Claude Meetings Drafts the Plan Before Your Google Meet Call Ends

In Anthropic's demo, someone on a planning call types "Claude, put the timeline on a whiteboard," and the next minute the timeline is sitting in a tab everyone on the call can edit. That is Claude Meetings, which Anthropic began rolling out in beta on November 12 for Team and Enterprise plans, starting with Google Meet. Meeting bots have spent years taking notes for people to read later. This one starts on the work while the meeting is still going, so the plan can be finished by the time the call ends.

A Participant That Answers in Writing

Claude arrives the way any colleague does: it shows up in the grid of faces as a participant called Claude and posts a notice in the call chat saying it is there. From then on it follows the conversation. Anyone can ask it something out loud or in the chat, and by default it answers in writing, in the chat, where everyone can see it.

The interesting part is what it does without being asked twice. While people talk, Claude can build documents, whiteboards and other artifacts that the people on the call edit alongside it, and it keeps notes and a list of action items as decisions are made. In Anthropic's example, a team planning a customer event watches Claude log the date, the budget, who books the venue and which questions are still open, while the conversation moves on. It can also send a recap before the call is over.

When the call ends, everything lands on a meeting page in claude.ai: notes, action items, the plan and the whiteboard. Later, people can ask Claude about past meetings, or add it to the next one straight from their calendar in claude.ai. If it needs one of the company's connected tools, it asks each person for permission the first time.

A bot that joins calls on its own raises an obvious question. Anthropic's answer is a set of rules about when Claude stays out.

The Rules for When Claude Stays Out

By default, Claude does not join calls that include anyone from outside the organization, and it leaves if an outsider joins partway through. An admin can allow outside guests; on those calls Claude still posts its notice in the chat but does not reply there. When someone asks it a question out loud, it checks each time who is speaking before acting on their behalf.

What it keeps is text. Claude saves "a transcript, summary, and screen descriptions, not audio," and each meeting's page is visible to the invitees from the same organization, who can edit it and share it inside the company. Anthropic is direct about the human side of this.

“Before you add Claude or turn on auto-join, make sure everyone on your calls is OK with being transcribed.”— Anthropic

On Team plans, inviting Claude is switched on by default and an admin can turn it off. On Enterprise plans, an admin switches it on for all or part of the organization. During the beta it is not available to organizations that use zero data retention, a HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys.

The whiteboards Claude draws on during those calls are not new, though. They arrived two days earlier.

Whiteboards, Sheets and 90 Free Days

On November 10, Anthropic launched Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta on all paid plans, on the web, desktop and mobile. Whiteboards turn a conversation into a board with timelines, owners and dates, which Claude can then turn into a document or a slide deck, or send to Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho. Sheets builds spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down menus, and explains each change it makes to a cell. Meetings is where those pieces come together in real time.

The artifacts Claude builds in meetings are free until February 10, 2027, and notes and transcripts are free on Team and Enterprise plans for the length of the beta. Support for other video platforms is "coming soon," with no dates yet. Anthropic also names six note-taking and call-recording services, Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai, Otter and Plaud, that will soon be able to send their transcripts to Claude, so meetings recorded elsewhere can feed the same work.

For anyone who has left a call with "I'll send round the notes" on their to-do list, the change is simple. The notes, the owners and the timeline can now exist before anyone hangs up.

What people are saying

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“Introducing Claude Meetings: add Claude to your team’s video call and it builds docs, whiteboards, and other artifacts with you while you’re still talking. Starting to roll out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.”

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