Claude Sheets and Whiteboards: spreadsheets and whiteboards in Claude
Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards launch in beta, and Dashboards become Claude Data. Spreadsheets and whiteboards on paid plans. Here is what they can do.
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On November 10, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta, and Claude Dashboards left beta under a new name, Claude Data. According to Anthropic’s announcement, all three work on every paid plan, on the web, in the desktop app, and on mobile.
What’s new in Claude Sheets and Whiteboards?
Until now, we usually copied the output of our work with Claude into another tool, where Claude could no longer see what happened next. Now spreadsheets, whiteboards, and dashboards stay in Claude, and the team can edit them together with it. They are new artifact types, alongside the documents, presentations, and designs Claude already creates.
Interestingly, according to a second Anthropic post, Claude carries the same context across artifacts, so an idea can move from a whiteboard to a spreadsheet and then to a dashboard without explaining everything from scratch.
What can Claude Sheets do?
Claude Sheets is a spreadsheet that Claude builds and edits together with us. The announcement says that:
- Claude generates spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting, and dropdowns, often from a single prompt like “build a campaign tracker” or “a hiring budget”.
- It edits cells directly and highlights every change, so it’s easy to follow what it fixed.
- We can share a spreadsheet with the team and work on it together with Claude.
Anthropic admits these are simple spreadsheets for now, with more features on the way. When we need full Excel, we export the file to .xlsx or CSV, use Claude for Excel, or move the data to Airtable, Asana, monday.com, or Smartsheet.
How does Claude Whiteboards work?
Whiteboards is a shared board for brainstorming with Claude. Examples from the announcement:
- We talk Claude through a messy plan out loud, and it turns it into a board with a timeline, task owners, and deadlines.
- In a retrospective, everyone adds their notes, and Claude groups them by theme and assigns tasks to each person.
- We draw a frame around part of the board and ask Claude questions about just that part.
Claude turns a finished board into a document or a presentation, or moves it to Lucid, Miro, or Vani by Zoho.
What is Claude Data?
It’s the former Claude Dashboards, which entered beta in October and let us ask quick questions about company data in Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, or ClickHouse. Anthropic renamed it because, according to the announcement, the way people use data is broader than dashboards alone. What’s new:
- The data team can certify queries, and charts built on them get a “certified” badge (beta).
- Claude turns metrics into so-called “data stories” and narrated videos, which we review before sharing.
- A shared dashboard shows live numbers even to people without access to the connectors (live sharing, beta). They see only the results, not the raw data, and can run only approved queries.
- Dashboards support design systems, caching with a refresh schedule set per dashboard, and a version history with the option to roll back to an earlier version.
Claude Data requires a connected data connector, such as a data warehouse or a CRM.
What else did Anthropic show?
Since November 10, interactive connectors can open as full apps beside the chat or in full screen, for example Adobe, Atlassian, Box, or Notion. Connectors run on MCP (Model Context Protocol), and according to Anthropic the Claude Marketplace already has more than 9,000 connectors and plugins. Salesforce (beta), NetSuite, and Workday (beta) plugins were added too.
Claude Meetings is also on the way. It is meant to join calls, take notes, and update the team’s documents. For now it has only been announced.
What should we watch out for?
First, the plan. Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data are available only on paid plans, not on Free. On Team plans, all three are on by default. On Enterprise, Whiteboards and Sheets are off by default, and Claude Data will turn on by default on November 19, 2026 (an admin can change this in Organization settings > Artifacts).
Second, the status. Sheets and Whiteboards are in beta, and in Claude Data, certified queries and live sharing are still in beta as well.
Third, the direction. Claude keeps moving deeper into office tools: after reports and artifacts for lawyers, now it’s spreadsheets and whiteboards. For us, that means the convenience of working in one place, but also more and more of the team’s data kept with a single vendor.
FAQ
Is Claude Sheets free?
No. Claude Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data are available on all paid Claude plans, but not on the Free plan.
Will Claude Sheets replace Excel?
Not for now. Anthropic itself says Sheets has basic spreadsheet features. You can export the file to .xlsx or CSV and keep working in Excel.
Where can I find Claude Whiteboards?
Whiteboards works in Claude on the web, in the desktop app, and on mobile. On Enterprise plans, an admin has to turn it on in the organization settings first.
How is Claude Data different from Claude Dashboards?
It’s the same product under a new name, now out of beta. New features include certified queries, “data stories”, live sharing, caching, and version history.