Anthropic announced the Claude Meetings beta on 12 November on its blog and X account. Claude works in Google Meet at first. Support for other video conferencing platforms is coming later, the company said.

What Claude does in a call

Claude appears in the call as a participant and posts in the call chat that it has joined. Participants can ask it questions aloud or in the chat. By default, Claude replies in writing. With a user’s permission, it can use the tools that user has connected to Claude.

On request, Claude starts a document or a whiteboard, for example, from the conversation. Colleagues invited to the meeting can edit it during the call. Claude also writes notes and agreed action items. After the meeting, these appear on the meeting’s own page on claude.ai, along with the transcript and the documents Claude made. Invited members of the organisation can view the page and edit the outputs Claude made.

Claude saves a transcript, a summary and descriptions of screen content, not audio. Anthropic said it is working with others so that, in future, transcripts can be sent to tools from Gong, Granola, Otter and Fireflies.ai, among others.

External participants and permissions

By default, Claude does not join calls that include invitees from outside the organisation. If an external participant joins mid-call, Claude leaves. An admin can allow Claude in these calls too. Claude then announces itself in the chat but does not reply there. What guests say is recorded in the notes and the transcript.

Claude asks for permission the first time it uses connected tools, and the permission then remains in effect. For spoken requests, Claude currently verifies the speaker every time. A reply written in the chat is visible to all participants. Anthropic advises checking that all participants accept transcription before rollout.

Availability and pricing

On Team plans, users can invite Claude to meetings by default, and admins can switch the feature off. On Enterprise plans, admins enable the feature for the whole organisation or part of it. During the beta, the feature is not available to organisations that use, for example, zero data retention (ZDR), a HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).

During the beta, notes, transcripts and Claude’s replies are free. The exception is a reply that uses a connected tool: it counts against the plan’s usage limit. Documents, whiteboards and other outputs created in a call are free until 10 February 2027. Claude joins a meeting when someone adds it or has turned on automatic joining. Setup instructions are in Anthropic’s help centre.