Gmail + Emergent

The Gmail and Emergent integration enables businesses to build production-ready email automation applications and communication workflows using natural language prompts. Combine Gmail's intelligent email management, AI-powered Smart Compose, advanced filtering with labels, and deep Google Workspace integration with Emergent's full-stack vibe coding platform to create custom apps that connect your email communications with the rest of your business systems without writing code.

With Emergent, you can:

• Build apps that leverage Gmail's labels, filters, and automatic categorization for intelligent inbox organization and email routing

• Create automated workflows with Smart Compose suggestions, Smart Reply responses, and AI-powered email summarization

• Automate email-driven business processes including lead management, customer support, document processing, and task creation

• Connect Gmail with HubSpot for marketing automation, Salesforce for CRM email tracking, Asana for task management, Slack for team notifications, and Trello for email-to-card workflows

• Deploy instantly with secure OAuth 2.0 authentication, webhook management, email parsing, and production monitoring

About Gmail

Gmail is Google's cloud-based email service and a core component of Google Workspace, providing intelligent email management with AI-powered features, seamless integration with Google's productivity suite, and enterprise-grade security. With advanced automation through labels, filters, and machine learning, Gmail helps individuals and businesses manage communication efficiently while maintaining 15 GB of free storage and robust spam protection.

Gmail's core capabilities include:

• Labels & Filters: Flexible email organization with multiple labels per message, automatic filtering based on sender, subject, keywords, or attachments, and intelligent categorization into Primary, Social, and Promotions tabs

• Smart Compose & Smart Reply: AI-powered writing assistance that suggests complete phrases as you type and provides quick reply options based on email context and user habits

• Automatic Email Categorization: Machine learning algorithms that sort emails into tabs, identify important messages, surface relevant summary cards for travel/packages/events, and prioritize critical communications

• Enhanced Search: AI-powered search with smart tags, context recognition, people search, label filtering, attachment search, and integration with Google Docs and Calendar for comprehensive email retrieval

• Google Workspace Integration: Seamless connection with Google Drive for attachments, Calendar for scheduling, Meet for video calls, Docs for collaboration, and Chat for instant messaging

• Security & Privacy: Spam filtering with machine learning, phishing detection, encryption in transit (TLS), 2-factor authentication, confidential mode for sensitive emails, and admin controls for smart features

• Advanced Features: Offline access, scheduled send, email snooze, templates, undo send, voice typing, built-in translation, and customizable themes

The Gmail API enables developers to:

• Authenticate using OAuth 2.0 for user authorization or Service Accounts for server-to-server access with domain-wide delegation

• Read, send, modify, and delete email messages programmatically

• Manage labels, filters, and inbox categories with full CRUD operations

• Parse email content including headers, body, attachments, and metadata

• Monitor inbox changes with push notifications via Google Cloud Pub/Sub

• Batch operations for efficient API usage with multiple requests

• Access Gmail history for tracking changes and synchronization

Why Integrate Gmail with Emergent?

Building custom Gmail integrations typically requires significant engineering effort: setting up OAuth 2.0 flows in Google Cloud Console, managing access tokens and refresh tokens, implementing Gmail API calls with proper scopes, parsing MIME email structures, handling attachments with base64 encoding, configuring push notifications via Pub/Sub, building UI for email viewing and composition, and maintaining sync state across systems. Each Gmail-powered application can take weeks to develop and deploy properly.

Emergent eliminates this complexity:

• Build by prompt: Describe your email workflow in plain English. For example, "When Gmail receives emails from leads with 'partnership' in subject, create HubSpot contacts, save attachments to Drive, send Slack notifications to sales team, and create Asana tasks for follow-up." Emergent generates the complete application.

• Gmail-aware intelligence: Emergent understands Gmail's architecture (labels, filters, threads, messages, attachments), automatically handles OAuth 2.0 flows with token refresh, parses MIME email structures correctly, manages attachment encoding/decoding, configures push notifications, and optimizes for Gmail API quotas.

• Multi-tool orchestration: Connect Gmail with HubSpot for lead capture, Salesforce for email logging, Asana for task creation from emails, Slack for team notifications, and Trello for email-based project management in one unified workflow.

• Production-ready reliability: Built-in OAuth token refresh logic, Gmail API rate limit handling (250 quota units per user per second), email parsing with MIME support, attachment processing with size limits, push notification management via Pub/Sub, retry logic with exponential backoff, and audit logs ensure your Gmail integrations run reliably at scale.

