Anthropic’s New Research Capability and Google Workspace Integration Sharpens Claude’s Workflow Utility

Anthropic is unveiling two new capabilities for Claude, the company’s AI model, that solidifies its position as a collaborative partner that expedites users’ workflows. These new features—Research and a Google Workspace integration—brings the utility of Claude closer to where users work, supporting both professional and personal flows.

Research is a new capability that enables Claude to search across users’ internal work context and the web, utilizing an agentic flow that conducts multiple, progressive searches. Research’s search flows build off one another, offering high-quality outputs that are thorough, complete, and transparent with accompanied citations—delivered within minutes.

Claude’s Google Workspace integration, which includes Gmail, Calendar, and Google Docs, further contextualizes Claude’s outputs. This integration enables Claude to securely search emails, review documents, and review calendar commitments, streamlining the model’s understanding of users’ work context. Claude can now:

• Pull together meeting notes based on a defined time period
• Identify action items from follow-up email threads
• Search relevant documents for additional context

Each output is paired with in-line citations, enabling users to easily verify the source material. Some use cases that benefit from the Research and the Google Workspace integration include:

• Marketing teams can rapidly plan for product launches by tasking Claude to gather competitive intelligence from the internet while retrieving relevant product specs, positioning, and strategy documents.
• Sales teams can more effectively and efficiently plan  client meetings by tasking Claude with searching through correspondence history, calendar invitations with meeting notes, and the latest updates about the prospect's company.
• Engineers can utilize Claude to create technical solutions that integrate with existing systems, prompting Claude to analyze design documents and system specifications, as well as external API documentation, implementation patterns, and security best practices.

In addition to this feature launch, Anthropic is introducing Google Docs cataloging, a method of improving Claude’s retrieval quality and accuracy. When this capability is enabled, Claude utilizes secure retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and a specialized index of the enterprise's documents to improve information findability.

To learn more about Claude, please visit https://www.anthropic.com/.