Claude Office Just Killed Excel (And Miro And Excalidraw...)
A hands-on tour of Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Data, the three new artifact types that point Anthropic at office software.
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Big Idea
The argument in one line.
Anthropic's new Whiteboards, Sheets and Data artifacts turn Claude into an office suite for light work, and the practical move is to feed each one a real CSV and let it build.
Who This Is For
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
You already use Claude chat or Claude Code and want to know whether the new artifacts are worth switching to from Excalidraw, Miro or a spreadsheet.
You present data or diagrams on screen and want an interactive visual aid that Claude can edit live from comments.
You come from a non-technical background and want a plain look at what these tools do before you spend time on them.
SKIP IF…
You do finance modeling or work with huge datasets, since the video says to stay on Excel for now.
You want a deep technical comparison, because the tests here are quick demos on one YouTube analytics file.
TL;DR
The full version, fast.
Anthropic released Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets and Claude Data as artifacts you open from the Artifacts tab or by asking in chat. Whiteboards are an infinite canvas where Claude draws diagrams and mini apps and takes comments. Sheets is a beta spreadsheet capped at 100,000 cells, good for trackers and budgets but not finance models. Data is the renamed dashboards product with live data, design systems and three formats: Scrollyteller, Visual Short and Visual Analysis. Feeding each one a CSV and letting Claude run works well even with a weak prompt.
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Intro to Claude Sheets, Whiteboards and Data, and how to open them as artifacts.
01:10 – 04:01
02 · Claude Whiteboards
Infinite canvas with diagrams, mini apps, comments sent to Claude, sharing and a YouTube data view.
04:01 – 04:33
03 · Claude Code Masterclass
Sponsor segment for the presenter's own course.
04:33 – 07:12
04 · Claude Sheets
A beta spreadsheet that formats a CSV on its own, plus a Sheets vs Google Sheets vs Excel comparison.
07:12 – 11:08
05 · Claude Data
Dashboards renamed, with design systems and Scrollyteller, Visual Short and Visual Analysis formats.
11:08 – 12:01
06 · One more thing: Claude Meetings
Claude joining calls on team and enterprise plans to build docs and whiteboards.
Atomic Insights
Lines worth screenshotting.
Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Data are artifacts, meaning small apps Claude builds inside the app, usable in both Claude chat and Claude Code.
You don't need a menu to start one: asking Claude in plain language to create a whiteboard, sheet or data dashboard works the same as clicking Artifacts.
On a Claude Whiteboard you can comment on a single element and either leave it for teammates or send it to Claude, which starts editing right away.
Every whiteboard stays tied to the chat that created it, so one click returns you to the original conversation.
Claude Sheets caps at 100,000 cells per sheet against 10 million for Google Sheets, which is why it fits trackers and budgets, not big data.
Given a raw CSV and no formatting instructions, Claude Sheets added titles, date formats, percentages, color coding and a summary tab on its own.
Claude Data is the new name for Claude Dashboards, and it adds live data that updates automatically plus support for your own design system.
Claude Data offers four formats: Dashboard, Scrollyteller, Visual Short and Visual Analysis, and the video finds Visual Analysis the least distinct.
Visual Short turns a dashboard into a narrated video, so the same data can become a presentation without building slides.
A whiteboard works as a poor man's dashboard: interactive enough to use as a visual aid while presenting, without building real BI tooling.
Claude can also draw on a whiteboard while you point and circle, which makes it a direct substitute for Excalidraw in live presenting.
You can prompt for a style such as neo-brutalist and Claude will restyle the whole dashboard, so the first output isn't the final look.
Takeaway
Three artifacts, each with a clear job
WHAT TO LEARN
Claude's new Whiteboards, Sheets and Data each cover light office work well, and the fastest way to learn them is to hand each one a real CSV and let Claude build.
Open any of the three from the Artifacts tab or just ask Claude in chat to create a whiteboard, sheet or data dashboard.
Use Whiteboards as an interactive visual aid for presenting: Claude can draw, edit from comments, and show live calculations on the canvas.
Comment on a single element to have Claude restyle just that part, for example asking for a neo-brutalist look on one diagram.
