Letaido's Gmail integrations let an AI agent search and label your mail and save drafts from data in 64 other apps.
Inbox and follow-up work, each checked step by step. Open one to watch it run.
Every weekday at 6:30am, the agent reads the last day of your inbox, picks the emails that need a reply from you and saves a reply draft in each thread, so they wait for you by 7am.
Every weekday morning, the agent reads the last day's inbox, labels the emails that fit Lead, Partner, Press or Vendor, and stars the leads.
Every weekday morning, the agent finds replies to your newsletter in Gmail, tags those subscribers in Mailchimp and drafts a personal answer to each question.
On request, the agent finds Shopify customers who spent the most but haven't ordered in months and drafts a personal note to each in Gmail.
Every Monday, the agent pulls last week's Google Analytics numbers and drafts an email with what changed, ready for you to send.
When a webinar recording is ready, the agent drafts a thank-you to attendees and a catch-up note to no-shows in Gmail, both with the link.
Every Friday, the agent reads the week's emails you labeled Feedback and adds a dated section of themes and quotes to a running Google Doc.
Six ways to put AI or automation on your Gmail, and where each one fits.
| Option | Set up in plain words | Uses your other apps | Runs without you | No code | Thousands of apps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Letaido AI agent | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Gemini in Gmail | Yes | Partly | No | Yes | No |
| Claude or ChatGPT with Gmail | Yes | Partly | Partly | Yes | No |
| Gmail MCP server | Partly | No | No | Partly | No |
| Zapier, Make and similar | No | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes |
| Gmail API | No | Partly | Yes | No | No |
| Option | How it works | Best for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Letaido AI agent | You describe the job. The agent reads and labels mail and saves drafts using data from 64 other apps, on a schedule, on another app's event, or when you ask. | Repeat inbox work and follow-ups that need data from your other tools. | 65 apps, not thousands. Gmail needs your own Google Cloud OAuth client. A new email can't start a job. |
| Gemini in Gmail | Google's AI inside Gmail summarises threads, drafts and refines emails, and helps organise mail. | Help with the email you have open. | Needs an eligible Google Workspace or Google AI plan. Works when you ask it. |
| Claude or ChatGPT with Gmail | Claude's Gmail connector and ChatGPT's Gmail app let you search, read and draft mail from a chat. | Asking about your mail in a chat. | Mostly works while you chat. What's available depends on your plan. |
| Gmail MCP server | Google's remote MCP server lets an AI tool search mail, read threads, list labels, create drafts and label messages. | Builders who want Gmail in their own AI tool. | Needs the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program and a Google Cloud project. |
| Zapier, Make and similar | Workflows built from Gmail triggers, like a new labeled or starred email, and actions in other apps. | Fixed handoffs, like saving attachments to a folder. | You build and fix one workflow per job. |
| Gmail API | Developers call Google's Gmail API from their own code. | In-house tools with exact needs. | Code to write and keep running, plus Google's OAuth setup. |
Connect Gmail once. After that, you describe each job in plain English.
Allow all read operations once per app; approve each kind of write once.
Save it to run every weekday.
A schedule or you asking. Another app's event, like a Zoom recording, can start one too.
Gmail has no Connect button. In your Google Cloud project, turn on the Gmail API, create an OAuth client and a refresh token. Letaido's setup card walks you through it.
Use Internal for a Workspace project, or an External screen set to In production. Tokens from a screen left in Testing expire after 7 days.
A gmail.modify token lets the agent read, label, draft, send and trash. A gmail.readonly token lets it only read.
Allow all read operations once per app; approve each kind of write once. Then save it to repeat.
19 actions in 8 groups, from search and labels to drafts.
With your own Google OAuth client: turn on the Gmail API in a Google Cloud project, create an OAuth client and a refresh token. Set the consent screen to Internal or In production; Testing tokens expire after 7 days.
Not in the jobs above. They save drafts, and you read and send them. Sending can't be undone.
No. Gmail has no event triggers in Letaido, so Gmail jobs run on a schedule or when you ask. Another app's event can start one, like a Zoom recording being ready.
Yes. Google runs one in its Workspace Developer Preview Program, for AI tools you set up. Letaido is not an MCP server. It has its own Gmail connector, mixes Gmail with 64 other apps and runs jobs on a schedule.
Yes, through Claude's Gmail connector or ChatGPT's Gmail app, mostly while you chat. Letaido runs saved Gmail jobs that pull data from your other apps, like Shopify or Google Analytics.
It can't delete messages for good. It can only move them to the trash, where they can be restored for 30 days. None of the jobs above trashes anything.
Allow all read operations once per app; approve each kind of write once.
Connect Gmail, then ask for a job like "Draft replies to the emails that need one, every weekday by 7am". Leta gets it done on your schedule, or the moment you ask.
Get LetaidoSend emails immediately from the connected account, with no option to unsend.
Write, edit, list, and delete unsent drafts before they are sent.
Search the mailbox and read individual messages, full conversation threads, and attachments.
Apply, remove, or change labels and read/unread state on individual messages.
Apply the same label and state changes to every message in a conversation at once.
Create, rename, and delete user labels used to organize the mailbox.
Move individual messages or entire threads to the trash, or restore them within the 30-day window.
Read basic account details such as email address and mailbox size.
