Anthropic is expanding Claude into workplace software with Claude Meetings, which joins video calls as a visible participant and can draft plans, build timelines, answer chat questions and retrieve information from connected business apps.

Anthropic product lead Nicholas Lin said the company has tested Claude Meetings internally for about two months and now uses it in nearly all its meetings; the assistant can also create materials and track follow-up actions.

The launch sits within a broader set of tools: Whiteboards and Sheets are in beta for paid subscribers across web, desktop and mobile, while Claude Data—formerly Claude Dashboards—is becoming more widely available for analysing business systems and producing dashboards and reports.

Anthropic’s pitch is that Claude can carry context between its tools, letting users move an idea from a whiteboard to a spreadsheet and dashboard without having to restate the details.

Whiteboards can be edited and developed with Claude after a call, are saved in the Artifacts tab and can be turned into documents or slide decks.

Claude Sheets is aimed at everyday spreadsheet tasks rather than complex financial modeling; Nicholas Lin said those jobs remain better suited to Claude integrations with existing spreadsheet software.

The expanded artifact system includes Sheets, Whiteboards and Data, plus interactive connectors, but Microsoft Teams and Zoom are not supported for Meetings at launch.

Anthropic is also adding integrations with Adobe and Atlassian, as well as plugins from Salesforce, NetSuite and Workday for sales, finance and human resources tasks.

The strategy targets nontechnical workers as well as developers, with Anthropic seeking to broaden Claude’s use beyond computing and mathematics, currently the largest usage category in its own data.

By bringing other applications into Claude, Anthropic is positioning it as a platform that could challenge established software companies’ control over their platforms and app boundaries.

The move sharpens competition with OpenAI, which added collaboration spaces, document tools and slide features in late September, and with Meta, which is entering the market with its Muse AI agent.

Microsoft shares fell more than 3% to $530.39 after Anthropic’s announcement, which included tools for meetings, dashboards and routine spreadsheet work that overlap with Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.