How to share a Claude artifact with your team
Claude Artifacts are great for building, but sharing one with your team has real limits, like no sign-in or saved data. Here's how to turn an artifact into a proper shared app.
Claude Artifacts make building a little app feel effortless: you describe it, it appears in the side panel, you iterate. Then you want your team to use it, and you run into the edges of what an artifact is for. This is how to take something you built as a Claude artifact and turn it into a real, shareable app your team can actually rely on.
The quick answer
An artifact is a great place to build, but it isn’t built to be a shared, data-backed app for a team. To share it properly, publish it to Backlit from the same Claude chat: ask Claude to deploy the artifact, and you get a real link with team sign-in (allowlist a whole domain like @yourteam.com) and saved data, none of which an artifact alone provides.
What an artifact is, and isn’t
Artifacts are fantastic for what they’re designed to do: give you a live, editable preview of something Claude built, right next to the conversation. You can share an artifact for people to view, and that’s perfect for showing your work.
But “my team uses this every day” asks for things an artifact isn’t meant to carry:
- Sign-in for your team. An artifact doesn’t have an allowlist; it can’t say “only people at my company can open this.”
- Saved data per person. Artifacts aren’t a place to durably store what each teammate enters and have it there next week.
- A stable home. A shared app wants its own address you can bookmark and link from a wiki, not a view tied to a chat.
So an artifact gets you a working thing fast; it doesn’t get you a maintained team tool. That’s the gap to close.
Turning an artifact into a shared app
The nice part is you don’t rebuild anything. The artifact is already a single-page app, exactly what Backlit hosts. From the same Claude conversation:
- Connect Backlit to Claude (once): Settings → Connectors → add
https://mcp.backlit.run/mcpand authorize. - Ask Claude to publish the artifact: “Deploy this artifact to Backlit and give my team access at @yourteam.com.”
- Claude deploys it to a live address and sets the allowlist to your domain.
- Share the link in Slack, your wiki, wherever the team lives. Teammates sign in with their work email and they’re in.
What was a preview in a chat is now a tool with a URL, a door, and a memory.
Why this works well for teams
- Domain allowlists. On a paid plan you can allow an entire domain, so anyone with a
@yourteam.comaddress can use the app and nobody else can. No per-person invites to manage. - Per-user data. Each teammate gets their own isolated data where it makes sense (their drafts, their settings), plus shared data for things the whole team edits (the roster, the board).
- No IT ticket. You’re not provisioning servers, databases, or an SSO integration to share an internal tool. You publish it and send a link.
- Versioned and reversible. Every deploy is an immutable version; if an update breaks something, roll back instantly.
Keep iterating in Claude
Because Backlit lives in the same chat, improving the tool stays a conversation. Tweak the artifact, ask Claude to redeploy, and the live version updates, with a draft you can preview before you promote it to everyone. Your team keeps using a stable link while you work on the next version behind it.
When a team needs more than this
If the tool grows into something with many screens, complex permissions, or its own server-side logic, it’s becoming a real internal product and may deserve a proper build. Backlit is for the huge category below that line: the single-page tools and forms a team uses constantly that were never worth a full engineering project. Those shouldn’t be stuck in a chat panel. Give them a link. See pricing →
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