Claude Meetings beta joins Google Meet calls on Team and Enterprise plans
Anthropic has started rolling out Claude Meetings, a beta feature that lets Claude join a Google Meet call as a visible participant, follow the conversation, answer questions from the people in the room and start work while the meeting is still running. The company announced the feature on November 12, 2026, and its help center now documents how the bot joins calls, what it stores and how administrators control it.
The rollout covers the Team and Enterprise plans, in the Claude web app and Claude Desktop. Google Meet is the only supported video platform at launch; Anthropic says support for other conferencing services is coming soon but has not named Zoom, Microsoft Teams or any other product, and it has given no date. Organizations that run Claude with zero data retention, a HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys cannot use the feature during the beta.
During the call Claude writes notes and action items, answers questions typed in the Meet chat or spoken aloud after its name, and can build documents, whiteboards, slides and other artifacts with the participants in real time. With each person's permission it can also use connected tools, for example to send a Slack message on someone's behalf. After the call every meeting gets its own page in Claude with the summary, the transcript and everything produced during the session.
Pricing is generous for a beta. Notes, transcripts and answers that do not touch connected tools are included in Team and Enterprise plans, and docs, whiteboards and other artifacts created in a meeting are free through February 10, 2027. Requests that use connected tools count toward the requesting user's own usage and can generate charges for the organization.
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HOW CLAUDE MEETINGS WORKS INSIDE A GOOGLE MEET CALL.
Claude enters the call as a regular participant with its own tile, which stays live and displays what the assistant is doing at any moment. When it joins, it posts a notice in the Meet chat together with a link to the meeting page in Claude. In most cases Claude joins without needing to be admitted; when the host has to admit it and declines, Claude does not try again for that call unless someone adds it a second time, and the person who added it sees that the request was declined.
Participants address Claude by saying "Claude" followed by a question, or by typing the question in the Meet chat. By default the answers arrive in writing in the Meet chat, where everyone on the call can read them. Anthropic's documentation describes written replies only and says nothing about Claude answering out loud, so teams should plan around a participant that listens to speech and replies in text.
Artifacts are requested in the same way. A participant can say something like "Claude, make a doc" or "Claude, make a whiteboard", and anyone on the team can make such a request. Anthropic says every artifact type is supported and that a meeting can hold as many artifacts as participants want. The output is linked to the meeting page, so a whiteboard sketched during a planning call stays next to the transcript of the discussion that produced it. Readers who want background on the artifact formats themselves can see our coverage of Claude Sheets and Whiteboards arriving in beta on all paid plans.
Connected tools follow a per-person consent model. The first time Claude needs to act through one person's connector, it asks that person for approval, and a yes applies to later requests as well. For spoken requests Claude asks each time to confirm who is speaking, which prevents one participant from triggering actions through a colleague's accounts simply by talking. Approval prompts appear in the Meet chat when possible, or on the meeting page when Claude has to confirm the person's Claude account.
Participants can ask Claude to stop listening, then resume from the meeting page. Claude leaves when asked or when someone selects "Remove Claude" on the meeting page, and adding it again returns it to the same page. A single session can last up to eight hours, and Claude warns the call before it leaves.
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CLAUDE MEETINGS AVAILABILITY, PLANS AND EXCLUDED CONFIGURATIONS.
The feature is limited to business plans during the beta, and Anthropic describes the rollout as gradual, so some eligible organizations may see it later than others. The table below summarizes what the company has confirmed about access.
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Item | Status at launch |
Plans | Team and Enterprise |
Apps | Claude on the web and Claude Desktop |
Video platform | Google Meet only |
Other platforms | "Coming soon", none named |
Calendar | Google Calendar must be connected |
Excluded setups | ZDR, HIPAA-ready, CMEK |
Maximum stay per call | 8 hours |
Regions | Not specified by Anthropic |
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Google Calendar is a hard requirement. An organization owner first has to enable the Google Calendar integration for the workspace, and each user then connects a calendar inside Meetings before Claude can see which calls to join. Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers are outside the beta, and Anthropic has not said whether individual plans will get the feature later.
The exclusion of zero-data-retention, HIPAA-ready and CMEK organizations follows from how the product works: Claude keeps a transcript, a summary and descriptions of shared screens on the meeting page, which appears incompatible with configurations designed to avoid retaining customer content or to keep it under customer-held keys. Anthropic has not published a timeline for lifting those exclusions.
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CLAUDE MEETINGS PRICING DURING THE BETA.
Anthropic separates meeting activity into what is included in the plan, what is temporarily free and what consumes normal usage. The distinction affects administrators who manage pooled budgets or usage-based billing, because the only metered part of a meeting is the use of connected tools.
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Meeting activity | Cost during the beta |
Notes and action items | Included in Team and Enterprise |
Transcripts | Included in Team and Enterprise |
Answers without connected tools | Included |
Answers using connected tools | Count toward the user's usage |
Docs, whiteboards and other artifacts | Free through February 10, 2027 |
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The February 10, 2027 date applies to artifacts built during calls. After that date, those artifacts will presumably fall under the normal usage rules of each plan, but Anthropic has not published the post-beta terms. Organizations evaluating the feature now should treat the free artifact allowance as a time-limited promotion and track how often teams ask Claude to build documents in meetings, so they can estimate the effect on usage once the promotion ends. The regular plan prices and limits that will apply afterwards are listed in our guide to Claude plans and usage limits.
