Anthropic has started rolling out Claude Meetings, a beta that lets Claude join a Google Meet call as a visible participant. It takes notes, answers questions and builds docs or whiteboards while you talk. This guide shows you who can use it, how to turn it on, how to add Claude to a call, what to say during the meeting, and where to find everything afterward.
Everything here is as of 14 November 2026 and comes from Anthropic’s launch post (12 November) and its Help Center article. Claude Meetings is a beta, so menus and limits may change.
What Claude Meetings does
Once Claude is in your call, anyone on your team can talk to it. You say “Claude” followed by a question, or type in the Meet chat. By default, Claude answers in writing in the Meet chat rather than speaking.
It can also make things during the meeting. Say “Claude, make a doc” or “Claude, make a whiteboard,” and it starts an artifact from what has been said so far. Teammates on the invite can edit it while the call continues. If you’ve already tried Claude Whiteboards, these are the same kind of artifacts, attached to the meeting.
When the call ends, Claude leaves behind a meeting page with a summary, action items, the transcript and everything it built.
What you need
- A Claude Team or Enterprise plan. The beta is rolling out on these plans in Claude and Claude Desktop. Anthropic hasn’t announced it for individual plans.
- Google Meet. It’s the only video platform supported at launch. Anthropic says others are “coming soon” but hasn’t named them.
- Google Calendar connected. An owner has to enable Google Calendar for your organization first.
- The feature switched on for you. On Team plans it’s on by default. On Enterprise plans an owner has to turn it on.
- Everyone’s OK with transcription. Anthropic asks you to check that everyone on the call agrees to be transcribed before you add Claude or turn on auto-join.
Some organizations can’t use the beta at all. These include those with zero data retention (ZDR), a HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).
How to turn it on (owners)
If you’re an owner or Primary Owner, open Organization settings > Products > Claude Meetings (beta). There are three controls:
| Setting | Options | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Meetings | Off, on for roles that include Meetings, or on for everyone | On for everyone (Team), Off (Enterprise) |
| Meetings with external guests | Internal meetings only, or allowed | Allowed (Team), Internal only (Enterprise) |
| Members’ connectors in meetings | Whether Claude can use members’ connected tools in calls | Not stated |
On Enterprise you can switch it on for only part of the company. Give the Claude Meetings capability to the custom roles that should have it.
How to add Claude to a call
Step 1: Open Meetings in Claude
In Claude on the web or in Claude Desktop, go to Meetings.
Step 2: Connect your Google Calendar
Follow the prompt to connect Google Calendar. If you can’t, ask an owner to enable the Google Calendar connector for the organization.
Step 3: Pick a meeting and click “Add Claude”
Select a meeting on your calendar and click Add Claude. Claude normally joins without asking. If Meet does ask, the host can admit it. If the host declines, Claude won’t try that call again unless someone adds it, and you’ll see that it was declined.
Step 4 (optional): Turn on auto-join
To have Claude join automatically, go to Settings > Capabilities > Meetings > Auto-join. You can choose all your meetings, or all your meetings except one-on-ones. This is a personal setting, so owners can’t set it for you.
What to do during the meeting
Here are the main things you can ask for. You can say them out loud or type them in the Meet chat.
- Ask a question: “Claude, what did we decide about the launch date?”
- Start a doc: “Claude, make a doc for this plan.”
- Start a whiteboard: “Claude, put the timeline on a whiteboard.”
- Use a connected tool: “Claude, send the summary to the team in Slack.” Claude asks each person’s permission the first time it uses their tools, and a yes applies from then on. For spoken requests, it currently asks every time to confirm who is speaking.
- Pause: ask it to stop listening, or pause from the meeting page. You resume from the meeting page.
- Remove it: ask it to leave, or select Remove Claude on the meeting page.
When Claude joins, it posts a link to the meeting page in the Meet chat. That page has the live transcript, a private chat and everything Claude has made. Claude’s tile in the call shows what it’s doing right now.
Keep one thing in mind about the two chats. Anything Claude posts in the Meet chat is visible to everyone on the call. The chat on the Claude meeting page is visible only inside your organization.
Claude can stay in a call for up to eight hours, and it warns you before it leaves.
After the meeting
The meeting page fills in with:
- a summary and action items
- the full transcript
- every doc, whiteboard or other artifact made during the call
People from your organization who were on the invite get a recap email with a link. They can read the notes and edit what Claude made, and the page can be shared with others in your organization. The calendar inside Meetings shows past and upcoming calls, so you can reopen an old one or add Claude to the next. In a normal chat, you can also ask Claude about past meetings you have access to.
Calls with people outside your company
By default, Claude stays out of any call that has someone from outside your organization on the invite. If an outsider joins partway through, Claude leaves. That includes another company’s notetaker bot.
If an owner allows external guests, Claude behaves differently on those calls:
- It listens and takes notes, and posts its notice in the Meet chat, but doesn’t reply there.
- What guests say goes into the notes and transcript.
- Guests don’t get the meeting page or the recap email.
Each person can also set their own preference under Settings > Capabilities > Meetings, using the Meetings with external guests option.
Privacy and pricing
Claude shows up as a named participant and posts a notice in the chat when it joins. Anthropic says it saves a transcript, a summary and descriptions of what’s on screen, but not audio.
During the beta:
- Notes and transcripts are included on Team and Enterprise plans.
- Answers are included too, unless they use one of your connected tools.
- Docs, whiteboards and other artifacts made in a meeting are free through 10 February 2027.
- Anything that uses your connected tools counts toward your own usage and can lead to charges for your organization.
Anthropic also says it is working with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai, Otter and Plaud, so that transcripts can be sent to those tools later. That isn’t live yet.
Common problems and fixes
There’s no Meetings option in Claude. The beta is only on Team and Enterprise plans, and on Enterprise it’s off until an owner turns it on. Ask an owner to check Organization settings > Products > Claude Meetings (beta). ZDR, HIPAA-ready and CMEK organizations are excluded during the beta.
I can’t connect my calendar. An owner must enable Google Calendar for the organization before members can connect it.
Claude didn’t join my call. Check whether anyone from outside your company was invited. With the default settings, Claude stays out of those calls. Also check whether the host declined it, which the meeting page will show.
Claude left in the middle of the call. An external participant or another company’s notetaker bot probably joined, and Claude leaves by default. It also leaves at the eight-hour limit.
My Zoom or Teams meeting doesn’t work. Only Google Meet is supported for now. If your team lives on Zoom or Teams, xAI’s Grok Bot can join those calls instead.
Wrap-up
Claude Meetings works best for internal Google Meet calls where you’d normally need a note-taker and someone to type up the plan afterward. Check that everyone agrees to transcription, add Claude from your calendar, and ask for a doc or whiteboard as soon as the discussion gets concrete. For the model doing the work behind the scenes, see our explainer on Claude Fable 5.2.
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