Anthropic Adds Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets to Claude for Workplace Use

Anthropic has announced a new set of workplace capabilities for its Claude AI assistant, allowing the tool to take part in video meetings, build spreadsheets and collaborate on digital whiteboards. The company introduced the features under the names Claude Meetings, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets, positioning the product as more than a conventional chatbot.

According to the announcement, Claude Meetings lets businesses add the assistant as a visible participant in video calls. From there it can follow the discussion and begin carrying out tasks while people are still talking, such as drafting project plans, creating timelines on a whiteboard, answering questions in the meeting chat and pulling information from connected workplace applications. If participants need financial figures from the previous year, for example, Claude can query linked tools to retrieve the relevant data.

Notes, action items and documents generated during a session become available through claude.ai after the call ends. Anthropic said it has built in safeguards for the feature: Claude identifies itself as a participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat, cannot join calls with external guests without administrator approval, and leaves automatically if an outside participant joins. Claude Meetings is initially designed for Google Meet, with support for other platforms planned.

The tools are being rolled out for Team and Enterprise customers. Anthropic's official product announcement describes Claude Meetings as coming soon, while reporting at the time characterised the release as a limited beta. The launch puts Anthropic in more direct competition with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, and follows recent moves by OpenAI to add workplace tools that let ChatGPT users visualise company information and generate presentations. Meta is also expanding its workplace AI offerings.

For businesses, the shift signals that AI assistants are increasingly being designed to sit inside everyday collaboration tools rather than operate as separate chat windows. Anthropic's emphasis on consent and guest restrictions suggests the company is trying to address privacy concerns that often arise when AI systems are given access to internal meetings and company data.