Anthropic announced on June 25, 2024 that Claude.ai now offers Projects to Pro and Team subscribers. Projects let users gather related documents, chat activity, and custom settings in a single workspace so Claude can work from richer, team‑specific context.
What a Project provides
- Each Project includes a 200K context window — Anthropic equates this to roughly a 500‑page book — allowing teams to add relevant documents, code, interview transcripts, and prior work so Claude’s responses are grounded in internal knowledge.
- Projects support per‑project custom instructions, letting teams request a more formal tone, answers from a specific role or industry perspective, or other response styles.
These features are intended to reduce the cold‑start problem: Claude can start delivering useful, contextually appropriate assistance faster for tasks such as drafting marketing emails or composing SQL queries.
Artifacts: side‑by‑side editing and code previews
Artifacts appear in a dedicated window alongside the conversation and surface generated content like code snippets, text documents, graphics, diagrams, or website designs. This makes it easier to view, edit, and iterate on outputs produced with Claude.
For developers, Artifacts expand coding capabilities by offering a larger code window and live frontend previews that streamline review workflows. Artifacts are available as a feature preview on Claude.ai; users can join via the account menu in the left‑side panel.
Sharing and team inspiration
Claude Team users can share snapshots of their best conversations into the team’s shared project activity feed. Activity feeds are designed to inspire teammates with different ways to work with Claude and help the whole team level up their AI skills.
Sharing co‑created work products can raise innovation in areas such as product development and research, where assembling organizational knowledge from across the company can produce higher‑quality outputs.
Customer spotlight: North Highland
The announcement highlights North Highland, a change and transformation consultancy, where hundreds of employees across consulting, business development, and marketing use Claude for tasks from proposal writing to analyzing complex documents like 10‑Ks. Luka Anic, Senior Director of Technical AI Program and Product Manager at North Highland, says the Claude Team plan is transforming their way of working and has helped their team complete content creation and analysis tasks up to five times faster, turning weeks of work into minutes.
Privacy and future plans
Anthropic states that any data or chats shared within Projects will not be used to train their generative models without a user’s explicit consent. In the coming months they plan to make Claude easier to use and expand the types of project knowledge that can be brought into Claude via native integrations with popular applications and tools.
Conclusion
Projects and the Artifacts preview aim to integrate Claude more tightly into team workflows by providing larger context windows, customizable instructions, side‑by‑side editing, and team sharing. The features are available to Pro and Team customers on Claude.ai and can be powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which Anthropic says improves performance across a variety of benchmarks.
