Claude's new AI report card tool gives companies a closer look at costs — and flags 'inefficiencies'

Anthropic has launched "smart reports" for Claude Enterprise. Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Anthropic is giving corporate customers a new way to scrutinize how their employees use its artificial intelligence chatbot Claude — and how much the AI work is costing them.

The AI giant announced "smart reports" for Claude Enterprise users last week. The interactive chart tool is designed to analyze a sample of a team's AI session transcripts and group work into categories, including the types of tasks employees use Claude for, the outputs it generates, and the cost.

The reports can also — and this is the part that is undoubtedly making teams sit up straight — flag "inefficiencies" to employers, including sessions that produced "no work value" or were "personal or off-topic," according to a Claude support webpage.

Anthropic's "smart reports" tool Anthropic

In effect, the…