Anthropic announced a suite of workplace productivity features in November 2026, including Claude Meetings, Claude Whiteboards, and Claude Sheets, designed to integrate its AI assistant directly into team collaboration and planning tasks.
Claude Meetings allows teams to add Claude as a visible participant in video calls, where it follows the conversation and begins working on tasks in real time. During a call, Claude can draft plans, map out timelines on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and pull information from connected work apps — such as retrieving last year’s figures. After the call, meeting notes, action items, and other materials are available in claude.ai. Claude identifies itself in the meeting chat and will not join calls with external guests unless authorized by an admin, automatically leaving if an external guest joins. At launch, Claude Meetings works with Google Meet and is available in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.
Claude Whiteboards offers a collaborative board where teams can work with Claude in real time to turn brainstorming sessions into organized visual workspaces with timelines and deadlines. When a session is complete, Claude can convert the board into a document or slide deck. Whiteboards also function inside Claude Meetings, building as the conversation unfolds. The feature is available in beta on paid plans across web, desktop, and mobile.
Claude Sheets lets teams create and collaboratively edit spreadsheets with Claude’s assistance. Users can request items like a campaign tracker or hiring budget, and Claude generates a working spreadsheet with multiple tabs, formulas, formatting, and dropdown menus, making edits directly in cells and outlining each change. Claude Sheets is also available in beta on paid plans.
Anthropic also announced that Claude Data — formerly Claude Dashboards — is now generally available, connecting Claude to data warehouses and CRMs to produce dashboards, written data stories, or narrated videos in response to user questions. Additionally, the company introduced interactive connectors that open full versions of apps including Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot directly within Claude.
The announcements come weeks after OpenAI unveiled workplace collaboration tools and as Meta has entered the space with its Muse AI agent, with all three companies moving to position their AI products as broader office productivity platforms competing with Microsoft and Google.
Source: TechCrunch