Claude adds Sheets, Whiteboards and dashboards as shared artifacts, cutting legal review from three days to 24 hours
Synopsis
Anthropic added three collaborative artifact types to Claude, Sheets, Whiteboards and Data dashboards, and upgraded interactive connectors so partner apps can be embedded directly in Claude. Claude could already produce documents, slide decks and designs, but team-editable spreadsheets and whiteboards were not among them. An internal legal team's Slack-based review tool built with Claude cut marketing review from three days to 24 hours, and the finance team turned a long business update into an interactive page the whole team maintains.
Interpretation
Claude can now build spreadsheets, whiteboards and dashboards that teams edit together with it, alongside its existing ability to create documents, slide decks and designs. Before this, Claude's artifact types covered documents, slide decks and designs; spreadsheets, whiteboards and dashboards were not included. Anthropic says the new artifact types are available starting today and work with existing abilities such as Claude Motion (beta).
The new artifacts carry the same context, so an idea can move from a whiteboard to a spreadsheet to a dashboard without restating the details. Carrying work across formats depends on Claude holding the same context at every step rather than the user re-describing the need in each artifact. Claude Data (formerly Dashboards) connects to tools such as Snowflake and Salesforce and can use definitions certified by a data team (beta) to create dashboards, visual data stories or narrated short videos.
Interactive connectors let partners embed their apps directly in Claude, and plugins from Salesforce, NetSuite and Workday come with built-in skills. Previously Claude reached context scattered across emails, apps and drives through connectors built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI to external tools. Claude Marketplace lists more than 9,000 connectors and plugins, including community-built ones; the Salesforce and Workday plugins are in beta.
Perspective
The report covers the product capabilities and usage accounts Anthropic published: three new artifact types (Sheets, Whiteboards, Data), the interactive connector upgrade, the coming Claude Meetings, and how internal legal and finance teams and several customers use them. Readers should treat it as product-release information, not an independent measurement of these tools' effects.
Figures such as legal review dropping from three days to 24 hours, FP&A forecast materials from about 10 hours to under 30 minutes, and Gusto contract turnaround from over a week to hours are company or customer accounts without stated measurement methods. Claude Meetings, the Salesforce and Workday plugins, data-team certified definitions and auto-connect are all labeled as coming soon or beta.