# Claude Can Now Join Your Google Meet Calls
> Claude Meetings puts Claude in your Google Meet call to take notes and build docs and whiteboards while you talk, in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.
By AI for Mortals Staff · November 12, 2026 · 5 min
Canonical: https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-meetings
Anthropic started rolling out [Claude Meetings](https://claude.com/blog/claude-meetings), an AI note taker for Google Meet that joins your call as a visible participant and builds docs, whiteboards and slides with your team while you're still talking.
It's in beta on Claude's Team and Enterprise plans, in Claude on the web and Claude Desktop. Pro and Max subscribers don't get it.
Introducing Claude Meetings: add Claude to your team's video call and it builds docs, whiteboards, and other artifacts with you while you're still talking. Starting to roll out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.
## What Claude does while your meeting is running
Claude shows up as its own tile in the call, and that tile shows what it's doing at that moment, like "Taking notes" or "Sketching."
To ask it something, say "Claude" and then your question, or type it in the Meet chat. By default it answers in writing in the Meet chat, where **everyone on the call can see the reply**.
To build something together, say "Claude, make a doc" or "Claude, make a whiteboard." Anyone on your team can ask, and each one gets attached to the meeting's page, where teammates on the invite can edit it while the conversation keeps going.
Claude joins as a participant with its own tile in the call. Image: Anthropic
Claude can also reach into the apps your team has connected to Claude, for example to send a Slack message or look up a number. It uses each person's own connected tools and asks that person for permission the first time; after one yes it doesn't ask again.
Anthropic's own example is a team planning a customer event. Someone asks what last year's event cost, Claude asks for approval to look it up, posts the figure in the meeting chat and compares it with the new plan.
When someone asks out loud, Claude checks each time who's speaking before it uses anyone's tools. You can tell it to stop listening and resume it from the meeting page, or ask it to leave. It can stay in a call for up to eight hours and warns you before it goes.
## How to add Claude to a Google Meet call
Anthropic's [help article](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/18325154-use-claude-meetings) lists four steps:
1. Go to **Meetings** in Claude.
2. **Connect your Google Calendar.** An owner has to turn on Google Calendar for your organization first.
3. **Select a meeting** on your calendar.
4. Click **Add Claude**.
To have Claude join on its own, go to **Settings > Capabilities > Meetings > Auto-join** and choose all your meetings or all of them except one-on-ones. Owners can't switch on auto-join for you.
Claude usually joins without asking. If it does have to ask, the host can let it in, and if the host says no, Claude won't try that call again unless someone adds it.
Anthropic asks one thing before you add Claude or turn on auto-join: **make sure everyone on the call is okay with being transcribed.**
## What you get on the meeting page after the call
Each meeting gets its own page in Claude with the notes (a summary and the action items), the full transcript and everything the team made. Coworkers from your organization who were on the invite get a recap email with a link to it.
The meeting page holds the chat, the transcript, Claude's notes and a tab for each doc or whiteboard made in the call. Image: Anthropic
Coworkers on the invite can edit what Claude made, and you can share the page with anyone else in your organization. The whiteboards are the same Claude Whiteboards Anthropic released this week, which we covered with [Claude's new shared spreadsheets](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-sheets-whiteboards).
The calendar in Meetings shows your past and upcoming calls. Later, in a regular Claude chat, you can ask about any past meeting you have access to.
## What Claude Meetings records, and when it leaves the call
Claude saves a transcript, a summary and written descriptions of what was shared on screen. **It doesn't keep the audio.** When it joins, it posts a notice in the call's chat.
Calls with people from outside your company depend on a setting your admin controls:
- **Outside guests not allowed:** Claude stays out of any call where someone from outside your company is invited, and leaves if one joins partway through. That includes another company's note-taking bot.
- **Outside guests allowed:** Claude listens and takes notes, posts its notice in the chat but doesn't reply there, and what the guests say goes into the notes and transcript. Guests never see the meeting page or get the recap email.
On Enterprise plans the setting starts at internal meetings only. On Team plans it starts at allowed, and an owner can switch it off. Each person can also set their own preference under **Settings > Capabilities > Meetings**.
While Claude Meetings is in beta, organizations with zero data retention, a HIPAA-ready setup or customer-managed encryption keys can't use it.
## Who gets Claude Meetings, and what it costs
On Team plans, Claude Meetings is on by default and an owner can turn it off. On Enterprise plans an owner turns it on, either for everyone or for chosen roles.
Notes, transcripts and answers that don't touch your connected tools are included in the plan. **Docs and whiteboards made in a meeting are free through February 10, 2027**, so they don't eat into your plan's Claude usage until then.
Anything that uses your connected tools counts toward your own usage and can add charges for your organization.
## How Claude Meetings fits with Otter, Fireflies and other AI note takers
Anthropic says it's partnering with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai and Otter, so you'll soon be able to send a meeting's transcript from Claude to those tools. If your team already relies on one, like [Granola, the note taker we looked at last week](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/granola-ai-note-taker), you can keep it and add Claude.
Still, the first thing many people pointed out at launch was how crowded meeting notes already are, with Otter, Fireflies and Microsoft's Copilot all taking notes in calls.
The part people found new is the work during the call. Most of a meeting's follow-up usually starts after everyone hangs up, and Claude starts the plan, the timeline or the deck while the team is still talking.
It works only in Google Meet for now. Anthropic says other video platforms are "coming soon" without a date, so teams on Zoom or Microsoft Teams will have to wait.
## Sources
- [Anthropic: Introducing Claude Meetings](https://claude.com/blog/claude-meetings)
- [Claude Help Center: Use Claude Meetings](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/18325154-use-claude-meetings)
- [Claude Help Center: Release notes, November 12, 2026](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12138966-release-notes)
- [TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/10/anthropic-launches-claude-meetings-to-turn-workplace-discussions-into-plans-and-tasks/)
