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2026-11-11 · Augaster AI Digest

Claude Adds Whiteboards and Sheets in Beta, and Dashboards Becomes Claude Data

What happened. On November 10, 2026, Anthropic announced Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets and Claude Data. Whiteboards and Sheets launched in beta. Claude Dashboards, which launched in beta in October, became generally available under the new name Claude Data. That makes Claude Data a rename and general release of an existing product, not a brand-new one. Anthropic changed the name because company data use is broader than dashboards.

How it works. Whiteboards is a shared board where teams brainstorm with Claude in real time. Claude can turn a discussion into a board with a timeline, owners and dates. In a retro meeting, participants add notes and Claude groups them by theme and drafts action items for each person. Users can drag a box around part of a board and ask Claude questions about it, and Claude can turn a board into a doc or deck, or bring it into partner tools Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho.

Claude Sheets generates spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-downs, often from a prompt such as a campaign tracker or hiring budget. It edits cells and outlines each change so users can track edits, and sheets can be shared with teammates to work on alongside Claude. Sheets currently has only basic functionality, with more being developed. Users can export to .xlsx or CSV, or use Claude for Excel. Partner tools include Airtable, Asana, monday.com and Smartsheet.

Claude Data lets teams ask quick questions of company data in tools like Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse, and it requires a data connector, such as a warehouse or CRM. Data teams can certify queries, and charts built on those metrics carry a certified badge. Users can draft data stories or narrated videos from their metrics, to review before sharing. Live sharing lets colleagues see up-to-date numbers without access to the underlying connectors, and viewers cannot run other queries with the owner's access. Certified queries and live sharing remain in beta. Claude Data also adds design-system support, caching with per-dashboard refresh cadences, and tracked changes with roll-back to a specific version. Partners include Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog and Sigma.

Separately, interactive connectors can now open as full apps beside the conversation or in full screen, in tools such as Adobe, Atlassian, Box and Notion. This starts the same day.

Availability and price. The tools are available on all paid Claude plans and work on web, desktop and mobile. On Team plans, all three are on by default. On Enterprise plans, Whiteboards and Sheets are off by default, and Claude Data turns on by default on November 19, 2026. Admins can change these settings under Organization settings > Artifacts.

What it means for small businesses. If you already pay for a Claude plan, you can try these tools without adding a new product. Whiteboards could be a low-effort way to run meetings and turn the notes into owners and dates. The catches are that Sheets is still basic, and Claude Data needs a data connector, so it is mainly useful if your data already lives in a warehouse or CRM. Enterprise admins will need to switch on Whiteboards and Sheets themselves.

Our take. Start with Whiteboards at your next team meeting or retro, since it needs no data setup. Keep your current spreadsheet tool for heavier work while Sheets matures, and only look at Claude Data if your business data is already connected somewhere it can reach.

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