Treat Claude Sheets as a beta for trackers, budgets and lists, since it caps at 100,000 cells and Excel still wins for finance modeling and big data.
Give Claude Sheets a raw CSV with a loose prompt and it formats, color codes and builds a summary tab without being told to.
Pick the Claude Data format by purpose: Dashboard to explore, Scrollyteller to walk people through a story, Visual Short for narrated video.
Add your own design system so artifacts follow your brand colors, and prompt for a different style if the first look isn't right.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
Artifact
A small standalone app or document that Claude builds inside the Claude app, such as a whiteboard, sheet or dashboard, which you can edit and share.
Scrollyteller
A Claude Data format that turns a dashboard into a scrolling story, with explanatory text on the left and animated charts on the right.
Visual Short
A Claude Data format that turns the dashboard into a short video with spoken narration over the data.
Neo-brutalist
A bold design style with heavy borders, flat colors and stark layouts, used here as a prompt to restyle a dashboard.
Design system
A saved set of colors, fonts and styling rules you can give Claude so every artifact matches your brand.
“Did Claude just kill Excel? Well, not exactly, but they did just take their first step.”
clear hook with an honest hedge→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
11:40
“If you have some application out there that has to do with office work whatsoever, Claude is coming for you.”
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Did Claude just kill Excel? Well, not exactly, but they did just take their first step because this week Anthropic released Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards, and Claude Data. And it seems like they are gunning for any sort of application that has anything to do with office work.
So I went ahead and tested these new releases and today I'm going to show you how they work and what you need to do to get the most out of them. So the big three releases are Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards, and Claude Data. Cloud Sheets is basically their Excel clone.
Cloud Whiteboard, which is going to be the first one we jump into, is essentially like Excalibur. And then Cloud Data is the newest version of Cloud Dashboards. All these are artifacts, which just means they're essentially miniature applications that Cloud built inside the app itself.
And you can use these both inside the normal Cloud Chat and Cloud Code. Now to get access to them, you can just click artifacts over here on the left. Or you can just open up a new chat and you can say, hey, I want you to create a whiteboard or I want you to create a sheet or I want you to create a data dashboard, something to that effect.
So either hit artifacts or just speak to Claude in natural language. Now, the first one we're going to talk about is the brand new whiteboard. So this is Claude Whiteboards.
It's an infinite canvas that you can draw anything. on we can do diagrams, we can have Claude actually create drawings, we can have it create many applications. So you know, I can change the input tokens, and it actually does calculations here on the screen, I can do live polls, I can leave notes for team members.
And it's just meant to be this collaborative space that you can kind of throw anything at. And Claude can also interact with. So in terms of interacting with Claude, I have this chat down here down in the bottom where I can tell it to do whatever I want.
I can also leave notes anywhere. So if I click on something like, I don't know, this sort of like working mini app, I can then click comment on this element. And I can either leave comments for team members or I can leave them to Claude.
So I could say, you know, can you make this into a Neo Brutalist style? And I can either leave that as a comment any teammate can answer or I can send it to Claude. And Claude will start working on it right away.
So you can see Claude has sort of selected this entire diagram, gives us the little icon that it's working. And just like that, it's changed what this looked like. In fact, it started to change this other part of it too.
So really easy to have Claude actually edit this. These are also tied to specific chats. So while I can describe changes I want here and leave comments, I can also click this chat button over here on the top right.
And that will bring me back to the original chat that actually spawned. this whiteboard sharing is super easy i just click share over here on the top right and then i have the ability to you know actually you know type things in that i want myself you know so i can manually put things in here as well i'm not limited to just having claude do everything now the real value add here is going to be in scenarios i think where you're using as a visual aid when you're doing some sort of presenting i used to do this in escala draw all the time but Now you can have something up, you can create the pencil, you can point at things, you can circle things, you know, it's just really easy to interact with this.
Another thing you're going to want to use whiteboards for is an interactive sort of visual for data. So what I did is I told Claude that I wanted it to look at all my YouTube data since August 25th. So it went on YouTube, it used the API, grabbed a bunch of information.
turned that into a big CSV file, and then took all that data and then just displayed it here on the whiteboard. So it's almost like a poor man's version of a dashboard, but one that's really easy to interact with, again, as some sort of visual aid on a screen. Like, hey, this was almost 4 million views.
