Build personal AI Assistants as Google Workspace Add-ons, in Gmail, Calendar, etc

Pierrick Voulet shows Martin Omander how to build an add on that functions as a persistent AI agent across the entire Google Workspace ecosystem. Instead of just a siloed chatbot, it can follow you from Gmail to Calendar and into Drive, so you aren't constantly context switching or copying data back and forth between tabs. We dig into the architecture of how to bridge these different surfaces using a single codebase and how to use Cloud Run and Google’s Agent Development Kit to make the agent actually useful for automating tasks. *Key Takeaways:* * One codebase, multiple surfaces: How to deploy to all of Workspace. * Agentic workflows: Moving beyond simple "Q&A" to bots that actually interact with your Workspace data. * Contextual awareness: Keeping the AI relevant to the specific document or email you're looking at. Chapters 0:00 - Intro 1:13 - Demo 3:54 - Use cases 5:16 - Architecture 5:42 - Code walkthrough 7:34 - Takeaways Resources: How to get started → https://goo.gle/3PHbhb5 How to write an agent → https://goo.gle/4v1VQKM Host your applications on Cloud Run → https://goo.gle/4bG7DH1 See the Travel Concierge agent code → https://goo.gle/4bWN0oT Watch more Serverless Expeditions → https://goo.gle/ServerlessExpeditions 🔔 Subscribe to Google Cloud Tech → https://goo.gle/GoogleCloudTech Speakers: Martin Omander, Pierrick Voulet Products Mentioned: Google Workspace, Google Cloud