New featureReleased 8 October 2026 · 5 min read
Your teams can build a live dashboard from a question.
Anthropic has released Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion in beta. Dashboards connects to a data platform like Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks, or a CRM like Salesforce, builds charts from a plain-language question and keeps them current. Every number shows the query behind it.
At a glance
- Claude Dashboards
- Beta, paid plans
- Claude Motion
- Beta, Team and Enterprise
- Docs, Slides, Design
- Out of beta, every plan
- Enterprise default-on
- 15 Oct
- claude.ai/design closes
- 14 Dec
01 · What changed
Two betas and three graduations.
Anthropic says asking questions of company data usually means filing a ticket or writing SQL, and ideas that would land better in motion end up as another static slide. Dashboards and Motion let a person ask for the chart or the animation itself, then see how Claude made it. Docs, Slides and Design are now out of beta on every plan, with CMEK support for artifacts and admin control over templates. For Enterprise admins, Dashboards and Motion are off by default, and Docs, Slides and Design turn on by default on 15 October.
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Claude Dashboards
Connect Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks or Snowflake, or a connector like Salesforce, and ask in plain language. Click any number to see its query, and each chart shows when its data was last refreshed.
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Hand-off to BI tools
Send a dashboard to Amplitude, Grafana, Hex, Mixpanel, Omni, Perplexity, PostHog or Sigma for deeper analysis. Databricks Genie, Looker, monday.com and Tableau are listed as coming soon.
- 3
Claude Motion
Turns a prompt into a short animation built as editable code, downloadable as an MP4. Anthropic says it uses no video generation model, so there is no generated footage and no AI-generated people.
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Docs, Slides, Design GA
Out of beta and on every plan, including Free. Anthropic says people have made more than 45 million docs, decks and designs in Claude.
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Enterprise controls
Artifacts now support CMEK, and admins choose which artifact templates their organization uses. Sharing outside the organization or by link works only if the admin allows it.
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Co-editing and exports
Your team and Claude can work on the same doc, deck, design or dashboard. PowerPoint and PDF downloads keep the editor's formatting, and decks go to Google Slides as editable files.
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Standalone Design closes
claude.ai/design stays open until 14 December, then folds into Claude. Chats, comments and public links on the standalone site will not be available after it closes.
02 · What it means
What it means for your seat.
For an investment firm, Dashboards puts a live view of pipeline or portfolio data one question away, with the query visible to anyone who wants to check it. Motion and the now generally available Docs and Slides change how a board pack or LP update gets drafted. The decisions sit with admins: which data connections, which sharing settings, and what to move off claude.ai/design before 14 December.
Leadership
Dashboards gives people a way to answer quick questions about company data without waiting on a ticket. Anthropic positions it for exploratory questions and says it works alongside your BI and analytics tools. Decide which data platforms and CRM connectors you are comfortable having Claude query, and which team pilots it first.
Your teams
A deal team can ask for a dashboard of Salesforce opportunities, click any figure to see the query, and check when it last refreshed before it goes into a weekly status report. Motion can turn a chart from a quarterly report into a 30-second explainer for an all-hands, exported as MP4. PowerPoint and PDF exports from Slides now keep the formatting you see in the editor.
Risk and compliance
Each chart shows its query and refresh time, and each animation is code you can edit, which gives reviewers something concrete to check. Anthropic says Motion uses no video generation model, so there is no generated footage and no AI-generated people. Review the new option to share slides, dashboards and animations outside the organization or by link, which works only if your admin allows it.
Enterprise admins
Dashboards and Motion are off by default; turn them on in Organization settings > Artifacts. Docs, Slides and Design turn on by default on 15 October, or you can turn them on now, and artifacts support CMEK and admin-chosen templates. If teams used claude.ai/design, click "Migrate team design systems" on the Artifacts page before 14 December.
03 · This week
What to do this week.
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Sources
Facts and dates are Anthropic’s own. What it means and what to do are our view, from the firms we work with. Drafted from these sources, checked against them figure by figure, and published 13 October 2026.
The short answers.
Which Claude plans include Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion?
Claude Dashboards is in beta on paid plans and Claude Motion is in beta on Team and Enterprise. Claude Docs, Slides and Design are out of beta and available on every plan, including Free.
Which data sources does Claude Dashboards connect to?
Anthropic names Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks and Snowflake, and says Dashboards also works with other connectors such as Salesforce. Each chart shows the query behind it and when its data was last refreshed.
Does Claude Motion generate AI video?
No. Anthropic says Claude Motion writes code that animates your text, charts, shapes and images, and does not use a video generation model, so there is no generated footage and no AI-generated people. Finished animations download as MP4 files.
When does the standalone claude.ai/design site close?
Anthropic says the standalone site stays at claude.ai/design until 14 December, after which Design works only inside Claude. Design systems can be migrated from the Artifacts page, but chats, comments and public links on standalone projects will not be available after it closes.
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