Anthropic Adds Spreadsheets and Whiteboards to Claude in Push Into Office Software

Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards launched in beta. Claude Data, the new name for a dashboard tool that entered beta in October, is now generally available, the company said in posts on its website. All three run on web, desktop and mobile and come with every paid Claude plan. Anthropic listed a fourth product, Claude Meetings, as coming soon without giving a date. It will let users add Claude to a call to take notes and update team documents while people talk.

The launch puts Anthropic in more direct competition with two of its own backers. Bloomberg reported that the tools, shown at a company event, bring the Claude maker into sharper rivalry with Microsoft and Alphabet's Google, and described Claude Sheets as similar to Excel and Google Sheets. Both companies are among seven chip and cloud suppliers that have agreed to buy $26 billion of Anthropic stock in a private placement at the price of its initial public offering, according to the company's updated filing. Anthropic opened its IPO roadshow on the same day. It sells mainly to businesses, and the new tools show how it means to build software that office workers use throughout the day, not just supply the models underneath it.

What Sheets and Whiteboards Do

Anthropic said Claude can build a spreadsheet with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down menus, often from a single request such as a campaign tracker or a hiring budget. Every cell it edits is flagged so users can follow its changes, and teammates can share a sheet and work on it together with Claude. The company admitted the product is basic for now. Users who need full spreadsheet functions are told to export to .xlsx or CSV, or to use its existing Claude for Excel add-in. Airtable, Asana, monday.com and Smartsheet are named as partners.

Whiteboards is a shared board for planning sessions. Anthropic said a team can talk through a plan and have Claude lay it out with a timeline, owners and dates. In a retrospective, Claude can sort teammates' notes by theme and draft action items for each person. Users can draw a box around part of the board and ask Claude about it, and a finished board can be turned into a document or slide deck, or moved into Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho.

Data Tools and Connected Apps

Claude Data lets teams ask questions of company data held in systems such as Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse, once a warehouse or CRM connector is set up. Anthropic said it renamed the product because it now does more than build dashboards. Data teams can certify metric definitions, and charts built on them then carry a "certified" badge. That feature is in beta. A live-sharing option, also in beta, shows colleagues current results without giving them access to the connector or the data behind it. Claude can also draft data stories and narrated videos for review before they are shared. Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog and Sigma are listed as partners.

Anthropic also upgraded its connectors so that partner apps, including Adobe, Atlassian, Box and Notion, can open inside Claude, either next to the conversation or in full screen. NetSuite plugins and beta plugins from Salesforce and Workday add ready-made skills for sales, finance and HR work. The company said administrators can restrict what each connector does and set spending limits.

Anthropic published customer testimonials with the launch. Ash Gupta, director of FP&A at Advantage Solutions, said the team's work on its forecast cycle fell from about 10 hours to under 30 minutes. HubSpot's chief customer officer, Jon Dick, said: "Work that used to take hours every week now runs in the background."

The tools are switched on by default for Team plan customers. On Enterprise plans, Sheets and Whiteboards start switched off, and Claude Data will be turned on by default on November 19, 2026. CNBC has reported that Anthropic expects its shares to start trading on Nasdaq, under the ticker ANT, at around the same date.