Anthropic Adds Claude Dashboards and Editable Motion
Two new betas add live data and animation tools, while core artifacts reach Free users and standalone Design faces a December shutdown.
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Anthropic launched Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion in beta, while moving Docs, Slides, and Design out of beta to all plans including Free. Dashboards connects to data platforms like BigQuery and Snowflake to create refreshable charts with visible queries, while Motion generates editable MP4 animations from code rather than AI-generated footage. The standalone Claude Design site closes December 14, 2026, requiring organizations to migrate design systems now, though project migration details remain pending.
Claude can now turn connected business data into a refreshable dashboard that exposes its queries, or build an animated explainer from code that users can edit. Anthropic’s October 8 product announcement introduces Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion, two tools for producing work people can inspect and revise.
Dashboards is in beta on paid plans; Motion is in beta on Team and Enterprise. Claude Docs, Slides, and Design have also left beta and are available on every plan, including Free, subject to organizational controls.
Existing Design users have a deadline: the standalone site at claude.ai/design closes on December 14, 2026. Organizations can migrate their design systems now, but project migration details are still pending. Chats, comments, and public project links need particular attention before the shutdown.
Which Claude Tools Are Available on Each Plan?
The announcement combines two beta launches with three general-availability releases. Individual subscribers and administrators face different choices about what they can try or enable.
Tool
Release status
Plan availability
Claude Dashboards
Beta
Paid plans
Claude Motion
Beta
Team and Enterprise
Claude Docs
Out of beta
Every plan, including Free
Claude Slides
Out of beta
Every plan, including Free
Claude Design inside Claude
Out of beta
Every plan, including Free
Plan eligibility does not guarantee immediate access for an employee. According to Anthropic’s artifacts admin guide, Dashboards and Motion are off by default on Enterprise. Motion is on by default on Team.
Docs, Slides, and Design are already on by default for Team organizations. For Enterprise, they are scheduled to turn on by default on October 15, 2026. Administrators can enable them earlier or turn them off before that rollout.
Before enabling Artifacts, administrators must enable “Cloud code execution and file creation” under . Individual templates are controlled under .
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Enterprise organizations can use custom roles to restrict capabilities to particular groups, but those roles cannot override a feature disabled at the organization level. A paid seat alone may not be enough to start testing.
Dashboards Expose the Query Behind the Number
Claude Dashboards connects to business data platforms including Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks, and Snowflake, as well as connected applications such as Salesforce.
In the workflow Anthropic describes, a user asks a question in ordinary language, Claude queries the connected data, and the result becomes a dashboard that stays current as the underlying data changes. Each chart shows when its data was last refreshed. Users can click a number to inspect the query behind it or ask Claude to explain the calculation.
That visibility is the most useful distinction in the announcement. A revenue chart is difficult to trust if nobody can determine which records, filters, or time periods produced it. Exposing the query gives an analyst something concrete to review.
Visibility alone does not establish that the answer is correct. A valid query can still use the wrong definition of revenue, exclude relevant records, or compare mismatched periods. The refresh timestamp helps identify stale results, but readers should not interpret “live” as a promise of continuous streaming or a particular refresh interval. The announcement does not specify those details.
Anthropic positions Dashboards for quick, exploratory questions, such as comparing this week’s signups with last month’s, rather than replacing an organization’s analytics stack. Users can send dashboards into tools including Amplitude, Grafana, Hex, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog, and Sigma for deeper analysis, the company says. Looker, monday.com, and Tableau are listed as coming soon, not available integrations.
A sensible initial trial would use a question whose answer the team already knows, followed by a review of the query and refresh time. That tests the dashboard against an established result before it becomes a source for consequential decisions.
Connected-app access remains user-specific. The admin guide says each person connects their own applications, even when working in a shared artifact. Administrators can enable artifact connectors organization-wide, but cannot use that setting to limit which applications artifacts can reach.
Motion Creates Editable Graphics, Not Generated Footage
Claude Motion produces animations from text, charts, shapes, and images. Users can adjust the result in an editor, ask Claude to change it, and download it as an MP4 video.
