Anthropic launches Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta

Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, now has a spreadsheet of its own.

On November 10, 2026, the company released Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta. It also moved its dashboard product to general availability under a new name: Claude Data. The Motley Fool framed the launch as giving Claude an alternative to Excel, which is a bold thing to say about any spreadsheet, let alone one still wearing a beta tag.

The bigger story is the direction. Anthropic is steadily turning a chatbot into a workspace, one where teams can brainstorm, crunch numbers and query company data without leaving the Claude interface.

What Anthropic actually shipped

There are three products here, and they cover different stages of how teams tend to work.

Claude Sheets lets users generate spreadsheets from a prompt. You describe what you need, and Claude builds it out, multiple tabs included.

The sheets support formulas and formatting, and they are editable by more than one person at a time. Finished files can be exported as .xlsx or CSV.

For now, Sheets offers basic spreadsheet functionality. The current version could, however, be a step toward more advanced features in later releases.

Claude Whiteboards is a shared canvas for teams. Teams can use it to brainstorm, organize notes and sketch out timelines. Whiteboards can turn the session into action items, which can then become documents or flow into external tools such as Miro or Lucid.

Dashboards becomes Data

The third piece is Claude Data, which is not new so much as newly finished. The tool was previously known as Claude Dashboards and had been in beta since October 8, 2026.

Claude Data lets people ask questions about their company’s data in plain language. Instead of writing a database query, a user can simply ask what they want to know. The tool responds through dashboards and what Anthropic calls narrated data stories, which is essentially a chart that comes with its own explanation.

To get the full experience, Claude Data needs data connectors linked to enterprise sources, with BigQuery and Redshift named as examples.

All three tools are available on paid Claude plans. Anthropic has also laid out specific enterprise controls that vary depending on the tool.

The bigger picture

Taken together, the launch shows Anthropic building toward a full productivity suite aimed at collaborative teams. The pitch is that a group can move from a loose brainstorm to a structured spreadsheet to a data-backed dashboard inside a single platform.

Real-time collaboration runs through all of it. Teams using Claude can now work together across several formats, rather than using the chatbot as a solo assistant and pasting its answers into other apps.