Claude Meetings: Anthropic's AI joins your video calls
Most meetings end the same way. Everyone hangs up, and someone has to turn the chat into a plan, a list of jobs and a timeline. Anthropic, the company behind the AI assistant Claude, wants to change that with a new feature called Claude Meetings.
Anthropic announced it on Tuesday 10 November 2026, along with several other workplace tools. Below is what they do, who can use them and where the limits are.
What Claude Meetings does
Claude Meetings lets a team add Claude to a video call. It joins as a visible participant, so everyone on the call can see it there like any other person in the meeting.
Claude follows the conversation and starts working while people are still talking. According to Anthropic, it can:
- draft the plan the team is discussing
- map out a timeline on a whiteboard
- answer questions in the meeting chat
- look up information from connected work apps, such as last year's figures
It's a bit like having a very quick note-taker in the room who also starts on the follow-up work before the meeting is over.
When the call ends, the meeting notes, the action items (the jobs people agreed to do) and anything else Claude made are saved in Claude for the team to use.
Anthropic's argument is that most of the work from a meeting usually starts after everyone leaves, and that this feature lets teams get going on it during the call itself.
How it handles privacy and guests
Having an AI listen in on a call raises fair questions, and Anthropic has set some rules.
Claude says who it is when it joins and posts a notice in the meeting chat, so nobody is caught off guard.
It won't join calls with people from outside your organisation unless an admin (the person who manages the company's account) has allowed it. If an outside guest joins partway through, Claude leaves the call automatically.
Who can use it, and what is not known yet
Claude Meetings is in beta, which means it's an early version still being tested and improved. Expect some rough edges.
For now it's only available on Claude's Team and Enterprise plans, and at launch it only works with Google Meet. Anthropic says support for more plans should follow but hasn't said when. No prices were mentioned, so the cost is unclear.
If your business uses a different video calling app, or you're on a plan that isn't included, you'll have to wait.
What else Anthropic announced
Claude Meetings came with a few companion tools.
Claude Whiteboards is a shared online board where a team can talk through a plan while Claude arranges the ideas into an organised visual space with timelines and deadlines. Previously, if you brainstormed with Claude, you had to copy and paste the results somewhere else to share them. Now the whole team can work on the same board with Claude at once, and when you're done, Claude can turn the board into a document or a slide deck. Whiteboards also work inside Claude Meetings, so the board fills in as people talk.
Claude Sheets lets teams build and edit spreadsheets together with Claude. Ask it for a campaign tracker or a hiring budget and it will produce a working spreadsheet. Sheets can have several tabs, formulas (calculations that update themselves), formatting and dropdown menus (short lists you pick an option from). Claude edits cells alongside the team and explains each change, so you can see exactly what it did.
Whiteboards and Sheets are both in beta on paid plans and work on the web, desktop and mobile.
Claude Data, previously called Claude Dashboards, is now generally available, meaning it has left the testing stage. It connects Claude to wherever a company keeps its numbers, such as a data warehouse (a big central store of business data) or a CRM (software for keeping track of customers). You ask a question, and Claude answers with dashboards, written explanations of the data or narrated videos.
New interactive connectors also let you open the full versions of apps like Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot inside Claude and ask Claude to work within them.
Why it matters
AI assistants are moving out of the occasional chat window and into everyday office work like meetings, spreadsheets and planning boards.
Other companies are doing the same. A few weeks earlier, OpenAI released workplace tools for ChatGPT, and Meta has an AI helper called Muse that can build small apps on the spot. They're all racing to offer their own sets of office tools to compete with Microsoft and Google.
For small businesses, the appeal is less time spent writing up notes and setting up spreadsheets. Meetings is still an early version, though, and it works with only one video app on a limited set of plans, so I'd watch how it develops before relying on it.
Source: Claude Meetings, Anthropic. Listed in AI News Week 47, where we track every AI release each week.