Franklin AI News Brief

Claude adds Whiteboards, Sheets and Data

Key Takeaways

  • Anthropic launches Claude Whiteboards and Sheets in beta and makes Claude Data generally available, with separate controls and rollout dates for admins.
  • Claude Whiteboards and Sheets are in beta on paid plans.
  • Claude Dashboards becomes Claude Data, with certified queries and live sharing still in beta.

Anthropic introduced Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta on November 10 and made its former Dashboards product generally available as Claude Data. The announcement describes a change for teams that used to move Claude's output into another app: they can now keep working together on a board, sheet or dashboard inside Claude.

What can teams do in Whiteboards and Sheets?

Claude Whiteboards provides a shared whiteboard for brainstorming. People and Claude can work in the same space rather than exchanging successive exports. Anthropic describes using boards to work through ideas and arrange material while the project is still taking shape.

Claude Sheets can build a workbook from a prompt with tabs, spreadsheet formulas, formatting and dropdowns. Claude can edit cells and highlight the changes. Teams can share the sheet and continue working on it. Anthropic calls the spreadsheet functions simple for now, and offers Excel and CSV export when a job needs another tool.

What is generally available in Claude Data?

Claude Data is the renamed Dashboards product. It needs a data connector, such as a warehouse or CRM. Anthropic describes data stories as a way to present findings alongside dashboards. Certified queries and live sharing are in beta, even though Claude Data itself is generally available.

Which plans can use the features?

All three products are available on paid plans, on the web, desktop and mobile. Team plans have them on by default. On Enterprise, Whiteboards and Sheets are off by default, and Data is scheduled to turn on by default on November 19. Admins can manage those defaults in the Artifacts section of Organization settings. A team deciding where to move its work should first check the connector and sharing controls it needs.

Our read

Franklin AI Take

The useful test is whether a team can keep its work in the shared artifact through review. Sheets still has basic spreadsheet features, and Data requires a connector, so a recurring report may depend on permissions or functions the new surface cannot replace. Try one low-stakes board or sheet first, and have the admin check the Artifacts controls before inviting a wider group.