• Secure by design: Encrypted credential storage for OAuth tokens (access and refresh tokens), automatic token refresh before expiration, Gmail API scope validation (minimal required permissions), email content encryption, environment isolation (dev/staging/prod), role-based access control, and compliance-friendly audit trails.

How Emergent Works with Gmail in Real Time?

STEP 1: Describe your email workflow

Example: "Build a lead management system where Gmail emails from website forms automatically create Salesforce leads, extract contact information, save attachments to Drive, send welcome emails via templates, notify sales team in Slack, and create follow-up tasks in Asana."

STEP 2: Declare your integrations

Say "Gmail + Salesforce + Slack + Asana." Emergent configures OAuth 2.0 authentication, email monitoring, API connections, and notification flows for all platforms.

STEP 3: Connect your Gmail account

Authenticate using OAuth 2.0 credentials (Client ID and Client Secret) from Google Cloud Console. Emergent handles the OAuth flow automatically, obtains access tokens with appropriate Gmail API scopes (read, send, modify, labels), manages token refresh, and stores credentials securely in an encrypted vault with environment separation.

STEP 4: Design your email logic

Emergent helps you design email filters (by sender, subject, labels, keywords), configure label management (auto-labeling rules, label hierarchies), set up email parsing patterns (extract contact info, order details, invoice data), and establish response templates.

STEP 5: Configure triggers

Set up Gmail push notifications via Google Cloud Pub/Sub for real-time email events, scheduled polling for periodic inbox checks, or manual triggers for on-demand email operations like bulk labeling or archiving.

STEP 6: Test your workflow

Preview email parsing with sample messages, validate filter logic with test emails, test OAuth token refresh, verify attachment handling, check label application, and review logs before going live.

STEP 7: Deploy in one click

Push your integration to production with monitoring, OAuth token management, Gmail API quota tracking, email processing pipeline, push notification reliability, and automated error recovery. Roll back instantly if needed.

STEP 8: Iterate and expand

Add new email filters, modify parsing logic, extend label automation, configure additional templates, connect more tools, or enhance email workflows through natural language prompts.

Popular Gmail + Emergent Integration Use Cases

Build a Marketing Lead Capture System Using Emergent with Gmail HubSpot Integration

Automatically capture leads from Gmail emails, create HubSpot contacts with enriched data, track email engagement, and trigger marketing workflows for seamless lead management from inbox to CRM.

How it's built with Emergent:

• Write your prompt: "When Gmail receives emails to sales@company.com, automatically extract contact information (name, email, company), create or update HubSpot contacts, assign to marketing workflows based on email content, log the email conversation in HubSpot timeline, and notify sales team in Slack for high-value leads identified by keywords."

• Declare integrations: Gmail + HubSpot Integration

• Share credentials securely: Authenticate Gmail using OAuth 2.0 (with gmail.readonly and gmail.send scopes), and connect HubSpot API credentials

• Design email logic: Configure Gmail filters for lead emails, set up contact extraction patterns, define lead scoring rules based on email content

• Set triggers and schedules: Enable Gmail push notifications via Pub/Sub for real-time lead capture, configure email parsing workflows

• Test and preview: Validate contact extraction accuracy, test HubSpot contact creation, verify lead scoring logic

• Deploy: Activate with email monitoring and CRM synchronization

• Expand: Add automatic email response templates, lead qualification scoring, or marketing campaign enrollment

Outcome: Automated lead capture from email, eliminated manual CRM data entry, instant lead routing to sales, complete email history in CRM, and accelerated lead response times.

Build an Email-Driven CRM System Using Emergent with Gmail Salesforce Integration

Automatically log all Gmail emails to Salesforce records, track customer communications, create tasks from emails, and maintain complete conversation history for unified customer relationship management.

How it's built with Emergent:

• Write your prompt: "When Gmail sends or receives emails with Salesforce contacts, automatically log emails to corresponding contact/lead/opportunity records, extract action items and create Salesforce tasks, identify sentiment from email content, update opportunity stages based on email keywords (contract, agreement, pricing), and notify account owners of important customer emails."

