What Claude shows you about who opened it
Inside your own organisation, Claude shows who has an artifact open. For the client, investor or partner you sent it to, Anthropic describes nothing that says they opened it.
| How you shared it | What Claude shows you about who opened it |
|---|---|
| “Anyone with the link” (Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise) | Anthropic’s sharing help describes no record of who opened it. Most artifacts shared this way open without a Claude account or sign-in; Docs, and some others such as dashboards, ask the reader to sign in. |
| Invited by e-mail (beta) | The Share menu lists the people you invited from outside your organisation, and pending invitations show when they expire, 30 days after they were sent. Anthropic describes no record of when they opened it or what they read. |
| Inside your organisation (Team and Enterprise) | Artifact presence shows who else in your organisation has the artifact open, with their live activity in it. It is on by default, and the admin guide describes who has it open, with no list of earlier visits. |
| The organisation’s audit log (Team and Enterprise) | Publishing, sharing and deleting an artifact each appear in it. The documentation names no event for opening one. |
| Claude Data dashboards (Team and Enterprise) | The admin guide says the Compliance API records when a Claude Data artifact is created, viewed, edited or deleted, without its content. |
| A published legacy artifact (Free, Pro, Max and Ultra) | Anyone with the link can view and use it without a Claude account. Anthropic’s help describes no record of who opened it. |
What each Claude plan can share
Which of those ways you have depends on your plan. On Free, a new artifact has no share link.
| Plan | How you can share an artifact |
|---|---|
| Free | Only a legacy artifact, made in a chat before 16 September 2026, can be shared: Publish gives it a public link. Anthropic’s table lists no other way to share on Free. |
| Pro, Max and Ultra | “Anyone with the link”, or invite specific people by e-mail (beta), each signing in to Claude with the address you invited. A legacy artifact can still be published. |
| Team | Everyone or specific people in your organisation, and invitations by e-mail (beta, on by default). “Anyone with the link” works only once an owner turns on External sharing or allows that artifact. A legacy artifact uses Share & copy link. |
| Enterprise | As on Team, and you can also share with groups. E-mail invitations outside the organisation are off until an owner turns them on. |
The ways to know who opened it
To know who opened it, the artifact has to reach the reader through a link that records it. These are the ways people use, and what each shows.
| Way | What it shows you |
|---|---|
| Claude’s own sharing | Inside a Team or Enterprise organisation, who has it open right now. For a client or anyone else outside, no record of who opened it. |
| Export the HTML to an ordinary web host | Only what the host’s own analytics count. Nobody gives an e-mail address, so a visit has no name on it. |
| ShareDuo | Its home page lists a view count and when the link was last opened. HTMLRadar and ShareDuo compared. |
| Stacktree | Its pricing page says its $19 Solo plan shows who opened a page, by name, and when, behind a passcode or a gate for one client domain; its $79 Studio plan adds time on page, scroll depth and attention by section, in aggregate. HTMLRadar and Stacktree compared. |
| Shareable | Its Free plan shows how many times a page was opened; its Pro plan lists named viewers and sends an e-mail when a page is viewed. HTMLRadar and Shareable compared. |
| HTMLRadar | Each person gets their own link, with a code that proves their e-mail. Who opened it, by e-mail address, and the time on each section. |
Four steps to see who read a Claude artifact
If HTMLRadar is connected to Claude, ask Claude to publish the artifact as an HTMLRadar link and skip the export (how to connect it). Otherwise:
Get the HTML.
A design exports from Export as standalone HTML, and a legacy artifact downloads from the controls at the top of its panel, as Anthropic documents. A deck or a doc exports as a PDF, which HTMLRadar turns into a web page.
Drop the file.
Open the Claude artifact to link tool and drop it. Nothing is uploaded until you sign in.
Ask each reader for their e-mail address.
On the document page, select New link. Under How readers prove their address, choose Enter their e-mail and confirm it with a code, then select Create link. Without that step you see that someone opened it, not who.
Send it.
Send each person their own link if you like; each keeps its own settings and its own list of readers. Readers need no account and nothing to install.
What you see for each reader
- Who opened it, by the e-mail address they gave, and when. A reader who comes back shows up again.
- One e-mail soon after someone reads it.
- How long they spent on each section. A section counts only once it has been at least half on screen for a continuous second, so scrolling past records nothing.
- How far they scrolled, their device and browser, and their country and city.
tom@yourclient.com read Renewal proposal for 8m 16s.
Your client opens the link, types their e-mail address and the code from their inbox, and reads the page in their browser. A free link also shows a small “Sent with HTMLRadar” line.
What is never recorded: what a reader types or where their mouse goes. There are no third-party trackers on the page, and readers’ network addresses are not stored.
What it cannot tell you
A code proves someone could open that mailbox when the page opened. It does not prove who sat in front of the screen afterwards.
The copy in Claude stays as you shared it. If it is shared with “Anyone with the link”, set it to Only you (Only people invited on Team and Enterprise), or you have two doors and only one of them records who came in. Parts of an artifact that use Claude or connected apps run inside Claude, so a file exported as HTML does not carry them.
More on sharing one: every Claude artifact guide, how to share a Claude artifact and sharing with someone who has no Claude account.