What You Can Do With Connected Apps

Last Updated: 2026.07.07

Overview

Connecting an app to Sapience does something quietly powerful: it turns your agent from something that talks about your work into something that can reach into the tools you already live in and act. Your inbox, your files, your spreadsheets, your notes, your network — once they're connected, you can just ask, in plain language, and the agent goes and does it.

"Catch me up on my inbox." · "Find that contract in Dropbox and pull out the key dates." · "Draft a LinkedIn post about this and log it in my tracker."

This article is the imagination-opener: a tour of what each connected app makes possible, and — the fun part — how to chain several apps together through a single request. (For the plain "how do I connect one" steps, see the companion article, Connecting Your Apps.)

How It Feels to Use

Two things happen that make connected apps easy to live with:

When you equip an app, Sapience suggests what to try. Pick an app from the Apps button under the chat box and the agent drops in a short note — "Here are some things you can try:" — with clickable starter prompts. Click one and it runs as your message. No blank page, no guessing.

You can just mention the app. You don't even have to pick it from a menu — name the app in your message ("check my Outlook", "grab the file from Dropbox") and the agent recognises you want to use it.

And you stay in control: for anything that goes out — an email, a post — the agent drafts it and you review it before it sends. Nothing leaves on its own.

The Apps, and What Each One Unlocks

Below, each app shows its real capabilities and the actual starter prompts Sapience offers — plus a few "now try this" ideas to stretch your imagination.

📧 Gmail — your inbox, on tap

Sapience can work with your Gmail inbox for you:

Catch up — summarize your latest emails so you don't have to read every one.

Triage — surface the high-priority or urgent messages that need you.

Draft replies — write a response in your voice; you review it before anything is sent.

Starter prompts you'll see:

"Summarize my latest Gmail emails"

"Find all high priority or urgent emails I've received in the last month"

"Draft a reply to my most recent email"

Now try: "What did I miss from the board thread this week?" · "Draft a warm reply declining this meeting and proposing next Tuesday." · "Which unanswered emails are more than three days old?"

Tip: name the sender or subject and the agent goes straight to that thread.

📨 Outlook (Microsoft Email) — the same, for Microsoft 365

If you live in Outlook, the agent works with your Microsoft inbox the same way:

Find emails — search your inbox for messages on a topic or from a person.

Summarize — condense a long thread into what actually matters.

Draft replies — write a response in your voice; you review it before it sends.

Starter prompts you'll see:

"Summarize my latest Outlook emails"

"Find emails about this project"

"Draft a reply to my most recent email"

Now try: "Summarize the whole thread with the client and list every commitment we made." · "Find the email where they sent the final pricing."

Tip: give the agent a sender, subject, or timeframe and it narrows down fast.

📝 Notion — find, summarize, and write back

Your Notion workspace becomes something the agent can read and contribute to:

Find & read — search your pages and pull content from any doc.

Summarize — condense a long page or a set of notes into the key points.

Capture — create a new page or write notes back into Notion from your conversation.

Starter prompts you'll see:

"Summarize my latest Notion page"

"Find my Notion notes about this project"

"Create a Notion page from this conversation"

Now try: "Turn this brainstorm into a tidy Notion page with headings and a task list." · "Pull everything across my Notion about the Q3 launch and give me one summary."

Tip: mention the page or database by name and the agent goes straight to it.

📁 Google Drive — your documents, findable by asking

Stop digging through folders — describe what you're after:

Find files — locate a document, sheet, or folder across your Drive.

Summarize — pull the key points out of any doc you point it to.

Organize — help sort and tidy your files the way you want them.

Starter prompts you'll see:

"Find my most recent Google Drive file"

"Summarize a document from my Drive"

"Find Drive files about this project"

Now try: "Find the proposal I shared last month and give me the three-sentence version." · "Which of my Drive docs mention the new pricing model?"

📊 Google Sheets — read, summarize, and update

Your spreadsheets stop being static:

Read data — pull figures or rows from a spreadsheet you point it to.

Summarize — turn a sheet of numbers into the headline takeaways.

Update — add or change values when you tell it what to record.

Starter prompts you'll see:

"Summarize the data in my latest spreadsheet"

"Find a Google Sheet about this project"

"Pull the key figures from one of my sheets"

Now try: "What's the trend in monthly revenue on my sales sheet?" · "Add a new row to my tracker with today's meeting outcome."

Tip: name the sheet (and the tab) and the agent goes straight to it.

📦 Dropbox — files you can talk to

Find files — locate a document or folder without digging through Dropbox.

