Claude’s smart new reports tell bosses when workers are ‘off topic’

Anthropic announced new Claude reporting tools, allowing employers to see exactly how and why their employees are using the AI ​​tool. Smart reporting is now available for users of paid Claude Enterprise plans and can be enabled in an organization’s settings.

Announced Wednesday, Claude’s intelligent reporting feature produces graphs showing how a team used the AI ​​tool, what they produced and how much they spent on it. Managers simply specify the team, a date range up to the last 28 days, and which Claude products they want to include in the report.

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The products that can be selected are chat, Claude Code, Claude Cowork or even “the unified chat and Cowork experience”. (The recently announced Claude Duet AI agent is not available on Claude Enterprise.) Intelligent reporting will then pull data from chosen tools and create an overview of what workers did. This involves reading transcripts of the team’s conversations, grouping them into workflows and output types (such as mood code or technical documents), and determining how much they spent.

“If a spending limit is holding someone back, admins with billing permission can increase it from the report,” Anthropic wrote.

On Monday, the company filed an IPO filing showing that its existing customers had increased their spending by 900% since last year – although it still reported an $80 billion loss in the first half of 2026 alone. Organizations can generate up to 10 smart reports per month for free, after which they will have to pay an additional fee.

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Anthropic says that in addition to telling smart reports what to focus on in their analysis, managers can also ask their own custom questions about usage and cost. These questions can be saved to be asked again, so managers don’t have to re-enter them each time. Smart Reports will also make recommendations, such as suggesting new rules that could be added to a code repository.

Each smart report generates interactive charts that managers can click to see a breakdown of sessions in a workflow. Sessions can be categorized and filtered by cost, product used, date and type of result produced.

Smart reporting will also show not only the obstacles encountered and their frequency, but also what Anthropic calls “inefficiencies.” This includes sessions in which workers did not produce usable results, as well as those classified as “personal or off-topic.”

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Claude’s new AI reporting tool may leave some workers worried. There are numerous reports of companies using AI to make layoff decisions, with a recent survey finding that one in four managers in the United States use it for this purpose “often or all of the time.” In July, a group of former Meta employees claimed it relied on poorly tested AI tools to assess worker productivity and track their use of AI tokens, effectively setting them up for mass layoffs. Meta denied the allegations, saying workforce decisions were made by people and not AI.

Anthropic seems aware of these concerns, noting that Claude’s Smart Reports are not intended to be used in this way.

“Intelligent reporting helps you understand adoption and plan your investment in Claude,” Anthropic wrote. “They are not designed and should not be used to evaluate individual performance or make employment decisions.”

Claude’s Smart Reports also have restrictions on the questions they will accept. Users will not be allowed to ask questions about topics such as race, gender identity, religion, political affiliation, immigration status, health, union activity, harassment complaints, or workers’ personal lives.

Even so, AI-based reporting is unlikely to nurture workers’ affection for the technology or trust in their managers.