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TL;DR
Anthropic announced Claude Meetings on November 12, 2026, a beta feature that joins Google Meet calls to transcribe, answer questions and create documents live. It is available to Team and Enterprise customers, but plan defaults differ, and Anthropic has not specified retention periods or post-beta artifact pricing.
Anthropic announced Claude Meetings on November 12, introducing a beta feature that joins Google Meet calls as a visible participant to transcribe discussion, answer questions and create documents or whiteboards during the meeting. The feature is available to Team and Enterprise plans, but its defaults for outside guests differ by plan, and Anthropic has not published a retention period for meeting records.
Anthropic says Claude can join when a user adds it or enables personal auto-join. Users connect a Google Calendar after an organization owner enables that integration, then select a meeting and add Claude. The assistant can remain in a call for up to eight hours. It appears as a participant and posts a notice in the call chat; Anthropic says users should make sure everyone agrees to transcription.
During a call, participants can ask Claude questions by speaking or typing in Meet chat. By default, it responds in writing in the chat, where its messages are visible to everyone on the call. It can also create documents and whiteboards attached to a meeting page. Afterward, the page holds a summary, action items, transcript and created materials; invited colleagues in the organization can receive a recap email and edit the artifacts.
Anthropic says the system stores a transcript, summary and screen descriptions, not audio. Connected tools can also be used during meetings, subject to permissions; the company gives sending a Slack message as an example. Meeting notes, transcripts and answers are included in Team and Enterprise plans. Documents 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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Meeting Records and Guest Consent
Claude Meetings extends an AI note-taker’s role beyond recording discussion: it can produce shared work products while people are still talking and retrieve information through connected services. That may reduce follow-up work, but it also means a call can generate a searchable record and materials that outlast the meeting. The feature’s usefulness therefore depends partly on who can access those records and how participants are told their words are being transcribed.
Guest settings make that practical question immediate. On Team plans, outside guests are allowed by default, though an organization owner can turn that off. On Enterprise plans, an owner must enable outside guests first; the default is internal meetings only. When outside guests are allowed, Claude includes what they say in the transcript and notes, but guests do not receive the meeting page or recap email. That creates a difference between being included in the record and being able to access it.
These controls also matter for organizations with confidentiality or regulatory requirements. During the beta, Anthropic says the feature is unavailable to some organizations, including those using zero data retention, HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys. The stated exclusions limit availability, but they do not answer every question about how long eligible customers’ meeting records remain available.
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Google Meet Beta Rules
Google Meet is the only supported video 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 so users will be able to send meeting transcripts to those services; it has not said when that capability will arrive.
Organizations have different controls depending on their plan. Team plans have Meetings on by default and allow calls with outside guests by default. Enterprise plans keep the feature off until an owner enables it and limit it to internal meetings by default. Auto-join is a personal setting, not one owners can set for individual employees. Users can choose to auto-join all meetings or all except one-on-ones.
Anthropic’s instructions say Claude usually joins without asking for admission. If a host declines it, Claude will not attempt to join that call again unless someone adds it. Participants can pause it, ask it to stop listening or leave, or remove it from the call. The launch follows Anthropic’s November 11 discussion of Claude Sheets and Whiteboards, when the company had said Meetings was coming.
““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, Pricing and Platform Plans
Anthropic’s published Meetings materials do not state how long transcripts, summaries or screen descriptions are retained, or specify how deletion works. They also do not provide the price for meeting documents and whiteboards after February 10, 2027. The company has not announced a date for support beyond Google Meet or for sending transcripts to its listed partner services.
The available information does not settle how each organization will communicate transcription to guests in practice, beyond Claude’s in-call notice and Anthropic’s advice to confirm that participants are comfortable. Nor does the announcement establish how well the feature performs across different meeting conditions. These are open operational questions, not evidence that the product fails to meet a particular standard.
More Integrations, No Dates Yet
Anthropic says it plans to expand Meetings beyond Google Meet and is working on transcript sharing with several meeting-software providers, but has supplied no release schedule for either. Team and Enterprise customers can use the beta subject to their organization’s eligibility and settings. Organizations evaluating it can check their plan’s defaults, decide whether external meetings are permitted, and review connected-tool permissions before use.
Further details to watch for include Anthropic’s retention and deletion terms, pricing for documents and whiteboards after the free period, and any changes to the beta’s availability or controls. Until the company publishes those details, customers should treat them as unresolved rather than assume particular retention or pricing arrangements.
Key Questions
Who can use Claude Meetings?
Anthropic says the beta is available to Team and Enterprise plan customers in Claude and Claude Desktop. Some organizations are excluded, including those using zero data retention, HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys.
Does Claude record meeting audio?
Anthropic says it stores a transcript, summary and screen descriptions, not audio. It posts a notice in the meeting chat and advises users to make sure participants agree to transcription.
Can Claude Meetings include outside guests?
On Team plans, outside guests are allowed by default, with an option for an owner to turn that off. On Enterprise plans, an owner must enable outside guests. If allowed, guests’ comments are included in the notes and transcript, but guests do not receive the meeting page or recap email.
How much does Claude Meetings cost?
Anthropic says notes, transcripts and answers are included in Team and Enterprise plans. Documents and whiteboards created in meetings are free through February 10, 2027; the price after that date has not been announced. Connected-tool use counts toward usage.
When will Claude Meetings support other platforms?
Google Meet is the only supported platform described at launch. Anthropic says support for other platforms is coming, but has not announced a date.
Source: ThorstenMeyerAI.com
