Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks

Anthropic on Tuesday announced Claude Meetings, a feature that drops Claude into video calls as a participant that begins producing work while people are still talking. The company also introduced Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets, extending the assistant from chat into the artifacts teams actually produce at work.

With Claude Meetings, teams add Claude to a call as a visible participant that tracks the conversation and starts executing in real time. As discussion unfolds, it can draft the plan under consideration, sketch a timeline on a whiteboard, respond to questions in the meeting chat, and pull information from connected work apps — last year's figures, for example. Once the call ends, the notes, action items, and anything else Claude produced are waiting in claude.ai. Anthropic frames the shift this way: work traditionally begins after everyone hangs up, whereas this feature converts the discussion itself into actions while it happens.

Claude introduces itself as a participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. It will not join calls containing external guests unless an admin authorizes it, and it leaves automatically if an external guest appears. Claude Meetings launches in beta for Team and Enterprise plans and works with Google Meet at launch, with support for additional platforms expected afterward.

Claude Whiteboards addresses a friction point Anthropic says users already hit: people brainstorm with Claude, then have to copy-paste results elsewhere to share them. On the new board, a team works with Claude directly on the same surface in real time, and Claude turns a discussion into an organized visual workspace with timelines and deadlines. When the session wraps, the board can become a doc or a slide deck. Whiteboards also runs inside Claude Meetings, so the board fills in as the conversation progresses. It is in beta on paid plans across web, desktop, and mobile.

The timing is competitive. OpenAI rolled out its own workplace tools just weeks ago, letting users collaborate with ChatGPT to visualize company data and build presentations, and Meta has entered with Muse, an agent that assembles mini-apps on the fly for specific tasks. Each vendor is converging on the same target: an office suite that competes with Microsoft and Google.

What remains unproven is whether real-time drafting matches what teams actually produce after a meeting ends. Watch which platforms Claude Meetings lands on next, whether the external-guest restrictions loosen, and whether Sheets — named but not detailed in the announcement — becomes the third pillar of the suite.