Guide · 5 minutes
How to connect Gmail to your AI agents
With a Google app password, your CreatLab agents can search and read your Gmail and draft replies. You still press Send yourself.
What you need
- A personal Gmail account with 2-Step Verification turned on. Google only offers app passwords to accounts that have it.
- A CreatLab workspace with an AI connected.
Work or school accounts, accounts with Advanced Protection and accounts that use only security keys for 2-Step Verification may not offer app passwords. In that case, connect Gmail through Zapier from the Integrations page instead.
Steps
Turn on 2-Step Verification
In your Google Account, open Security and turn on 2-Step Verification if it isn't on yet.
Create an app password
Open the App passwords page in your Google Account (CreatLab's Gmail dialog has a button that takes you there). Give it a name like "CreatLab" and copy the 16-character password.
Add the mailbox in CreatLab
Go to Integrations → Email, choose Gmail, enter your Gmail address and paste the app password.
CreatLab tests the connection
CreatLab signs in to Gmail's mail servers to check both reading and sending. If it fails, check the app password and that IMAP isn't switched off in Gmail's settings.
Try it
Ask OVI: "What came in overnight that needs a reply?" or "Draft a reply to the webinar invitation and check my calendar first." Drafts open in a window; edit them if you like and press Send.
You can remove the mailbox in CreatLab at any time, and revoke the app password in your Google Account.