Anthropic wants Claude to be the front end for your entire enterprise app stack

Anthropic is enhancing Claude's capabilities to work directly within enterprise applications, allowing it to open full software interfaces, retrieve data, and make changes without users needing to switch between applications. At a recent event in San Francisco, Anthropic announced expanded interactive connectors, along with new tools for meetings, spreadsheets, shared workspaces, and business data.

Ami Vora, Anthropic's chief product officer, stated that Claude will now "work around you" instead of the other way around. Previously, Claude could only preview connected apps in a conversation; now, it can fully open and work within those applications, starting with Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot. Users must still approve any changes Claude makes.

The expanded connectors are built on MCP Apps, enabling existing application interfaces to be integrated into Claude without needing to rebuild them. These new capabilities are in public preview and can be used by other AI clients that support MCP Apps. Claude Marketplace now includes over 9,000 connectors and plugins, continuing efforts to connect AI systems with enterprise infrastructure.

Existing permissions still apply, with connectors respecting the permissions employees already have in the underlying application. Anthropic is also introducing Claude auto-connect in beta, which allows administrators to enable connectors across an organization in just ten minutes. Additionally, Claude Data is being made generally available, with certified queries that allow data teams to approve queries Claude uses for reporting.

Claude Meetings, Claude Whiteboards, and Claude Sheets are other upcoming features that will be available to Team and Enterprise customers. These features aim to move task delegation beyond engineering and into areas such as product management and collaboration.