Claude adds Meetings, Sheets and Whiteboards. Who gets each, and what to turn off

What Anthropic launched on November 12

On November 12, 2026, Anthropic announced: “Claude can now join your video calls as a visible participant, follow the conversation and start on work during the meeting. Claude Meetings is now in beta.” Its release notes say it “is rolling out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans in Claude and Claude Desktop,” so not every eligible account has it yet.

What it does, from Anthropic’s help page for Meetings:

• It answers questions. Say “Claude” and then the question, or type it in the Meet chat. “By default, Claude answers in writing in the Meet chat,” and “anything Claude posts in the Meet chat is visible to everyone on the call.”
• It builds things during the call. Ask “Claude, make a doc” or “Claude, make a whiteboard,” and Claude attaches each one to the meeting’s page, where teammates can edit it while you talk. It “can use your connected tools during the call, like sending a Slack message,” with each person’s permission.
• It writes the notes. Afterward, “the meeting page has the notes, including a summary and any action items, along with the transcript and everything you made,” and people from your organization on the invite get a recap email. Later, you can ask Claude about past meetings in a regular chat.

Google Meet is the only service so far. Anthropic says “Support for other video conferencing platforms is coming soon,” without a date, and that it’s “working with partners like Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai, and Otter so you’ll soon be able to send a meeting’s transcript to the tools your team already uses.”

This is the launch the news reported two days early. On November 10, Anthropic’s overview of Sheets and Whiteboards said “Claude Meetings is coming soon,” while Reuters and TechCrunch described it launching. By November 12, Anthropic’s list of beta features included it.

Who gets what

Plan	Meetings (beta)	Sheets and Whiteboards (beta)	Claude Data	Price, checked November 12
Free	No	No	No	$0
Pro	No	Yes	Yes	$20 a month, or $17 a month billed yearly
Max	No	Yes	Yes	$100 a month
Ultra	No	Yes	Yes	$200 a month
Team	On by default	On by default	On by default	From $25 a seat a month, or $20 billed yearly
Enterprise	Off until an owner turns it on	Off until an owner turns them on	On by default from November 19, 2026	$20 a seat a month, billed yearly, plus usage at API rates

Prices and the Sheets and Whiteboards columns are from Claude’s pricing page, which doesn’t mention Meetings yet; Anthropic lists Meetings only for Team and Enterprise. A few conditions sit behind the table:

• Meetings, while it’s in beta, “isn’t available to some organizations, including those with zero data retention (ZDR), HIPAA-ready configuration, or customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).” It works from your Google Calendar, and “an owner must enable Google Calendar for your organization first.”
• Owners switch Meetings in Organization settings > Products > Claude Meetings (beta), and Sheets, Whiteboards and Data in Organization settings > Artifacts. On Enterprise, custom roles can limit any of them to certain groups. For artifacts, the admin guide says “Turning a template off doesn’t impact artifacts users already made using that template.”
• Artifacts need “Cloud code execution and file creation” (called “Create and edit files” in the updated settings) turned on in Settings > Capabilities, or in Organization settings > Capabilities on Team and Enterprise, according to Anthropic’s artifacts page.
• Whiteboards “isn’t available in Claude for Teachers yet.”

How to add Claude to a Google Meet call

1. Ask the people on the call first. Anthropic’s advice: “Before you add Claude or turn on auto-join, make sure everyone on your call is okay with being transcribed.”
2. Open Meetings in Claude and connect your Google Calendar.
3. Select a meeting and click Add Claude. Or let it join on its own: Settings > Capabilities > Meetings > Auto-join covers all your meetings, or all except one-on-ones, and “Owners can’t set auto-join for you.”
4. Let it in if it asks. “Claude usually joins without having to ask.” If the host declines, Claude doesn’t try that call again unless someone adds it.
5. Use the meeting page. Claude posts its link in the Meet chat when it joins, and the page holds the live transcript, an internal chat outside guests can’t see, and everything Claude has made. To pause Claude, ask it to stop listening; to remove it, ask it to leave or select Remove Claude. “Claude can stay for up to eight hours and warns you before it leaves.”

When someone asks Claude out loud to use a connected tool, “Claude asks each time to confirm who’s speaking,” for now.

Calls with outside guests: check the default

On this, Anthropic’s own pages disagree.

