> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.unify.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> Connect Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 and unlock your assistant's day-to-day usefulness

Most real work lives inside your email, calendar, and files. Connecting a
**Google Workspace** or **Microsoft 365** account is how your assistant gets
access to that world — reading and sending mail, checking your calendar,
working with documents in Drive, OneDrive, and SharePoint, and more.

It's a one-time connection, it takes about thirty seconds, and it's free —
there are no credit costs for connecting or keeping a workspace connected.

## What it unlocks

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Email & your inbox" icon="inbox" color="#c95f5a" href="/workspace/email">
    Read, search, summarize, and send mail from the connected mailbox.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Calendar" icon="calendar-days" color="#4f7fa8" href="/workspace/calendar">
    Review your schedule, flag conflicts, create and reschedule events.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Files" icon="folder-open" color="#cf9a3e" href="/workspace/files">
    Work with Google Drive, OneDrive, and SharePoint — with you in control
    of exactly which files it can see.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Contacts & tasks" icon="address-book" color="#6e4a86" href="/workspace/contacts-and-tasks">
    Look people up in your address book and manage your to-do lists.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

On Microsoft 365, the connection also powers
[Microsoft Teams](/communication/microsoft-teams) — chats, channels, and
meetings.

<Note>
  The workspace connection covers the Google/Microsoft suite. Other apps —
  your CRM, project tracker, and so on — connect separately through
  [Integrations](/integrations/overview).
</Note>

## Whose account gets connected?

This is the single most important thing to get right, and it depends on which
assistant you're connecting:

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="T-W1N (your digital twin)">
    Connect **your own** Google or Microsoft account. T-W1N is your digital
    twin — when it works in your workspace it acts through your account and
    shows up as you. That's the point: it reads *your* inbox, checks *your*
    calendar, and works in *your* files, always within the permissions you
    grant.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Hired assistants">
    Create a **brand-new** Google or Microsoft account for the assistant —
    its own identity, like any new team member. Do **not** connect your
    personal account to a hired assistant; only T-W1N should have access to
    your personal account.

    The steps:

    1. Log out of your own account.
    2. Create a new account for the assistant, or ask your IT team to.
    3. Log into the new account on your machine.
    4. Pick the workspace provider in the Console to connect it.

    The new account becomes the assistant's own mailbox and workspace, with
    its own access controls managed by your organization — see
    [T-W1N vs hired teammates](/hiring/twin-vs-teammates) for why this
    matters.
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## Google or Microsoft — what's the difference?

Your assistant works equally well with both. The feature sets differ slightly
because the ecosystems do:

| Feature               | Google Workspace | Microsoft 365         |
| --------------------- | ---------------- | --------------------- |
| Email                 | Gmail            | Outlook               |
| Calendar              | Google Calendar  | Outlook Calendar      |
| Files                 | Google Drive     | OneDrive + SharePoint |
| Contacts              | Google Contacts  | Microsoft contacts    |
| Tasks                 | Google Tasks     | Microsoft To Do       |
| Teams chat & meetings | —                | Microsoft Teams       |

Ready to connect? Head to [Connecting your
workspace](/workspace/connecting).