Anthropic just announced that it is releasing a suite of AI-infused office work software in a move that the market seems certain will jeopardize Microsoft and Google’s stranglehold of productivity tools.

Anthropic said in a blog post on Tuesday that it was expanding its current office tool offerings with three new features: Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards, and Claude Meetings. Of the lineup, Claude Sheets looks like the most direct threat to competitors, specifically Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. It works almost exactly like those two apps, but Anthropic is promoting it as a tool that workers can use to collaborate with both their team members and Claude agents. The team will be able to use Claude to “organize data, create and edit formulas, and work across multiple tabs,” Anthropic said.

Claude Whiteboards is a digital whiteboard that team members can use together to brainstorm ideas during a meeting, similar to how a shared Google Doc might be used, and it also has Claude embedded to summarize the findings. Both Whiteboards and Sheets are available in beta to Claude subscribers.

Claude Meetings, which Anthropic said is coming soon, will be a video call assistant that takes notes and updates company documents throughout the call, and could pose some competition to Microsoft and Google’s own agentic meeting features, as well as other AI-driven transcription and note-taking programs like Otter.ai.

Anthropic seems to be hoping that the Claude integration will make the products more appealing than their rivals’ offerings.

“Since Claude carries the same context through every step, an idea can carry over from a whiteboard to a spreadsheet to a dashboard, without the need to reiterate the details,” Anthropic said in the blog post.

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