Claude is getting three new collaboration tools that let teams work on boards, spreadsheets and data inside the chatbot itself. The company is launching Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta, and Claude Dashboards is now generally available under the new name Claude Data. All three are included on paid plans.

The changes are meant to end a familiar routine. Until now, people often moved Claude's output into another program, where the AI could not see progress or follow changes as they happened. Under the new setup, documents, boards, sheets and dashboards can stay in Claude, and a team can keep editing them together. When the work is ready, users can send it to partner tools and continue there.

Whiteboards and sheets move into beta

What is Claude Whiteboards?

Claude Whiteboards is a shared board where a team brainstorms with Claude. A user can talk through a messy plan out loud, and Claude can turn it into a board with a timeline, owners and dates. Team members add notes in real time.

The company offered a retro meeting as an example. Everyone adds their notes to the board, and Claude groups them by theme and drafts action items for each person. Users can drag a box around any part of the board and ask Claude questions about it. When the brainstorming ends, Claude can turn the board into a document or slide deck, or move it into Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho.

Can Claude Sheets build and edit spreadsheets?

Claude Sheets lets Claude build and edit spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down menus. Users often need only a prompt, such as a request for a campaign tracker or a hiring budget. Claude outlines each new edit in the cells so people can see what changed. Sheets can be shared, so the team and Claude can work on the same file.

Sheets is still limited. The company said it has simple spreadsheet functions for now and is working on adding more. Users who need the full range of Excel can export files as .xlsx or CSV, or use Claude for Excel. Sheets also works alongside Airtable, Asana, monday.com and Smartsheet.

Claude Dashboards becomes Claude Data

Claude Dashboards launched in beta in October. It let teams ask quick questions of company data stored in Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse. The company said it renamed the product because how businesses use their data now goes beyond dashboards.

What changed in Claude Data?

Claude Data adds several features. Data teams can certify the queries everyone should use, so colleagues do not build reports with conflicting numbers. Charts based on those metrics carry a 'certified' badge. Users can also work with Claude to draft data stories or narrated videos from their metrics, which they review before sharing.

Live sharing, currently in beta, lets colleagues see up-to-date numbers when they open a shared dashboard. They do not need access to the connectors that keep the data current. Viewers can see only the queries the owner approved and cannot run others with the owner's access.

Other updates include support for design systems, so dashboards can match a company's look and feel. Dashboards now also support caching, and refresh schedules can be set for each dashboard. Previously, every dashboard reloaded each time it was opened. Claude Data also tracks changes, showing who made edits and allowing a rollback to an earlier version. Partners for the product include Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog and Sigma.

Interactive connectors can now open as full apps beside a conversation or in full screen. Users can work directly in tools such as Adobe, Atlassian, Box and Notion, or ask Claude to make changes with them.

Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Data work on the web, on desktop and on mobile. Claude Data requires a data connector, such as a warehouse or a customer relationship management system.

Administrators control access. On Team plans, all three tools are on by default. On Enterprise plans, Whiteboards and Sheets are off by default, and Claude Data turns on by default on November 19, 2026. Admins can change these settings at any time under Organization settings, then Artifacts.

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