Anthropic Plans Claude Whiteboards for Google Meet Calls

By Grace Kim

Anthropic announced Claude Meetings on November 10, 2026, with a Google Meet live-whiteboard beta planned for its Team and Enterprise plans. The forthcoming feature will add Claude to calls so it can take notes and update documents while teams talk, Anthropic said.

What does the Google Meet beta include?

Anthropic’s Help Center documentation describes a live-whiteboard beta for Claude Meetings on Team and Enterprise plans, initially supporting Google Meet. The documentation says the “coming soon” label applies to Claude Meetings as a whole, while the beta designation applies specifically to live whiteboards.

Microsoft Teams and Zoom are unsupported at launch, according to Anthropic’s Help Center documentation. The documented beta centers on a shared visual workspace for Team and Enterprise Google Meet calls rather than a general launch across major meeting services. Anthropic documents Google Meet as the only launch platform for the beta.

Who can start a whiteboard, and when?

On Team and Enterprise plans, Anthropic says users can start a live whiteboard from the meeting’s page in Claude. They can also start it from the meeting event page beginning 30 minutes before the scheduled start and continuing until the meeting ends; that route adds Claude to the call.

Only people who can edit a meeting can start its whiteboard, Anthropic’s documentation says. Anyone with access to the meeting can open the board after it starts, but cannot start it without edit rights.

Anthropic’s rule is simple: meeting editors start the board, while meeting attendees with access can open it and work on its contents.

How does Claude turn discussion into a board?

Whiteboards accept spoken, typed and sketched input, Anthropic’s Help Center documentation says. Participants can speak requests, such as asking Claude to put a timeline on the board. Claude then organizes the material with shapes, arrows and sections, groups related ideas, orders steps and connects dependencies.

Everyone on the board can rearrange the content together in real time, Anthropic says. The result remains an editable artifact rather than a fixed summary. Users can ask Claude to regroup the board by theme, turn it into a timeline or suggest missing steps for review.

Anthropic says every board is saved in the Artifacts tab. Claude can convert the finished work into a document or slide deck. The meeting output can remain a live board or become a document or deck.

Which plans and sharing controls apply?

Whiteboards are on by default for Team plans, according to Anthropic. Enterprise organizations start with the feature disabled, and an administrator must enable it under Organization settings > Artifacts.

Artifacts remain private until shared, Anthropic’s documentation says. On Team and Enterprise plans, links stay inside the organization unless an Owner or Primary Owner enables external sharing. Whiteboards also count toward plan usage limits, and boards created during a Claude Meetings call follow Claude Meetings pricing.

For enterprises, the feature remains off until an administrator turns it on. Broader use also depends on plan limits and Claude Meetings pricing.

What data can Claude use?

Anthropic says Claude Whiteboards works from the contents of the board and does not use context from connected applications. The restriction limits what Claude can bring into an exercise from other systems, even when users have connectors available.

Anthropic’s Help Center documentation sets three deployment boundaries:

• Whiteboards are unavailable to organizations with HIPAA-ready configurations.
• In organizations with zero data retention for Claude Code, whiteboards remain available in chat and Cowork.
• That zero-retention setting does not cover whiteboards, and whiteboards are unavailable within Claude Code.

The board stays self-contained: connected-application context and code-specific zero-retention coverage do not follow it into whiteboards.

How does Meetings fit Anthropic’s artifact system?

Anthropic’s overview introduces Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Data, alongside expanded interactive connectors. Anthropic says its broader design preserves context as work changes format, allowing an idea to move from a whiteboard to a spreadsheet or dashboard without users restating details.

Anthropic positions Claude Meetings as the call-based extension of that system. Discussion in a Google Meet call can become an editable artifact that the team carries into later work, while the beta remains limited to Team and Enterprise plans and the initial Google Meet platform.

The next milestone for business users is whether teams can carry live meeting output into Claude Sheets and dashboards without repeating context; Microsoft Teams and Zoom remain outside the documented launch scope.