Google Workspace now lets you create AI agents to automate your work – how to get started
Google Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Google Workspace Studio will let you create your own AI agents. The tool is available for Business and Enterprise Workspace users. No coding required, according to Google. Agentic AI is all the buzz in the business world as people envision creating…
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ZDNET’s key takeaways
- Google Workspace Studio will let you create your own AI agents.
- The tool is available for Business and Enterprise Workspace users.
- No coding required, according to Google.
Agentic AI is all the buzz in the business world as people envision creating and using special AI agents to carry out both routine and complex tasks on their behalf. Now, Google is launching a new product for Workspace users who want to see if they can benefit from such agents.
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Soon available for companies with Business or Enterprise Workspace subscriptions, Google Workspace Studio aims to help employees create, manage, and share AI agents. Accessible directly in Workspace, the tool supports the standard Workspace apps, including Gmail, Google Chat, and Google Drive, as well as select third-party apps such as Salesforce, Mailchimp, and Asana.
You can use Studio to create AI agents to tackle a variety of tasks, from simple to complex. But the best candidates are ones that are also repetitive. Any task that requires you to repeat the same steps and actions is one that could potentially be handled more efficiently by an agent, freeing you up for other work.
Gemini 3 powers Workspace agents
Yet these aren’t just mindless tasks. They’re ones that often require decision-making. That’s why Google has enlisted Gemini 3 to power the process. Promising greater reasoning skills and more effective multimodal capabilities, the latest Gemini model is designed to navigate the problems and challenges that often arise, even in simple tasks.
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“While traditional automation logic relies on stringent rules, rigid conditionals, and coding skills, Workspace agents are designed to be more powerful and flexible,” Google said in a new blog post.
“Thanks to Gemini’s advanced capabilities, these agents can effectively reason through problems, adapt instantly to new information, and tackle the most complex, end-to-end business processes. This unlocks a new level of AI help, enabling sentiment analysis, content generation, intelligent prioritization, smart notifications, and more.”
Developing AI agents, especially ones that aim to perform programmatically complex tasks, seems like a daunting challenge. But here, Google promises that no coding or special technical skills are required to build your own agents. By integrating directly with Workspace, