On November 10, 2026, Anthropic launched two tools inside its AI assistant, Claude: Claude Sheets, a spreadsheet, and Claude Whiteboards, a shared whiteboard. According to Bloomberg, the tools put Anthropic in more direct competition with two of its investors, Microsoft and Google. Anthropic itself describes the spreadsheet as simple for now. Each sheet holds at most 100,000 cells.
Both tools are in beta, meaning they are still being tested, and only paid plans get them. The same day, Anthropic took Claude Dashboards, its dashboard tool in beta since October, out of beta and renamed it Claude Data. Sheets, Whiteboards and Data are new kinds of artifacts, the shareable content Claude creates next to the conversation, as our guide to Claude artifacts explains.
Anthropic announced two more changes. Partner apps such as the project management app Asana, the design tool Canva and the file storage service Dropbox can now open in full inside Claude. Claude Meetings, an assistant that joins video calls, is “coming soon,” according to Anthropic. TechCrunch and Reuters, however, already describe it as being tested on Google Meet, Google’s video call service.
Claude Sheets, a spreadsheet Claude builds with the team
In Claude Sheets, Claude builds a spreadsheet from a simple request, with multiple tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down lists. Anthropic gives two examples: a campaign tracker and a hiring budget. Claude then edits the cells itself and marks each change as it makes it, so the user can see what changed. A sheet can be shared with coworkers, who work in the same cells at the same time as Claude.
Sheets includes 144 functions, according to Anthropic’s online Help Center, read on November 11. Functions are the built-in formulas that run calculations. Sheets also offers bar, line and pie charts, plus other chart types Claude can generate.
Claude Sheets takes in data three ways: from a CSV file, by import from Google Sheets or Excel, or by copy and paste. CSV is a plain-text format for tables. Sheets exports to an .xlsx file, Excel’s format, or to a CSV file. A sheet can also be sent to partner tools for organizing work, including Airtable, Asana, monday.com and Smartsheet.
Claude Sheets is separate from Claude for Excel, an add-in that lets Claude work in files open in Microsoft Excel. Anthropic points users to that add-in, or to an export, “when you need the full functionality of Excel.”
The limits Anthropic lists for Claude Sheets
“For now, sheets have simple spreadsheet functionality, but we are working on adding more,” Anthropic writes in its announcement. According to the Help Center, a sheet holds at most 100,000 cells. That works out to, for example, 5,000 rows across 20 columns.
The Help Center lists seven common features as “not available yet.” They include pivot tables, which summarize a large table automatically, and protected ranges, which lock cells against edits. Find and replace, multi-column sort, filter views, multi-select drop-downs and PDF export are also missing.
Five Excel features are “not supported.” Two are macros, small programs that automate tasks, and VBA, the language macros are written in. Power Query, which imports and transforms data, is the third. The last two are DAX, the formula language of Microsoft’s Power Pivot and Power BI analysis tools, and print layout.
Claude Sheets can’t pull live data from apps connected to Claude. On mobile, a sheet opens read-only, with “basic” access. The announcement, by contrast, listed web, desktop and mobile with no such caveat.
The Sheets beta doesn’t yet support three data protection requirements. The first is HIPAA, the US health data law. The second is customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK), which let a company hold the keys to its own encrypted data. The third is zero data retention (ZDR), under which Anthropic doesn’t keep the data once a request is processed.
According to Bloomberg, Nicholas Lin, a product leader at Anthropic, called Claude Sheets a “fairly basic” experience for now. He said the tool isn’t meant for financial modeling. For that work, he said, the add-ins that bring Claude into existing spreadsheet software work better. Two news sites, PYMNTS and The Next Web, picked up his comments.
Claude Whiteboards, a board the team shares with Claude
Anthropic gives two examples for Claude Whiteboards. In the first, a user talks through a rough plan out loud, and Claude turns it into a board with a timeline, owners and dates. The second is a team retrospective, a meeting that looks back on finished work. Everyone adds notes, then Claude groups them by theme and drafts the action items for each person.
Whiteboard dictation works in 25 languages listed in the Help Center, French among them. When the brainstorm is done, Claude can turn the board into a doc or a slide deck. It can also send the board to the online whiteboard tools Lucid, Miro or Zoho Vani.
The Help Center notes two limits at launch. Claude works only from what’s on the board, without context from connected apps. Whiteboards also isn’t offered to organizations set up for HIPAA compliance.
Organizations that apply zero data retention to Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding tool, are a special case. Whiteboards remains available to them in chat and in Cowork, Claude’s agent for office tasks, but boards made there aren’t covered by zero data retention.
Claude Dashboards becomes Claude Data
Claude Data, out of beta since November 10, answers questions about company data. That data often sits in warehouses, central company databases such as Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse. Anthropic says it dropped the Dashboards name because the way companies use their data “is broader than dashboards.”
Claude Data produces dashboards, written stories built from the numbers, and short narrated videos to review before sharing. It needs a connected source, such as a data warehouse or a CRM, the software companies use to manage customer relationships. For each chart, Claude writes a query, the instruction that pulls the numbers. It shows that query so viewers can see what the chart counts.
Two Claude Data features, certification and live sharing, are still in beta. A company’s data team can certify the reference queries, and charts built on them carry a “certified” badge. With live sharing, coworkers see up-to-date numbers without access to the sources themselves. They only see the results of approved queries.
Plans and default settings
Sheets, Whiteboards and Data are available on Claude’s paid plans: Pro, Max, Ultra, formerly Max 20x, Team and Enterprise. The free plan isn’t included. Anthropic hasn’t announced a separate price. Using these tools counts toward the plan’s usage limits, like the rest of the work done with Claude.
