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Google Workspace Intelligence - A Major AI Upgrade
- Brady Woudstra
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
Google announced Workspace Intelligence recently, and it's a really interesting first-party product improvement. The idea is simple: instead of AI that just responds to prompts, Workspace Intelligence is supposed to actually understand your work — your projects, your collaborators, your communication style — and act on it across all of Google's apps. I love the idea of a unified approach that can touch all your data (or at least the data you as an organization want it to touch).
Here are the features I'm most excited about:
Drive Projects
Drive has always been where files go to get lost (or at least only found via Search). Drive Projects looks like a fix for that — a way to group your files and emails around a project so everything is in one place. The bonus is that Gemini uses that context too, so when you ask it something, it actually knows what you're working on.
Third-Party Connectors
This is the one that caught my attention most. Gemini now natively connects to tools like Asana, Jira, and Salesforce directly from Chat — very much in the spirit of what MCP is doing for AI more broadly. The goal is that you shouldn't have to leave your conversation to get something done in another tool.
Daily Briefing
A morning summary of your most important tasks, unread threads, and action items — surfaced automatically. Simple idea, but honestly one of the most useful things AI could do for a busy workday.
Admin Controls
Not the flashiest feature, but I'm always interested in the scalability and management of AI tools. Can it be deployed in a Pilot, can we control what it does or where it interacts? The build in controls looks like the typical Google easy button from Google.
Overall, this feels like a more cohesive AI approach from Google than what we've seen from others (especially when compared to Microsoft's Copilot offering). I'm looking forward to trying the features out to to see how it performs in practice.
