Anthropic started rolling out Claude Meetings in beta on Team and Enterprise plans on 12 November, according to its Claude release notes. Claude joins a Google Meet call as a visible participant, writes the notes and action items, and answers questions in the chat. It can also start a doc or whiteboard that teammates edit during the call.
For a small team on the Team plan, the practical news is that it is on by default and the notes cost nothing extra during the beta. The settings to check before the next client call are outside guests and connected tools.
What Claude does on a call
The Claude Meetings help article lists the setup: open Meetings in Claude, connect Google Calendar, pick a meeting and click “Add Claude”. An owner has to enable the Google Calendar connector first. You can also turn on auto-join for all meetings or all except one-on-ones.
During the call you say “Claude” and ask, or type in the Meet chat, and it answers in writing. Docs and whiteboards it builds are attached to a meeting page in claude.ai. Claude can stay up to eight hours, and you can pause or remove it from that page.
Afterward, people from your organization on the invite get a recap email linking to the notes and transcript. Anthropic’s launch post for Claude Meetings says it saves a transcript, summary and screen descriptions, not audio. Sending transcripts to Gong, Granola, Otter and other partners is promised “soon”.
Cost and who gets it
On Enterprise plans an owner has to turn Meetings on, for everyone or chosen roles. The beta excludes organizations with zero data retention, a HIPAA-ready setup or customer-managed encryption keys.
Notes, transcripts and answers that do not use connected tools are included. Docs and whiteboards made in a meeting are free through 10 February 2027, and Anthropic has not said what they cost after that. Tool use counts toward the person’s usage and “can lead to charges for your organization”, the help article says. The Claude pricing page lists Team standard seats at $20 per seat per month billed annually, or $25 monthly.
Where it can catch a team out
Read the outside guest setting twice. The launch post says Claude stays out of calls with outside invitees by default. The help article says Team plans default to allowing external guests, while Enterprise defaults to internal meetings only. We could not reconcile the two pages, so check Organization settings, then Products, then Claude Meetings (beta).
When guests are allowed, Claude takes notes but does not reply in the Meet chat. What guests say goes into the transcript. Anthropic tells users to make sure everyone agrees to being transcribed first.
Connected tools are the second risk: Claude can act during the call, such as sending a Slack message, through each person’s own connections. It asks the first time, and “a yes applies going forward”. If your team let Claude connect teammates to company apps automatically, those apps are within reach. Owners can limit this with the “Members’ connectors in meetings” control.
There is no Zoom or Teams support yet. If your calls run there, our comparison of AI meeting notes in Meet, Zoom, Teams and Notion covers the built-in options. TechCrunch reported the announcement on 10 November, two days before the rollout.
What to do this week
If you own a Team plan, open the Claude Meetings (beta) settings before anyone turns on auto-join. Decide whether Claude may join client calls and use members’ connected tools. Then try it on one internal call and have one person check the action items against what was agreed.
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