Claude Meetings joins Google Meet calls as a participant

Anthropic on November 10 began letting teams add Claude to a Google Meet call as a visible participant that drafts the plan, maps a timeline on a whiteboard and pulls figures from connected work apps while people are still talking, TechCrunch reported. If your team is on a Team or Enterprise plan and meets in Google Meet, Claude Meetings is available now in beta. Google Meet is the only platform at launch, and Claude stays out of calls with external guests unless an admin authorizes it.

The same day, Anthropic put Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets into beta on all paid plans and made Dashboards generally available as Claude Data, per Anthropic’s announcement. Enterprise admins have a date to mark: Claude Data switches on by default on November 19, while Whiteboards and Sheets stay off until someone turns them on in Organization settings > Artifacts. On Team plans all three are on by default.

What Claude does in the call

Once added, Claude follows the conversation and starts on tasks in real time. It can answer questions in the meeting chat and reach into connected apps for something like last year’s figures. Whiteboards work inside Meetings too, so the board builds while people talk. After the call, the notes, action items and anything else Claude produced sit in claude.ai. Anthropic’s pitch, as TechCrunch relays it, is that the work coming out of a meeting usually starts after everyone hangs up, and this moves it into the call itself.

The guardrails are about who is on the line. Claude identifies itself as a participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat. If an external guest joins mid-call, it leaves automatically.

OpenAI’s Meetings plugin for ChatGPT takes notes and saves a summary, but only in the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS for Pro and Business users. TechCrunch frames Anthropic’s launch as coming a few weeks after OpenAI’s own set of workplace tools, with both companies trying to turn their assistants into office suites of sorts to take on Microsoft and Google, and Meta joining in with its Muse AI agent, which builds mini-apps on the fly.

Whiteboards and Sheets

Whiteboards is a shared board where a team brainstorms with Claude. You can talk through a messy plan out loud and Claude turns it into a board with a timeline, owners and dates. Anthropic’s own example is a retro: everyone adds notes, and Claude groups them by theme and drafts the action items for each person. Drag a box around any part of the board to ask Claude about just that section. When the session is over, the board becomes a doc or a deck, or moves into Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho.

Sheets generates spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-downs, often from a single prompt such as a campaign tracker or a hiring budget. Claude edits directly in the cells and outlines each new edit so changes can be tracked, and a sheet can be shared so the team and Claude work on it together. By Anthropic’s own account it still offers only simple spreadsheet functionality, with more promised. For the full feature set the route is export to .xlsx or CSV, Claude for Excel, or partner tools including Airtable, Asana, monday.com and Smartsheet.

Interactive connectors also changed: they can now open as full apps beside the conversation or in full screen, so you can work in Adobe, Atlassian, Box or Notion yourself or have Claude make changes with you.

Claude Data, formerly Dashboards

Dashboards launched in beta in October for asking quick questions of company data in tools like Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse. Anthropic says it changed the name because the way companies use their data is broader than dashboards. Claude Data still needs a data connector, such as a warehouse or a CRM, and like Whiteboards and Sheets it runs on web, desktop and mobile.

Two of the new pieces, certified queries and live sharing, are still in beta. Certified queries let a data team mark the definitions everyone should use, and charts built on them carry a “certified” badge, which is aimed at the familiar problem of two dashboards showing conflicting numbers. The GA release also brings:

• caching, with refresh cadence set per dashboard; previously every dashboard reloaded on every load;
• tracked changes showing who edited what, with rollback to a specific version;
• design system support;
• data stories and narrated videos drafted from your metrics, for review before sharing.

Partners for Claude Data include Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog and Sigma.

Live sharing is the piece to read carefully before rollout. Colleagues who open a shared dashboard see current numbers even without access to the connectors that keep the data fresh, but they see dashboard results rather than the underlying data, and they can run only the queries you have approved.