Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an AI agent for professionals and small business owners, as a research preview. It can work across connected apps and asks for approval before major actions such as sending payments or deleting information.
Anthropic’s Claude Duet is built around Claude Opus 5.5 and runs through standalone iOS and Android apps and Claude on the web. Access requires joining a waitlist and being a Pro or Max subscriber in the US.
Claude Duet draws on memory, skills and connected apps from Claude, with a virtual machine and browser for completing work. Anthropic says it can deliver morning briefings, monitor apps and handle tasks ranging from scheduling meetings to building dashboards, forecasts and web apps.
For business owners, the preview offers a way to test delegating work across apps rather than handling each task separately. Reliability remains unproven: Anthropic says this early version may misread conversations or judge urgency incorrectly. Approval requests before major actions keep users involved in consequential decisions.
Cross-app task execution gives businesses a broader workflow to test than a chat assistant alone.
Approval requests preserve a human checkpoint before actions that could affect business data or payments.
The restricted research preview does not yet establish dependable performance, and Anthropic acknowledges errors in interpreting conversations and urgency.
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