Suggested uses include turning a quarterly report into a 30-second explainer, animating a chart for a board presentation, or creating a product walkthrough. These are Anthropic’s examples, not independently measured demonstrations of quality or production speed.
Claude Motion writes code to animate the material rather than using a video-generation model. Anthropic says it produces no generated footage or AI-generated people.
For presentation work, editable code has a practical advantage: words, numbers, and timing remain adjustable instead of being embedded in an opaque generated scene. A changed quarterly figure should be a revision to the underlying content, not a request to regenerate footage and hope everything else stays consistent.
The editable animation is the working material inside Claude; its MP4 export is the playback file for distribution. The announcement does not promise that an exported MP4 preserves the animation’s editable code.
Anthropic also lists paths into tools including Adobe, Descript, HeyGen, Luma AI, and Runway, with Canva and Captions coming later. It does not establish that every destination preserves the same editing structure. Teams evaluating Motion should check the handoff they actually need. An export does not necessarily mean full project interchange.
Motion’s beta remains limited to Team and Enterprise. Individual paid subscribers eligible for Dashboards do not automatically receive Motion.
Core Artifacts Leave Beta, but Sharing Has Limits
Docs, Slides, and Design moving out of beta broadens access to Claude’s document, presentation, and visual-design tools. Anthropic says artifacts now support customer-managed encryption keys, administrators can choose which templates their organization uses, and teams can collaborate with Claude on the same document, deck, design, or dashboard.
PowerPoint and PDF exports better preserve the editor’s formatting, according to the company, while decks can transfer to Google Slides as editable files. Docs, decks, and designs can be edited in the Claude mobile app. These are vendor-reported capabilities, not evidence that every complex layout will export without problems.
The admin sharing controls are more specific than the announcement’s broad description of sharing. They distinguish public-link sharing from invitations sent to specific outside email addresses. Enabling one does not enable the other.
There are additional restrictions:
Docs cannot yet be shared outside the organization.
Artifacts using connected applications, or asking Claude questions, cannot use “Anyone with the link” sharing.
Opening an artifact requires a Claude account, except for legacy artifacts published from chat.
A connected dashboard should not be treated as an unrestricted public reporting page. Organizations need to test recipient access as carefully as they test the dashboard itself.
Standalone Design Users Have a December 14 Deadline
The shutdown of standalone Claude Design is separate from Design’s broader availability inside Claude. Anthropic is consolidating the two versions, and its Design migration guide identifies what users can move now and what remains unresolved.
Design systems can migrate now. Open the Artifacts page and select “Migrate team design systems.” One migration covers the organization’s design systems, so it needs to be initiated only once. Originals remain unchanged in the standalone version until it closes.
Team and Enterprise administrators must ensure Artifacts and Design systems are enabled. Design systems are off by default on Enterprise, and custom-role permissions can also block migration.
Review the results after migration. Empty design systems and those made from built-in starter themes do not migrate, even if edited. Other systems can fail because of size or file issues.
Projects are not yet covered by a complete migration procedure. They continue working in standalone Design until closure, and up to 60 can appear in Claude’s Artifacts tab. Those entries still open the standalone version; their presence is not evidence that the projects have moved. Anthropic says further project-migration details are coming.
Chats and comments will not carry over, and existing standalone public project links will stop working after closure. Save needed discussion records before December 14 and identify links that colleagues or customers still depend on.
For organizations that need a backup, the guide describes exporting projects individually through Share > Project HTML, keeping Project archive selected to download a ZIP containing the project’s files. There is no bulk-download option. Organizations using zero data retention cannot enable artifacts or migrate, so Anthropic specifically directs them to download their projects before the site closes.
Individuals can try the newly available core tools, paid users can evaluate dashboard accuracy, and Team and Enterprise users can assess Motion. Standalone Design organizations have more urgent preservation work: begin migration now, save discussions, and review public links. With project guidance still pending, waiting until December creates an avoidable risk.
