How to Use Claude Meetings: Claude in Google Meet, Explained
Claude Meetings puts Anthropic’s AI assistant inside your video call as a visible participant — not as a recording bot that sends a summary afterwards, but as a colleague that follows the conversation, answers questions while people are still talking, and builds documents and whiteboards live. It is rolling out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans, on Google Meet first. This guide explains how to use Claude Meetings: how to add it to a call, what it can do during the meeting, what it costs, who can use it, and the privacy limits to know before you switch it on.
One date warning first, because the launch happened in two steps. Anthropic presented Claude Meetings on November 10, 2026, alongside Claude Sheets and Whiteboards, and described it then as coming soon. The rollout itself began on November 12, when the company published its full announcement and started switching the beta on for Team and Enterprise customers. A rollout means it reaches accounts gradually: your organisation may not have it yet even if you are on an eligible plan.
What is Claude Meetings?
Claude Meetings is a feature of Claude for workplaces. When it is added to a call, Claude appears as a named participant and posts a notice in the call’s chat, so everyone present can see that an AI is in the room. It can do three things while the meeting is running: answer questions, look things up, and create documents.
The difference from the meeting assistants most teams already know is the timing. Tools such as Otter, Fireflies and Granola record a call and produce notes and action items after it ends. Claude Meetings is built to do work during the call, while the people who need the answer are still there to act on it. That is also what makes it different from asking Claude a question in a chat window after the meeting: the assistant has the context of the conversation it just heard, and the people who asked can correct it immediately if it gets something wrong.
It is part of a bigger shift at Anthropic. On the same day Claude Meetings was announced, the company launched Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta on paid plans, and made Claude Data — formerly Claude Dashboards — generally available on paid plans. Together they turn Claude from a chatbot into a shared workspace: the same assistant that takes your meeting notes can also build the spreadsheet and the whiteboard the meeting was about.
What Claude does during a call
Answering questions, out loud or in chat
Anyone on the call can ask Claude a question, by speaking to it or by typing in the meeting chat. By default, Claude answers in writing, in the chat, where everyone can see the answer. It can also use the connected tools of the person who asked — with that person’s permission — so a question about last quarter’s numbers can be answered from the team’s actual data, not from general knowledge.
There is a deliberate piece of friction here. When someone asks a question out loud, Claude asks each time to confirm who is speaking, before it answers. That matters because the answer may use that person’s connected tools, and Anthropic does not want one person’s question answered with another person’s data. The first time Claude wants to use someone’s connected tools it asks for permission, and a yes applies going forward.
Building documents and whiteboards live
The second job is creation. Say the team is planning a customer event and someone says, “Claude, start a doc for this plan.” Claude writes up what the team has said so far, and teammates on the invite can edit the plan while the discussion continues. When the budget comes up, someone asks what last year’s event cost; Claude asks for approval to look it up, posts the figure in the chat and compares it with the current plan. When timelines come up, someone asks Claude to put the schedule on a whiteboard, and the team works on it alongside the document.
Before the meeting ends, someone asks Claude to share a recap with the team. After the call, the notes, the action items, the plan and the whiteboard are all on the meeting’s page in claude.ai. That is the third job, and the one most teams will notice first: Claude writes the notes and the action items, so no one on the call has to take them.
After the call
Every meeting Claude attends gets its own page in claude.ai, holding the notes, the transcript and anything Claude built. People from the organisation who were on the invite can see the page and edit what Claude made, and it can be shared with others in the organisation from the page. Later, you can go back to meetings you were part of and ask Claude about them, or add Claude to the next meeting from your calendar in claude.ai.
How to use Claude Meetings
The exact setup steps are in Anthropic’s Help Center, linked from the announcement. The shape of it:
- Adding Claude to a call: Claude joins when someone adds it to the meeting, or when auto-join is switched on. On Team plans, inviting Claude is available by default and an admin can turn it off; on Enterprise plans, an admin turns it on for the whole organisation or for part of it.
- During the call: speak to Claude directly or type in the meeting chat. Ask it to start a document, look up a figure, put a plan on a whiteboard, or recap what has been decided so far. Expect it to ask for approval before using your connected tools, and to confirm who is speaking when a question is asked out loud.
- After the call: find the meeting’s page in claude.ai — the notes, transcript, action items and anything Claude built are there, and anyone from your organisation who was on the invite can open and edit them.
Three practical habits will make it work better. First, say Claude’s name when you want it: a room full of people talking at once is exactly the situation where an assistant needs a clear cue. Second, check the document while the meeting is still running — that is the point of building it live, and it is much easier to correct a plan in the room than from the notes the next day. Third, agree the ground rule before the first call: make sure everyone on the call is comfortable being transcribed before Claude is added or auto-join is switched on.
Who can use Claude Meetings
Access is narrow for now. Claude Meetings is in beta on Team and Enterprise plans only, and it works on Google Meet only. Support for other video platforms is coming soon, according to Anthropic, which has named none of them and given no date.
That means most Claude users cannot use it yet. Individual Pro and Max subscribers do not get it, and neither do free users — the announcement names Team and Enterprise only. If you are on a Pro plan and want an AI in your meetings, this feature is not your route.
Even on the eligible plans, some organisations are excluded during the beta: those with zero data retention (ZDR), a HIPAA-ready configuration, or customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK). Those are the setups used by the most tightly regulated organisations, and Anthropic has not said when — or whether — they will be admitted.
Rollout is gradual, so an eligible organisation may still be waiting. Anthropic says the beta is “starting to roll out”, which is the company’s way of saying it is switching the feature on in waves rather than for everyone at once. If it is not in your admin console yet, there is nothing to install: it arrives when your account is included.
