Claude Enterprise will now tell your boss what the team actually did with AI — and what it cost

Anthropic made smart reports, in-app surveys and pooled group budgets generally available for Claude Enterprise on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026.

Every company that bought AI seats is now being asked the same question by its CFO: what did we get for that? Anthropic's answer is to have Claude read a sample of your team's own conversations and write the report card itself — complete with spend per workstream. It's genuinely useful for finding what works and spreading it, and it's also a very convenient way for a vendor to prove its own value. The "not for performance reviews" line is the right promise; whether managers keep it once they can see who's getting stuck is a different question.

Anthropic made three Claude Enterprise features generally available on Oct. 28, 2026: smart reports, in-app surveys, and pooled group budgets. Generally available means a customer on that plan can use them, not only a private preview. Those lines are Anthropic's, from its announcement the same day.

For a smart report, an admin picks a team, a date range, and the products to include. Claude analyzes a sample of the team's transcripts, groups the work into workstreams, and shows the spend for each one, the deliverables produced, and the most common friction points, such as a missing connector or a failed tool call. A transcript is the record of a chat. A workstream is one kind of job the team keeps doing. A connector is a link from Claude to another app. Those lines are Anthropic's.

Each report includes one list of recommendations, such as recurring workflows to turn into skills and rules to add to a code repository. A skill, here, is a saved way of doing a task that Claude can run again. Reports can answer custom questions about model usage and cost. Admins with billing permission can raise a spend limit from inside the report. Owners can let team leads who are not admins run reports for their own groups. Those lines are Anthropic's.

Anthropic says smart reports help with adoption and investment planning, but they "aren't for evaluating individual performance or making employment decisions." That sentence is Anthropic's.

The announcement includes customer quotes from DoorDash and Docusign. One engineer says each report is based on "tens of thousands of sessions." A session is one stretch of work in Claude. Those lines are from the announcement.

In-app surveys start with default questions: the most valuable thing someone did with Claude recently, how it changed the time the work took, which use a teammate should copy, and what would break first if the team lost access tomorrow. Admins can customize the questions and who sees them. Members see a short card after a reply. Responses can be exported to a spreadsheet. Those lines are Anthropic's.

Pooled group budgets give a group one shared monthly budget. Per-member limits still apply, and a member stops at whichever runs out first. Members can request more from inside Claude. Billing admins get email alerts at 50%, 75%, 95%, and 100% of a budget. Those lines are Anthropic's.

Availability varies by configuration, including for organizations with a HIPAA configuration or customer-managed encryption keys. HIPAA is the U.S. health-privacy rule. Customer-managed encryption keys means the customer, not the vendor, holds the keys that lock the data. That limit is Anthropic's.

The picture is the Claude Enterprise admin screen for building an in-app survey, with Claude's default questions about value. The credit is Anthropic.

In plain terms, Anthropic on Wednesday turned on three tools for companies on Claude Enterprise. Smart reports have Claude read a sample of a team's own chats and write up the work, the spend, and where people got stuck. Surveys ask, inside the product, what was actually useful. A pooled budget gives a group one monthly cap, and each person's own limit still counts.