Guide

How to email a Claude report or dashboard to a client

You can attach the HTML file to an email: Gmail and Outlook do not block the .html extension. The weak point is what happens next. The client must download the file and open it from their disk, you cannot tell whether they did, assets loaded by relative path break, and a corrected version means sending a new email. The better route is to host the HTML, paste the link in the body of the email and let the email do only the sending. LiveSend gives you that link in under a minute and shows you when it is opened.

Attaching works, and it is still the weakest option

A Claude report or dashboard is a single HTML file. Attaching it to an email takes five seconds and it will usually arrive. The trouble starts on the other side. An attachment asks the client to do two things before they see anything: download a file, then open it from their disk. For a report you built to impress someone, that is a bad first impression.

What changes when you send a link instead

  • It opens as a page. One click, in the browser, with scripts running and the layout intact.
  • You know what happened. Time of each view, approximate country, time spent, and the viewer email if you require one.
  • You can fix it. Edit inline or upload a new version, the link stays the same.
  • You can limit it. A password and an expiration date on the Pro plan, and you can switch the link off.

The link version in four steps

  1. Copy the HTML from your Claude artifact, or download the file.
  2. Paste it into LiveSend, or drop the file, and copy the link it returns.
  3. Write your email as usual and paste the link in the body, with one sentence saying what the client will see.
  4. Check the dashboard later to see whether it was opened.

When an attachment is still fine

  • The recipient is a colleague who will open it on a laptop and does not need tracking.
  • You want an offline copy for an archive, and the page is fully self-contained.
  • You are sending it to yourself or to a developer who will read the source.

For a client, a prospect or a stakeholder, the link is the better delivery. The limits of LiveSend are the same as anywhere: a 2MB cap per HTML file on Free (5MB on Pro), a small watermark on Free and no custom domain yet.

Want the side-by-side? See HTML link vs email attachment.

Frequently asked questions

  • Does Gmail block HTML attachments?
    No. Google publishes the list of file types Gmail blocks, mostly executables and scripts such as .exe, .js and .vbs, and .html is not on it. Outlook is the same. Your recipient's company may still filter or quarantine attachments with its own rules, which you cannot see from your side.
  • What does the client see when they open the attachment?
    The file opens in their browser as a local file, not as a page on a server. A page that is fully self-contained usually works. A page that loads images, fonts or data by relative path loses them, and a download-then-open step on a phone or a locked-down work laptop is where many recipients give up.
  • Can I tell whether they opened it?
    Not from an attachment. A read receipt tells you the email was opened, not the file. A link tells you more: LiveSend logs the time of each view, the approximate country and the time spent on the page, and can require the viewer email.
  • Can I paste the report into the body of the email instead?
    Not an interactive one. Email clients restyle HTML and remove scripts, so charts, filters and collapsible sections do not survive. Only simple, table-based HTML emails render reliably, which is a different thing from a Claude artifact.
  • What if I find a mistake after sending?
    With an attachment you send a new email and hope the old one is deleted. With a LiveSend link you edit the page inline or upload a new version and the same link shows the fix.

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