Overview
Claude Meetings is a beta capability Anthropic released on November 12, 2026. It turns Claude into a visible participant: once added to a Google Meet call it follows the conversation and starts producing docs, whiteboards and notes while the meeting is still running, rather than processing a recording afterwards.
During the call you can ask it a question out loud or type in the meeting chat. It answers in writing by default and can use tools you have connected, with your permission. It writes as it listens, and other people on the invite can edit what it produces.
After the call, each meeting gets its own page in claude.ai with the notes, transcript, action items, plan and whiteboard. You can reopen meetings you attended to ask follow-up questions, or add Claude to the next one from your calendar.
Key Features
- Joins as a visible participant: Claude appears on the participant list when someone adds it or when auto-join is on. It is not a background recording bot, and everyone in the call can see it is there.
- Questions during the call: The team can ask it something while the meeting runs, out loud or by typing in the meeting chat. Answers come back in writing by default.
- Works while you talk: It builds docs, whiteboards and other artifacts live, and teammates on the invite refine them in place. It supplies the first draft and the structure; people make the judgement calls.
- Notes and a meeting page afterwards: Claude writes the notes and action items, so nobody on the call has to. Those land with the transcript on a claude.ai meeting page that people on the invite can view and edit, and can be shared with others in the organization from that page.
- Outside guests are excluded by default: When someone from outside the organization is on the invite, Claude stays out of the call by default, and leaves if an outsider joins partway through. An admin can allow it; in that case Claude posts its notice in the call chat but does not reply there, and what guests say still goes into the notes and transcript.
- Text only, no audio: It saves a transcript, summary and screen descriptions, not audio. That defines both what you can look up later and which category of tool it falls into during a compliance review.
- Hooks into existing meeting tools: Anthropic is working with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai and Otter so a meeting transcript can be sent to the tools a team already uses, instead of moving the whole workflow over.
Use Cases
- Weekly team syncs where the notes and action items are ready when the call ends
- Design and plan reviews that turn into a document and a whiteboard as the discussion happens
- Distributed teams catching up on a meeting without waiting for someone to write it up
- Training sessions where people follow up on specific details afterwards
- Teams that already have a notes pipeline and want the transcript piped into Gong or Otter
Pros
- Produces during the call, so output and discussion happen together
- Notes, action items and whiteboards live on one meeting page
- On by default on Team plans, with no per-person setup
- Rules for outside guests are baked into the product defaults
- Notes, transcripts and in-call answers are free during beta
Pricing
During beta, notes and transcripts are free on Team and Enterprise plans, as are answers inside the call, except that an answer using one of your connected tools counts toward the plan's usage. Docs, whiteboards and other artifacts created in a call are free through February 10, 2027. The feature itself carries no extra charge but requires a Team or Enterprise plan: it is on by default on Team and an admin can turn it off, while on Enterprise an admin enables it for all or part of the organization. Organizations running zero data retention, HIPAA-ready configurations or customer-managed encryption keys are not included during beta.
Summary
Claude Meetings moves meeting work from after the call to during it: Claude joins Google Meet as a visible participant, writes docs, whiteboards and action items as the discussion happens, and leaves a meeting page in claude.ai you can keep asking questions on. It stays out of calls with outside guests by default and saves a transcript and screen descriptions, not audio. Available on Team and Enterprise plans, with notes and transcripts free during beta.
Version History
- Beta release (2026-11-12): Anthropic launched Claude Meetings in beta. Claude joins Google Meet as a visible participant, takes questions out loud or in chat, writes docs, whiteboards and notes live, and leaves a claude.ai meeting page for review and follow-up questions. On by default on Team plans with an admin opt-out; admin-enabled on Enterprise. It stays out of calls that include outside guests by default and leaves if an outsider joins partway. Saves a transcript, summary and screen descriptions but not audio. Notes and transcripts are free during beta, and in-call artifacts are free through February 10, 2027. Integrations with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai and Otter are planned.