's Google Workspace add-on. It is available in beta to Claude subscribers on web, desktop and mobile.

Anthropic is not pitching it as an Excel replacement yet. Webrazzi reports that Anthropic product manager Nicholas Lin called the current version quite basic and said it is not designed for advanced work such as financial modelling, where the company sees Claude tools that plug into existing apps as a better fit.

Meetings and Whiteboards

Claude Meetings works with Google Meet. It joins calls, takes notes, and lets users ask Claude afterwards about the plans, decisions and action items discussed. It shows itself as a participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat, and unless an administrator allows it, it does not join calls that include people from outside the company. It is available to Claude Team and Enterprise customers.

Claude Whiteboards is aimed at shared brainstorming. As team members add ideas to a board, Claude can group them into themes and draft action items. Meetings and Whiteboards can be used together, so ideas raised in a call land in a shared Claude workspace instead of being copied into another app. Whiteboards is in beta for all paid Claude users.

Data and apps inside Claude

Anthropic also renamed its data analysis tool from Claude Dashboards to Claude Data, saying businesses use their data for more than building dashboards. Claude Data connects to sources such as CRM systems and answers questions about that data in natural language. It is rolling out gradually to all paid users.

Webrazzi notes that Claude's marketplace already lists more than 9,000 connections. With the new system, users can open some of those apps inside Claude itself, and Claude can act on what it sees in the open app. Anthropic is starting with companies including Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot.

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