Anthropic’s AI assistant can now sit in on your meetings. Claude Meetings is rolling out in beta on the company’s Team and Enterprise plans, and it does something the meeting notetakers of the past few years never attempted: it joins a Google Meet call as a visible participant, follows the conversation, answers questions asked out loud or typed in the chat, and builds documents and whiteboards while people are still talking.
The launch arrived in two steps. Anthropic first presented Claude Meetings on November 10, alongside new Claude Sheets and Whiteboards tools, and described it then as coming soon. The rollout itself began on November 12, when the company published its full announcement and started switching the beta on for Team and Enterprise customers. Not every account has it yet — a rollout means it is reaching teams gradually.
What Claude does in the call
Claude appears in the meeting as a named participant and posts a notice in the call’s chat, so everyone on the call can see it is there. From that point it works during the meeting, not only after it. Anyone can ask it a question out loud or in the chat — by default it answers in writing — and it can look things up with the connected tools of the person who asked, with that person’s permission. In Anthropic’s example, a team planning a customer event asks Claude to start a planning document; Claude writes up what has been said so far while teammates edit it, and when the budget comes up someone asks what last year’s event cost — Claude looks it up, posts the figure in the chat and compares it with the current plan.
When the call ends, Claude writes the notes and the action items. Everything it made lands on a dedicated page for that meeting in claude.ai, where people from the organisation who were on the invite can see and edit it.
Who gets it — and who does not
The beta is limited to Team and Enterprise plans, and to Google Meet; support for other video platforms is coming, Anthropic says, but it has named none and given no date. Individual Pro and Max subscribers and free users do not get it.
Defaults differ by plan. On Team plans, inviting Claude is on by default and an admin can switch it off; on Enterprise plans, an admin has to switch it on, for the whole organisation or part of it. Some organisations are excluded entirely for now: those with zero data retention, a HIPAA-ready configuration, or customer-managed encryption keys.
During the beta, notes and transcripts are free on Team and Enterprise plans, as are Claude’s answers in calls — unless an answer uses one of your connected tools, which counts toward the plan’s usage. The documents, whiteboards and other artifacts Claude creates in a call are free through February 10, 2027. Anthropic has said nothing about what any of it will cost after that date.
The guardrails around guests and privacy
By default, Claude stays out of calls when someone from outside the organisation is invited, and it leaves automatically if an external guest joins partway through. An admin can allow Claude on calls with outside guests; on those calls Claude posts its notice but does not reply in the chat, and what guests say is still included in the notes and transcript.
It saves a transcript, a summary and descriptions of what was on screen — not audio. When someone asks a question out loud, Claude asks each time to confirm who is speaking. And Anthropic’s own advice is blunt: before adding Claude to calls, or switching on auto-join, make sure everyone on the call is comfortable being transcribed.
Anthropic’s push into the workplace
Claude Meetings is the most ambitious piece of Anthropic’s November 10 workplace bundle. Alongside it came Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards, both in beta on paid plans, and Claude Data — formerly Claude Dashboards — which reached general availability for all paid plans.
The same week, Anthropic began its IPO roadshow — and the race to put AI inside everyday work software is now the industry’s central contest, with Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT all chasing the same workplace. Anthropic’s bet is that its assistant does the work while the meeting is still happening, rather than summarising it afterwards.
Whether that bet pays off will depend on what Anthropic has not yet answered: other platforms, the price after the beta, and whether teams trust an AI in their calls. For the full picture — how to add Claude to a call, the privacy settings and the limits — see our guide to how to use Claude Meetings.
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