Anthropic is expanding its offering beyond developers with an AI-based office tool suite aimed at knowledge workers. At an event in San Francisco, the company unveiled three new tools, Claude Meetings, Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards, as well as new interactive connectors.
Meetings, Whiteboards, and Spreadsheets
These tools are aimed at non-technical employees who spend a lot of time in meetings, brainstorming, and analyzing metrics. Claude can join a meeting and take notes, arrange ideas on a shared whiteboard, edit spreadsheets alongside employees, or turn a presentation into a one-minute explanatory video. The new “Artifacts”, Anthropic’s version of the graphical interface, arrive two and a half years after their first appearance. They complement existing tools, Claude Docs, Slides, Design, and Motion.
Claude Whiteboards, Sheets, and Meetings are now available in beta, i.e., in test version. The first two are accessible on all paid plans, while Meetings is reserved for Teams and Enterprise subscriptions. The company also announced that Claude Data, formerly called Claude Dashboards when it entered beta in October, is now generally available for all paid plans.
Nicholas Lin, who works on products at Anthropic, explained to The Verge in a prior briefing that Claude Code “changed the way engineers worked a year ago.” The company now wants to address knowledge workers, whom he described as “the gap we hope to fill.” “I think there’s still a lot of friction when it comes to adopting AI for non-developers,” he added.
Third-Party Applications Integrated into Claude
Anthropic is also introducing new interactive connectors, which allow opening partner applications like HubSpot, Adobe, or Atlassian within Claude. The Model Context Protocol, which allows connecting external tools to an AI model, was launched about two years ago by the company. Its marketplace now has over 9,000 plugin options.
According to Nicholas Lin, the goal now is to deepen these connections so users no longer have to switch tabs to access the services they use daily. A native Adobe PDF editor or a HubSpot marketing campaign tracking tool can thus be used directly within Claude.
These tools follow a trend already initiated by other players. Google has integrated into Gemini the ability to join meetings and take live notes, and Gemini can also create spreadsheets using Google Sheets. OpenAI’s ChatGPT can also participate in certain meetings via its “record” function. At OpenAI’s DevDay, the company focused more on integrated applications and connectors to make its new Dots agents more useful.
Anthropic also faces high financial expectations. According to The Verge, the company is preparing for an IPO that could be the most highly valued in history, and its investors expect a credible path to profitability. Lin noted that Claude Cowork, another tool for non-engineers, is essentially a wrapper of Claude Code, aimed at the “technical parts” of the company’s non-technical audience. “Now, we want to extend that reach to everyone else.”
