Anthropic announces Claude Meetings for your video calls

Anthropic has announced Claude Meetings, a feature that puts Claude into your video calls. Anthropic’s own description is one line: Claude Meetings “will let you add Claude to a call to take notes and update the documents your team is working on during the conversation.”

It arrived on November 10 alongside three other workplace tools: Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets and Claude Data. Those three are available now. Claude Meetings is the one to read carefully.

Is it out yet?

The sources disagree, so here is what each says:

• Anthropic’s announcement lists Claude Meetings twice, both times as “coming soon.”
• TechCrunch, reporting the same day, says Claude Meetings is launching in beta on Team and Enterprise plans, works with Google Meet at launch, and will add support for other platforms later.

We follow Anthropic’s wording. If you are on a Team or Enterprise plan, check your workspace before planning around it.

What Claude Meetings will do

Anthropic’s confirmed description: Claude joins a call, takes notes and updates the documents your team is working on while the conversation happens.

TechCrunch adds more detail, which it attributes to Anthropic:

• Claude joins as a visible participant, identifies itself and posts a notice in the meeting chat.
• During the call it can draft the plan being discussed, map a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the chat, and pull information from connected work apps, such as last year’s figures.
• After the call, notes, action items and anything Claude created are available in claude.ai.
• It will not join calls with external guests unless an admin allows it, and leaves automatically if an external guest joins.

The tools that are available now

Anthropic says these are available on all paid plans, on web, desktop and mobile, with Whiteboards and Sheets in beta:

• Claude Whiteboards: a shared board your team builds with Claude. Talk through a messy plan and Claude turns it into a board with a timeline, owners and dates. In a retrospective, it can group everyone’s notes by theme and draft action items. Boards can become a doc or a deck, or move to Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho.
• Claude Sheets: spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-downs, built from a prompt such as “a campaign tracker” or “a hiring budget.” Claude edits cells alongside your team and outlines each change. Anthropic says the functions are basic for now; you can export to Excel (.xlsx) or CSV.
• Claude Data (formerly Claude Dashboards), now generally available: dashboards and data stories from tools such as Snowflake and Salesforce, with certified metric definitions and live sharing in beta.

For admins: on Team plans all three are on by default. On Enterprise plans, Whiteboards and Sheets start off, and Claude Data turns on by default on November 19, 2026.

The official video

Anthropic has not published a video of Claude Meetings itself. Its launch video for the same release covers Whiteboards, Sheets and Data:

Why it matters

Meeting assistants that join calls are not new. What is different here is that Claude would keep working on the team’s shared documents, boards and sheets during the call, instead of handing over a summary afterwards. That fits Anthropic’s broader push: shared artifacts that a team and Claude edit together, which we covered in how to collaborate on Claude artifacts.

What it means for working professionals

• Managers and project leads: if the reported beta reaches your workspace, a meeting could end with a draft plan and owners already assigned. Check them before they go out.
• Admins and compliance teams: an AI participant in calls raises consent and recording questions. The reported default of not joining calls with external guests is a sensible starting point; decide your own policy before switching it on.
• Everyone else: Whiteboards and Sheets are the parts you can try today on a paid plan.

We have not used Claude Meetings. This report is based on Anthropic’s announcement and TechCrunch’s reporting, and we will update it when Anthropic publishes its own availability details.