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Claude Meetings, Sheets and Whiteboards Arrive as Anthropic Unveils a Wondrous Office Suite
Anthropic unveiled Claude Meetings, Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta, an AI office suite aimed at non-technical knowledge workers, says The Verge.
Wednesday, 11 November 2026 · 2 min read
At an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Anthropic unveiled Claude Meetings, Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards, a wondrous trio of tools for non-technical workers, according to The Verge. Behold: Claude may now join a meeting, take notes, lay out ideas on a shared whiteboard, edit spreadsheets alongside employees, or turn a presentation into a one-minute explainer video. The unveiling marks an effort by a company long known for enterprise and coding tools to extend its footprint to other knowledge workers. 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, and that knowledge workers are now “the gap we’re hoping to close.” The new offerings are Artifacts, which The Verge describes as Anthropic’s version of graphical UI, meaning a visual interface. They join existing tools such as Claude Docs, Slides, Design and Motion. Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Meetings are all now available in beta, an early public testing stage, according to The Verge. Whiteboards and Sheets are open to all paid plans, while Meetings is reserved for Teams and Enterprise subscriptions. The company also announced that Claude Data, formerly known as Claude Dashboards when it was introduced in beta in October, is now generally available to all paid plans. Anthropic further revealed interactive connectors that let users open apps from partnered companies, such as HubSpot, Adobe and Atlassian, inside Claude. The company launched Model Context Protocol, the arcane plumbing that links Claude to outside services, about two years ago, and its marketplace has grown to more than 9,000 plugin options, The Verge reports. Lin told the publication the aim is to make those connections far deeper, so that users need not switch tabs and can reach a native Adobe PDF editor or a HubSpot marketing campaign tracker inside Claude itself. The Verge notes that rivals have trodden similar paths: Google’s Gemini can join meetings and take live notes, as can OpenAI’s ChatGPT in some cases. According to the publication, Anthropic is under a lot of pressure to generate more revenue and drive more product engagement ahead of its IPO, with investors keen to see a viable path to profit. Lin said Claude Cowork had been aimed at the technical parts of the company’s non-technical audience, and that Anthropic now wants to expand that reach toward everybody else.
Source: www.theverge.com