Summarize — pull the key points out of a file you point it to.

Organize — tell it how you'd like things sorted and it'll help tidy up.

Starter prompts you'll see:

"Summarize my most recent Dropbox file"

"Find a Dropbox file about this project"

"List the files in one of my Dropbox folders"

Now try: "Find the signed contract in Dropbox and pull out every date and dollar amount." · "What's changed in the latest version of the deck?"

Tip: name the file or folder and the agent works with it directly.

💼 LinkedIn — research, catch up, and post

LinkedIn is where connected apps get genuinely creative:

Draft & publish posts — describe an idea and the agent writes a post in your voice; you review it before anything goes live.

Research people & companies — summarize a profile, a company page, or a connection's recent activity.

Catch up on your network — pull recent posts and activity so you don't have to scroll your feed.

Starter prompts you'll see:

"Draft a LinkedIn post about this"

"Summarize this person's LinkedIn profile"

"Find recent activity from one of my connections"

Now try: "Research this prospect's profile and company, then suggest an angle for a first message." · "Turn the key insight from this report into a punchy LinkedIn post in my voice."

Tip: the more context you give (audience, tone, goal), the sharper the result.

More Apps You Can Connect

These are live to connect today and the agent can work with them — they just don't have pre-written starter prompts yet, so you use them by mentioning them in your message or picking them from the Apps button:

App	What you'd reach for it for
Canva	Working with your Canva designs
OneDrive (Microsoft)	Finding and working with your OneDrive files
SharePoint (Microsoft)	Reaching documents in your SharePoint sites
HubSpot	Working with your HubSpot CRM records

(OneDrive and SharePoint are Microsoft/Enterprise apps — see availability below.)

Coming soon: Salesforce, SAP, Xero, and Workday appear in the list as a preview — they're on the roadmap and will become connectable over time.

The Real Magic: Chaining Apps Together

A single agent can use several connected apps (and Sapience's own features) in one go. This is where connected apps stop being "integrations" and start feeling like a capable assistant. Some recipes to spark ideas:

Prospect → outreach → tracker. "Research this person on LinkedIn, draft a tailored intro email in Gmail, and add them as a new row in my outreach Google Sheet." — three apps, one sentence.

File → summary → workspace. "Grab the strategy deck from Dropbox, summarize the three big bets, and write it up as a new Notion page."

Inbox → action. "Summarize the client thread in Outlook and turn every commitment into a task." — pairs your email with Sapience's own tasks.

Numbers → chart → send. "Pull the quarterly figures from my Google Sheet, chart the trend, and draft an email to the team with the highlights." — combines Sheets with Sapience's ability to run code and draft mail.

Catch-up briefing. "Give me a Monday briefing: what's urgent in Gmail, what changed in my Drive last week, and any notable activity from my LinkedIn network."

Idea → everywhere. "Take this product update, draft a LinkedIn post, a customer email in Gmail, and a Notion release note — all in a consistent voice."

The pattern is always the same: describe the outcome across the tools you use, and let one agent orchestrate it.

Connected apps also combine beautifully with Sapience's built-in powers — attach a connected file into a chat, feed a spreadsheet into the data-dashboard skill, or drop a summarized thread into a report. The apps are the reach; the skills are the craft.

You're Always in Control

Outgoing actions are drafted, not fired. Emails and posts are written for your review — you decide whether they send. The agent never sends on its own.

Your connections are yours. A connected account is linked to you; connecting an app doesn't expose it to anyone else.

Connect securely. When you link an app you authorize it through the app's own sign-in — your password is never stored by Sapience.

Two ways to invoke. Just mention it in a message, or pick it explicitly with the Apps button under the chat input.

Availability

Connected Apps appears in your sidebar on eligible plans. Apps come in two tiers:

Individual — Gmail, LinkedIn, Notion, Google Sheets, Dropbox, Canva, Google Drive.

Enterprise — Microsoft Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, plus Salesforce, HubSpot, SAP, Xero, and Workday. Enterprise apps require an Enterprise plan.

In the sidebar, a green dot means you've connected the app, an open circle means it's available to connect.

Summary

Connecting an app lets a Sapience agent act inside the tools you already use — read and draft your Gmail or Outlook, find and summarize files in Drive or Dropbox, read and update Google Sheets, search and write to Notion, and research or post on LinkedIn. When you equip an app you get clickable starter prompts to try, outgoing actions are always yours to approve, and — best of all — a single agent can chain several apps together in one request. Describe the outcome across your tools, and let Sapience orchestrate it.