Anthropic has introduced two new features for Claude, its artificial intelligence assistant, designed to help users turn business data into interactive dashboards and create animated explainers from reports and presentations. Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion are launching in beta, offering new ways for businesses to analyse information and communicate findings without building visual content entirely from scratch.
The new tools aim to simplify tasks that traditionally require specialist software, data analysis skills or design experience. Dashboards can connect to supported business data platforms and generate visual summaries in response to natural-language questions, while Motion can transform charts, reports and other information into short animations.
The launches also coincide with Claude Docs, Slides and Design officially leaving beta. These features are now available across all Claude plans, including the free tier, expanding access to the assistant’s document creation, presentation and design capabilities.
Claude Dashboards turns business data into interactive visuals
Claude Dashboards is designed to help users explore company data by asking questions in everyday language rather than writing SQL queries or manually building charts. The feature connects to supported data platforms, including Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, and ClickHouse. It also supports customer relationship management software such as Salesforce.
Once connected to a data source, users can ask Claude to investigate specific business questions and present the results in a dashboard. For example, a team could compare this week’s new customer sign-ups with the previous month’s figures. Claude can retrieve the relevant information and turn it into a visual representation, making trends and changes easier to identify.
The tool is intended primarily for quick investigations and exploratory analysis. Instead of waiting for a dedicated analytics team to prepare a report, business users can use natural-language prompts to examine figures and obtain a clearer view of performance. This can help teams answer routine questions quickly or identify areas that need further investigation.
The dashboards can also refresh automatically as new data becomes available. This means users can return to a dashboard and review updated figures without recreating the visualisation each time the underlying information changes. The feature aims to make data exploration more accessible while reducing the manual work of preparing recurring reports.
Another feature allows users to inspect the query behind an individual figure. Clicking a number reveals the query that generated it, providing greater visibility into how the result was produced. This could help analysts and business teams verify figures, understand how a metric was calculated and investigate unexpected results.
For more detailed analysis, users can transfer their dashboards to other analytics and visualisation platforms. Supported destinations include Grafana, Hex, Mixpanel and Sigma. Anthropic has also indicated that it plans to support Looker, Perplexity, and Tableau in the future.
Despite these capabilities, Claude Dashboards is not positioned as a complete replacement for dedicated business intelligence software. Its main purpose is to make initial analysis and rapid exploration easier, while established tools can remain part of more advanced reporting workflows. Access to Claude Dashboards is currently limited to paid plans.
Claude Motion creates animated explainers from reports and charts
Claude Motion turns information into short animated presentations. Users can provide a quarterly business report, a chart from a board presentation or another piece of information and ask Claude to transform it into an animated explainer.
The feature is intended to help communicate complex information in an easier-to-follow format. Instead of presenting audiences with a static slide filled with figures, users can create animations that introduce information progressively, illustrate data changes, and guide viewers through key findings.
Unlike AI video generators that create realistic footage or synthetic people, Claude Motion writes code to animate visual elements. These can include text, charts, shapes and images. This approach keeps the animation editable, giving users control over individual elements instead of leaving them with a finished video that is difficult to modify.
This flexibility could be particularly useful for businesses preparing internal presentations, project updates, financial summaries and educational material. Teams could use animations to explain performance trends, show how a process works, or make a complicated report more engaging.
After creating an animation, users can export it directly as an MP4 video. Users can also develop the content further through integrations with creative platforms, including Adobe, Canva, Runway, and Luma AI. These options offer additional ways to refine visuals or incorporate the animation into broader design and video production workflows.
By keeping the text, figures and timing editable, Claude Motion offers a different approach from tools that focus primarily on generating complete video clips. Users can adjust how information appears and how long individual elements remain on screen, making it easier to adapt an explainer to a specific presentation or audience.
However, availability remains restricted. Claude Motion is currently available to customers on Team and Enterprise plans, not to every Claude user. Its initial beta release also means the feature is still being introduced and may continue to develop as Anthropic gathers feedback and improves the experience.
Claude expands its productivity tools across subscription plans
Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion reflect Anthropic’s broader effort to make Claude useful for practical workplace tasks beyond answering questions and generating text. The two features address different needs: Dashboards helps users investigate business information, while Motion focuses on communicating information through animation.
Together, they could reduce the manual steps involved in preparing reports and presentations. A team might use Dashboards to identify a change in customer activity, then use the resulting figures as the basis for an animated explanation. Such a workflow could make it easier to move from examining data to presenting findings, though the benefits will depend on each organisation’s existing systems and requirements.
The new launches also mark a wider expansion of Claude’s document and design capabilities. Claude Docs, Slides and Design have officially exited beta and are now available on all plans, including free accounts. This change makes those tools accessible to a broader range of users, including individuals and smaller teams without a paid subscription.
The distinction between the new beta features and the tools leaving beta is important. Claude Dashboards remains available only on paid plans, while Claude Motion is restricted to Team and Enterprise customers. By contrast, Docs, Slides and Design are now available across the full range of plans.
For organisations considering these features, supported data sources, existing software integrations, and subscription requirements will be key factors. Businesses will also need to evaluate whether automatically generated dashboards and animations meet their standards for accuracy, presentation quality and internal reporting.
Anthropic’s latest additions broaden how users can work with information in Claude, combining conversational data analysis with editable visual storytelling. Their longer-term value will depend on how well they fit into everyday workflows and how effectively they help users turn raw information into useful insights.
