Anthropic said its Claude agent will soon be able to sit in on team meetings and work on tasks as they are discussed, treating the AI much like a colleague. The feature, called Claude Meetings, is planned for Team and Enterprise plans and is designed to take notes and update documents during a call. The company has said Claude can act as a coworker, and Meetings extends that role into live collaboration.
Claude Meetings is intended to go further than transcription tools such as Gemini in Google Meet, which flag action items but do not contribute to them, according to Anthropic. Under the company's rules, Claude will not join a call that includes outside guests unless an administrator permits it, and it will leave if an outside guest joins anyway. Meetings will be switched on by default for Team plans, while Enterprise administrators will be able to decide who receives it. The feature will not work for organizations using zero data retention, a HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys. Anthropic did not say when Meetings would become available.
Anthropic also announced several other updates for business customers that are available now. A new Whiteboards feature, in beta, lets users talk through an unfinished plan with Claude, which can turn it into a board with a timeline, owners and dates while a team collaborates in real time. Claude can group contributed notes into themes and action items, and can turn the output into a deck or document or export it to other tools.
A Sheets feature lets Claude build shareable spreadsheets from a prompt and edit cells with trackable changes. Anthropic said users who need the full functionality of Excel can export files to .xlsx or CSV, use Claude for Excel, or keep working in partner tools including Airtable, Asana, monday.com and Smartsheet. Claude Dashboards, launched in beta last month, is now called Data. It can query company data from large external services such as Amazon Redshift and ClickHouse and offers tracked changes and faster loading through caching. Anthropic said the tool is meant to help companies standardize metrics, surface data stories and maintain a live source of truth, and that live sharing lets colleagues see current numbers even without access to the underlying connectors. Viewers see the results of approved queries and cannot run others with the sharer's access.
For Team plans, all three features are on by default. For Enterprise plans, only Claude Data will be on by default starting Nov. 19, while Whiteboards and Sheets are off by default and can be adjusted in Artifacts.
The release reflects Anthropic's focus on enterprise clients, a priority that has kept it ahead of OpenAI, which has emphasized consumer products. Both companies are expanding into workplace and productivity software for large organizations. Anthropic recently released a personal finance tool that competes with an existing OpenAI equivalent aimed at consumers. OpenAI released ChatGPT Space at its Dev Day in September, housing document and slide creation tools reminiscent of Google Workspace, after Anthropic had consolidated its own document and slide features into a single hub. Anthropic has positioned Claude itself as the starting point for workplace deliverables rather than maintaining separate applications.
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