Claude Meetings: Claude now joins your Google Meet calls
Claude Meetings launches in beta on Team and Enterprise plans. Claude joins Google Meet calls, takes notes and builds docs as you talk. Here is what it can do.
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On November 12, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Meetings in beta: Claude joins a Google Meet call as a visible participant, takes notes, answers questions and builds documents and whiteboards while the meeting is still going. According to Anthropic’s announcement, the feature is rolling out to Team and Enterprise plans, in Claude and Claude Desktop.
What can Claude Meetings do?
Two days ago, at the launch of Claude Sheets and Whiteboards, Meetings was only announced. Now it is clear what those spreadsheets and whiteboards were for: Claude builds them live, while the team is still talking.
You say “Claude” and ask a question, or type it into the Meet chat. By default the answer comes back in writing, in the meeting chat. A request like “Claude, make a doc” produces a document from what has been said so far, and the people on the invite can start editing it right away. In the example from the announcement, a team is planning a customer event: Claude starts a planning doc, looks up what last year’s edition cost and sketches the timeline on a whiteboard.
After the call, everything ends up on the meeting’s page in claude.ai: notes with action items, the transcript and whatever Claude built. People in the organization who were on the invite get a recap by email, and you can ask about past meetings later in a regular chat.
What is new here from an AI point of view?
Beyond notes and a transcript, Claude can reach for tools during the call that participants have connected to their own accounts (connectors, which in practice means MCP servers), for example to send a Slack message. The first time it uses one, it asks that person for permission, and the approval carries over from then on.
Interestingly, Anthropic is not trying to replace existing note-taking tools. The announcement mentions work with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai and Otter that will let you send a meeting transcript to those tools. For now that is a plan, not a working feature.
How do you add Claude to a meeting?
According to the help center instructions, it goes like this:
- Open the Meetings tab in Claude.
- Connect Google Calendar (the organization’s owner has to enable it first).
- Pick a meeting from the calendar.
- Click “Add Claude”.
In settings you can also turn on auto-join for all meetings, or for all meetings except one-on-ones. Claude stays on a call for up to eight hours and leaves when you ask it to.
On the Team plan the feature is on by default and the owner can turn it off. On Enterprise it is the other way round: the owner has to turn it on, for the whole organization or for selected roles.
What should you watch out for?
First, participants’ consent. Claude saves a transcript, a summary and descriptions of what was on screen (it does not save audio), and Anthropic asks you to make sure nobody objects before you add it to a call. When it joins, Claude leaves a notice in the chat.
Second, guests from outside the organization. On Enterprise, Claude by default does not join calls with external people and leaves when one joins partway through (that also covers other companies’ note-taking bots). On the Team plan such calls are allowed by default. Claude then listens and takes notes but does not reply in the chat, and what the guests say goes into the notes and the transcript.
Third, costs after the beta. Notes, transcripts and answers that do not use connectors are included in the plan, but documents and whiteboards created during calls are free only until February 10, 2027. Anthropic has not said what happens after that.
Fourth, the beta’s limits. Only Google Meet works, and organizations with ZDR (zero data retention), a HIPAA-ready configuration or their own encryption keys cannot use the feature. For spoken requests that need a connector, Claude asks who is speaking every time.
FAQ
Is Claude Meetings available on the Pro or Max plan?
The announcement and the Release Notes mention only the Team and Enterprise plans.
Does Claude Meetings work with Zoom or Microsoft Teams?
As of today, only Google Meet is supported. According to the announcement, other platforms are coming “soon”, with no names or dates.
Does Claude record the call?
It does not save audio. What remains is the transcript, the summary and the screen descriptions, available on the meeting’s page to people in the organization who were on the invite.