What does Claude Meetings cost?
During the beta, the core of the feature is free on Team and Enterprise plans: notes and transcripts are free, and so are Claude’s answers in your calls — unless an answer uses one of your connected tools, which counts toward your plan’s usage. The documents, whiteboards and other artifacts Claude creates in a call are free through February 10, 2027.
What happens after that date is unanswered. Anthropic has published no price for Meetings after the beta, and no price at all for the artifacts after February 10, 2027. Teams that build their meeting workflow around the feature should assume it will eventually be charged for, and should watch for an announcement before the free period ends.
Privacy and security: what you should know
External guests
The strictest rule concerns people outside your organisation. By default, Claude stays out of calls when someone from outside the organisation is invited, and it leaves automatically if an outside guest joins partway through. An admin can allow Claude on calls with outside guests. On those calls, Claude posts its notice in the chat but does not reply there, and what the guests say is included in the notes and transcript. If you allow Claude on a call with a client or a partner, their words will be transcribed and stored on the meeting’s page — tell them first.
What Claude keeps — and what it does not
When Claude joins a call, it saves a transcript, a summary and descriptions of what was on screen — not audio. The meeting’s page in claude.ai is visible to people from the organisation who were on the invite, and can be shared more widely inside the organisation from that page. It is not shared outside the organisation by default.
Claude uses each person’s connected tools only with that person’s permission, asking the first time and remembering a yes afterwards — worth knowing if a tool you connected for one purpose ends up being used in meetings you did not expect.
Transcript integrations
Anthropic says it is working with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai, Otter and Plaud so that a meeting’s transcript can be sent to the note-taking tools a team already uses. That integration is planned, with no date. Until it arrives, teams that already pay for one of those tools will be running two systems side by side.
Claude Meetings vs the alternatives
Claude Meetings does not arrive in an empty market.
Microsoft Copilot in Teams and Google Gemini in Meet are the closest rivals, because they are built into the suites most companies already pay for. Copilot takes notes, summarises and answers questions inside Teams; Gemini does the same inside Meet and across Google Workspace. Both have the distribution advantage: they are already where the meetings happen. Claude Meetings has to be added to a Google Meet call deliberately, and it only works in Meet for now. Its advantage is capability: it is built on Claude Fable 5.2, Anthropic’s current flagship model family, and its live document and whiteboard building goes further than a summary with action items.
ChatGPT’s workplace tools are the other big rival. OpenAI has been building ChatGPT into company workflows through the year, and the contest between the two labs is now fought as much inside office software as on model benchmarks. Claude’s pitch is that it works inside the meeting itself.
Standalone notetakers — Otter, Fireflies, Granola, and the others Anthropic names as partners — do one job well: record, transcribe and summarise. They are cheaper, they work across meeting platforms, and they are available to individuals, not only to Team and Enterprise accounts. What they do not do is build a plan while the meeting is still running, or answer a question from the team’s own data in the middle of the discussion.
In short, Claude Meetings is the most capable option for teams already on Claude’s Team or Enterprise plans who meet on Google Meet, and a poor fit for everyone else until it reaches more platforms and more plans.
What is still unknown
Several questions have no answer yet, and they will decide whether Claude Meetings becomes a standard tool or a beta that fades.
First, the price: nothing is published for the period after the beta, or for artifacts after February 10, 2027. Second, the platforms: Google Meet only, with others “coming soon” and unnamed — Zoom and Teams are the obvious candidates, but Anthropic has not confirmed either. Third, the plans: whether Pro and Max subscribers will ever get it. Fourth, the regulated organisations: ZDR, HIPAA-ready and CMEK setups are excluded for now, with no timeline for admission.
There are also practical questions only usage will answer: how accurate are the live notes when several people talk at once, how well does Claude handle a meeting in another language, and how much does the “confirm who is speaking” step interrupt a fast-moving discussion? Anthropic says it tested the feature internally for about two months and that Claude now joins nearly all of its own meetings — reported by Axios — which suggests the company trusts it for its own work. Independent reviews from teams outside Anthropic have not had time to appear.
Frequently asked questions
How do I add Claude to a Google Meet call?
Claude joins when someone adds it to the meeting or when auto-join is on. On Team plans, inviting Claude is available by default and an admin can turn it off; on Enterprise plans, an admin turns it on for the whole organisation or part of it. The step-by-step setup is in Anthropic’s Help Center.
Is Claude Meetings free?
During the beta, yes, for Team and Enterprise plans: notes and transcripts are free, and so are Claude’s answers in calls, unless an answer uses one of your connected tools, which counts toward your plan’s usage. Documents, whiteboards and other artifacts are free through February 10, 2027. No price has been published for after that date.
Does Claude Meetings work on Zoom or Microsoft Teams?
Not yet. Support is currently available for Google Meet only. Anthropic says support for other video conferencing platforms is coming soon, but has named none and given no date.
Can I use Claude Meetings on a Pro or Max plan?
No. The beta is limited to Team and Enterprise plans. The announcement names no other plans.
Does Claude Meetings record audio?
No. Anthropic says Claude saves a transcript, a summary and descriptions of what was on screen — not audio.
What happens if an external guest joins my meeting?
By default, Claude stays out of calls with outside guests and leaves automatically if one joins partway through. An admin can allow Claude on those calls; on them, Claude posts its notice but does not reply in the chat, and what guests say is included in the notes and transcript.
When was Claude Meetings released?
Anthropic presented it on November 10, 2026, as coming soon, alongside Claude Sheets and Whiteboards. The beta rollout began on November 12, 2026, when the company published its full announcement.
