# Ray and Outlook

> The same mail work, in Microsoft's mailbox, with the calendar to read alongside it.

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

Ray is an AI teammate that works in your team chat, on Slack today. Connect Outlook and it can do the Outlook 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. 20 reads run without asking. 4 actions wait for a human approval. 2 actions run without asking, and none of them sends anything or moves money.

## What Ray reads in Outlook

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

- Messages, folders, and what you have already sent
- The calendar, free/busy for the people on it, and the directory

## 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 or forward a message

## 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
- Draft a reply in the thread

## 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.

- Create or change mail rules and mailbox settings
- Change calendar or folder permissions

## Ask it like this

- "@Ray draft a reply to Dana and propose a time from my calendar."
- "@Ray what is still unread from outside the company today?"
- "@Ray send the Q3 summary to the finance team."
- "@Ray who is double-booked for the Thursday review?"

## Connecting Outlook

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

## More

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