Anthropic adds Claude Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets to take on Microsoft and Google

A push beyond coding

Anthropic unveiled a slate of workplace features on 10 November 2026 at an event in San Francisco, aimed at people whose days go to meetings, brainstorms and spreadsheets rather than code. The company built its reputation on coding and enterprise tools, and says Claude has changed how engineers work over the past year while most other teams have seen far less change. Anthropic now wants Claude to play a similar role for knowledge workers. Nicholas Lin, the company's product lead for knowledge work, acknowledged that other knowledge workers have not experienced the same transformation.

What Claude Meetings does

Claude Meetings lets a team add Claude to a Google Meet call as a visible participant. While people talk, Claude can draft the plan under discussion, map out timelines on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat and pull information from connected work apps, such as last year's figures. After the call, the notes, action items and other materials are available in claude.ai. Claude identifies itself as a participant and posts a notice in the chat. It will not join calls with external guests unless an admin authorizes it, and it leaves automatically if an external guest joins. Lin said Anthropic has tested the feature internally for about two months and that Claude now attends nearly all of the company's meetings. For now it largely waits to be told what to do, and Anthropic expects to make it more proactive over time.

Lin told The Verge that adoption remains hard outside engineering.

“I think there's still a lot of friction when it comes to adopting AI for non-developers,”

Whiteboards, Sheets and Data

Claude Whiteboards is a shared, real-time board where teams work with Claude on the same canvas, then turn the result into a doc or slide deck. It also runs inside Claude Meetings, so the board builds while people talk. Claude Sheets is a spreadsheet with tabs, formulas and dropdown menus that lets teams build and edit trackers and budgets with Claude, and its files can be exported to Excel. Whiteboards and Sheets are in beta for paid subscribers. Claude Data, previously called Claude Dashboards, connects company data sources such as CRMs and warehouses to generate dashboards, written reports and narrated videos. It is now broadly available, with some features still in beta.

Competition with Microsoft and Google

Claude Sheets closely resembles Excel and Google Sheets, but Lin called it "fairly basic" for now and said it is not meant for work such as financial modelling. For that, Anthropic's add-ins for existing apps, such as Claude for Word, work better. The launch follows Claude Docs and Slides, which arrived in September. Microsoft and Google are both Anthropic backers, and the new tools put Claude closer to their products. Lin defended the rival products in a comment to TechNext-style reporting, saying:

“I think there's a time and place for these Microsoft and Google products, especially for more advanced enterprise use cases,”

OpenAI unveiled its own workplace tools a few weeks earlier, and Meta has its Muse AI agent. Fears that Claude could replace such software have hit software stocks several times this year. Interactive connectors now let users open full versions of Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot apps inside Claude. Anthropic's marketplace of tools has grown to more than 9,000 plugin options since the Model Context Protocol launched about two years ago.

Revenue and listing

Anthropic is preparing to list on Nasdaq later in November 2026. A filing on 10 November 2026 put the revenue run rate at $81B on 31 October, up $10B in a month. The run rate had passed $65B in July.