Working with Claude on a project has usually meant copying its output into another program, where Claude can no longer see what changes. Anthropic's latest update tries to keep more of that work inside Claude. It has launched Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta, and made Claude Dashboards generally available under a new name, Claude Data. All three are on paid plans and work on the web, desktop and mobile.
Whiteboards are shared boards where a team and Claude brainstorm together. Anthropic's example is a retrospective meeting: everyone adds notes, Claude groups them by theme and drafts action items for each person, and you can drag a box around any part of the board to ask Claude about it. When you are done, Claude can turn the board into a document or slide deck, or send it to Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho. Sheets are spreadsheets Claude builds and edits, with drop-downs and tracked changes, shared with colleagues. Anthropic says the spreadsheet functions are simple for now; for full Excel features you export to .xlsx or CSV, use Claude for Excel, or continue in Airtable, Asana, monday.com or Smartsheet.
Claude Data is the bigger change for companies. Dashboards launched in beta in October to let teams ask questions of data in warehouses such as Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse. The renamed product adds certified queries, so a data team can approve the metric definitions everyone should use, and charts built on them carry a certified badge. Live sharing, in beta, lets colleagues see current numbers without their own connector access, and viewers can only see approved queries. It also adds narrated data stories, design systems, caching with per-dashboard refresh schedules and version history. Partners include Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog, Sigma and ThoughtSpot.
The strategic direction is clear. Claude is moving from a chat window towards a workspace, competing less with ChatGPT and Gemini as assistants and more with Notion, Miro and business-intelligence tools. For teams already using Claude Cowork or Claude connectors, certified metrics address the real risk of an AI dashboard confidently answering with the wrong definition of revenue.
The limits are in the details. Sheets is admittedly basic, and much of Claude Data's governance, certified queries and live sharing, is still in beta. Claude Data needs a connector to a warehouse or CRM to do anything. Admins should note the defaults: on Team plans all three features are on, while on Enterprise plans Whiteboards and Sheets start off and Claude Data switches on by default on 20 November 2026.