Claude Meetings in beta: Claude joins Google Meet calls, on by default for Team plans

Anthropic announced Claude Meetings in beta on 12 November 2026. Claude joins a video call as a visible participant, follows the conversation and can start work while the meeting runs. It is starting to roll out on Team and Enterprise plans.

For now it works only with Google Meet, from Claude and Claude Desktop. Anthropic says other video conferencing platforms are coming soon, but names none and gives no date.

People on the call ask Claude questions out loud or in the chat, and by default it answers in writing. With permission, it can use connected tools. It can build docs, whiteboards and other work live while teammates on the invite refine them, and it writes notes and action items.

When Claude joins, it shows as a participant and posts a notice in the call chat. Anthropic says it saves a transcript, a summary and descriptions of what was on screen, and no audio. Claude can stay for up to eight hours and warns before it leaves. Asking it to stop listening pauses it, and it can also be removed from the call.

To add it, a person opens Meetings in Claude, connects Google Calendar, picks a meeting and clicks Add Claude. An owner has to enable Google Calendar for the organisation first. Claude usually joins without asking. If it does ask, the host can let it in, and if the host declines, Claude doesn't try again unless someone adds it.

Each person can set Claude to join all their meetings, or all except one-on-ones, under Settings, then Capabilities, then Meetings. The Help Center says owners can't set auto-join for someone else.

After the call, each meeting has a page in claude.ai with the notes, the transcript and anything Claude built. People from your organisation on the invite can see and edit it, and each gets a recap email with a link. The page can be shared with others in the organisation, and people can later ask Claude about meetings they were part of.

Anything Claude posts in the Meet chat is visible to everyone on the call, answers included. The chat on the Claude meeting page stays inside the organisation.

Anthropic lists Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai, Otter and Plaud as transcript partners coming soon, so that a meeting's transcript can be sent to those tools. It gives no date for any of the six.

During the beta, notes, transcripts and answers are included on Team and Enterprise plans. An answer that uses a connected tool counts toward plan usage, and the Help Center says that can lead to charges for your organisation. Docs, whiteboards and other work Claude builds in a call are free through 10 February 2027.

Some organisations can't use Claude Meetings during the beta. Anthropic says these include organisations with zero data retention (ZDR), a HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).

A meeting page holds the transcript, the notes and what Claude built. People from the organisation on the invite can edit it, and the page can be shared with others in the organisation. The record of a sensitive call can then reach people who were never on it.

Each person sets auto-join for themselves, and owners can't set it for them. If several people choose all their meetings, Claude can join many more calls than an owner expects. The owner settings cover whether Claude Meetings is on, for which roles, and whether it joins calls with outside guests.

The Help Center says answers that use a connected tool count toward plan usage and can lead to charges. Over a month of busy meetings that usage can add up, and the owner setting for members' connectors in meetings controls it.

Organisations on ZDR, a HIPAA-ready configuration or CMEK have no decision to make yet, because they are left out of the beta.

Owners find the controls in the organisation settings, under Products, then Claude Meetings (beta). The first setting turns Claude Meetings off, on for roles that include Meetings, or on for everyone. The second sets whether Claude joins meetings with external guests. The third sets whether Claude can use members' connected tools during meetings.

On Team plans, inviting Claude is on for everyone by default, and an admin can turn it off. On Enterprise plans it is off by default, and an admin turns it on for all or part of the organisation. Enterprise can also control it by custom role.

The Help Center says that on Team plans, Claude can join calls with outside guests by default, and an owner can turn this off. On Enterprise plans, an owner must allow it first.

Anthropic's announcement says Claude stays out of calls with outside guests by default, and an admin can allow Claude on them. The Help Center is the more specific page, and this post follows it.

Where outside guests aren't allowed, Claude stays out of the call, and leaves if an outsider joins partway through. The Help Center says that includes another company's notetaker bot.

Where they are allowed, Claude listens and takes notes. It posts its notice in the call chat but doesn't reply there, and what guests say goes into the notes and the transcript. Guests don't get the meeting page or the recap email. Each person also has their own setting for meetings with external guests.

Claude uses each person's own connected tools with that person's permission. It asks the first time, and a yes applies from then on. For now, when someone asks out loud, Claude asks each time to confirm who is speaking.

On a Team plan, Claude Meetings is on by default, including on calls with outside guests, and each member can set auto-join for themselves. Team owners will likely want to review the three settings before staff start adding Claude to calls.

The outside guest setting decides whether Claude is on calls with clients, suppliers and candidates. With guests allowed, what a client says goes into a transcript the client never receives. UK and EU firms will likely want to check their meeting notice wording and policies before leaving it on.

Enterprise owners start with Claude Meetings off and meetings internal only. They can turn it on for chosen roles first, and allow outside guests later if their policy supports it.

Switching off members' connectors in meetings keeps connected tools out of calls, so answers in calls stop adding to plan usage. Owners can switch connectors back on once they see how staff use Claude in meetings.