Claude Artifacts are documents, visualisations and interactive tools shown in a window of their own beside the conversation, which Claude can build from your description. Put simply, Claude does not only explain how to do something — it can build a result immediately, and you can review it, test it and go on improving it.
For example, you can build:
- a document – a plan, a report, a set of instructions or other structured content;
- a data visualisation – a chart or a simple management dashboard;
- an interactive calculator – for a price, a budget or another figure;
- a website prototype – a first version of a page or of one part of it;
- a diagram – to explain a process, a structure or a sequence of steps;
- a simple application – a task board, a quiz, a planning tool or another interactive answer.
You do not need to write code to build an artifact. Describe the result you want and ask plainly: “Build this as a Claude Artifact.” You can then carry on the conversation with Claude and ask it to change the content, the design or the functions.
How to build an artifact
- Open Claude and start a new conversation.
- Describe what you want to build — a calculator, a management dashboard, a diagram, a document or a simple application, for example.
- State what information, functions and design it has to hold.
- Ask plainly: “Build this as a Claude Artifact.”
- Claude builds the artifact and opens it in a window of its own beside the conversation.
- Review the result and test it. In the conversation, write what you want to change, add or remove.
- You can copy, download, publish and share the finished artifact.
You can go on improving the artifact in the same conversation. You do not have to describe the whole result again — name the one change you want, for example “Add a month selector”, “Change the colours” or “Show the total with VAT”.
What can you build in practice?
Below are a few simple artifact examples you can try immediately.
Build an interactive Claude Artifact for calculating the price of a project. Let me enter the name of a task, the hours it is expected to take and the hourly rate. Show the price of each task, the total without VAT and the total with 21% VAT. Add a few example rows that I can change. The design has to be simple and suitable for business use.
You enter the tasks, the hours and the rate, and the total price is calculated for you.
Build an interactive Claude Artifact management dashboard. Show the month’s revenue, costs, profit, number of new customers and the value of unpaid invoices. Add cards for the main figures, a revenue and cost chart, and a month selector. For the first version, use demonstration data that is clearly marked as such.
The company’s main figures on one screen.
Build an interactive Claude Artifact for managing the work on a project. Let me add a task and select its status, its priority, the person responsible and its deadline. Put the tasks into three groups: “Not started”, “In progress” and “Done”. Show the overall progress of the project at the top. Add a few demonstration tasks that I can edit or delete.
You see the tasks, their status, the people responsible and the deadlines.