The announcement says: “By default, Claude is set to stay out of calls when someone from outside your organization is invited, and to leave if someone from outside joins partway through. An admin can allow Claude on calls with outside guests.” TechCrunch reported the same on November 10.

The help page is more specific, and different for Team: “On Team plans, Claude can join calls with outside guests by default, and an owner can turn this off. On Enterprise plans, an owner must allow it first.” Its list of owner settings gives Meetings with external guests two values, “Internal meetings only (the default on Enterprise plans) or allowed (the default on Team plans).”

Here is what each setting means, by the help page:

• Not allowed: Claude stays out of calls with an outside invitee, and leaves “if someone from outside, including another company’s notetaker bot, joins partway through.”
• Allowed: Claude “listens and takes notes, and posts its notice in the call’s chat but doesn’t reply there. What guests say is included in the notes and transcript.” Guests don’t get the meeting page or the recap email. Each person also has their own Meetings with external guests setting, in Settings > Capabilities > Meetings.

If you own a Team plan and have customer or candidate calls, look at that setting rather than assume.

What Claude Meetings keeps, and what it costs

“When Claude joins, it appears as a participant and posts a notice in the call’s chat. It saves a transcript, summary, and screen descriptions, not audio.” People from your organization on the invite can see the notes and edit what Claude made, and the page can be shared with others in your organization. Anthropic’s pages don’t say how long transcripts are kept.

On price, the announcement says: “During the beta, Claude’s notes and transcripts are free on Team and Enterprise plans. So are its answers in your calls, unless an answer uses one of your connected tools, which counts toward your plan’s usage. The docs, whiteboards, and other artifacts Claude makes in a call are free through February 10, 2027.” The help page adds that using your connected tools “counts toward your own usage and can lead to charges for your organization.” Anthropic hasn’t said what Meetings will cost once the beta ends.

What launched on November 10

Two days before Meetings, Anthropic announced: “Today we’re launching Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta, and Claude Dashboards becomes generally available as Claude Data.” It added, “These are available on all paid plans.”

• Claude Sheets is “a spreadsheet Claude builds and edits with you.” Ask for a tracker or a budget and, the help page says, Claude “can add tabs, write formulas that work across tabs, apply formatting and conditional formatting, and add dropdowns, checkboxes, and charts.” You, your team and Claude edit the same cells, and “each edit is outlined as it lands, so you can see what changed.”
• Claude Whiteboards is “a shared board where your team brainstorms with Claude.” Its help page puts it this way: “Talk, type, or sketch, and Claude organizes your ideas into diagrams, flows, and groups on the board.” A finished board can become a doc or a deck, go to Lucid, Miro or Zoho Vani, or be exported as a PNG.
• Claude Data is Claude Dashboards, which “launched in beta in October,” renamed and out of beta. It builds dashboards, data stories and narrated videos from a data warehouse or a connected app, and it “needs a data connector, such as a warehouse or CRM.” Two of its features, certified queries and live sharing, are still in beta.

The same day, Anthropic said connectors for tools such as Adobe, Atlassian, Box and Notion “can open as full apps beside your conversation or in full screen.” That part “is rolling out on the web and in the Claude desktop app on all plans,” as accounts move to the new Claude experience.

How to start a sheet or a board

1. Ask in any chat. Anthropic’s examples are “Build a campaign tracker with owners, dates, and status” and “Start a whiteboard to plan our product launch.”
2. Or open the Artifacts tab. Select the Sheets tile or the Whiteboard tile and describe what you want. A sheet can also start blank.
3. Bring your data. A sheet imports a CSV file, a Google Sheets file or an Excel file, and you can paste from either app.
4. Share it. Both start private to you; click Share to bring people in. People outside your organization can join a board by email invitation, which on Team and Enterprise needs Email invitations outside your organization turned on.
5. Take it out. Export a sheet as .xlsx or CSV, or use Send to for partner apps. Anthropic names Airtable, Asana, monday.com and Smartsheet.

If Claude changes something you didn’t want, a sheet’s version history “can restore an earlier version, which also removes edits made after it.”

What Claude Sheets can’t do yet

Anthropic is plain about it: “For now, sheets have simple spreadsheet functionality, but we are working on adding more.” Size is the first limit you’ll meet.