Default settings differ on the two business plans, Team and Enterprise. On Team, all three tools are on by default. On Enterprise, Sheets and Whiteboards are off by default. Claude Data turns on automatically for Enterprise on November 19, 2026, unless an owner of the organization has already saved a setting.
Organization owners manage these tools in Organization settings, under Artifacts. Custom roles, sets of permissions an organization defines, let them open Sheets to only part of the staff. On Enterprise, the same goes for Claude Data.
Interactive connectors open the whole app
Connectors link Claude to other software. Interactive connectors, launched earlier this year, used to show a small preview of a tool inside the conversation. Since November 10, the whole app can open next to the conversation or in full screen, when the connector supports it.
The user can work in the app directly or ask Claude to make changes. The user then approves those changes the same way as any other connector action.
Anthropic is starting with a small group of tools, including Asana, Canva, Dropbox, monday.com and Smartsheet. The list also includes Carta for equity management, Vercel for website hosting and Webflow for website building. The rollout covers all plans, on the web and in the desktop app, as accounts move to the new version of Claude, which brings chat and Cowork together.
Claude Meetings, in beta or only announced?
Anthropic and two news outlets give different accounts of Claude Meetings. In its “More ways to work with Claude” post, published November 10, Anthropic says the tool is “coming soon.” It will let users add Claude to a call to take notes and update the team’s documents during the conversation. The post gives no date and no platform.
TechCrunch and Reuters, by contrast, describe a beta launch for Team and Enterprise plans, starting with Google Meet. Both outlets present that beta as an Anthropic announcement.
According to TechCrunch, Claude joins the call as a visible participant, identifies itself and posts a notice in the meeting chat. It won’t join calls with guests from outside the company unless an admin authorizes it. It also leaves the call if an outside guest joins. Notes and action items then show up in Claude.
Reuters reports that Anthropic plans to expand the tool to other video conferencing platforms, without naming them. None of the sources we read mention Zoom or Microsoft Teams for Claude Meetings.
On November 12, 2026, Anthropic opened the Claude Meetings beta on Google Meet, limited to the Team and Enterprise plans.
The same day, Anthropic launched Claude for Manufacturing, a plugin with 17 skills that drafts quotes and quality reports for factories.
A launch on the day of the IPO roadshow
The announcements came the same day Anthropic launched its roadshow, the tour of investor presentations ahead of its initial public offering on Nasdaq. Bloomberg sees the tools as a move into Microsoft’s and Google’s territory. It notes that the spreadsheet resembles Excel and Google Sheets. Microsoft shares dropped 3% in a sudden move during trading after the announcement, CNBC reported.
Nicholas Lin, quoted by Bloomberg, said: “I think there’s a time and place for these Microsoft and Google products, especially for more advanced enterprise use cases.” He added: “But we’re hoping to show new ways of working inside Claude as well.”
TechCrunch notes that the launch comes a few weeks after OpenAI unveiled workplace tools for ChatGPT, its own AI assistant. In TechCrunch’s view, both companies are trying to turn their assistants into something like office suites to take on Microsoft and Google.
Gaps in the announcement
Anthropic backs the launch with customer testimonials published on its own site. Ash Gupta is director of financial planning and analysis at Advantage Solutions. He says his team used to spend about 10 hours every forecast cycle on slides, commentary and validation. Since the team automated that work in Claude, he says, it takes under 30 minutes.
Jon Dick, chief customer officer at the software company HubSpot, offers another figure. He says drafts of his teams’ follow-up emails are ready within 30 minutes of a call ending. Both claims come from the customers themselves, with no published measurement.
None of the Anthropic pages we read mention a regional restriction for Sheets, Whiteboards or Data. That’s a contrast with an earlier Claude feature, Personal Finance, which launched on November 5 in the US only. Apart from whiteboard dictation, those pages give no list of supported languages.
The missing Sheets features have no release date. Anthropic says only that it is adding more “over time.”
What it means
According to Anthropic, working with Claude on a project often meant moving the output into another program. With Sheets, Whiteboards and Data, tables, plans and numbers stay in Claude, where the team and the assistant edit them together. That moves Anthropic onto the turf of Microsoft’s and Google’s office suites, with a spreadsheet it describes as simple.
Companies on Claude Team are the first to feel it, because all three tools are on there without any admin action. Anthropic itself recommends Claude Sheets for a light, shared spreadsheet, like the trackers and budgets in its announcement. A file that already lives in Excel or Google Sheets, or that needs their full feature set, is a different case. For that, Anthropic points to its Claude for Excel and Claude for Google Workspace add-ins, or to an export.
Anthropic documents the limits of Claude Sheets precisely. The time savings it highlights rest on customer testimonials, with no independent measurement. Three things remain to watch: the date and platforms for Claude Meetings, the arrival of pivot tables and live data in Sheets, and the response from Microsoft and Google.
Sources
- Introducing Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data, Anthropic, November 10, 2026
- More ways to work with Claude: Sheets, Whiteboards, and Interactive Connectors, Anthropic, November 10, 2026
- Your apps can now open in Claude, and Claude can work in them, Anthropic, November 10, 2026
- Get started with Claude Sheets, Claude Help Center, viewed November 11, 2026
- Get started with Claude Whiteboards, Claude Help Center, viewed November 11, 2026
- Get started with Claude Data, Claude Help Center, viewed November 11, 2026
- Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks, TechCrunch, November 10, 2026
- Anthropic adds Claude Sheets and a call assistant, taking on its backers, The Next Web, based on Bloomberg, November 10, 2026
Header image: MACCUS chart. Data: Anthropic announcements and Help Center, November 10-11, 2026; TechCrunch and Reuters for Claude Meetings
