Anthropic has rolled out a major update to its Claude chatbot, introducing interactive workplace apps that allow users to work directly with popular enterprise tools inside the AI interface. The move strengthens Anthropic’s focus on business users and positions Claude as a central hub for day-to-day productivity rather than a standalone chatbot.
At launch, Claude supports apps from Slack, Figma, Canva, Box, and Clay, with a Salesforce integration expected soon. The apps connect a user’s logged-in accounts directly to Claude, enabling actions such as sending Slack messages, accessing cloud files, generating charts, or editing designs without leaving the conversation. From a blog post, Anthropic said the combination of AI and visual interfaces is designed to make work faster and more intuitive. “Analyzing data, designing content, and managing projects all work better with a dedicated visual interface,” the company wrote in its announcement. “Combined with Claude’s intelligence, you can work and iterate faster than either could offer alone.”
The feature is available to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers through the Claude app directory, while free users are excluded. Under the hood, the system is built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard introduced by Anthropic in 2024 that also powers OpenAI’s Apps platform launched last October. Support for interactive apps under MCP went live in November, drawing on engineering work from both companies and highlighting a rare area of shared infrastructure between direct competitors.
Anthropic said the apps will become significantly more powerful when paired with Claude Cowork, an agent tool the company launched last week. Cowork is designed to handle multi-stage tasks across large and open-ended datasets, work that previously required command-line tools. With app access, Cowork could update a marketing asset in Figma, pull data from Box, or post summaries to Slack. While the integration is not live yet, Anthropic confirmed it is coming soon and urged caution. In its safety guidance, the company warned users to closely monitor agent behavior and avoid granting unnecessary access to sensitive information such as financial records or credentials.
The launch underscores Anthropic’s broader strategy to embed AI directly into enterprise workflows at a time when rivals like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are racing to do the same. By turning Claude into an interface for existing workplace tools, Anthropic is betting that businesses will value tightly integrated, carefully governed AI systems—marking another step toward AI assistants that function less like chatbots and more like digital coworkers.