Anthropic announced Claude Meetings, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets on November 10, 2026, aimed at teams that already pay for Claude. Meetings puts Claude into a video call as a visible participant, Whiteboards turns a discussed plan into a visual board, and Sheets lets teams build spreadsheets with Claude. All three are in beta, and the rules differ by plan. This guide covers what each does, who gets it, and the admin controls that matter before anyone switches it on.
What is Claude Meetings?
According to TechCrunch, Claude Meetings adds Claude to a video call as a visible participant. It can draft plans, map timelines on a whiteboard, answer questions in the chat and pull information from connected work apps. Notes, action items and other materials are available in claude.ai after the call. At launch it works with Google Meet only, and it is a beta for Team and Enterprise plans. Dataconomy adds that Anthropic says it is working with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai and Otter so teams can send transcripts to those services, and that other meeting platforms will follow.
What can admins control?
Both reports describe the same defaults. Claude identifies itself as a participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. As Engadget puts it, it “won’t join a call with outside guests unless an admin allows it, and it leaves if one joins anyway.” Dataconomy gives the plan-level detail:
- Team: eligible users can invite Claude by default unless an administrator turns the feature off.
- Enterprise: an administrator has to enable it, and can limit it to selected users or switch it on organization-wide.
- Users: can add Claude to single meetings or turn on automatic joining.
- Not available to organizations that use zero data retention, Anthropic’s HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys.
Claude saves the transcript, a summary and descriptions of material shown on screen, but not the audio. Anthropic advises teams to make sure participants are comfortable with transcription before inviting Claude or enabling automatic joining.
What do Whiteboards and Sheets add?
Claude Whiteboards is a collaborative board where Claude turns a discussed plan into a visual workspace with timelines and deadlines. TechCrunch says boards can be converted into a doc or slide deck, and that they work inside Claude Meetings, where Anthropic says “the board builds while people talk.” It is a beta on paid plans, on web, desktop and mobile.
Claude Sheets lets teams create and edit spreadsheets with Claude, such as a campaign tracker or a hiring budget. Engadget reports that files can have tabs and formulas, that anyone with editing access can change a file, that Claude’s changes are noted so coworkers can track them, and that files can be exported to Excel. It also supports Anthropic’s Google Workspace plugin. It is a beta for paid plans on web, desktop and mobile.
What else was announced?
Claude Data, formerly Claude Dashboards, is now generally available. It connects to systems such as a data warehouse or CRM and returns dashboards, written data stories or narrated videos. Interactive Connectors let partner apps such as Adobe, Atlassian, HubSpot, Salesforce, NetSuite and Workday open in full inside Claude, where Claude can act with the user’s approval; Dataconomy says they follow existing permissions. Engadget says the connectors are rolling out first to a small group of partners.
What does it cost?
Anthropic has not announced a separate price for these features in the reports above. Dataconomy cites Anthropic’s pricing page for the base plans: Team standard seats at $20 per user per month with annual billing or $25 monthly, and Enterprise at $20 per seat per month with annual billing, a 20-seat minimum and usage billed at API rates. During the beta, notes, transcripts and most in-call Claude responses are free, and documents and whiteboards that Claude creates in meetings are free until February 10, 2027. What they cost after that date has not been disclosed.
What should a team check before turning it on?
- Whether your plan is Team or Enterprise, since Meetings is limited to those two.
- Whether your organization uses zero data retention, the HIPAA-ready setup or customer-managed keys, which exclude it.
- Who is allowed to invite Claude, and whether automatic joining should stay off.
- How your company handles consent for transcription, and whether calls with outside guests are common, since Claude stays out of those by default.
Competition is part of the story: TechCrunch notes OpenAI’s workplace tools and Meta’s Muse agent, and says Anthropic is taking on incumbents Microsoft and Google. Because every feature here is a beta and Anthropic has not published Meetings usage limits or support beyond Google Meet, treat it as a pilot rather than a standard tool for now.
Sources
- TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Claude Meetings (Nov 10, 2026)
- Engadget: Anthropic takes on Google and Microsoft with Claude Sheets
- Dataconomy: Anthropic brings Claude Meetings to Google Meet in beta
Image: Claude web interface screenshot, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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