Anthropic Ships Claude Dashboards and Motion to Turn Data Into Auditable Animations
Claude can now generate live, query-backed dashboards from your warehouse and build code-driven animated explainers you export as MP4.
- Claude Dashboards (beta, paid plans) connects to BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, Salesforce and builds live dashboards from plain-language questions.
- Every chart exposes the SQL query behind it and shows when data was last refreshed.
- Claude Motion (beta, Team and Enterprise) generates animated explainers as editable code, exported as MP4.
- No video model is involved, so there is no generated footage or AI people in Motion outputs.
- Docs, Slides, and Design leave beta and ship on every plan including Free, with CMEK support for enterprise.
- Dashboards hand off to Grafana, Hex, Mixpanel, PostHog, Sigma; Motion hands off to Adobe, Runway, Luma, Descript.
Claude adds auditable dashboards and editable motion
Anthropic has launched Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion in beta, according to its product announcement. Dashboards translates plain-language questions into queries and live charts backed by connected business data. Motion writes code that animates text, charts, shapes, and images, then exports the composition as an MP4. Both tools retain editable components after Claude produces the initial output.
Docs, Slides, and Design have also reached general availability across every Claude plan, including Free. Anthropic says users have created more than 45 million documents, presentations, and designs with those tools since their release.
Queries stay visible
Dashboards connects to Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks, and Snowflake. A user can ask a question in plain language, and Claude generates the queries, chooses visualizations, and builds a dashboard that refreshes as the underlying data changes. Existing connectors also provide access to CRM data from services such as Salesforce.
Clicking any displayed metric reveals its underlying query, and users can ask Claude to explain the logic. Each chart also shows when its data was last refreshed. Analysts can inspect joins, filters, aggregations, and metric definitions before sharing the result or using it in a decision.
Anthropic positions Dashboards for rapid exploration and lightweight reporting. Teams can send dashboards to Amplitude, Grafana, Hex, Mixpanel, Omni, Perplexity, PostHog, or Sigma when a project requires further analysis. Support for Looker, monday.com, and Tableau is planned.
Motion keeps the source editable
Motion creates animations through code, using programmatic layouts and transitions to move supplied text, data, shapes, and images. The system does not use a video diffusion model, and Motion itself generates neither synthetic footage nor artificial people. Editors can revise the coded composition before exporting an MP4.
Edits survive the first cut
- Copy, figures, timing, and visual elements can be changed individually.
- A revised number can flow through the animation without recreating every frame.
- Reviewers can inspect the composition and verify text or data before export.
- Teams can continue production in Adobe tools, Descript, Runway, Luma AI, or Higgsfield.
Anthropic highlights quarterly-report summaries, animated charts for board presentations, all-hands updates, and product walkthroughs as initial uses. The editable source is particularly relevant when a report changes late in production or a team needs several versions of the same animation.
Who gets access
| Feature | Status | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Dashboards | Beta | All paid plans |
| Claude Motion | Beta | Team and Enterprise |
| Docs, Slides, and Design | Generally available | Every plan, including Free |
Anthropic groups these creation tools under Artifacts. Dashboards and Motion are disabled by default for Enterprise organizations; administrators can enable them in Organization settings under Artifacts. Docs, Slides, and Design will become enabled by default on October 15, though administrators can activate them earlier.
Artifacts now support customer-managed encryption keys, allowing organizations to apply their own key-management controls to encrypted content. That option addresses a common procurement requirement for companies handling regulated or sensitive data.
Code links the releases
Dashboards preserve analytical logic as visible queries and rendering instructions, while Motion preserves visual logic as code and a timeline. Teams can inspect, revise, and compare those components as the underlying data or script changes. This structure reduces rework and gives reviewers a concrete artifact to audit.
A practical beta checklist
- SQL accuracy: Test ambiguous joins, inconsistent metric names, nested fields, and production-scale tables.
- Data governance: Confirm connector permissions, row-level access, query logging, and treatment of sensitive fields.
- Operations: Measure refresh latency, warehouse query costs, and behavior after schema changes.
- Motion fidelity: Check brand fonts, dense labels, aspect ratios, export quality, and repeated numerical revisions.
- Accessibility: Review color contrast, motion pacing, captions, and readability on smaller screens.
- Handoffs: Verify that exported dashboards and animations retain the information downstream teams need to continue editing.
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