Anthropic is expanding Claude from a chat assistant into a full workplace suite. The headline addition lets Claude attend video calls as a visible participant and start on tasks while the meeting is still going.
The feature, called Claude Meetings, goes beyond the transcription-and-summary approach common to AI note-takers. Anthropic says Claude follows the discussion in real time. It takes notes, drafts plans, sketches timelines, answers questions in the meeting chat and works in connected apps as topics come up. When the call ends, the notes, action items and anything Claude produced are waiting in claude.ai. In practice, that means “someone should draft a project timeline” could be done before the meeting wraps up.
Alongside it come three productivity tools. Claude Whiteboards is a shared, real-time canvas for turning brainstorms and retrospectives into structured plans, and it works with Meetings. Claude Sheets is a collaborative spreadsheet with tabs, formulas and dropdown menus for building budgets and trackers with Claude. Claude Data, previously called Claude Dashboards, connects to company sources such as CRMs and data warehouses to produce dashboards, written data summaries and narrated video reports. Some of its features, including certified queries and live sharing, are still in beta.
The other major change is Interactive Connectors, which open full versions of partner apps inside Claude. Tools from Adobe, Atlassian, HubSpot, Salesforce, NetSuite and Workday are supported, and Claude can act within them once a user approves. Anthropic says connectors follow existing user permissions. Administrators get controls including automatic connection setup, usage limits, and reporting on team productivity and spending.
Anthropic’s argument is that AI has already changed software development, with engineers delegating entire tasks rather than asking for code snippets, while most other office work has barely changed. With this release it is trying to bring that delegation to general knowledge work. That puts Claude in direct competition with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Gemini in Google Workspace. Those suites already include documents, spreadsheets and meeting tools that companies have used for years.
The rollout is uneven. Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets are in beta, while Claude Data and Interactive Connectors are generally available now. The announcement doesn’t specify which video platforms Claude Meetings supports, which subscription plans include it, or how meeting participants are notified and asked for consent before an AI joins and starts acting on what they say.
The consent question may matter most. An assistant that only listens is one thing; one that acts on what people say in real time raises bigger questions about workplace trust. Companies will likely need clear policies before they let Claude into their meetings.