Claude Meetings is Anthropic's beta meeting assistant for Google Meet. It joins as a visible participant, can answer questions in writing, and can create a document or whiteboard while people talk. Anthropic announced the feature on November 12, with rollout to Team and Enterprise plans. Its important distinction from a passive recorder is that it can use connected tools and build shared artifacts during the call, subject to the permissions and plan settings the company describes.
What does Claude keep after the meeting?
Anthropic says Claude saves a transcript, summary and screen descriptions, but not the meeting audio. Its notes, action items and anything it creates appear on a separate meeting page in Claude. People in the organization who were invited can see and edit those materials, and the page can be shared with other people in the organization. A transcript therefore remains meeting content even though the original audio is not saved by the feature.
Claude posts a notice in the Meet chat when it joins. By default, it stays out if someone outside the organization is invited and leaves if an outside guest joins partway through. An administrator can allow it to remain on calls with guests; if that happens, guest speech is included in the transcript and notes. Anthropic advises organizers to make sure everyone is comfortable being transcribed before adding Claude or turning on auto-join.
How do tools, plans and costs work?
People can ask Claude a question aloud or in the Meet chat. It answers in writing by default. Anthropic says connected tools are used with each person's permission: the first approval applies going forward, while a spoken request currently prompts Claude to confirm who is speaking each time. A reply posted in meeting chat is visible to everyone on the call, so it is not a private response channel.
The beta is currently for Google Meet; Anthropic says support for other video-conferencing platforms is coming. Team users can invite Claude by default, and an administrator can turn it off. On Enterprise, an administrator enables the feature for the organization or part of it. Some organizations are excluded during beta, including those with zero-data-retention settings, HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys.
Anthropic says notes, transcripts and in-call answers are free on Team and Enterprise during beta, except that answers using connected tools count toward the plan's usage. Documents, whiteboards and other artifacts created during a call are free through February 10, 2027. These are current beta terms, not a promise about later pricing.
Anthropic launch announcement: participant behavior, retained records, guest defaults and beta terms
Claude Help Center: setup, auto-join and plan availability
A practical check before enabling auto-join
A team should decide which calls are in scope, how meeting participants will be told, whether outside guests should cause Claude to leave, and who can access or share the resulting meeting page. It should also check whether its plan configuration is eligible and whether connected tools are appropriate in a shared call. Anthropic supplies these controls and behaviors as product documentation; a team still needs a meeting policy that fits its attendees and the information being discussed.
For a maker choosing a meeting assistant, the useful comparison is not only whether it can transcribe. Check what it stores, who can see the record, what actions it can take during the call, and whether guests are handled as expected. In this beta, visibility and workspace integration are core parts of the feature, while Google Meet is the only supported call platform.