Anthropic launches AI-powered office suite

Anthropic has built its reputation over several years by prioritising enterprise and coding tools that appeal to high-flying corporate clients. This focus has encouraged competing frontier labs, such as OpenAI, SpaceXSI, and Meta, to mirror its strategic approach. Following the hype cycle surrounding Claude Code earlier this year, Anthropic is now attempting to increase its presence among other knowledge workers by introducing an AI-powered suite of office tools.

During an event held in San Francisco on Tuesday, Anthropic revealed new tools designed for non-technical employees who frequently participate in meetings, brainstorm concepts, and analyse metrics. These additions include Claude Meetings, Claude Sheets, and Claude Whiteboards. The software enables Claude to join meetings to record notes, organise ideas on a shared whiteboard, assist staff with editing spreadsheets, or convert presentations into one-minute explainer videos. These new “Artifacts,” representing Anthropic’s version of a graphical UI, arrive two and a half years after the original debut and complement existing features like Claude Docs, Slides, Design and Motion.

Currently, Claude Whiteboards, Sheets, and Meetings are accessible in beta. The first two are available to all paid plans, while Meetings is provided for Teams and Enterprise subscriptions. Furthermore, the company announced that Claude Data, previously known as Claude Dashboards during its October beta launch, is now generally available to all paid plans.

Nicholas Lin, a product worker at Anthropic, explained during a pre-briefing that Claude Code “changed how engineers work a year ago.” He noted that the company is now identifying knowledge workers as “the gap we’re hoping to close.” He added, “I think there’s still a lot of friction when it comes to adopting AI for non-developers.”

The organisation also debuted new interactive connectors, enabling users to open applications from partners such as HubSpot, Adobe, and Atlassian directly within Claude. Having launched the Model Context Protocol approximately two years ago, the company has seen its marketplace grow to more than 9,000 plugin options. Lin stated that the business now aims to deepen these connections so that users can embed services directly into Claude rather than switching tabs. Consequently, users can now access features like a native Adobe PDF editor or a HubSpot marketing campaign tracker from inside Claude.

These offerings follow similar moves by other AI firms in recent years. Google’s Gemini is capable of joining meetings and taking live notes, a function also available in some instances via the “record” feature in OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Gemini is also proficient at creating spreadsheets, and Google maintains various “interactive connectors” for its office suite. At OpenAI’s DevDay last month, the company focused heavily on integrated apps and connectors to enhance its new Dots agents. Anthropic is following these examples while attempting to advance in the AI agent race.

The company faces significant pressure to increase revenue and improve product engagement ahead of its IPO, as it is slated to potentially make the most valuable public debut of all time. While this prospect generates interest, it also creates substantial pressure from investors who are seeking a viable path to profit at Anthropic.

The tools revealed on Tuesday represent some of the company’s first native products for non-technical knowledge workers. Lin noted that while Claude Cowork, another tool for non-engineers, is essentially a wrapper for Claude Code, that software was aimed at the “technical parts of [Anthropic’s] non-technical audience.” He concluded, “Now we want to expand that reach toward everybody else.”