--- title: "Anthropic Takes on Google With New Claude Office Tools" date: 2026-11-10 author: "Barry Elad" featured_image: "https://sqmagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/claude-office-suite-launched-meetings.jpg" categories: - name: "Artificial Intelligence" url: "/artificial-intelligence.md" tags: - name: "News" url: "/tag/news.md" --- # Anthropic Takes on Google With New Claude Office Tools Anthropic launched Claude Meetings in beta on 10th November, 2026, adding Claude to Google Meet calls as a visible participant. It begins work on tasks while people are still talking. ## What Happened? - Claude Meetings is in beta on Team and Enterprise plans, and at launch it works with Google Meet. - Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets are also in beta on all paid plans, on web, desktop, and mobile. - Claude Data, formerly Claude Dashboards, is now generally available to all paid plans after an October beta. - Anthropic’s marketplace of tools has grown to more than 9,000 plugin options, and new interactive connectors open full apps inside Claude. ## Claude joins calls and edits alongside the team Teams add **Claude to a video call** as a visible participant. As people talk, it can draft the plan under discussion and map a timeline on a whiteboard. It can also answer questions in the meeting chat and pull details such as last year’s figures from connected work apps. [Anthropic](https://sqmagazine.co.uk/openai-vs-anthropic-statistics/) makes the meeting notes and action items, plus anything else Claude created, available in claude.ai after the call. The company’s pitch is speed: follow-up work can start during the call. > Starting to roll out today: Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets and Claude Data. Think a plan through on a board, build a tracker in a sheet, and tell a story with your data. https://t.co/S8M32FMrce > > — Claude (@claudeai) [November 10, 2026](https://x.com/claudeai/status/2120206365759094857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Claude identifies itself as a meeting participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. It won’t join calls with external guests unless an admin authorizes it, and it leaves automatically if an external guest joins. Admins on Team and Enterprise plans hold that decision, so they should review which meetings include external guests before authorizing Claude on them. Early launch coverage relays Anthropic’s own descriptions and leaves three questions open: - **Which services or plans get Meetings support after Google Meet, and when?** - **What does Claude store from a call, and for how long?** - **How accurate are Claude’s drafts and answers when a discussion moves fast?** Claude Whiteboards gives a team a shared board to talk through a plan, which [Claude](https://sqmagazine.co.uk/claude-ai-statistics/) lays out with timelines and deadlines. Many people already brainstorm with Claude, Anthropic notes, but sharing the results means copying them into another tool. Now a team can work with Claude on one board, live. Claude can turn the board into a doc or a slide deck once the brainstorm ends. Inside Meetings, the board builds while people talk. Claude Sheets lets a team ask for a campaign tracker or hiring budget and get a working spreadsheet back. Claude handles the initial setup, and the team keeps refining the same file. Each spreadsheet can include: - **Multiple tabs** - **Formulas** - **Formatting** - **Dropdown menus** Claude also edits cells directly alongside the team and outlines each change so users can see what it did. ## Anthropic widens its pitch beyond developers Nicholas Lin, who works on product at Anthropic, told The Verge that Claude Code changed how engineers work a year ago. He said the company is now looking to knowledge workers, and that “**there’s still a lot of friction**” in adopting AI for non-developers. Claude Data connects Claude to systems such as a data warehouse or CRM. Users ask questions and get back dashboards, written data stories, or narrated videos. Interactive connectors open full versions of apps like **Adobe**, **Atlassian**, and **HubSpot** beside the chat, and Claude can work inside them. Examples include a native Adobe PDF editor and a [HubSpot](https://sqmagazine.co.uk/hubspot-statistics/) marketing campaign tracker. Lin said the aim is deeper connections, so users don’t have to switch tabs. ## The Bottom Line OpenAI introduced workplace tools a few weeks ago that let users work with ChatGPT on tasks such as visualizing company information and creating presentations. Anthropic and OpenAI are both competing to turn their products into office suites of sorts that take on Microsoft and Google. Meta’s [Muse AI agent](https://sqmagazine.co.uk/meta-muse-ai-agent-arrives-apple-watch-wear-os/) can build mini-apps on the fly to help users complete specific tasks. Google’s Gemini can join meetings and take live notes, and so can ChatGPT in some cases through its record feature. Anthropic faces pressure to grow revenue and product engagement ahead of a [potential IPO](https://sqmagazine.co.uk/anthropic-confidentially-files-for-historic-ai-ipo/), and investors want a viable path to profit. The new tools are among its first native products for non-technical knowledge workers. That widens the buyer pool beyond engineers. The next marker is expanded Meetings support, which is expected to follow the launch.