Anthropic introduced Claude Sheets and Whiteboards in beta and made its dashboard product generally available under a new name, Claude Data. All three are available on paid plans.
Whiteboards lets your team brainstorm with Claude on a shared board. Claude can organize the discussion into a plan, then turn it into a document or presentation.
Sheets lets you ask for a budget or tracker, then edit the spreadsheet alongside Claude and your colleagues. The formulas stay visible so someone can check the math.
Data connects to company information and turns questions into dashboards, written analysis, or narrated videos. It also adds beta features for approving the calculations behind company metrics and sharing current results with colleagues.
Anthropic is putting more of the workday inside Claude, and the “Hotel California” strategy is clear: Anthropic wants you to begin a task in Claude and keep working there. It also lets supported partner apps open beside the conversation, so some of that work can stay in the tools you already use.
There are limits. Sheets currently lacks pivot tables and macros, and it can’t pull live data from connected apps. (You can export to Excel when you need more.) Anyone evaluating this as a replacement for an established workflow should read the fine print.
This feels like a strange interim step. The artifacts are for humans to interface with, but they aren’t really necessary for the AI to do what it does. We’re going to have to find a balance of interaction with our agentic coworkers where we can understand what they are doing without restricting the speed at which they are capable of working.
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About Shelly Palmer
Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with AI strategy, implementation and governance, as well as technology, media and marketing. Named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Technology, he is a bestselling author, covers tech and business for Fox 5’s Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN, and writes the popular daily business blog Think About This. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.