Claude Dashboards & Motion

Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion are two new beta artifacts inside Claude that let people ask for the finished output instead of building it by hand. Claude Dashboards connects to a company's data platform or CRM and turns a plain language question into a live dashboard that keeps itself current as the underlying data changes. Claude Motion turns reports, charts and walkthroughs into short animations that are written as code, so any word, number or timing can be edited, and the result can be downloaded as an MP4 file. Both features are aimed at work where people need answers and explanations: those asking questions of company data, and anyone preparing an all-hands, a board deck or a product walkthrough who wants their ideas to land better in motion rather than as another static slide. The article frames the problem in two familiar workplace bottlenecks. Asking questions about company data usually means filing a ticket or writing SQL, so people wait, or they skip the question entirely. Ideas that would land better in motion usually end up as another static slide. Claude could already help with parts of this, but the output was something a person still had to assemble. With Dashboards and Motion, you can ask for the dashboard or the animation itself, and see how Claude made it: each chart shows the query behind it, and each animation is built as code you can edit. Claude makes the first version, and you decide what gets shared. Claude Dashboards begins with a connection. You connect your company's data platform, such as Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks or Snowflake, and then ask a question in plain language. Claude pulls the answers from your data, builds the dashboard, and keeps it current as the data changes. Dashboards also work with your other connectors, so you can ask for a dashboard of your Salesforce opportunities without setting up anything separate. Each chart shows when its data was last refreshed, which tells you how current a number is before you rely on it. Transparency is built in: click any number to see the query behind it, or ask Claude to explain it in words. The article positions Dashboards as a tool for quick, exploratory questions rather than deep analysis, and gives the example of asking how this week's signups compare with last month's. The illustrated example is a bike share dashboard built from a year of ride data, with trip totals and charts of rides per day and by hour. When a question needs deeper analysis, Dashboards work alongside your existing BI and analytics tools: you can send the dashboard from Claude straight to Amplitude, Grafana, Hex, Mixpanel, Omni, Perplexity, PostHog or Sigma and pick up the analysis from there. Looker, monday.com and Tableau are coming soon as additional destinations. Claude Motion is built for explaining your own work. You can ask Claude to turn a quarterly report into a 30-second explainer for an all-hands, add motion to a chart in a board deck, or make a product walkthrough for customer onboarding. Typing "/motion" in the Claude message box brings up the Motion option. Claude builds an animation from your prompt and it plays like a short video. Because Claude writes code that animates your text, charts, shapes and images, you can change any word, number or timing, either in the editor or by asking Claude to change it. When you are happy with it, you download it as an MP4 file. Motion deliberately does not use a video generation model, so there is no generated footage and no AI-generated people. When you want to take an animation further, you can open it in Adobe, Descript, HeyGen, Higgsfield, invideo, Luma AI or Runway, with Canva and Captions coming soon. Alongside the two new beta artifacts, the article also confirms that Claude Docs, Slides and Design are out of beta and available on every plan, including Free, and that people have made more than 45 million docs, decks and designs in Claude. Artifacts now support CMEK, and admins choose which artifact templates their organization uses. Teams and Claude can work on the same doc, deck, design or dashboard. Slides, designs, dashboards and animations can be shared with people outside your organization, or with anyone who has the link, if your admin allows it. PowerPoint and PDF downloads keep your formatting, and decks go straight to Google Slides as editable files. Docs, decks and designs can also be edited on your phone in the Claude mobile app. The shared idea behind both artifacts is that you ask for the finished thing and then inspect how it was made. Dashboards expose the query behind every number and the time of the last data refresh, so a plain language question still resolves to something you can verify. Motion writes the animation as code rather than generating footage, so every word, number and timing stays editable and the result contains no AI-generated people or generated video. In both cases Claude produces a first version and the person decides what gets shared, which keeps a human in the loop on the output that leaves the organization. The article also notes that Claude Design, which started at its own URL, now works inside every Claude conversation, where it can use your context, files and connectors. The practical benefit is speed on the questions people normally wait for. Instead of filing a ticket or writing SQL, you ask in plain language and get a dashboard that refreshes as the data changes, so the numbers do not go stale after the first screenshot. Instead of another static slide, you get a short animation that can be edited down to the individual word or number. Because the query is visible behind each number, the dashboard can be checked rather than taken on trust, and because Motion output is code, it can be handed to design and video tools without locking you into a single editor. Shared artifacts move beyond the team through links and exports that preserve formatting. The article suggests concrete scenarios. For data: a dashboard comparing this week's signups with last month's, a Salesforce opportunity dashboard, or the illustrated bike share dashboard built from a year of ride data with trip totals and charts of rides per day and by hour. For explanations: a quarterly report turned into a 30-second explainer for an all-hands, a chart in a board deck given motion, or a product walkthrough made for customer onboarding. The getting started section offers example prompts such as "Build a dashboard of this quarter's revenue by region," "Animate how our pricing plans compare for the sales kickoff," and "Turn these notes into a deck for Monday." Suggested starting points are the dashboard you would otherwise wait for, or the report that needs more than a slide. Availability is tiered. Claude Dashboards is in beta on paid plans. Claude Motion is in beta on Team and Enterprise. Docs, Slides and Design are out of beta and available on every plan, including Free. For Enterprise admins, Dashboards and Motion are off by default and can be turned on in Organization settings > Artifacts. Docs, Slides and Design turn on by default on October 15, or can be turned on today. Claude Design's standalone site at claude.ai/design remains available until December 14, with a migration guide for moving team design systems over; one migration on the Artifacts page brings over every design system in your organization, while the originals stay unchanged in the standalone version until it closes. Chats with Claude and comments on standalone projects stay in the standalone version and will not be available after it closes. Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion extend Claude from a helper on parts of a task to the place where the dashboard or the animation is produced. Dashboards answer plain language questions with live, refresh-aware views of company data and show the query behind every number; Motion turns reports, charts and walkthroughs into editable, code-built animations ready to export as MP4. Together they shorten the wait for a data answer and remove the need to settle for another static slide.