Anthropic has launched Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards, two new things Claude can make and edit with you inside its own app. Both are in beta on every paid plan. They work on the web, desktop and mobile. Anthropic started rolling them out on 10th November 2026, so they may take a few days to show up in your account.
A third tool, Claude Meetings, was announced the same day but isn’t out yet. Anthropic’s own post says only that it is “coming soon”.
The two build on a change from September, when Anthropic merged Claude Cowork and the chat app into one Claude and added Claude Docs and Claude Slides. Since then, you’ve been able to ask for a report or a deck, edit the file together with Claude, and download it as PowerPoint or PDF. Sheets and Whiteboards add two more formats to that list.
The launch also landed on the day Anthropic launched the roadshow for its initial public offering. That’s the run of presentations where a company pitches its shares to big investors before it lists. Anthropic expects to price them at between USD 70 and USD 78 each, or about KES 9,100 to KES 10,100, and has applied to list on Nasdaq under the symbol ANT. Back in September, we covered how Anthropic and OpenAI were rethinking their IPOs. We think a push into the spreadsheets and meetings many offices already pay Microsoft or Google for makes for a stronger pitch to those investors.
What Sheets and Whiteboards do
Claude Sheets is a spreadsheet. You ask for something like a campaign tracker or a hiring budget, and Claude builds it with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down menus. When it edits a cell, it outlines the change so you can track what it did. You can share a sheet with colleagues, and they can work on it together with you and Claude.
Anthropic is upfront that it’s basic for now. Its post says sheets “have simple spreadsheet functionality” and that more is coming. So if you need everything Excel does, you can export the file as .xlsx or CSV, use Claude inside Excel, or carry on in Airtable, Asana, monday.com or Smartsheet.
Claude Whiteboards is a shared board for brainstorming. You talk through a messy plan and Claude turns it into a timeline with owners and dates. In a team review meeting, everyone drops their notes on the board, and Claude groups them by theme and drafts action items for each person. You can drag a box around one part of the board and ask Claude about only that part. When you’re done, Claude can turn the board into a document or a slide deck, or send it to Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho. And because Claude carries the same context throughout, Anthropic says an idea can move from the whiteboard into a spreadsheet and then a dashboard without you explaining it again.
Claude Data is where that dashboard comes from. Anthropic renamed Claude Dashboards, which launched in beta in October, to Claude Data and made it generally available. It connects to company databases and sales tools such as Snowflake and Salesforce, and builds dashboards, data stories (short write-ups that explain the numbers) and short narrated videos from them. Unlike Sheets and Whiteboards, it needs one of those data connections to work.
The same day, Anthropic let apps such as Notion, Confluence, Box and Adobe’s tools open in full inside Claude, so you can edit a page yourself and ask Claude to change it on the same screen.
Claude Meetings comes later
Claude Meetings will add Claude to a video call so it can take notes and update the documents your team is working on while you’re still talking. There’s no date and no price yet. One launch-day report says it will start as a beta on the Team and Enterprise plans, the ones companies buy, and will work with Google Meet first. It won’t join a call that has people from outside the company unless an admin allows it, and it leaves if an outside guest joins. Zoom and Microsoft Teams aren’t mentioned in Anthropic’s launch posts.
Who gets what
If you pay for Claude Pro, Sheets and Whiteboards are already listed as part of your plan on Anthropic’s pricing page. People on the free plan don’t get them.
On Team plans, Sheets, Whiteboards and Claude Data are all switched on by default. On Enterprise plans, Sheets and Whiteboards start switched off until an admin turns them on, and Claude Data switches on by default on 19th November 2026. Admins can change all of this under Organization settings, then Artifacts.
What it costs in Kenya
Claude works in Kenya, and Sheets and Whiteboards come with every paid plan, so there’s nothing extra to buy if you already pay for one. Claude Pro costs USD 20 a month, or about KES 2,600. As we explained when Anthropic started pricing Claude in rupees for India, Kenya still pays in dollars, and the 16% VAT on digital services takes Pro to about KES 3,000 a month. A standard Team seat costs USD 25 a month, or about KES 3,200, before VAT, and USD 20 a seat if you pay for the year. Young companies may get Team free for a year through the Claude Startups programme we covered in October.
For anything serious in a spreadsheet, you’ll probably still end up in Excel or Google Sheets for now. We think Meetings is the tool that would change an office’s day the most, because it works while people are still talking, and it’s the one Anthropic hasn’t put a date on.
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