Gmail has an official Claude connector, made by Google, in Claude’s connector directory. In Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, add Gmail, and sign in with Google. Claude can then search and read your email, draft replies, and send, reply, or forward. By default it asks for your approval before each send. It’s available on every Claude plan.
About two minutes for a rep. Longer only if your Google Workspace admin has to approve Claude first.
On a Claude Team or Enterprise plan, an Owner or Primary Owner has to enable the Google Workspace connectors for the organization before anyone can sign in.
Go to Customize, then Connectors, and click the plus sign. Find Gmail and click Connect.
Choose the Google account to connect. Google’s consent screen mentions sending email. That’s expected: Claude can send, but it asks you first by default.
If you see “Access blocked: your institution’s admin needs to review Claude,” your Google Workspace admin marks Claude as trusted: admin.google.com, Security, Access and data control, API controls, and Manage third-party app access. It takes about 15 minutes to apply.
In a chat, click the plus sign, then Connectors, and toggle Gmail on. In Customize, then Connectors, you can set each Gmail tool to Always allow, Needs approval, or Blocked.
From Gmail’s and Anthropic’s own docs, as of October 20, 2026.
Claude reads the Gmail for the Google account you connected, and only that account. To use a different one, go to Customize, then Connectors, open the Google connector, click Disconnect, and connect again with the other account.
If you sell from a work account and keep a personal one, connect the work account. Third-party tools and community-built Gmail MCP servers offer several accounts at once, but they hold your Google access outside Google and Anthropic. Check them with IT first.
Copy the prompt, swap in your own deal, and run it with Gmail toggled on. The results are illustrations with a made-up company, Acme.
Claude reads the thread and drafts the reply. Nothing sends until you approve it, so you can edit freely.
Find my last email thread with Dana at Acme. Draft a follow-up in my usual tone that recaps what they asked for, answers their pricing question, and offers two times next week. Don’t send it.
Draft reply to Dana at Acme
Sent mail is where the forgotten promises live. Claude can list them in one pass.
Search my sent mail from the last 30 days for anything I promised a prospect: a deck, a case study, an intro, or a call. List each one with the date and whether I followed through.
Promises from the last 30 days
When five people have replied over three weeks, Claude gives you the state of play in a minute.
Summarize the full email thread with Acme since our first meeting: who’s involved, what they asked, what we sent, and what’s still open.
Acme thread, 14 emails
Claude inherits your Gmail permissions. It can’t see or change anything you couldn’t. These are the settings worth checking before a team rolls it out.
Claude can drive one tool when one rep asks. Arrows drives the whole team’s stack on every deal, with no prompt. Arrows connects to Gmail, Outlook, and Google Calendar. It reads each deal’s emails alongside the CRM and the calls, and drafts the follow-up for the rep to approve.
Arrows is its own product, not part of Claude. Your reps can keep using Claude alongside it.
An Agent Architect connects your stack and sets what Arrows can do in each tool. Then Arrows does the follow-through on every deal, and your reps approve what matters.
Book an agent kickoffGmailFollow-up emails
HubSpotDeal and contact updates
SalesforceNot used by this team
GongRead call transcripts
GranolaRead meeting notesYes, once you connect Google’s Gmail connector. Claude can search your mail, read full threads, see attachment names, and work with labels and drafts. It only reads the Google account you connected, and only when you ask for something that needs it.
Claude mirrors your Google permissions, asks before each send by default, and Anthropic doesn’t train on Gmail connector data. Team and Enterprise Owners can block sending for everyone. Keep send on Needs approval, because an email can contain instructions written to steer an AI.
Yes. Claude can send, reply to, and forward email, and by default it asks for your approval before each one. On Team and Enterprise plans, Owners decide whether members can let those actions run without asking.
Claude reads the Google account you connected. To use a different account, disconnect the Google connector in Customize, then Connectors, and connect again with the other one. Tools that combine several accounts are third-party, so check them with IT first.
Yes. The Gmail connector in Claude’s directory is Google’s own remote MCP server. Community-built Gmail MCP servers exist too, but they aren’t made by Google or Anthropic.
Not the contents. Claude sees attachment details, such as the file name, but can’t open the file through the Gmail connector.
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