Claude Sheets, Whiteboards and Data: what launched on 10 Nov 2026

Claude Sheets and Whiteboards launched in beta on 10 Nov 2026 and Dashboards became Claude Data. What each does, which plans get it, admin defaults.

Chaitanya Giri 5 min read Concepts
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Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards launched in beta on 10 Nov 2026, and Claude Dashboards became generally available as Claude Data, on all paid Claude plans, per Anthropic’s announcement. They work on web, desktop and mobile. Team plans get all three on by default. Checked 10 Nov 2026.

We think this matters most if you brainstorm, plan a budget or read company numbers in Claude, then copy the result elsewhere. Anthropic’s pitch: “Now, your documents, boards, sheets, and dashboards can stay in Claude, with access for your team to continue editing together.” Our Agent Tools Today for 10 Nov has the rest of that day’s news, and our Claude Fable 5.2 page covers the model Anthropic released on 9 Nov.

What launched on 10 Nov?

Three apps inside Claude, plus a bigger window for interactive connectors. The announcement lists the three:

Product Status on 10 Nov 2026 In Anthropic’s words
Claude Whiteboards Beta “a shared board where your team brainstorms with Claude”
Claude Sheets Beta “a spreadsheet Claude builds and edits with you”
Claude Data Generally available, with certified queries and live sharing in beta Formerly Claude Dashboards; it “adds data stories, certified queries, and live sharing”

Anthropic’s overview post of the same date says “an idea can carry over from a whiteboard to a spreadsheet to a dashboard”.

What is Claude Whiteboards?

It is a shared board where you and your team lay out ideas and Claude organizes them. Anthropic’s example is a retro meeting: “everyone can add their notes, and Claude can group them by theme and draft the action items for each person.”

The announcement lists more:

  • Talk through a messy plan, and Claude turns it into a board with a timeline, owners and dates.
  • Drag a box around part of the board and ask Claude questions about just that part.
  • Ask Claude to turn the finished board into a doc or deck.
  • Move the board into Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho, the tools Anthropic names.

We think the grouping is the useful part. Anyone who has sorted a wall of sticky notes after a retro knows why.

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Claude can group retro notes by theme and draft action items, per Anthropic's announcement of 10 Nov 2026.

What is Claude Sheets?

It is a spreadsheet Claude builds from a prompt and then edits with you. Anthropic says Claude “can now generate spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting, and drop-downs, often from just a prompt like asking for a campaign tracker or a hiring budget.”

Edits show where they happen. Claude “can edit in the cells, outlining each new edit so you can track changes”, and you can share a sheet so your team and Claude work on it together.

Anthropic states the limit plainly: “For now, sheets have simple spreadsheet functionality, but we are working on adding more.” When you need more, the announcement gives three ways out:

  1. Export the file to .xlsx or CSV.
  2. Use Claude for Excel.
  3. Continue in a partner tool it names: Airtable, Asana, monday.com or Smartsheet.

Our view: treat Sheets as a quick first version of a tracker or a budget, and expect to move to Excel or a partner tool once the sheet outgrows “simple”.

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Claude Sheets builds spreadsheets with tabs and formulas and launched in beta, per Anthropic's announcement of 10 Nov 2026.

What is Claude Data?

Claude Data is the new name for Claude Dashboards, now out of beta. Dashboards launched in beta on 8 Oct 2026 for quick questions about company data. On the rename, Anthropic says: “We changed the name because the way companies use their data is broader than dashboards, and the product now covers how they work more broadly.”

What is new, per the 10 Nov announcement:

  • Certified queries, in beta. Your data team certifies the queries everyone should use, and charts built on them carry a “certified” badge.
  • Live sharing, in beta. Colleagues see current numbers in a shared dashboard even without access to the connectors behind it. “Viewers see dashboard results rather than the underlying data, and they can run only the queries you’ve approved.”
  • Data stories. Claude drafts data stories or narrated videos from your metrics, for you to review before sharing.
  • Caching. Dashboards no longer reload on every load, and you set the refresh cadence for each dashboard.
  • Tracked changes. You see who edited what and can roll back to a specific version.
  • Design systems. Supported now, so a dashboard can match your look and feel.

Anthropic names Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog and Sigma as its partners for Claude Data.

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Claude Data adds certified queries and live sharing, both in beta, per Anthropic's announcement of 10 Nov 2026.

Who gets it and how do admins turn it on?

Every paid plan gets all three, and Free does not. Claude’s pricing page, read 10 Nov 2026, marks Claude Data, Claude Sheets (beta) and Claude Whiteboards (beta) as included on Pro, Max and Ultra, and not on Free. Its Team plan card lists “Claude Data, plus Motion, Sheets, and Whiteboards (beta)”.

The announcement says the three “work on web, desktop, and mobile”, and that “Claude Data needs a data connector, such as a warehouse or CRM.”

Admin defaults depend on the plan:

Plan Whiteboards and Sheets Claude Data
Team On by default On by default
Enterprise Off by default On by default from 19 Nov 2026

Admins can change these at any time in Organization settings > Artifacts. Our view: if you run an Enterprise workspace, look at that setting before 19 Nov, not after.

What changed for interactive connectors?

They can now open as a full tool beside your chat. A companion article of 10 Nov 2026 says that “where a connector supports it, you can open a tool beside your conversation or expand it to full screen”. It is rolling out on the web and in the Claude desktop app on all plans.

Claude can then make changes in the open tool, and you “approve its actions the same way you approve a connector’s actions.” The first group includes Asana, Canva, Carta, Dropbox, monday.com, Smartsheet, Vercel and Webflow, per that article. They run on MCP Apps, “the open extension to the Model Context Protocol”.

Working with these next to a team of agents

Sheets, Whiteboards and Data are Claude apps, and they sit next to whatever agents you already run. If you also want a team of agents working on your own computer, Munder Difflin is free and open source: a desktop app that runs a team of AI agents for all kinds of knowledge work, coding included, on your own computer. It runs engines such as Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI.

Our Claude Cowork explainer covers Anthropic’s agent for office work, and our Claude Code Max plan tips cover usage limits on paid plans. The install guide covers setup, and the Concepts hub explains the terms.

FAQ

Is Claude Sheets free?

No. Anthropic's announcement of 10 November 2026 says Sheets, Whiteboards and Data are available on all paid plans. Claude's pricing page, read 10 Nov 2026, marks all three as not included on Free.

What happened to Claude Dashboards?

It became generally available as Claude Data on 10 November 2026. Anthropic says it changed the name because the way companies use their data is broader than dashboards.

Can I export Claude Sheets to Excel?

Yes. Anthropic says you can export a sheet to .xlsx or CSV, or use Claude for Excel when you need the full functionality of Excel.

When does Claude Data turn on for Enterprise plans?

On 19 November 2026, per Anthropic's announcement. Whiteboards and Sheets stay off by default on Enterprise. Admins change all three in Organization settings > Artifacts.

Does Claude Data need a connector?

Yes. Anthropic says Claude Data needs a data connector, such as a warehouse or CRM.