Claude joins the call and builds docs and boards
Anthropic on Nov. 12 (5:16:20 a.m. Nov. 13 Japan time) began offering a beta of "Claude Meetings," which brings its AI assistant "Claude" into a team's video calls, Claude's official account announced on X. According to the post, Claude builds docs, whiteboards and other outputs together with participants while the conversation is still going. It is rolling out on the Team and Enterprise business plans.
Introducing Claude Meetings: add Claude to your team’s video call and it builds docs, whiteboards, and other artifacts with you while you’re still talking. Starting to roll out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.
According to Anthropic's announcement page, Claude joins the call as a visible participant, follows the conversation and starts on work during the meeting. Participants can ask Claude questions out loud or in chat, and by default Claude answers in writing. With a person's permission, it also uses the other tools that person has connected to Claude.
In an example on the announcement page, when asked during a meeting to start a doc, Claude writes up what has been said so far, and teammates on the invite can edit it while the meeting continues. The help page lists docs, whiteboards and slides as examples of what Claude can make.
Claude also writes notes and action items. After the call, the notes, action items, transcript and anything Claude built remain on a separate page for each meeting in Claude.
Google Meet first, rolling out on Team and Enterprise
The feature is for Team and Enterprise plans, and according to the help page it is rolling out in Claude and the Claude Desktop app. Google Meet is currently the only supported video conferencing service, and Anthropic said other services will be supported "soon," without giving a timeline.
On Team plans it is available from the start, and an admin can turn it off. On Enterprise plans, an admin turns it on for all or part of the organization. During the beta, it is not available to some organizations, including those with "zero data retention (ZDR)" agreements, which do not keep stored data, a configuration ready for HIPAA, the U.S. health information rule, or customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).
The announcement page said Anthropic is working with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai and Otter so that meeting transcripts can be sent to those companies' tools. No timeline was given for this either.
No audio is saved, and settings decide whether Claude joins calls with outside guests
When Claude joins a call, it appears as a participant and posts a notice in the call's chat. It saves a transcript, a summary and screen descriptions, not audio. Anthropic asks users to make sure everyone on the call is OK with being transcribed before adding Claude.
According to the announcement page, by default Claude stays out of calls when someone from outside the organization is invited, and leaves if someone from outside joins partway through. If an admin allows it, Claude joins calls with outside guests, and in that case it posts its notice in the chat but does not reply there. What outside guests say is included in the notes and transcript. The help page, however, says that on Team plans Claude can join calls with outside guests by default, while on Enterprise plans an admin must allow it first, so the 2 documents differ on the default for Team plans.
Free during the beta, with outputs from calls free through Feb. 10, 2027
During the beta, notes and transcripts are free on Team and Enterprise plans. Claude's answers in calls are also free, but answers that use connected tools count toward the plan's usage. Docs, whiteboards and other outputs Claude makes in a call are free through Feb. 10, 2027.
Listed as "coming soon" in the Nov. 10 announcement
When Anthropic launched the shared board "Claude Whiteboards" and other features on Nov. 10 (Nov. 11 Japan time), Claude Meetings also appeared on the announcement page, but at that point it was listed as "coming soon." The new announcement page is dated Nov. 12 and says in its text that Claude Meetings is "now in beta."
