Anthropic puts Claude into meetings, spreadsheets and whiteboards

By Rebecca Stone

Anthropic unveiled three AI-powered office tools on Tuesday at a San Francisco event: Claude Meetings, Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards, all entering beta as the company pushes Claude beyond coding and enterprise developers.

Whiteboards and Sheets are available to every paid Claude plan, while Meetings is limited to Teams and Enterprise subscribers. Claude Data, renamed from Claude Dashboards, which entered beta in October, has also reached general availability for all paid plans.

Nicholas Lin, who works on product at Anthropic, told The Verge in a pre-briefing that Claude Code “changed how engineers work a year ago.” Lin describes knowledge workers as the gap Anthropic hopes to close.

He also said: “I think there’s still a lot of friction when it comes to adopting AI for non-developers.” Lin described Claude Cowork, an earlier tool for non-engineers, as essentially a wrapper for Claude Code that addressed the technical parts of that audience.

What changes for knowledge workers?

The products target people who spend much of their time in meetings, brainstorming and analyzing metrics. Across the suite, Claude can join a meeting and take notes, arrange ideas on a shared whiteboard, edit spreadsheets alongside employees, and turn a presentation into a one-minute explainer video.

Anthropic’s new Artifacts, which it calls its graphical UI, arrived two and a half years after the original feature debuted. They join Claude Docs, Slides, Design and Motion, giving nontechnical workers visual and editable work products rather than only conversational output.

The new releases expand the reach toward everybody else.

How deep do the integrations go?

Anthropic also introduced interactive connectors for opening apps from partnered companies inside Claude, including HubSpot, Adobe and Atlassian. The company launched Model Context Protocol about two years ago; since then, its marketplace has grown to more than 9,000 plugin options.

The new connectors go beyond simple links. Users can open a native Adobe PDF editor or a HubSpot marketing campaign tracker without leaving Claude. The design goal is to avoid tab switching by embedding services people already use in the place where they ask for help, reducing the steps between a request and the underlying application.

How does the field compare?

Google’s Gemini can join meetings and take live notes. ChatGPT can do so in some cases through its “record” feature, while Gemini can create spreadsheets by working with Google Sheets. Google also offers many interactive connectors for its office tools.

At OpenAI’s DevDay last month, OpenAI leaned further into integrated apps and connectors to make its new Dots agents more useful. Anthropic is following some of those steps while trying to gain ground in the AI agent race.

Why the office suite now?

For years, Anthropic has been known for enterprise and coding tools that attracted high-flying corporate clients. That approach inspired competing frontier labs, including OpenAI, SpaceXSI and Meta, to copy its strategies, and Claude Code went through its own hype cycle earlier this year.

Now Anthropic is courting white-collar workers ahead of a potential IPO. The company needs more revenue and product engagement, and a listing could produce the most valuable public debut in history. Investors also want evidence of a viable path to profit.

These launches are among Anthropic’s first native products for nontechnical knowledge workers. Cowork served the technical edge of that group; Meetings, Sheets, Whiteboards and the deeper connectors target the broader office workflow.

The beta now moves the argument from capability to behavior.

The test is adoption. Anthropic’s measurable opportunity is whether paid users keep Claude in meetings, revise spreadsheets and open embedded apps often enough to lift engagement; its IPO pressure makes that test more immediate.

If the interfaces deliver the promised reduction in context switching, Claude could become the work layer around existing tools rather than another destination workers must keep open beside them.