Claude Data (formerly Claude Dashboards) turns a plain language question about your company's data into a live dashboard, and Claude Motion turns your report, chart or idea into a short animated explainer you can edit and download as an MP4. On November 10, 2026, Anthropic took Dashboards out of beta and renamed it Claude Data. The same day it added two beta tools that sit next to them: Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards. You don't need to write code or SQL for any of them.
Here's the short version. Claude Data answers "what do our numbers say right now?" Motion answers "how do I explain this so people get it in 30 seconds?" Sheets gives you a working spreadsheet from a prompt, and Whiteboards gives your team a shared board to think out loud. Below you'll see what each one does, which Claude plans include it, and when to use it instead of a regular doc or slide deck.
What are Claude Data, Motion, Sheets and Whiteboards?
All four are kinds of artifacts. An artifact is the finished thing Claude makes for you inside a chat, like a document, a deck or a design, that you can keep editing.
- Claude Data connects to where your company keeps its data and builds a dashboard, a scrolling data story or a short narrated video from a question you type. Each chart shows the query behind it and when its data was last refreshed.
- Claude Motion builds a short animation from your prompt that plays like a video. You can tweak it in an editor or ask Claude to change it, then download it as an MP4 file.
- Claude Sheets builds a spreadsheet with tabs, formulas, formatting and dropdowns, then edits the cells with you.
- Claude Whiteboards is a shared board where you talk, type or sketch, and Claude groups your ideas into something you can act on.
Anthropic announced Dashboards and Motion in its October launch post, which also took Claude Docs, Slides and Design out of beta and put them on every plan, including Free. Claude Data, Sheets and Whiteboards came in the November 10 launch post.
Claude Data (formerly Dashboards): ask your company's data a question
Think about the last time you needed a number from your company's data. You probably filed a ticket with the data team, or waited for someone who knows SQL. Claude Data is Anthropic's answer to that wait.
You connect a data platform such as Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks or Snowflake. Then you ask a question in plain language. Claude writes the queries, builds the charts and keeps them updated. It also works with your other connectors, so you could ask for a dashboard of your Salesforce opportunities.
If you used Dashboards in October, nothing breaks. Anthropic's Help Center guide says dashboards you already made keep working. Anthropic changed the name because the product now does more than dashboards. Here's what's new:
- Data stories and short videos. Besides dashboards, you can ask for a scrolling story or a short video that walks through your numbers, and review it before you share it.
- Certified queries (beta). Your data team can approve the queries everyone should use for a metric, and charts built on them carry a "certified" badge. That's how you avoid two dashboards with two different revenue numbers.
- Live sharing (beta). Colleagues can open a shared dashboard and see current numbers even if they don't have access to the data connector. They only see the results of queries you approved.
- Caching and tracked changes. Dashboards load faster, you set how often each one refreshes, and you can see who edited what and roll back to an earlier version.
Anthropic still says dashboards work best for quick, exploratory questions, like how this week's signups compare with last month's. Claude Data isn't meant to replace your analytics team. When a question needs deeper work, you can send the dashboard to another tool and keep going there.
The part we like most: you can click any number to see the query that produced it, or ask Claude to explain it. That's how you check the work before you share it.
Claude Motion: turn a report into a short animation
Some ideas land better when they move. A pricing comparison, a quarter's growth, the steps of a new process. Usually they end up as one more static slide.
Motion lets you ask for the animation itself. Anthropic's own examples are a 30 second explainer of a quarterly report for a company meeting, motion added to a chart in a board deck, and a product walkthrough for customer onboarding.
Here's what surprises most people. Motion doesn't generate video footage. Claude writes code that animates your own text, charts, shapes and images, so you can change any word, number or timing. That also means no AI generated people show up in your explainer. If you want to polish it further, Anthropic lists Adobe, Descript, HeyGen, Luma AI and Runway among the tools you can open it in.
Motion is still in beta, and it's still only on Team and Enterprise plans, according to Anthropic's Motion guide.
Claude Sheets: a spreadsheet from one prompt
Ask for "a campaign tracker with owners, dates and status" or "a hiring budget by team and quarter," and Sheets builds a working spreadsheet. It adds tabs, writes formulas that work across them, and sets up formatting, dropdowns, checkboxes and charts. When Claude edits a cell, it outlines the change so you can see exactly what moved.
You can share a sheet and edit it with your team and Claude at the same time. You can also bring data in from a CSV file, Google Sheets or Excel, and export to .xlsx or CSV when you need the full power of Excel.
