Who can get Claude Duet, the cost, how to join, what it does in Gmail on its own and only with your approval, and why it can't run a team inbox.
Nick Timms · Oct 22, 2026 · 11 min readFive big-lab AI agents plus Drag's own Varley, side by side on email: who can get each, price, sending rules, own address, UK and EU access, team inboxes.
Nick Timms · Oct 22, 2026Drag, Front, Missive, Hiver, Gmelius and Help Scout all publish MCP servers now. What each lets Claude or ChatGPT do on a team inbox, and which can send.
Nick Timms · Oct 20, 2026Gmail's AI Inbox reaches more Workspace accounts from October 26: which plans get it, why it may not show, how to hide it, and why shared inboxes miss out.
Nick Timms · Oct 19, 2026The support setup I'd use if we refused to pay for a tool: Gmail, a free Google Group as support@, and Claude or ChatGPT. Steps, prompts, costs, limits.
Duda Bardavid · Oct 13, 2026Is the Gemini agent free, and can it answer email? Google's coworker agents get an @agents address. Plans, price and the catch for shared inboxes.
Nick Timms · Oct 12, 2026OpenAI released dots on 29 September 2026: always-on agents in ChatGPT. Who can get one (not yet Pro in the UK or EU), what a dot can do with your email, and the approval rules.
Nick Timms · Oct 1, 2026Agentic email is AI that reads, decides and acts in an inbox. What the term means, the four permission levels, the real risks, and how support teams start in Gmail.
Nick Timms · Sep 27, 202618 Gemini prompts for email, organized by where they run: Gmail's side panel, the Gemini app connected to your inbox, and a shared team inbox. Each with why it works and what it returns.
Nick Timms · Sep 11, 2026Drag is in ChatGPT's Plugin Directory. Install it, enter your Drag API key once, and run your Gmail shared inbox from ChatGPT: the setup, the approvals to expect, and what to ask first.
Nick Timms · Oct 14, 202615 AI prompts for sales follow-ups, organized by how long the silence has lasted: three days, two weeks, gone cold. Three mine the real inbox for owed replies.
Nick Timms · Sep 3, 202615 AI prompts for WhatsApp Business replies: short, human, and fast, with the 24-hour window respected. Three run a connected WhatsApp inbox themselves.
Nick Timms · Sep 3, 2026
