Anthropic launches Claude Whiteboards and Sheets in beta, brings Claude Data to general availability

What Anthropic announced

Anthropic has introduced two new collaborative surfaces for Claude — Whiteboards and Sheets, both in beta — and moved its dashboards product to general availability under a new name, Claude Data. According to the company's announcement, which surfaced on the Hacker News front page, all three ship on every paid plan and work on web, desktop and mobile.

The stated motivation is a familiar friction: work produced with Claude typically had to be pasted into another program, after which the assistant could no longer see progress or edits. Anthropic now wants boards, documents, spreadsheets and dashboards to live inside Claude, where teams keep editing them together, with handoff paths into third-party tools when the work outgrows them.

Claude Whiteboards

Whiteboards is a shared canvas for group brainstorming with Claude. In Anthropic's framing, you can reason through an untidy plan out loud and have Claude reshape it into a board with a timeline, owners and dates. In a retrospective meeting, participants add their notes and Claude can cluster them by theme and draft action items for each person. Users can drag a selection box around any region of the board and ask questions about just that portion. A finished board can be converted into a document or deck, or carried into Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho to continue with the team.

Claude Sheets

Sheets lets Claude construct and co-edit spreadsheets. Anthropic says a single prompt — for a campaign tracker or a hiring budget, for example — can produce a workbook with multiple tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down menus. When Claude modifies cells, each change is outlined so people can follow what it did, and sheets can be shared so teammates and Claude work in the same file.

The company is upfront about the limits: current sheets offer basic spreadsheet functionality, with more planned. For heavier use it points to .xlsx and CSV export, the separate Claude for Excel integration, and partner tools including Airtable, Asana, monday.com and Smartsheet.

Claude Data reaches general availability

Claude Dashboards, which entered beta in October and let teams ask questions of company data in sources such as Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse, is now generally available as Claude Data. Anthropic renamed it on the grounds that how organisations use data is broader than dashboards alone.

Alongside GA, Anthropic detailed several additions:

• Certified queries, in beta, let a data team designate the canonical queries everyone should use, so teams stop building dashboards whose numbers conflict. Charts built on those metrics carry a "certified" badge.
• Data stories let Claude draft narratives or narrated videos from metrics, with a human reviewing before anything is shared.
• Live sharing, in beta, means colleagues opening a shared dashboard see up-to-date figures even without access to the connectors behind them. Viewers see dashboard results rather than underlying data and can run only queries that have been approved.
• Design systems are now supported, dashboards gain caching with per-dashboard refresh schedules, and tracked changes record who edited what and allow rollback to earlier versions.

Partners for Claude Data include Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog and Sigma.

Interactive connectors and rollout details

In the same announcement, Anthropic said interactive connectors can now open as full applications beside the conversation or in full screen, covering tools like Adobe, Atlassian, Box and Notion — users can work in those apps directly or ask Claude to make changes with them.

Claude Data requires a data connector, such as a warehouse or CRM. For administrators, the defaults differ by plan: on Team plans all three features are enabled from the start, while on Enterprise plans Whiteboards and Sheets ship switched off and Claude Data switches on automatically on November 19, 2026. The toggles live under Organization settings, in the Artifacts section.

Why it matters

This is Anthropic's clearest move yet from chat assistant toward team workspace. By keeping boards, sheets and dashboards inside Claude — complete with sharing, edit history and certified metrics — the company is contesting the same collaborative-AI territory that Microsoft and Google are folding into their office suites, but approaching it from the assistant outward rather than the spreadsheet inward.

The certified-queries feature and the permission model behind live sharing also signal an enterprise-governance focus: the bottleneck for AI-assisted analytics is often trust in the numbers rather than query generation. Meanwhile the long partner list — Miro, Airtable, Asana, Notion and more — suggests Anthropic is positioning Claude as a hub that hands off cleanly rather than a replacement for tools companies already run, which may be the more practical route into those accounts.