This was sort of the baseline, et cetera, et cetera. So I think that's the real value of these sort of like infinite whiteboards in general. And now it's completely integrated into Cloud.
Like, why would I ever really use Excalibur when this is here? It's also like interactive. So, you know, when I scroll over these different data points, it actually tells me which video it's in reference to.
So, you know, overall, like pretty slick. Now, before we jump into the second feature, which is Cloud Sheets, a quick word from today's sponsor, me. So inside of Chase AI +, I have just released a brand new, completely updated Cloud Code Masterclass.
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I will put a link to it down in the description. Now, the second thing we're going to talk about today is clawed sheets. Is this the Excel killer?
Well, like I said in the intro, not exactly, but it is a great tool, even if it's in its infancy. So it has everything you would expect. columns you know i can give it different macros i can do formulas all that good stuff so like you saw in whiteboards where i handed this big csv file that had all my youtube data i did the same thing here i opened up whiteboards i handed it that file and i just said go to work and so it sorted all that data into what you see here with titles formatting publish dates percentages it did all the color coding i didn't even tell it to do all this it just did it exactly on its own and It created a summary tab, which sort of takes all that information.
And again, in somewhat of a dashboard style, just lays it out for me nice and neat. So I don't just have to look at all that raw data. Now, just like with whiteboards, if I want to chat with Claude about this, if I just hit the chat button, that will bring up the chat over here on the left.
I can leave comments, you know, like I can click on any of the information here, right click. I can either ask Claude or leave a comment. I can be like, can you explain this number?
I cannot type anymore. Say, explain this number. And it's going to go ahead and start working on that.
Just as if I had put it in the chat window here. But I'm going to stop it for now. Now, the big question is going to be, well, what is the difference between Claude Sheets and Google Sheets and Excel?
Like, when do I use one versus the other? Well, let's hop back into whiteboards and take a look. This is another use case of whiteboards.
I just told Claude, hey, figure out what the difference is between Sheets, Sheets, and Excel. put it together in a graph and display it in whiteboard. So cloud sheets, Google Sheets, Excel.
What is the big difference? Well, they're use cases. So cloud sheets is great for quick trackers, budgets, and lists.
This is not nearly as robust as Google Sheets or Excel. I mean, this thing just came out still in beta. Like if you're talking about finance modeling, big data, stick with Excel for now.
If we're doing something smaller, cloud sheets is perfect. We're also limited in terms of the size. We have 100 ,000 cells per sheet versus 10 million.
cells per file with Google Sheets. And on Excel, you got 1 million rows by 16 ,000 columns. But with Sheets, we still do formatting, formulas, drop downs, tabs, all that good stuff.
So if we're doing like, more simplistic, quote unquote, Excel work, and you want to bring Claude into, you know, into your workflow, and you don't necessarily want to do Claude in Excel, well, Claude Sheets is perfect. And I won't be surprised if they continue building upon this until eventually, it's sort of on par with Sheets and maybe very far down the line on par with Excel.
So I would definitely test it out by just throwing some big CSV or XLSX file and just have it go to work. Like even if you don't give it a great prompt, it's going to be able to give you something pretty solid. Now, last but not least on the list, we have data.
Now, data used to be dashboards. We had clawed dashboards. Now we have clawed data.
It's the same thing. It's dashboards with a few different twists. And it's all about live data that updates automatically.
and we show it inside of a cloud bill dashboard. And so here's the look at the dashboard it created using cloud data. Just like before, I fed it that CSV of all that YouTube data.
I can look at the format, whether it's my shorts, my long videos or my longs and shorts, big picture information up top and then starts breaking down all the data. I told it I wanted like a aesthetically like a neo brutalist style, which is why you see it as fashion. I can see all my information as I mouse over.
Just like everything else, I can share it by just clicking up here on the top right. I can talk to Claude about this data over here in the left inside the prompt window. And I can also take a look at where the data is coming from if I click on sources here on the top right.
