Anthropic launches Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta, and renames Claude Dashboards to Claude Data
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Whiteboards and Sheets are the two new beta features in Claude: a shared board for thinking through ideas as a team and spreadsheets the assistant sets up and adjusts with the user. Dashboards, the data tool that arrived in October, exits beta renamed as Claude Data. All three work on the paid plans across web, desktop and mobile, and on Enterprise Claude Data will be active from November 19.
On Tuesday, November 10, Anthropic announced two new tools inside Claude, both in beta: Claude Whiteboards, a board a team shares to brainstorm with Claude, and Claude Sheets, spreadsheets that Claude puts together and changes alongside the user. At the same time, Claude Dashboards, which debuted in beta in October, is leaving beta under a new name: Claude Data. All three can be used on the paid plans, on the web, on desktop and on mobile.
According to the company, work done with Claude used to end up copied into another program, where the assistant could no longer keep up with the changes. The idea is for boards, sheets, documents and dashboards to remain in Claude, with the team editing them there, although they can also be moved to other companies' tools.
On the whiteboard, Claude can turn a plan described out loud into a board with a timeline, owners and dates, and in a review meeting it can sort each participant's notes by theme and write up the pending tasks for each person. Drawing a box around part of the board is enough to ask about it. Once finished, the board becomes a document or a presentation, or moves to Miro, Lucid or Vani by Zoho.
Claude Sheets builds spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down lists, often from a single request, such as a hiring budget or a campaign tracker. Claude writes directly in the cells and marks each change so it can be followed. Anthropic admits the features are basic for now and says it is working to expand them; when everything Excel offers is needed, the sheet can be exported to .xlsx or CSV, opened with Claude for Excel or continued in Smartsheet, monday.com, Asana or Airtable.
Claude Data grows out of Dashboards, the tool for querying company data connected from services such as ClickHouse, BigQuery or Amazon Redshift. Anthropic explains the new name by saying the product now covers more than dashboards. The data team can approve the queries that everyone should rely on, and charts based on them show a "certified" label; with live sharing, colleagues see current figures when they open a dashboard even without access to the connectors, and they only see the results of approved queries. These two features remain in beta. In addition, Claude can prepare stories or narrated videos from the metrics for review before they are shared, and dashboards support the company's design system, keep a cached copy with their own refresh schedule and record who changed what, with the option to go back to an earlier version. Sigma, PostHog, Omni, Mixpanel and Amplitude are listed as partners.
Claude Data requires a data connector, such as a data warehouse or a CRM. On Team plans all three tools come switched on; on Enterprise, Whiteboards and Sheets arrive switched off and Claude Data will be enabled by default on November 19, 2026. Administrators can change this in the organization settings. The announcement does not mention a separate price.
Why it matters · analysis and opinion
Anthropic keeps filling, piece by piece, the gap between Claude and an office suite: after documents, presentations and dashboards come the whiteboard and the spreadsheet. The move cuts both ways. For a small team it can save the step of copying results from one tool to another, and Claude Data targets a real problem in companies: each department handling different figures for the same metric. But the company itself admits that Sheets is far from Excel, and the natural way out is still exporting or turning to the partners. Before moving daily work to these tools, it makes sense to try them on something limited, such as tracking a campaign, and for the administrator to decide what to switch on: on Enterprise, part of it will arrive turned on without anyone asking.
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What does it mean for your business? · analysis and opinion
This affects businesses and freelancers in Spain and Latin America who already pay for a Claude plan: whiteboards, spreadsheets and Claude Data are only on the paid plans, so there is no need to sign up for anything extra to try them. On Team plans, all three tools come switched on by default, so anyone on the team can start using them without anyone having decided to. On Enterprise plans, whiteboards and sheets are switched off, and Claude Data will turn on by itself on November 19, 2026.
Our advice is that whoever administers the account should already review the Organization settings > Artifacts section and decide what to leave active. Since Whiteboards and Sheets are in beta and Sheets currently has simple functionality, it is wise to use them for drafts, campaign tracking or internal budgets, and to export to .xlsx or CSV any sheet that needs to serve as a reference, instead of keeping accounting or critical data there.
Claude Data needs a data connector, such as a warehouse or a CRM, and that means giving Claude access to company information. It is worth starting with less sensitive data and connecting only what is essential. With live sharing, which is still in beta, whoever opens a dashboard sees the results of the approved queries and cannot run others with the sharer's access; even so, it is worth checking who each dashboard is shared with before sending it.
