Claude Whiteboards is a shared board for thinking through ideas with Claude. Talk, type, or sketch, and Claude organizes your ideas into diagrams, flows, and groups on the board. This guide covers starting a whiteboard, working on it with Claude and your team, using it in a call, and turning it into a doc or deck.
Claude Whiteboards is available in beta on Pro, Max, Ultra, Team, and Enterprise plans on web, Claude Desktop, and Claude Mobile. It’s on by default on Team plans. On Enterprise plans, it’s off by default until it’s turned on in Organization settings > Artifacts.
Claude Whiteboards isn't available in Claude for Teachers yet.
How Claude Whiteboards works
A whiteboard is an artifact that you, your team, and Claude work on together. Claude draws what you describe using shapes, arrows, and sections, and anyone on the board can rearrange what’s there.
A board is useful before you know what the final version should be: planning a launch, laying out the options for a decision, or running a retro. When the structure is settled, Claude can turn the board into a doc or deck.
Every whiteboard you create is saved in the Artifacts tab. Learn more about artifacts and how to use them.
Start a whiteboard
From a chat
Ask Claude for a whiteboard in any chat. For example:
“Start a whiteboard to plan our product launch.”
“Put the options for this decision on a whiteboard, with the trade-offs of each.”
“Map this process on a whiteboard from start to finish.”
From the Artifacts tab
Go to the Artifacts tab.
Select the Whiteboards tile. The tile is labeled “Whiteboard.”
Describe what you want to work through, or dictate it into the chat box and send it.
Say it out loud
Dictate a brain dump, like a plan, a list of options, or a messy process. Claude groups related ideas, puts steps in order, and connects the ones that depend on each other. You can also type or sketch. To dictate, select the microphone next to the send button in the chat box. To stop, select the microphone again or press Escape, and your words stay in the box. Select the send button or press Return to send them to Claude.
Dictation follows your browser’s language and works in Amharic, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
Work on the board with Claude
Reorganize the board: Ask Claude to regroup the board by theme or turn it into a timeline.
Find the gaps: Ask what’s missing between two steps. Claude adds its suggestions to the board for you to check.
Focus on one area: Drag across a region of the board to ask Claude about just that part.
Work on it together
Everyone on a board works on it live and can rearrange what’s there. To see what a teammate is looking at, follow them around the board.
To bring people onto a board, open it and click "Share." People outside your organization can join if you invite them by email. On Team and Enterprise plans, Email invitations outside your organization needs to be on in Organization settings > Artifacts. Learn more about sharing artifacts.
Turn your board into something else
When the thinking is done, ask Claude to turn the board into a doc or deck. For example: "Turn this board into a project plan." To continue working in another tool, use "Send to." You can send a board to Lucid, Miro, and Zoho Vani, and we’re adding more over time. To save a board as a file, click "Share," go to "Export," and choose PNG. You can add pictures and videos to a board, but you can’t import a board from a file.
Usage
Claude Whiteboards counts toward your plan’s usage limits, like the rest of your work with Claude.
Learn more about how usage and length limits work.
Current limitations
Claude Whiteboards is in beta. At launch:
Connected apps: Claude works from what’s on the board and doesn’t use context from your connected apps.
Data controls: Claude Whiteboards isn’t available to organizations with HIPAA-ready configurations. In organizations with zero data retention for Claude Code, it’s available in chat and Cowork, isn’t covered by zero data retention, and isn’t available in Claude Code.