Anthropic is launching an AI design tool for building slides and prototypes

Anthropic is launching Claude Design, a new product that lets users create designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and other visual work using Claude. The tool is available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers and is rolling out to users throughout the day, the company said.

Claude Design is powered by Claude Opus 4.7, which Anthropic describes as its most capable vision model. After submitting a prompt, users receive an initial design from Claude. Refinements are made through conversation, inline comments, direct edits, or purpose-built sliders that Claude creates for adjusting individual design elements like color, spacing, and layout.

An onboarding workflow lets Claude read a company's codebase and existing design files to establish a shared visual language, so that colors, typography, and components carry over automatically into new work. Organizations are not limited to a single design system and can update their standards as needed.

The tool supports imports from text prompts, image and document uploads in formats including DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX, and a web capture tool that allows users to pull elements from their company's website. Export options include PDF, URL, PPTX, and standalone HTML, with an additional path to send work into Canva, where it opens as a fully editable and collaborative file. Designs can also be handed off to Claude Code for implementation.

Despite surface-level similarities to tools like Canva, Anthropic has told TechCrunch that the two are meant to work alongside each other. The target user is someone without a design workflow already in place who needs to turn a concept into something presentable without delay.

For Enterprise organizations, Claude Design is off by default and must be enabled by an administrator in organization settings. Access is included with existing subscription plans, with the option to continue beyond usage limits by enabling extra usage.

The release fits into a pattern of Anthropic expanding its presence in workplace and professional software. Earlier this year, the company introduced Claude Cowork, an agentic assistant designed to take on tasks like file management and drafting on behalf of users. Claude Code, a developer tool, has also been a significant driver of subscriber growth.

TechCrunch notes that Anthropic has since added agentic plug-ins to Cowork, extending its ability to handle specialized, department-level workflows automatically. The timing of the launch is notable: as Engadget points out, Adobe $ADBE and Canva each unveiled their own AI-powered visual tools during the same week.

Anthropic said it plans to make it easier to build integrations with Claude Design in the coming weeks.