Anthropic wants Claude in your meetings as it builds a rival to Microsoft Office

Anthropic wants Claude to sit in on your next meeting. The Claude maker unveiled Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards on Tuesday, made its data dashboards generally available as Claude Data, and showed off Claude Meetings, which adds Claude to a video call to take notes and update your team’s documents while people are still talking. It is a direct pitch for work done in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.

What Claude Meetings does

Anthropic’s own announcement lists Claude Meetings as “coming soon”, saying it “will let you add Claude to a call to take notes and update the documents your team is working on during the conversation.” TechCrunch and The Verge, which were briefed by the company, say it is launching in beta on Team and Enterprise plans, and TechCrunch says it works only with Google Meet at first.

According to TechCrunch, Claude joins the call as a visible participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. While people talk, it can draft the plan being discussed, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the chat and pull figures from connected work apps. When the call ends, the notes, action items and anything else it made are waiting in claude.ai. Claude won’t join calls with external guests unless an admin allows it, and leaves automatically if one joins.

Sheets, Whiteboards and Data

The other three are available now:

• Claude Sheets (beta) builds spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down menus, often from a single prompt such as “a campaign tracker” or “a hiring budget”. Claude edits the cells alongside you and outlines each change. Anthropic admits that “for now, sheets have simple spreadsheet functionality”, so files can be exported to .xlsx or CSV, opened in Claude for Excel or moved to Airtable, Asana, monday.com or Smartsheet.
• Claude Whiteboards (beta) turns a plan you talk through out loud into a shared board with a timeline, owners and dates. In a retrospective, everyone can add notes and Claude groups them by theme and drafts action items for each person. A finished board can become a doc or deck, or move to Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho.
• Claude Data is the new name for Claude Dashboards, which launched in beta in October. It connects to tools such as Snowflake, Salesforce and BigQuery and can turn numbers into data stories or narrated videos. Certified metric definitions and live sharing, which shows colleagues current numbers without access to the underlying data, are still in beta.

They join Claude Docs, Slides, Design and Motion. Anthropic also upgraded interactive connectors, so apps from Adobe, Atlassian, Box, Notion and HubSpot can now open in full beside a Claude conversation, with Claude making changes inside them.

“There’s still a lot of friction”

Nicholas Lin, who works on product at Anthropic, told The Verge that Claude Code “changed how engineers work a year ago” and that other knowledge workers are “the gap we’re hoping to close.” He said:

I think there’s still a lot of friction when it comes to adopting AI for non-developers.

Nicholas Lin, Anthropic, speaking to The Verge

Anthropic’s post points to customers already working this way. Ash Gupta, a finance director at Advantage Solutions, says work that took his team about 10 hours each forecast cycle now takes “under 30 minutes” in Claude.

Anthropic is arriving in a crowded field. Gemini can already join Google Meet calls and take notes, OpenAI pushed deeper into workplace apps and connectors at its DevDay, and Microsoft is selling Copilot as an “OS for work”. Others have been building their own office tools with Claude too, such as the free office suite Paul Ford made in 10 days.

Who can use it

Claude Sheets, Whiteboards and Data are included in all paid Claude plans, on the web, desktop and mobile apps, wherever Claude is available. The free plan isn’t included. Claude Data needs a data connector, such as a warehouse or CRM.

On Team plans, all three are switched on by default. On Enterprise plans, Sheets and Whiteboards start switched off, and Claude Data turns on by default on November 19. Admins can change this under Organization settings, then Artifacts. Claude Meetings is for Team and Enterprise only.

Why it matters

The launch comes a day after Claude Fable 5.2 and the same day Anthropic set an IPO price range that values it at up to $1 trillion. Putting Claude inside the meetings, spreadsheets and whiteboards where office work happens is a bid for the seats Microsoft and Google sell today, though Sheets is still basic and Meetings has yet to reach most users.

Sources: Anthropic, “More ways to work with Claude: Sheets, Whiteboards, and Interactive Connectors” (November 10, 2026); Anthropic, “Introducing Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data”; Anthropic, “Open your apps in Claude and work in them together”; TechCrunch; The Verge.