	Claude Sheets	Google Sheets	Excel
Largest file	100,000 cells a sheet	20 million cells or 100MB	1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns a worksheet

Those are each company’s own figures, from Claude’s help page, Google Drive’s help and Microsoft’s Excel limits. The Sheets help page lists the rest:

• Functions: 144.
• Not available yet: “Pivot tables, protected ranges, find and replace, multi-column sort, filter views, multi-select dropdowns, and PDF export.”
• Excel features not supported: “Macros, VBA, Power Query, DAX, and print layout.”
• No live data: “Sheets can’t pull live data from connected apps, and docs, decks, and dashboards can’t use a sheet as a data source.”
• Phones: the announcement says all three “work on web, desktop, and mobile,” but the Sheets help page says “web and desktop are supported, with basic read-only access on mobile.”
• Regulated data: for Sheets, “HIPAA, CMEK, and ZDR are not yet supported.” Whiteboards “isn’t available to organizations with HIPAA-ready configurations,” and where Claude Code has zero data retention, boards work in chat and Cowork but aren’t covered by it and aren’t available in Claude Code.

Whiteboards has a limit of its own: “Claude works from what’s on the board and doesn’t use context from your connected apps.” You also can’t import a board from a file.

Anthropic’s advice on which to use: “Use Claude Sheets for a light, shared sheet that you build with Claude. When your file already lives in Excel or Google Sheets, or you need the full set of features in those apps, use Claude for Excel or Claude for Google Workspace, or export your sheet.”

What it does to your usage limits

Sheets, Whiteboards and Data have no allowance of their own. “Claude Sheets counts toward your plan’s usage limits, like the rest of your work with Claude,” and the Whiteboards and Data pages say the same of theirs. The admin guide is more specific: artifacts “count toward each user’s existing usage limits, shared with the rest of Claude, including Claude Code. There’s no separate allowance to provision.” On usage-based Enterprise plans, that usage “bills from your organization’s consumption at standard API rates.” Meetings is the exception for now: its notes, transcripts and answers are free during the beta, unless an answer uses a connected tool.

So an afternoon of building trackers comes out of the same limits as a coding session. The pricing page says “Your activity across Claude on web, desktop, mobile, and Claude Code all draws from the same pool.” Anthropic hasn’t said how much a sheet or a board uses.

If you code with Claude Code, Enjoy shows what’s left of your Claude plan’s limits in its agent settings, and when they run out you can switch the conversation to Codex or another agent on its own plan. Anthropic’s pages describe Sheets, Whiteboards and Meetings in Claude’s own apps: its artifacts page says Claude Code can “publish its session output as an artifact” and “make designs and docs,” and doesn’t list sheets or boards there. Enjoy is a monthly subscription, with the first seven days free (pricing).

What to do now

• Team owners: Meetings is on, and by the help page so is joining calls with outside guests. Decide on both in Organization settings > Products > Claude Meetings (beta), along with Members’ connectors in meetings, which “controls whether Claude can use members’ connected tools during meetings.” Sheets, Whiteboards and Data are on too, and so are Data’s two beta features; look at live sharing, which Anthropic warns “runs on your access to the data source. Anyone you share the dashboard with sees those results, even if they don’t have access to that source.”
• Enterprise owners: Meetings stays off until you turn it on, and calls with outside guests stay off until you allow them. Claude Data “turns on by default on November 19, 2026, unless an owner has already saved a setting.” If you don’t want it on, save the setting in Organization settings > Artifacts before then.
• Anyone adding Claude to a call: tell the people on it first, and remember that what Claude posts in the Meet chat is visible to all of them.
• Everyone on a paid plan: try a sheet on something small, and export a copy of anything that matters. Anthropic’s page on betas says “Not every feature graduates.”

What Anthropic hasn’t said

• Which meeting apps follow Google Meet, and when. Anthropic says only “coming soon.”
• Whether Pro, Max or Ultra will get Meetings, and what it will cost after the beta.
• How long meeting transcripts and notes are kept.
• Which default for outside guests on Team is right: its announcement and its help page disagree.
• When Sheets and Whiteboards leave beta, and whether Free accounts will get them.
• How much usage a sheet, a board or a dashboard takes.
• When Sheets gets pivot tables, find and replace and the rest. The help page says only “We’re adding more over time.”