Or an app connected to ClaudeSalesforce opportunities, in Anthropic’s example
Your question, in plain words“Build a dashboard of this quarter’s revenue by region.”
Revenue by region, this quarter
Region A
Region B
Region C
Region D
The query behind itRevenue for this quarter, added up by region. Claude writes one for each chart, and it opens from any number.
Last refreshedShown on every chart, so you know how recent the figures are.
Our drawing of one chart, from Anthropic’s description. The bars carry no real figures.
On 8 October 2026 Anthropic released Claude Dashboards in beta. A business connects a data source, asks a question in plain words, and Claude builds a dashboard that stays current as the data changes, with the query behind every chart one click away. This page sets out what was announced, how a dashboard is built, who sees what once it is shared and what the announcement leaves open, from Anthropic’s announcement and its help centre.
By The AI Adoption · Published on 11 October 2026 · Sources: Anthropic, 8 October 2026, and the Claude help centre
What was announced
On 8 October 2026 Anthropic put two new features of Claude into beta. Claude Dashboards turns a question about a business’s data into a dashboard, and Claude Motion turns a prompt into a short animated explainer. The same announcement took Docs, Slides and Design out of beta and made them available on every plan, the Free plan included.
Dashboards are in beta on the paid plans, which the help centre lists as Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise. On Enterprise the feature stays off until an Owner turns it on in the organisation’s settings, and on Team and Enterprise an Owner can switch it on or off for everyone. Each dashboard is saved with the rest of your work in Claude, as an artifact, and it counts towards the plan’s usage limits in the same way as any other work in Claude.
How a dashboard is built
The dashboard starts from a source Claude can reach. That source is either a data warehouse, such as Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks or Snowflake, or another app connected to Claude, with a dashboard of Salesforce opportunities as Anthropic’s own example. You then ask for the dashboard in plain words, in a chat or from the Dashboards template, and Claude writes a query for each chart in SQL, the language used to ask a database for figures, runs it against the source and lays out the result.
Every chart shows its query and the time its data was last refreshed. Clicking a number opens the query behind it, and anyone who would rather not read SQL can ask Claude to explain how the figure was reached. When a chart is not counting what you meant, you tell Claude what to change, in the same way you would ask it to add a filter or switch to a weekly view.
The help centre suggests describing the question you want answered, not only the type of chart, and naming the table or the app when you know it. The announcement sums up the division of work in one line: Claude makes the first version, and you decide what gets shared.
Who sees what once it is shared
A dashboard starts private to the person who made it, and sharing it is a separate step. On Team and Enterprise plans, what is shared stays inside the organisation by default: sharing with anyone who has the link is only possible when an Owner has turned on external sharing or has allowed that one item. A dashboard that pulls its data through connected apps cannot be shared with anyone who has the link at all.
The figures a colleague sees depend on their own access. According to Anthropic’s help centre, an artifact that pulls from connected apps uses the viewer’s connections, not those of the person who built it, and where a viewer has no access to a source, that part of the artifact shows an error instead of the data. A dashboard that combines warehouse figures with the sales pipeline therefore shows the pipeline only to colleagues whose own connection reaches it.
The same dashboard, opened by three people
Whoever built itConnected to the warehouse and to Salesforce
Revenue by region
Open opportunities
A colleagueConnected to the warehouse, not to Salesforce
Revenue by region
Open opportunities
An error instead of the data
Someone with only the linkOutside the organisation, or not signed in
Not available. A dashboard that pulls data through connected apps cannot be shared with anyone who has the link.
On Team and Enterprise, what is shared stays inside the organisation by default.
The same page adds a point that applies before sharing anything made in a chat: the people it is shared with also get access to the attachments and files in that chat. Anthropic’s advice is to check for sensitive documents first, which matters as soon as a dashboard has been built in a conversation where a contract, a price list or a staff file was uploaded.
Where it fits next to the tools you already use
Anthropic presents dashboards as made for quick, exploratory questions, such as how this week’s signups compare with last month’s. For deeper analysis, the help centre suggests sending the dashboard to another tool and continuing the work there, and the announcement names the tools that can receive it today and the ones that are coming.
Where a dashboard can go next
Claude dashboard
Send it on today
Amplitude
Grafana
Hex
Mixpanel
Omni
Perplexity
PostHog
Sigma
Coming soon
Looker
monday.com
Tableau
For an owner, that places a dashboard at the start of a question: a fast look at revenue by region or at open opportunities, checked against its query before anyone acts on it. The figures a leadership team reads every week, drawn from several systems with definitions everyone has agreed, are a different piece of work, and the announcement does not present dashboards as that.
Also announced that day
Claude Motion is in beta on the Team and Enterprise plans. From a prompt, Claude builds a short animated explainer, such as a 30-second video for an all-hands meeting or a product walkthrough, as code that animates your own text, charts, shapes and images. Anthropic states that it does not use a video generation model, so there is no generated footage and there are no AI-generated people. The result can be adjusted in an editor or by asking Claude, then downloaded as an MP4 video.
Docs, Slides and Design are now out of beta on every plan. Teams can edit the same document, deck, design or dashboard together with Claude, and exports to PowerPoint and PDF keep their formatting, according to the announcement.
What the announcement does not cover
The pages read for this article do not say how often a dashboard refreshes on its own, whether a refresh can be scheduled, or what happens to a chart when the table behind it changes; they say only that each chart shows when its data was last refreshed. They give no measure of accuracy either; the means of checking they describe are the query behind every number and an explanation from Claude on request.
Nor do they name a country or say where the data read by a dashboard is processed. For a business in the UK, Australia or New Zealand with rules about where its data may go, the answer sits in the terms of its plan, and our guide on what you can safely share with AI sets out the questions to ask about training, retention and location.
How we start
We set up Claude, or the AI environment a team already uses, for the businesses we work with, including the connections to the data an owner wants to read and the access each person should have, as described in how to adopt AI securely. When a question needs more than a quick view, such as the figures a leadership team reviews every week from several systems, we build it as a custom business tool. If you want to talk through what you would put on a dashboard and who should see it, the first step with us is a free AI pre-audit: 45 minutes on a call about how you and your team use AI today and which work to hand over first. You leave with a clear next step, with or without us.
Every fact on this page comes from Anthropic’s announcement and from two pages of the Claude help centre, read on 11 October 2026. The features are in beta and may change after publication.
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