Anthropic Launches Claude Whiteboards and Sheets in Beta

Anthropic launched Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta on November 10, 2026, and made Claude Dashboards generally available under the new name Claude Data. All three products are available on paid plans across the web, desktop, and mobile, adding shared workspaces where teams can continue editing with Claude.

The launch changes how work moves through Claude. Previously, users often transferred generated material to another application, where Claude no longer had live access to subsequent progress and changes. Boards, sheets, documents, and dashboards can now remain inside Claude during collaboration, with exports and partner integrations providing a route out when teams want to finish the work elsewhere.

Whiteboards and Sheets Add Shared Workspaces

Whiteboards supplies a real-time canvas for group planning, where Claude can turn a spoken discussion of an unfinished plan into a timeline with owners and dates. In a retrospective, it can group participants’ notes by theme and draft action items for each person. Users can draw a box around part of a board to focus their questions on that selection. Once the session is over, Claude can convert the board into a document or presentation, or transfer it to Lucid, Miro, or Vani by Zoho for further work.

Sheets can generate spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting, and drop-down menus, often from one prompt such as a request for a campaign tracker or hiring budget. It can edit within cells and outline each change so users can follow what it did, and the resulting sheet can be shared with a team. Anthropic describes the current spreadsheet functionality as simple, with more in development. Users needing Excel’s full feature set can export XLSX or CSV files or use Claude for Excel; other handoffs include Airtable, Asana, monday.com, and Smartsheet.

Claude Data Adds Governance and Live Sharing

The Data product builds on the Dashboards beta that Anthropic introduced on October 8, 2026. That release connected Claude to data platforms including Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks, and Snowflake, as well as CRM systems such as Salesforce. Users could ask questions in plain language, receive a dashboard that stayed current, and inspect the query behind each chart. Anthropic says the new name reflects use cases that now extend beyond dashboards.

General availability does not apply to every Data feature: certified queries and live sharing remain in beta. Data teams can certify the queries and metric definitions colleagues should use, and charts built on those metrics carry a certified badge. Anthropic presents this as a way to avoid dashboards built on conflicting data.

Live sharing addresses a different access problem. Colleagues can open a shared dashboard and see current numbers without receiving access to the connectors that keep it updated. Viewers see dashboard results rather than the underlying data and can run only approved queries. The result is a distinction between distributing a metric and granting access to the systems behind it.

Claude Data can also draft stories or narrated videos from a team’s metrics for review before sharing. Other additions include design-system support and tracked changes that identify editors and permit rollbacks to specific versions. Caching replaces the previous reload-on-open behavior, with refresh cadences set separately for each dashboard. The product requires a data connector such as a warehouse or CRM, and its partners include Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog, and Sigma.

Enterprise Defaults and Connected Applications

The administrative defaults differ by plan. On Team plans, all three products are on by default. Enterprise plans start with Whiteboards and Sheets off by default, while Data is scheduled to turn on by default on November 19, 2026. Administrators can adjust these settings through the Artifacts section of Organization settings.

In a related announcement on the same day, Anthropic expanded interactive connectors so supported tools can open beside a conversation or in full screen. That rollout covers the web and desktop app on all plans as accounts receive the new Claude experience or organizations enable it. Claude can make approved changes to an open page, row, or file while the user watches, including edits in Confluence, revisions with side-by-side comparisons in Box, and document or database creation in Notion.

Those connectors use MCP Apps, an extension that lets a Model Context Protocol server supply its own interface within AI applications. Developer support for additional capabilities, including app tools and embedded sites, is in public preview, a separate status from the end-user rollout.

Taken together, the products let Claude carry more of a project from brainstorming and planning through spreadsheets and shared reporting. Exports and partner handoffs preserve routes to specialized tools, while beta-stage sharing controls and administrative defaults define the current boundaries of that workflow.