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ADMIN DEFAULTS FOR CLAUDE MEETINGS ON TEAM AND ENTERPRISE PLANS.
The two plans ship with opposite defaults. On Team plans the feature is switched on for everyone and Claude may join calls that include outside guests; on Enterprise plans the feature starts switched off and Claude is limited to internal meetings until an owner changes the settings. The controls sit under Organization settings, Products, Claude Meetings (beta), and Owners and Primary Owners manage them.
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Setting | Team default | Enterprise default |
Claude Meetings | On for everyone | Off |
Meetings with external guests | Allowed | Internal meetings only |
Members' connectors in meetings | Admin-controlled | Admin-controlled |
Rollout to part of the org | Not documented | Via custom roles |
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Enterprise owners get finer control through custom roles, which carry two separate capabilities, "Claude Meetings" and "Meetings with external guests". An owner can therefore enable the assistant for a pilot group, such as a product team, before opening it to the whole company, and a custom role with Owner access can also manage the settings page. A third switch decides whether Claude can use members' connected tools during meetings at all, which gives security teams a way to allow note-taking while blocking actions in third-party systems. These controls sit alongside the admin features Anthropic added to Enterprise earlier this month, described in our report on the Claude Enterprise security center and EDR sensors.
Auto-join is a personal choice. Each user can set Claude to join all of their meetings or all meetings except one-on-ones, under Settings, Capabilities, Meetings, Auto-join, and owners cannot switch auto-join on for other people.
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EXTERNAL GUESTS, TRANSCRIPTS AND STORED DATA IN CLAUDE MEETINGS.
When external participants are not allowed, which is the Enterprise default, Claude stays out of any meeting that has someone from outside the organization on the invite. If an outside participant joins after the call has started, Claude leaves, and Anthropic says the rule also covers another company's note-taking bot. Each user additionally has a personal "Meetings with external guests" setting.
When external guests are allowed, Claude behaves more conservatively. It listens, takes notes and posts its joining notice in the chat, but it does not reply in the Meet chat. Guests' speech is included in the notes and transcript, while guests themselves receive neither the meeting page, the live docs and whiteboards, the internal chat nor the recap email. The chat on the meeting page is internal to the organization in every case, whereas anything Claude posts in the Meet chat is visible to everyone on the call.
Claude saves three kinds of data from a meeting: the transcript, the summary and descriptions of what was shown on screen. It does not save audio. Anthropic's help article does not state a retention period for meeting pages, a point compliance teams will want clarified before broad deployment. Anthropic also advises users to make sure everyone on a call is comfortable being transcribed before adding Claude or enabling auto-join, which leaves consent practices with the organization.
After the call, organization members who were on the invite receive a recap email linking to the meeting page. They can view the notes, edit what Claude produced and share the page with other people in the organization, and the Meetings calendar lists past and upcoming meetings. In an ordinary Claude chat, users can also ask questions about past meetings they have access to, which turns the archive of meeting pages into searchable context for later work.
Anthropic is also preparing exports to existing meeting tools. The company names Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai and Otter as partners and says users will soon be able to send a meeting's transcript to the tools their teams already use, without giving a date.
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HOW TO ADD CLAUDE TO A GOOGLE MEET CALL.
The setup takes four steps once an owner has enabled Google Calendar for the organization and, on Enterprise, switched on Claude Meetings for the user's role. First, open Meetings in Claude at claude.ai/meetings. Second, connect a Google Calendar. Third, select a meeting from the calendar. Fourth, click "Add Claude", after which Claude joins the call when it starts.
Users who want Claude in every call can turn on auto-join and choose whether one-on-one meetings are excluded. Before relying on connected tools during a call, each participant should expect an approval prompt the first time Claude acts on their behalf, and spoken requests will trigger a confirmation of the speaker's identity every time.
For administrators the practical checklist is short. Team owners who prefer a cautious start should review the default that lets Claude join calls with outside guests and decide whether members' connectors should be usable in meetings. Enterprise owners need to enable the feature explicitly, ideally for a pilot group through custom roles, and decide whether external meetings should be allowed. Both should note the February 10, 2027 end of free artifact creation in meetings for budget planning.
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CLAUDE MEETINGS BETA: CONFIRMED DETAILS AND OPEN QUESTIONS.
Anthropic has documented the core of the product in detail: a visible Google Meet participant for Team and Enterprise plans that answers in writing, builds artifacts on request, uses connectors only with per-person consent, stays up to eight hours, keeps transcripts and screen descriptions without audio, and ships with permissive defaults on Team and restrictive defaults on Enterprise. Notes, transcripts and tool-free answers are included in the plans, and in-meeting artifacts are free until February 10, 2027.
Several points remain open. Anthropic has not named the next video platforms or given dates for them, has not said whether Pro, Max or Ultra subscribers will get the feature, has not published supported languages or a retention period for meeting pages, and has not described the usage terms that will apply to in-meeting artifacts after the promotion ends. Regulated organizations on zero-data-retention, HIPAA-ready or CMEK configurations are excluded for now with no stated timeline. Until those details arrive, Claude Meetings is a Google Meet tool for business workspaces whose administrators are comfortable with transcripts stored inside Claude.
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