Anthropic unveiled four office tools at its Tuesday event: Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards, Claude Meetings, and Claude Data, which was renamed from Claude Dashboards. The goal is very straightforward, that is, Excel, Google Sheets, meeting minutes and BI dashboards.
Sheets is the one that gets the most attention. Give Claude a sentence, such as "make a recruitment budget table" or "make an activity tracking table", and it will directly create a table with multiple worksheets, formulas, formats and drop-down menus, and then accompany you to modify it one by one, and every place touched by AI will be marked. It is currently in beta and is available with paid plans, starting at $20 per month for Pro.
What’s interesting is that product manager Nicholas Lin took the initiative to pour cold water: Sheets is now “quite basic” and cannot be used for financial modeling. If you really encounter complex tables, exporting .xlsx or using the ready-made Claude for Excel plug-in is more reliable. It is rare for someone to say that he is not good at a new product launch conference.
Whiteboards is also in beta. Orally explain a messy plan and organize it into a dashboard with a timeline, responsible person and deadline. The team can make changes together, and after the changes are completed, it can be converted into a document or presentation with one click.
Meetings will be released later. It will be tested on Team and Enterprise first, and only Google Meet will be available in the first batch. It enters the meeting as a visible participant, takes notes while listening, and updates team documents; once it detects that an external visitor has joined, it will automatically exit.
Claude Data is the only one officially launched. It connects to the data warehouse and CRM, and turns the query results into shareable dashboards, data stories and even explanation videos.
On the other end, Anthropic allows Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot to embed a version of their respective applications directly into Claude's conversational interface. It's a bit awkward to bring in enterprise software vendors while making forms and dashboards yourself. At noon that day when the news came out, Microsoft's stock price fell 3%.
There was another figure in the document disclosed on the same day: As of October 31, Anthropic had annualized revenue of $81 billion, which was $10 billion more than at the end of September.