Claude Meetings is in beta, and on by default on Team plans

Anthropic put Claude Meetings into beta on 12 November 2026. Its Claude assistant joins a Google Meet call as a visible participant, answers questions asked aloud or in the chat, builds documents and whiteboards while people talk, and writes the notes and action items, according to the launch post on claude.com. It is rolling out on Team and Enterprise plans; Anthropic says other video platforms are "coming soon".

For whoever administers Claude, the news is the default. Anthropic's help-centre article says Claude Meetings is on for everyone on Team plans until an owner turns it off. On Enterprise plans it is off until an owner turns it on, for the whole organisation or for chosen roles. Each member can then set Claude to join all their meetings automatically, or all except one-on-ones, and the article says "Owners can't set auto-join for you".

What it keeps

Anthropic says Claude saves "a transcript, summary, and screen descriptions, not audio". Each meeting gets a page in claude.ai holding the notes, the transcript and anything Claude built. Colleagues on the invite can see and edit it, receive a recap email, and can share the page inside the organisation. Claude posts a notice in the call's chat when it joins and can stay for up to eight hours.

Consent is left to the customer. The launch post says: "make sure everyone on your calls is OK with being transcribed."

Outside guests: two defaults in Anthropic's own pages

The launch post says Claude "is set to stay out of calls when someone from outside your organization is invited", and leaves if an outsider joins partway through, unless an admin allows otherwise. The help article says that is the Enterprise default, and that "on Team plans, Claude can join calls with outside guests by default, and an owner can turn this off".

Where guests are allowed, the help article says Claude listens and takes notes without replying in the call chat, what guests say goes into the notes and transcript, and guests get neither the meeting page nor the recap email. Until a Team-plan owner has opened the setting, the safe assumption is that customer, candidate and supplier calls can be transcribed.

What it costs

During the beta, notes, transcripts and Claude's answers in calls are included in Team and Enterprise plans, Anthropic says. Docs, whiteboards and other artifacts made in a call are free through 10 February 2027; neither page says what they cost after that.

The exception is connected tools. Claude can act through a member's connected apps during a call, for example sending a Slack message, after that member approves the first time. The help article says such use "counts toward your own usage and can lead to charges for your organization". Owners have a separate switch for members' connectors in meetings.

What Anthropic has not said

Organisations with zero data retention, a HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys cannot use the beta. Neither page states how long transcripts are kept, when Zoom or Microsoft Teams will be supported, or when the beta ends. Anthropic says it is working with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai and Otter so a transcript can "soon" be sent to those tools. It publishes no customer result.

On 10 November this site reported that TechCrunch had described a launch while Anthropic's own post said Claude Meetings was "coming soon". The launch page dated 12 November settles that.

What to do

• IT, on a Team plan: today, open Organization settings > Products > Claude Meetings (beta) and set three switches on purpose: Claude Meetings itself, meetings with external guests, and members' connectors in meetings.
• Legal and compliance: write the notice staff must give before adding Claude to a call, and decide whether calls with customers, candidates or suppliers are allowed at all. Ask Anthropic in writing how long transcripts are kept.
• Business operations, on an Enterprise plan: if you trial it, turn it on for one custom role first, and put 10 February 2027 in the calendar as the day free artifacts end.