Anthropic is expanding Claude Cowork to mobile devices and the web, allowing users to assign tasks, monitor progress, and review completed work without keeping their laptops open.
Claude Cowork originally launched as a desktop application in January. Beta access is now rolling out on the web and through the Claude apps for iOS and Android, starting with Max subscribers.
Users can begin a task at their desks, check its progress from their phones, and return to the completed output later.
Cowork can continue working in the background even after the user closes their laptop. Scheduled tasks can also run without any device remaining online.
When Claude reaches a decision that requires human input, it can send the question to the user’s phone. The user can then provide instructions or redirect the task while it continues running. Anthropic says completed work will still require the user’s review and approval.
Anthropic provided an example in which a user schedules client preparation for 6 AM. Cowork reviews email threads, transcripts, and recent news, prepares a briefing document, and drafts a follow-up email without sending it.
The desktop application will remain the main option for more demanding work because it can access local files and the user’s browser.
Web and mobile access will make Cowork available to people who have not installed the desktop application. On mobile, users can open Cowork through the sidebar of the Claude app.
Anthropic is also bringing regular Claude chats and Cowork into the same interface on the web and desktop. Projects and created files will remain available across both areas.
The expansion shows that Anthropic wants Cowork to operate as an administrative AI assistant rather than simply presenting it as a version of Claude Code for people who do not program.
The tool can work across files, calendars, emails, messaging applications, the web, and other connected services until it completes an assigned task.
OpenAI is following a similar direction with Codex. Although it began as a software-development agent, OpenAI says people increasingly use it for reports, spreadsheets, presentations, research and data analysis.
The competition between AI coding agents is therefore expanding into wider office and knowledge work, as companies try to place their products inside the tools and platforms where employees complete their daily tasks.
Anthropic also released early data showing how organizations are using Cowork.
The study examined 1.2 million anonymized and aggregated Cowork sessions from more than 600,000 organizations during the final two weeks of May.
Business process operations accounted for the largest category at 33.4%. These tasks included collecting scattered updates into reports, preparing onboarding checklists and reconciling spreadsheets. Such work is common in finance, human resources and administrative roles.
Content creation and copywriting represented 16.4% of usage. This included preparing drafts, presentations, social media posts, proposals and other communication materials commonly handled by marketing and management teams.
Software development accounted for only 8.7% of Cowork activity. Anthropic said more than 90% of overall usage involved work outside software development.
The findings suggest that Cowork’s main use is handling supporting tasks that appear across many jobs but are rarely an employee’s primary responsibility.
Anthropic said coding remains one of the most discussed uses of AI, but everyday business applications are growing as organizations identify the tasks where AI delivers the most practical value.
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