On November 10, Anthropic added two new document types to Claude: Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets, both launching in beta. Claude Dashboards, introduced only in October, has been renamed Claude Data and is now generally available.
All three features are open to every paid plan and work on the web, desktop and mobile. In its announcement, Anthropic said documents, whiteboards, spreadsheets and dashboards can now live inside Claude, where teammates can edit them together.
Whiteboards and Sheets each have their own job
Whiteboards are aimed at meetings and planning. Users can talk through a discussion and have Claude turn it into a timeline with owners and dates. When several people add sticky notes to the same board, Claude can group the notes and then draft action items. Drawing a frame around one area of a board lets you ask Claude about just that section. A finished whiteboard can be converted into a document or a presentation, or exported to Lucid, Miro and Zoho's Vani.
Sheets works by letting Claude generate a spreadsheet straight from a prompt, complete with multiple tabs, formulas, formatting and dropdown menus. Claude marks every cell it changes so the edits can be checked afterward. Anthropic did not dodge the product's limits: the announcement says Sheets is fairly basic for now, and that more demanding work should be exported to .xlsx or CSV, or moved over to Claude for Excel. The partners on the Sheets side are Airtable, Asana, monday.com and Smartsheet.
Claude Data gets a "certified" badge
The renamed Claude Data is the only one of the three that is generally available, on the condition that a data connector is attached, such as a data warehouse or a CRM.
"Claude Data needs a data connector, such as a warehouse or CRM."
Several features are new:
- Certified metric definitions (beta): metrics that have been certified carry a "certified" badge on charts;
- Live sharing (beta): viewers see only the results of approved queries;
- Dashboard caching, with a refresh rate that can be set for each dashboard individually;
- A change log that shows who edited what and lets you roll back to an earlier version;
- Drafting "data stories" and walkthrough videos from the data, which the user reviews before sharing.
The warehouse examples in the announcement are Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse; on the analytics side, it connects to Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog and Sigma.
Defaults differ by plan
The main difference between plans is the default state. On Team plans, all three features are switched on by default. On Enterprise plans, Whiteboards and Sheets are off by default, and Claude Data will not be on by default until November 19. Admins can change these settings at any time under Artifacts in the organization settings.
On the same day, Claude's interactive connectors were also upgraded: apps such as Adobe, Atlassian, Box and Notion can open with their full interface next to the conversation or in full screen, with Claude operating them directly.
Is this usable for teams in China?
For Chinese-language readers, these features are a long way off. Claude is not offered in mainland China, and last year Anthropic tightened its policy so that companies more than 50% owned by Chinese capital cannot use it even if they are incorporated overseas. Teams in China who want to try it would be stopped at the account and compliance stage.
Domestic office software is going down a similar road. Feishu, DingTalk and WPS have all built large models into their own spreadsheets and whiteboards. The difference is that they add AI to collaboration software that already exists, whereas Claude grows documents outward from a chat box. Whiteboards, spreadsheets and dashboards happen to be exactly the territory those Chinese products have worked for years.
Anthropic did not say how long the beta for Whiteboards and Sheets will last or when they will graduate, nor whether Sheets will later gain fuller formula and pivot-table capabilities.
Sources: CocoLoop, Claude official blog; items checked include the beta or general-availability status of the three features, the default switches on each plan, the date Enterprise defaults take effect, and the partner lists.