TL;DR
Anthropic has launched Claude Meetings, a beta in which Claude sits in on video calls, shown to everyone as an attendee, tracks the discussion and starts on tasks while the meeting is still going. Announced on 12 November, it is rolling out on Team and Enterprise plans and works with Google Meet only for now, with other platforms promised.
Participants can put questions to Claude aloud or in the chat. It replies in writing by default, writes notes and action items, and can build documents and whiteboards that colleagues edit during the call.
How it works
Anthropic’s example is a team planning a customer event. Someone asks Claude to start a plan document, and it drafts one from what has been said so far. Later, asked about the previous year’s costs, it requests permission to search, posts the answer in chat and compares it with the new budget. Each meeting then gets its own page in claude.ai holding the notes, transcript and anything Claude made, which colleagues on the invite can view and edit.
Anthropic says it is working with Gong, Granola, Otter, Fireflies.ai, Attention and Plaud so that transcripts can be sent to those tools.
Privacy defaults
Several controls are on by default. Claude will not join a call when someone from outside the organisation is invited, and leaves if an outsider joins midway, unless an admin changes that. Where outside guests are allowed, it posts a notice in chat but does not reply there, and guests’ words still go into the notes.
Claude saves transcripts, summaries and descriptions of what is on screen, not audio. It uses each person’s connected tools only with their permission, and for spoken requests it currently checks who is speaking each time. Anthropic tells users to make sure everyone on a call is happy to be transcribed before adding Claude.
The beta is unavailable to some organisations, including those using zero data retention, HIPAA-ready setups or customer-managed encryption keys. Notes, transcripts and in-call answers are free during the beta unless an answer calls a connected tool, and the documents and whiteboards Claude builds are free until 10 February 2027.
Looking Forward
For UK organisations, the main question is consent rather than capability. In our view, the external-guest default is the right starting point, but teams that turn it off for client or supplier calls will need a clear way to tell attendees they are being transcribed and what happens to that record. Anthropic’s pitch is that Claude starts the follow-up work during the call rather than after it. Together with Microsoft’s plan to switch on Claude for UK Copilot tenants, it widens where workplaces may meet Claude.