# Ray and Gmail

> Draft the follow-up in your voice. Sending is the one thing it always asks about.

Source: https://heyray.io/integrations/gmail

Ray is an AI teammate that works in your team chat, on Slack today. Connect Gmail and it can do the Gmail part of a request without anyone leaving the conversation: read what it needs, draft the change, and post it for approval before anything is written. 8 reads run without asking. 3 actions wait for a human approval. 1 action runs without asking, and it does not send anything or move money.

## What Ray reads in Gmail

Reading changes nothing, so Ray never stops to ask whether it may look something up.

- Threads and messages in the connected mailbox
- Whether someone replied, so it can answer “did they get back to us?”

## What waits for your approval

Every one of these posts an approval card in the thread showing exactly what is about to happen. Nothing runs until someone clicks approve, and no setting turns that off.

- Send an email, with the recipient, subject, and full body on the card first
- Reply to a thread

## What runs without asking

These set work up and stop. None of them sends anything or moves money, and the step that makes the work real is in the list above.

- Create a draft email

## Things Ray is never handed

These are left out during curation, so they are not something Ray could do and decides against. They are not in front of it at all.

- Delete a message
- Change mailbox settings or forwarding

## Ask it like this

- "@Ray draft a reply to Dana confirming Thursday."
- "@Ray did the vendor ever reply about the invoice?"
- "@Ray reply to that thread and say we will have it by Monday."
- "@Ray tell me each morning what came in overnight that needs an answer."

## Connecting Gmail

Every person on the team connects their own Gmail account on Gmail's own login screen, so Ray can only reach what that person can already reach, and the history in Gmail shows who actually asked. Passwords never pass through Ray. Disconnecting Gmail or uninstalling Ray revokes the connection.

## More

- This page for people: https://heyray.io/integrations/gmail
- Every integration: https://heyray.io/integrations.md
- Install Ray: https://heyray.io/install.md
- Pricing: https://heyray.io/pricing.md