Now, with this, they also have the design element built in. So you can feed it specific design systems. So if you're using this for your company and you have a very clear color palette you use and branding or whatever, you can set that as a design system.
And it's going to follow that. So it looks however you want. And we have different formats.
So the format you're looking at right now is just your typical dashboard format. We also have Scrollyteller, Visual Short and Visual Analysis. Scrollyteller basically takes this dashboard and then it's going to like be somewhat of a story that you scroll through where it shows information on the right and some text on the left.
And I'll show you what that looks like in a second. Visual Short actually sort of turns it into a video where there's an actual audio. narration over the top talking about the data.
And then visual analysis is pretty much just a different flavor of dashboard. It's not very different, but I will show you all those. So let's take a look at what scrolly teller looks like.
So all you have to do is click on it, it's going to bring up this, you're just gonna hit send. And so here's a look at the scrolly teller. So again, text on the left explaining what's going on with the data over here on the right, he had some kind of cool animations kind of showing what's going on.
with the different sorts of videos, highlighting certain things. So again, this can work pretty well as like a visual aid if you're presenting something and you want something different than just pointing at the dashboard on the screen. Now the next one is the visual short.
Again, you just click on it, send it, and it's going to get to work. So now let's listen in on the visual short.
16 were hits, with at least half again as many views. Sorted by packaging, match -up videos lead at 197 % of a typical video. Next comes problem fix.
at 133%. Its best video, I tested GPT -6 Astra vs Fable 5 .1, no hype assessment, reached 565%. Take that one out and the style average is 135%.
That is barely ahead of Problem Fix at 133%. Long videos get clicked about 7 % of the time they're shown, shorts about 4%, people watch about 71 % of a short, and about 31 % of a long video. The five biggest hits came from four different packaging styles.
So copy what these five have in common, not just their packaging label. Also remember, you aren't at the mercy of whatever it comes up with. You can also prompt your way into essentially like a different look or sort of a different narrative when it shows the data as well.
And lastly, we have visual analysis. And like you'll see, it isn't too different from your standard dashboard format. And so here's a look at the visual analysis.
much different than the dashboard, maybe a little more emphasis on some of the graphs we're seeing. But in general, I kind of didn't find a reason to like ever really use visual analysis. While with visual shorts, scrolly teller and dashboard, there's sort of like a clear reason why you would use each of those.
So that was where I was going to end this video. But just in the last hour or so, Claude also announced Claude meetings, which is pretty interesting. Essentially, they now just added an ability.
If you're on the team and enterprise plan to have Claude join your calls it then listens to everything and then it can like build dogs whiteboards and even other artifacts so not going to go much deeper into that since i don't have access to it just yet but yet more evidence that like if you have some application out there that has to do with office work whatsoever claude is coming for you so hopefully they release that to everyone i'd definitely like to play around with that but otherwise hopefully this sort of enlightened you on what these new artifacts can do, how you can use them.
And if you want to learn more about Claude, how to really master this, especially if you come from a non -technical background, definitely check out Chase AI+. I will link that in the pinned comment. Besides that, I'll see you around.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The title says Claude killed Excel. The first line walks it back to a first step, then spends twelve minutes showing what Whiteboards, Sheets and Data can actually do.
Frameworks
Named ideas worth stealing.
05:30model
Which tool for which job
Claude Sheets: quick trackers, budgets, lists
Google Sheets: shared team sheets
Excel: finance models, big data, macros
Claude Sheets handles simple spreadsheet work with Claude built in, while Google Sheets and Excel stay the choice for scale and depth.
Steal forchoosing a spreadsheet for a given project
08:24list
Four Claude Data formats
Dashboard
Scrollyteller
Visual Short
Visual Analysis
Dashboard for exploring, Scrollyteller for a scrolling story, Visual Short for a narrated video, and Visual Analysis as a near-duplicate dashboard flavor.
Steal forpresenting the same dataset to different audiences
CTA Breakdown
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
11:40product
“Check out Chase AI+. I will link that in the pinned comment.”
Soft pitch at the close, plus a mid-roll sponsor spot for the same course.
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