Anthropic Announces Claude Meetings, Whiteboards, and Sheets Productivity Tools

What Is New

On Tuesday, November 10, Anthropic announced several new productivity-focused features designed for the workplace [1, 2]. These include:

• Claude Meetings: A feature that allows the AI to join video calls as a visible participant to work on tasks in real time [1, 2]. It can draft plans, map out timelines on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and retrieve information from connected work apps, such as previous years’ figures [1]. After a call, meeting notes and action items are available at claude.ai [1].
• Claude Whiteboards: A collaborative visual workspace where teams can brainstorm and have Claude turn ideas into organized plans with timelines and deadlines [1]. These boards can be converted into documents or slide decks [1].
• Claude Sheets: A tool for creating and collaboratively editing spreadsheets [1]. Claude can generate working spreadsheets that include multiple tabs, formulas, formatting, and dropdown menus, such as hiring budgets or campaign trackers [1]. It also outlines any changes it makes to cells [1].
• Claude Data: Formerly known as Claude Dashboards, this feature is now generally available [1]. It connects to company systems like CRM or data warehouses to provide dashboards, written data stories, or narrated videos [1].
• Interactive Connectors: These allow users to open full versions of apps like Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot directly inside Claude to work within existing workflows [1].

How to Use It

• Claude Meetings: Teams can add Claude to a video call as a visible participant [1]. It identifies itself by posting a notice in the meeting chat [1]. Currently, it works with Google Meet [1, 2].
• Claude Whiteboards: Teams can work directly with Claude on the same board in real time via web, desktop, or mobile platforms [1]. Whiteboards also function inside Claude Meetings to build while people talk [1].
• Claude Sheets: Users can ask Claude to build specific trackers or budgets, and the AI will generate the spreadsheet for the team to refine [1]. This is available on web, desktop, and mobile [1].

Limits, Privacy and Academic Integrity

• Claude Meetings Availability: This feature is launching in beta for users on Team and Enterprise plans [1, 2]. Support for additional plans is expected to follow [1, 2].
• Privacy and External Guests: Claude Meetings will not join calls with external guests unless an administrator authorizes it [1]. If an external guest joins a call, Claude will automatically leave [1].
• Beta Access: Both Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets are currently in beta and are available only to paid subscribers [1, 2].