Anthropic’s Claude now builds spreadsheets and whiteboards, days before its IPO

Anthropic launched Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta on Tuesday and made Claude Data generally available. The apps work on every paid plan and put Claude in direct competition with Microsoft’s and Google’s office suites, according to The Information.

The Information’s headline said the launch sent Microsoft shares sharply lower. The feed text gives no figure for the move, so we do not quote one.

Three apps, all on paid plans

Anthropic’s own announcement page describes each product.

• Claude Whiteboards is a shared board where a team works with Claude. Anthropic says Claude can turn a messy plan into a board with a timeline, owners and dates, and draft action items. Finished boards can become a doc or a deck.
• Claude Sheets generates tabs, formulas and formatting from a prompt. Anthropic is candid about the limits: “For now, sheets have simple spreadsheet functionality, but we are working on adding more.” Files export to .xlsx or CSV.
• Claude Data is the renamed Claude Dashboards. It is generally available, though some features remain in beta. Anthropic says it needs a data connector such as a warehouse or CRM.

On Team plans the apps are on by default. On Enterprise plans, an administrator must enable Whiteboards and Sheets in the Artifacts settings. The page does not mention usage limits or pricing beyond the paid-plan requirement.

The meeting assistant has conflicting reports

The feed summary says the software includes note-taking in video calls. TechCrunch reported that Claude Meetings joins a call as a visible participant, drafts plans during the discussion, and works only with Google Meet at launch. Anthropic’s announcement page, as it appeared in search results, describes Meetings as coming soon. We could not confirm which is current, so availability is unsettled.

A fast follow to October’s dashboard and Workspace moves

The launch continues a run of office-focused releases. According to Anthropic’s own resources, Claude Dashboards entered beta in October for Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse, so this release promotes it to general availability within weeks. Anthropic also released a Google Workspace add-on in public beta, with a Claude sidebar in Docs, Sheets and Slides.

That sets up a contrast. Claude first entered Google’s apps as a guest. Now Anthropic offers its own spreadsheet and whiteboard, with export paths back to Excel and other tools.

The timing is also notable. We reported on the price range of Anthropic’s IPO, and the roadshow began the same day, with a Nasdaq listing planned under ANT, per a Techmeme summary of Anthropic’s filing. A product push at the enterprise suite market gives investors a revenue story beyond model access. Our look at Amazon’s stake at the IPO midpoint shows how large the backers’ exposure already is.

What the sources do not establish

Everything about capability comes from Anthropic’s own description, and no independent testing has been published. Sheets is openly limited compared with Excel or Google Sheets, so it is closer to a drafting surface than a replacement. The sources give no pricing, quotas or adoption figures.