Google Workspace

Every Monday morning, the same ritual: open Gmail, scan 200 subject lines, open Calendar, cross-reference three threads, wonder what you missed while you were heads-down on Friday. You already produced all the intelligence you needed. You just never had a reader.

What happens when you connect

Run basal connect --google and BASAL begins reading. Not summarizing. Reading, the way an analyst reads: extracting facts, noting who said what, tracking when commitments were made and to whom.

Calendar events don't become entries in a log. Each event becomes a structured node: meeting type, attendee domains, Drive documents attached, whether the hangoutLink signals a recorded Meet session. The moment a Google Meet transcript appears in Drive, BASAL finds it within 30 minutes of the call ending and routes it through the extraction pipeline alongside the event that spawned it.

Emails don't become a search index. Each thread becomes a commitment chain. When someone writes "I'll have the proposal to you by Thursday," that sentence lands in the knowledge graph with a timestamp, a sender, and a recipient. BASAL doesn't need to be told to watch for it.

Drive documents don't become attachments. Each document gets scouted against recent calendar events, matched by title proximity and time window, and linked as evidence. A Q3 board deck shared the day before a board meeting isn't just a file — it's context for everything said in that room.

The compound effect

At 30 days, BASAL has a working map of your organization's active relationships: who attends what, who organizes vs who participates, which external domains you're in conversation with.

At 90 days, patterns emerge that no search box could surface. A vendor you met in February appears in three email threads and a Drive proposal in March. A team that stopped appearing in your calendar in January. A commitment made in a weekly standup that nobody followed up on.

At 180 days, the graph has history. You can ask "what do we know about Acme?" and get an answer assembled from 14 calendar events, 23 email threads, 6 Drive documents, and two meeting transcripts, with every claim traced to its source.

Before and after

Before: you search "Acme" in Gmail, get 847 results, open 12 of them, close 9, still don't know whether the NDA is signed.

After: BASAL tells you the NDA was discussed in the April 3rd call (transcript linked), a draft was shared on April 7th (Drive doc linked), and nobody responded to the follow-up email on April 12th.

You didn't change how you work. You just stopped being the person who had to remember everything.