Gen8

Google Workspace integration

Integration · route: native

The environment you already use, as the workplace for a workflow

For organizations using Google Workspace, most work is already within reach: email, folders, documents and calendar. Gen8 has its own integrations for those components, allowing a workflow to read them and prepare proposals within the scope an administrator defines.

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Email, Documents

At a glance

Route: native
Components: Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Calendar

Capabilities

What the integration can do

Gmail. Search the mailbox, read messages, manage labels and prepare drafts. Sending is technically possible but disabled by default in our setup: an email sent on your behalf should be deliberate.

Drive. Search and read files in designated folders as answer sources or input for the next step.

Docs, Sheets and Slides. Beyond the file itself: read and edit content. Build a report, update an overview or assemble slides from data obtained elsewhere.

Calendar. Read calendars and appointments and propose or create an appointment — useful when a workflow ends with a conversation to schedule.

Inspiration

What you can automate with this

A few examples of work you can hand over through this integration. We work out what fits your organisation together during scoping.

Draft replies in Gmail

A mailbox question is read and a draft prepared. Sending remains your action.

Answers sourced from Drive

The workflow searches your designated folders and answers with a file reference.

Build a report

Data from elsewhere becomes a readable Google Docs report. You see the change before it is final.

Maintain an overview

An overview requiring weekly updates receives new rows or values in Google Sheets.

Assemble slides from data

Google Slides built from figures and text already stored elsewhere.

Propose a follow-up conversation

If a workflow ends with a conversation to schedule, an appointment is prepared as a calendar proposal.

Does this work look familiar? Or does your process run on another system?

Tell us which work you want to hand over. We help you think through the integration and route, even if your system is not listed here yet.

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Permissions and data

What access is needed

An administrator configures the connection per component with only the permissions selected actions need. A workflow using Drive as knowledge requests no mailbox access; one writing drafts requests no send permissions.

Scope within a component matters as much as the component itself: a designated label is not a whole mailbox, nor a folder a whole Drive. We define scope during setup rather than stretching it until things work easily. Gen8 processes in the EU; Google processes in its own environment under your Workspace agreements.

Control

Where approval is required

Reading happens without intervention; that makes a workflow useful. Writing starts as a proposal: a draft ready in Gmail, a document change visible before it is final, a calendar appointment proposed rather than silently inserted.

Proven actions with small, reversible consequences can run automatically with logging after a settling-in period. Email sending is not included; that is a choice, not a temporary limitation.

Evidence

What we can demonstrate

Gmail, Google Drive and Google Calendar each have their own Gen8 integrations; Drive also has separate Google Docs, Sheets and Slides tools. Hence the native route: these components are reached directly. For partly Microsoft environments, see Microsoft 365 and the comparison in Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.

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Prepare an answer sourced from Drive

Plan01Question picked up from a message under the designated label
Action02Drive searched within included folders
Action03Document content read for supporting evidence
Action04Draft reply prepared in Gmail with source reference
Reflect05Follow-up appointment proposed, not inserted
Draft and appointment proposal ready · a person sends

Frequently asked questions

Can a workflow send email on our behalf?

Technically yes, but it is disabled by default in our setup. Preparing a draft is the starting point; a person sends it.

Does the workflow read our entire Drive?

Only the folders you designate. That scope is part of setup, not a setting that quietly expands later.

Does this work with a personal Google account?

The integrations are set up for a business Workspace environment with an administrator who connects them. A personal account lacks that management layer.

What if we partly use Microsoft?

That is common and no problem. Outlook, SharePoint and OneDrive have their own integrations; see Microsoft 365.

Which systems do you use?

Tell us which process you want to connect. We explain which route fits, which permissions are needed and where people keep making decisions.

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