Anthropic has launched Claude Dashboards in preview, allowing users to create live data dashboards by describing the information they want to analyze. The feature supports connections to enterprise sources such as Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, and ClickHouse, in addition to existing connectors in Claude, such as Salesforce.
The dashboards do more than display results: users can click any number to see the query that produced it. Those who do not want to read SQL can ask Claude to explain how it arrived at the value. The dashboards also update as the data changes, and each chart displays the time it was last updated.
Query Transparency Instead of Isolated Numbers
This mechanism adds an inspectable layer to AI-generated analytics. Users receive not only a number or chart but can also trace the query associated with it, helping them review the results and understand their source before using them in reports or decisions.
Anthropic's Dashboards are not a complete replacement for specialized business intelligence tools. Users can move dashboards to services such as Grafana, Hex, Mixpanel, monday.com, Omni, PostHog, and Sigma. Support for Looker, Perplexity, and Tableau is still under development.
Permissions and Sharing
Dashboards use the user's existing access permissions through the data source. A dashboard starts out private to its owner, and when it is shared, queries run using viewers' connections by default, so each person sees only the data they are authorized to access.
On Enterprise plans, the feature is disabled by default until an administrator enables it in the organization's settings. On Team and Enterprise plans, dashboards remain within the organization unless their owner permits external sharing. Dashboards are available in preview on paid Claude plans.
Claude Motion Creates Animations with Code
Anthropic has also launched Claude Motion in preview for Team and Enterprise customers. The feature turns materials such as quarterly business updates or charts in board presentations into short animated clips.
Because Anthropic does not use a video model for this function, Claude writes code to animate text, images, and charts. Users can edit the output before exporting it as an MP4, then continue editing it in any video tool. Motion is intended to bring a workflow that developers previously carried out using Claude Code and frameworks such as Remotion and HyperFrames directly into Claude.
What Changes in Practice?
Anthropic is positioning Claude closer to an enterprise analytics and productivity layer, rather than merely an interface for invoking models. The direction is not entirely new; about a month ago, OpenAI launched the Data agent in ChatGPT Work with similar capabilities and connections to multiple data sources and business intelligence tools.
The practical limitations remain clear: Dashboards does not replace specialized business intelligence tools, and the accuracy of results depends on the available data, connections, and permissions. Anthropic says semantic models will be supported when they are exposed through a connector, while data warehouse companies such as Snowflake and Databricks continue developing their own natural-language analytics tools.
In parallel, Docs, Slides, and Design will be enabled by default for Enterprise organizations on October 15, after being available in preview since September 16. Anthropic says users have created more than 45 million documents, presentations, and designs since then. Artifacts, the name the company gives these outputs, now also supports customer-managed encryption keys, with administrators able to control their templates.
Users of the standalone Claude Design website, launched in April, will have until December 14 to migrate; their conversations and comments will not be transferred.