Anthropic launches Claude Sheets, Whiteboards and Meetings
Anthropic turned Claude into something closer to an office suite on November 10, 2026. It launched Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta, made Claude Data (formerly Dashboards) generally available, announced Claude Meetings, and added interactive connectors that open full partner apps inside Claude. For developers, the interesting part is the last one: it runs on MCP Apps, an open extension of the Model Context Protocol.
What’s new
Anthropic’s roundup post and its Sheets, Whiteboards and Data article describe these launches:
| Product | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Sheets | Spreadsheets Claude builds with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-downs; shared editing; export to .xlsx or CSV | Beta, all paid plans |
| Claude Whiteboards | A shared board Claude fills with timelines, owners and dates, groups ideas and drafts action items | Beta, all paid plans |
| Claude Data | Dashboards, data stories and narrated videos from warehouses and CRMs, with certified metric definitions | Generally available, all paid plans (certified queries and live sharing in beta) |
| Claude Meetings | Claude joins a call, takes notes and updates shared documents as people talk | Announced; see below |
| Interactive connectors | Partner apps open beside the chat or full screen, and Claude edits in them | Rolling out on web and desktop, all plans |
Sheets, Whiteboards and Data run on web, desktop and mobile. On Team plans all three are on by default. On Enterprise plans Sheets and Whiteboards start off, and Claude Data turns on by default on November 19, 2026. Anthropic says Sheets is simple for now and points people who need full Excel features to Claude for Excel. Whiteboards can be turned into a doc or deck, or moved to Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho.
Claude Data works with Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse, with Snowflake and Salesforce named as sources in the roundup. It caches results with a refresh schedule per dashboard and tracks changes with rollback.
Claude Meetings. Anthropic’s roundup lists Meetings as coming soon. TechCrunch reports that it is in beta on Team and Enterprise plans and works with Google Meet first. Claude joins as a visible participant, posts a notice in the meeting chat, and can draft the plan being discussed, map a timeline on a whiteboard and pull figures from connected apps. According to TechCrunch, it won’t join calls with external guests unless an admin allows it, and leaves if one joins.
Anthropic also listed plugins with built-in skills from Salesforce (beta), NetSuite and Workday (beta), and auto-connect (beta, eligible Team and Enterprise plans), where an admin sets up an app like Notion, Atlassian or Dropbox once and employees are connected the first time they use it.
What it means for developers
Interactive connectors let a user open a real app inside Claude, signed into their own account, and have Claude edit the page, row or file they have open. Each action is approved the same way as other connector actions. The launch group from Claude’s directory is Asana, Canva, Carta, Dropbox, monday.com, Smartsheet, Vercel and Webflow, and Anthropic says Figma, Harvey and Shopify are building integrations.
They are built on MCP Apps, an extension of the Model Context Protocol that lets an MCP server ship its own interface. Anthropic says Claude now supports more of that extension, including app tools and embedded sites, so a full app can run inside Claude, and that MCP Apps built this way also run in any AI application that supports the extension. These developer capabilities are in public preview, with a getting-started guide at claude.com/docs/connectors/building/mcp-apps/getting-started.
If you already run an MCP server for your product, this is the path from a text-only tool to an embedded UI. Adobe is also previewing MCP support for its own apps; see our post on Adobe’s MCP preview.
For admins: Enterprise owners can choose which users get which products and connectors, set spend limits, and limit a connector’s tools, for example read access to Slack without permission to send messages. Anthropic says each cloud session runs in an isolated virtual machine with connector credentials kept outside it.
How it compares
Anthropic’s own announcement does not compare the apps with Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, and it gives no separate pricing for them; they come with paid Claude plans. Anthropic notes that Claude Marketplace lists more than 9,000 connectors and plugins. Sheets is plainly a lighter tool than Excel or Google Sheets for now, by Anthropic’s own description. For Anthropic’s previous consumer launch, see Claude Personal Finance.