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TL;DR
Anthropic’s Claude Meetings beta lets eligible Team and Enterprise customers add Claude to Google Meet calls to create transcripts, summaries and live meeting artifacts. Defaults for external guests differ by plan, and Anthropic has not stated how long meeting records are retained or what artifact creation will cost after February 10, 2027.
Anthropic has launched Claude Meetings, a beta feature that lets eligible Team and Enterprise customers add Claude to Google Meet calls to take notes, answer questions and create documents or other artifacts during a meeting. The feature matters for organizations deciding how AI assistants enter calls: external-guest defaults differ by plan, and users are responsible for making sure participants agree to transcription.
According to Anthropic’s announcement and Help Center, Claude appears as a visible meeting participant. It keeps a transcript, summary and descriptions of shared screens, but Anthropic says it does not keep audio. Claude can respond to spoken requests or messages in Meet chat; its written replies are visible to everyone on the call. It can also produce documents and whiteboards that are attached to a meeting page.
Users connect a Google Calendar, select a meeting and choose “Add Claude.” A personal auto-join option can be set for all meetings or all except one-on-ones; organization owners cannot set it for individual users. Claude usually joins without asking, Anthropic says, though a host can admit it if prompted. It can remain in a call for up to eight hours, and users can pause it, ask it to stop listening or remove it.
After a call, the meeting page holds the notes, action items, transcript and artifacts. People from the organization who were invited can receive a recap email, view the notes and edit Claude’s work. Anthropic says notes, transcripts and answers are included in Team and Enterprise plans. Docs and whiteboards made during meetings are free through February 10, 2027; use of connected tools counts toward usage.
Claude Meetings · beta since Nov 12, 2026
What happens when Claude joins your call
One video call with Claude as a participant, in six steps: how it gets in, what it hears, what it makes, and where the results go, as Anthropic describes it.
The call (schematic)
Step by step
- AddedSomeone adds Claude from the calendar, or has auto-join on. It joins as a visible participant and posts a notice in the chat.
- ListensIt follows the call and keeps a live transcript on a meeting page. It saves text, not audio.
- Builds“Claude, make a doc”: docs, whiteboards and slides appear on the meeting page. Answers go to the Meet chat, visible to everyone.
- ActsConnected tools, like a Slack message, only with each person’s permission. A yes applies going forward.
- GuestsIf outside guests are not allowed, Claude leaves when one joins. If allowed, it takes notes but does not reply in chat.
- AfterNotes, summary, action items, transcript. Colleagues on the invite get a recap email; guests do not. Stays up to 8 hours.
Source: Anthropic, “Introducing Claude Meetings” (Nov 12, 2026) and Help Center article “Use Claude Meetings” (retrieved Nov 15, 2026). The call picture is a schematic: tile names and labels are illustrative, not Anthropic’s interface.
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External Guests Change the Defaults
The main operational distinction is who may be on a call. On Team plans, Claude can join meetings with outside guests by default, though an owner can disable that setting. On Enterprise plans, an owner must allow external meetings first, and the default is internal meetings only. Those settings affect whether people outside the organization may have their words included in the transcript and notes.
When external guests are allowed, Anthropic says Claude posts a notice in the meeting chat, listens and takes notes, but does not reply there. Guests’ comments are included in the record, while guests do not receive the meeting page or recap email. When external guests are not allowed, Claude stays out if an outside participant is invited and leaves if one joins later. That can include another company’s note-taking bot.
Claude can also use connected tools during a meeting, such as sending a Slack message, subject to permission. Anthropic says it asks the first time a tool is used and that approval applies going forward; for spoken requests, it asks each time to confirm who is speaking. Organizations should account for these permissions as well as the transcript when deciding whether to enable the feature.
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From Meeting Notes to Live Work
AI note-taking in video calls is already an established category. What Anthropic describes for Claude Meetings goes beyond recording a recap: participants can ask Claude to build a document or whiteboard while they talk, then continue editing the result. Claude may also use connected services to answer questions or carry out permitted actions. Those capabilities make the meeting assistant part of a team’s workflow, not just a record of the conversation.
Anthropic announced the beta on November 12, 2026, after saying on November 11 that Meetings was coming. Google Meet is the only supported platform at launch; Anthropic says support for other platforms is coming, without giving a date. The company also says it is working with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai, Otter and Plaud on ways to send meeting transcripts to tools teams already use.
The beta is not available to some organizations, including those using zero data retention, a HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys. Anthropic’s Help Center describes the feature and its controls. A Gartner report quoted by Computerworld characterized it as “a beta entrant in a mature market,” underscoring that the product enters a field with existing meeting assistants.
““It takes the notes, answers questions, and builds artifacts, such as docs, whiteboards, and slides, live during the call.””
— Anthropic Help Center, “Use Claude Meetings”
Retention and Future Pricing Remain Open
Anthropic says the feature stores a transcript, summary and screen descriptions, not audio, but the cited Meetings materials provide no retention period for those records. They also do not say what docs and whiteboards will cost after February 10, 2027, or when support for video-call platforms beyond Google Meet will arrive.
The materials do not specify when transcript sharing with the named partner services will become available. The exact availability of the beta can also depend on an organization’s configuration; some organizations, including those with zero data retention or customer-managed encryption keys, are excluded. Anthropic’s pages tell users to obtain participants’ agreement, but the provided material does not spell out how that expectation interacts with each organization’s policies or legal requirements.
Check Controls Before the First Call
Before enabling the beta, organization owners can review the plan’s external-guest setting and, for Enterprise, decide whether to allow Claude in meetings with outside participants. Users can check their own auto-join settings, tell attendees that transcription is taking place and confirm that participants are comfortable with it. During a call, they can pause Claude, ask it to leave or remove it from Meet.
Anthropic has said platform support and transcript integrations are coming, but has not announced dates. Customers will need to watch for further product and Help Center updates on those releases, record retention and pricing after the stated free period for meeting artifacts ends on February 10, 2027.
Key Questions
What does Claude Meetings do in Google Meet?
Anthropic says Claude can create a transcript and summary, answer questions and make artifacts such as documents and whiteboards during a call. It joins as a visible participant and does not keep audio, according to the company.
Can Claude join meetings with outside guests?
That depends on the plan and settings. On Team, outside guests are allowed by default, but an owner can turn this off. On Enterprise, an owner must allow external meetings; otherwise Claude stays out or leaves if an outside participant joins.
Do meeting participants need to know Claude is there?
Claude appears as a participant and posts a notice in the call chat, according to Anthropic. The company also tells users to make sure everyone agrees to be transcribed; users are responsible for obtaining that agreement.
Is Claude Meetings included in the subscription price?
Anthropic says notes, transcripts and answers are included in Team and Enterprise plans. Meeting documents and whiteboards are free through February 10, 2027. The company has not stated the price after that date, and connected-tool use counts toward usage.
How long are meeting records kept?
The cited Anthropic Meetings materials do not give a retention period for transcripts, summaries, screen descriptions or artifacts. Customers should not assume a specific deletion schedule from the available information.
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