• Declare integrations: Gmail + Salesforce Integration

• Share credentials securely: Authenticate Gmail via OAuth 2.0, and connect Salesforce API credentials

• Design email logic: Map Gmail contacts to Salesforce records, configure automatic email logging rules, set up task extraction patterns from email content

• Set triggers and schedules: Enable Gmail push notifications for sent/received emails, configure real-time Salesforce logging

• Test and preview: Validate email-to-record matching, test automatic task creation, verify sentiment analysis

• Deploy: Launch with bidirectional email sync and activity tracking

• Expand: Add automatic meeting scheduling from emails, contract tracking, or customer health scoring based on email frequency

Outcome: Complete email history on customer records, automated activity logging, eliminated manual email filing, instant visibility into customer communications, and data-driven relationship insights.

Build an Email-to-Task Automation System Using Emergent with Gmail Asana Integration

Automatically convert Gmail emails into Asana tasks with context, attachments, and due dates for streamlined task management directly from inbox communications.

How it's built with Emergent:

• Write your prompt: "When Gmail receives emails with specific labels (action required, follow-up, project), automatically create Asana tasks in corresponding projects, include email body as task description, attach Gmail attachments to Asana tasks, set due dates from email content, assign tasks based on email recipients, and send confirmation replies."

• Declare integrations: Gmail + Asana Integration

• Share credentials securely: Authenticate Gmail using OAuth 2.0, and connect Asana API credentials

• Design email logic: Configure label-based task creation rules, set up due date extraction patterns, define automatic assignment logic

• Set triggers and schedules: Enable Gmail label change detection, configure real-time task creation workflows

• Test and preview: Validate task creation from emails, test attachment transfer, verify assignment logic

• Deploy: Activate with email-to-task automation pipeline

• Expand: Add automatic task prioritization based on sender importance, recurring task detection, or project categorization using AI

Outcome: Automated task creation from emails, eliminated manual task entry, preserved email context in tasks, complete attachment synchronization, and streamlined inbox-to-action workflows.

Build a Team Notification System Using Emergent with Gmail Slack Integration

Automatically forward important Gmail emails to Slack channels, provide instant team visibility into critical communications, and enable quick responses without leaving team chat platform.

How it's built with Emergent:

• Write your prompt: "When Gmail receives emails matching specific filters (from VIP customers, containing urgent keywords, sent to support@), automatically post formatted messages to relevant Slack channels with email preview, sender info, and action buttons for quick reply or escalation. Enable Slack commands for searching Gmail and replying to emails."

• Declare integrations: Gmail + Slack Integration

• Share credentials securely: Authenticate Gmail via OAuth 2.0, and authorize Slack via OAuth

• Design email logic: Configure VIP sender lists, set up urgency keyword detection, create Slack message templates with email previews

• Set triggers and schedules: Enable Gmail push notifications for filtered emails, configure Slack command handlers

• Test and preview: Validate Slack message formatting, test action buttons, verify email search commands

• Deploy: Launch with real-time email-to-Slack notifications

• Expand: Add sentiment analysis for customer emails, automatic escalation for angry customers, or team collaboration threads for email responses

Outcome: Real-time team awareness of important emails, eliminated email forwarding overhead, instant collaboration on customer communications, quick response capabilities, and unified team communication.

Build an Email-Based Project Manager Using Emergent with Gmail Trello Integration

Automatically create Trello cards from Gmail emails, organize project communication, and maintain email-driven project workflows with attachment synchronization and status tracking.

How it's built with Emergent:

• Write your prompt: "When Gmail receives project-related emails (identified by keywords, specific senders, or labels), automatically create Trello cards in corresponding boards, use email subject as card title, include email body in card description, attach Gmail files to cards, set due dates from email content, and update card status when email threads are completed."

• Declare integrations: Gmail + Trello Integration

• Share credentials securely: Authenticate Gmail using OAuth 2.0, and connect Trello API credentials

• Design email logic: Configure project identification patterns, set up board routing rules, define card creation templates

• Set triggers and schedules: Enable Gmail push notifications for project emails, configure thread completion detection

• Test and preview: Validate card creation from emails, test attachment synchronization, verify due date extraction

• Deploy: Activate with email-to-card automation and project tracking

• Expand: Add automatic checklist creation from email action items, team member assignment from CC recipients, or project timeline visualization

Outcome: Organized email-based project management, automated card creation from communications, complete project context with email history, synchronized attachments, and visual project tracking from inbox.