Anthropic Introduces Claude Duet: A New Agentic AI App for Professionals

Anthropic is dropping yet another AI product into our laps: Claude Duet, a dedicated app for professionals and business owners to handle tasks they would otherwise have to do manually. While agentic AI isn’t new, this app caters to a group that likely needs those capabilities most. Anthropic has always targeted the professional sector, and Duet, while specific, feels very on-brand for the company.

Claude Duet is designed around Opus 5.5, and the app is aimed at streamlining your daily operations. Not unlike Claude itself, Duet allows you to connect with the software you use for your work, and will continuously look for things that need your attention. This means you can connect your Gmail, calendar, Slack and thousands of other work and productivity apps.

Like other agentic tools, Duet is a proactive assistant that will help you prioritize things that it deems are most important and worthy of your attention first. The “proactive” part of Duet is that you don’t always have to prompt it to do something for the future; it’ll assess and assemble what you need to know by looking through your work apps. It’ll also do the opposite, and tell you when things can wait for later so you can focus on higher-priority tasks. 

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Anthropic says that Claude Duet prioritizes your privacy. As much as an AI tool can, at least. There are specialized safety protocols and measures to make sure sensitive information doesn’t go out into the world unless you want it to. Duet will automatically reject highly sensitive information, like credit card numbers, ID information and more. With other sensitive information, like health and finance information, Duet will ask before it sends anything out. 

Duet is currently available in a research preview, but only for the Pro or Max subscription plans. You can join the waitlist now.