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Your inbox and calendar are where commitments hide. Connect them and Hive notices the email that has been waiting on you, the client who has gone quiet, and the meeting that needs a follow-up — and drafts the next step for you to approve.
Every action is prepared by Hive and waits for human approval. Hive will never turn a request for a draft into a sent email.

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Email signals

For Gmail and Outlook, Hive runs two built-in mail detectors:
  • Awaiting reply — the last message in a thread came from someone else, and you have not answered.
  • Went quiet — you have followed up (written into the thread at least twice since their last message) and the other person has not replied for at least three days.
Hive can prepare a draft reply alongside the signal. Mail is stored as private to the mailbox owner, and mail signals carry no address, subject or excerpt in their summary. If you dismiss one thread, Hive quiets that thread — not every thread with that person.

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Gmail

Connect: OAuth. Hive reads: your profile, labels, and inbox, unread and search results as message metadata and snippets. Actions with approval: send, create a draft, change labels, trash and untrash.

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Outlook

Connect: OAuth (Microsoft Graph mail and calendar). Hive reads: your profile, mail folders, messages, calendars, calendar view, free/busy and people lookup. Hive’s Outlook source tracks calendar events — start and end, time zones, all-day, cancellations and subject. Actions with approval: send, reply, forward, create a draft, move, mark as read and delete a message; create, update, cancel or delete a meeting; create a calendar.

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Google Calendar

Connect: OAuth. Hive reads: upcoming events and single events on your primary calendar, your list of calendars, and free/busy for the people you name. Actions with approval: create, update, delete and move meetings; create and delete calendars.

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Slack (connector)

Connect: OAuth. Hive reads: conversations, channel history, message search (if your Slack plan and the granted access allow it) and identity. Hive tracks channel metadata — name, created, archived, private and externally shared. Actions with approval: post a message, reply in a thread, update or delete a message, add a reaction.

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Microsoft Teams (connector)

Connect: OAuth. Hive reads: teams, channels, chats and messages, and chat metadata. Actions with approval: send a channel message, reply, send a chat message, create a channel.
The Slack and Teams connectors let Hive read and, with approval, post. They are separate from the Slack and Teams channels, which let your team ask Hive questions by @mention or DM. See Slack and Teams.

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Ideas

  • The Email Keeper workflow template reads new Outlook mail every hour, flags anything unusual for a human and drafts the rest of the replies.
  • “Which clients have I not replied to this week?”
  • “Find a free hour with the finance team next Tuesday and draft the invite.”

Triage signals

Act on, snooze or dismiss.

Accounting and client services

How client-facing firms use Hive.