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Search Slack, Drive and email from one place

Connect your tools to Claude once, then ask questions like 'what did we decide about the rebrand?' and get one answer pulled from everywhere — instead of searching five apps.

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Search Slack, Drive and email from one place

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01 / 08Overview

Understand what connectors give you

Out of the box Claude only knows what's in the chat. Connectors change that: each one lets Claude search that tool's content live, with the same permissions you have.

Checkpoint

You can name the two or three tools whose content you lose most often.

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Before you begin

Tick these off as you sort them. Stopping halfway to create an account is how a fifteen-minute build becomes an hour.

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  • Account

    Connectors work on free and paid plans, though paid plans search more content per question. Anything in this walkthrough works on either.

  • Credential

    You'll authorise each app with its own sign-in — Google for Drive and Gmail, your Slack workspace login for Slack.

  • Know-how

    Bring a real 'where did we put that?' question. It's the perfect test: if Claude finds it in seconds, the setup paid for itself.

The basics — ticked once, remembered everywhere

  • Account

    Either the hosted version or a self-hosted install. Everything here works the same on both — the only visible difference is the shape of your webhook URLs.

    Create a workspace
  • Know-how

    Adding a node, connecting two of them, and pressing Execute. If any of that is new, the free primer covers it in about ten minutes.

  • Credential

    You will paste at least one secret during setup. A password manager beats a notes app, and it stops you pasting a live key into a chat window by accident.

The shape of the setup

The Claude features you will touch, left to right, in the order you use them.

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What you will build

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If something goes wrong

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