Keep your expectations simple for now. Anthropic's Sheets guide says it's a beta that covers common spreadsheet work. Pivot tables aren't there yet, Excel macros aren't supported, a sheet holds up to 100,000 cells, and it can't pull live data from your connected apps. For live company numbers, use Claude Data.
Claude Whiteboards: think out loud with your team
Whiteboards is for the messy stage, before you know what the final version looks like. You dictate a brain dump, type a list of options or sketch a process, and Claude groups related ideas, puts steps in order and connects what depends on what.
Anthropic's example is a retro meeting. Everyone adds notes, Claude groups them by theme and drafts action items for each person. You can drag a box around part of the board and ask Claude about just that part. When the thinking is done, Claude can turn the board into a doc or a deck, or you can send it to Lucid, Miro or Zoho Vani, per Anthropic's Whiteboards guide.
Who can use them: Claude plans at a glance
Plan access is where most of the confusion is, so here it is in one table. It comes from Anthropic's Help Center guides for Claude Data, Motion, Sheets and Whiteboards, checked November 11, 2026.
| Feature | Free | Pro, Max and Ultra | Team | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Data | No | Yes | Yes, on by default | On by default from November 19, 2026 |
| Claude Motion (beta) | No | No | Yes, on by default | Yes, once an owner turns it on |
| Claude Sheets (beta) | No | Yes | Yes, on by default | Yes, once an owner turns it on |
| Claude Whiteboards (beta) | No | Yes | Yes, on by default | Yes, once an owner turns it on |
| Claude Docs, Slides and Design | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Inside Claude Data, certified queries and live sharing are still in beta. On Team plans they're on by default. On Enterprise plans they're off by default.
If you're on a company plan and don't see one of these, ask your owner to check Organization settings, under Artifacts. That's where each one gets turned on or off, and on Enterprise it can be limited to specific groups. One date to note if you run an Enterprise account: Claude Data switches on by itself on November 19, 2026, unless an owner has already saved a setting.
Which one should you use?
All of these live in the same Claude chat, so the real question is what you need at the end.
| You need | Use | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A number or trend from company data, kept up to date | Claude Data | It queries live data and shows its work |
| To explain an idea or result in under a minute | Motion | Movement holds attention better than another slide |
| A tracker, budget or simple model you can edit | Sheets | Formulas stay in the cells, so you can check them |
| To sort out a messy plan with your team | Whiteboards | It organizes ideas before you commit to a format |
| A written plan, brief or report | Docs | Words carry the detail |
| A deck to present or send | Slides | Exports to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides |
A common combo: map the plan on a whiteboard, track it in a sheet, check the results in Claude Data, then ask Motion to animate the one chart that matters for your company meeting.
How to try them this week
- Check your plan. Claude Data, Sheets and Whiteboards need a paid plan. Motion needs Team or Enterprise.
- For Claude Data, connect one data source. Start with something you already know well, so you can tell if the answer looks right.
- Ask a narrow question. Anthropic's own example is "Build a dashboard of this quarter's revenue by region."
- Click a number and read the query. If it counts the wrong thing, tell Claude what to fix.
- For Sheets, describe the columns you want. "A campaign tracker with owners, dates and status" works better than "make me a spreadsheet."
- For Motion, start from a finished report. Try "Animate how our pricing plans compare for the sales kickoff," then edit the wording and timing.
- Share only after a human check. Claude makes the first version, and you decide what goes out.
What to watch out for
- Three of them are still in beta. Motion, Sheets and Whiteboards are betas, and so are certified queries and live sharing in Claude Data. Features and plan access can change, so recheck the Help Center before you build a team process on them.
- Access follows your permissions. Claude only reaches the data your connectors and your account can reach. With live sharing, viewers see results of queries you approved, so approve with care.
- Check the numbers. A clean chart can still answer a slightly different question than the one you meant. Reading the query takes a minute and saves an awkward meeting.
- Health data stays out. Anthropic's artifacts admin guide says Docs, Slides, Design, Dashboards and Motion aren't covered by its Business Associate Agreement. Sheets doesn't support HIPAA yet, and Whiteboards isn't available to organizations with HIPAA ready configurations. Keep protected health information out of all of them.
Go deeper
New to Claude itself? Start with our guide on how to use Claude at work, which covers plans, models and prompts. For day to day docs, slides and spreadsheets, see Claude Sonnet 5.5 for everyday work. And if you'd rather automate a whole workflow than build one dashboard, read what n8n is. For more tools like these, browse our AI tools roundup.
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