Anthropic adds spreadsheet and workplace tools to Claude

Anthropic has expanded Claude with workplace tools for spreadsheets, collaborative brainstorming and business data, aiming to let teams create and manage work inside the AI assistant. Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards are in beta for paid users, while the company says its renamed analytics product, Claude Data, is generally available or rolling out to paid subscribers.

Claude Sheets lets users create and edit spreadsheets with Claude, including files with multiple tabs, formulas and formatting. Teams can work in the same file, and the product marks changes made by Claude. Anthropic says users can export generated files to Excel. The company describes Sheets as a collaborative tool, while product leader Nicholas Lin said in remarks reported by Bloomberg that it is basic for now and not intended for financial modelling.

Claude Whiteboards, also in beta for paid users, gives teams a shared workspace to organize ideas and develop plans. Anthropic says Claude can group contributions by theme and draft action items. The whiteboards can also be used during Claude Meetings, the company’s meeting assistant, which is in beta for Team and Enterprise plans and initially works with Google...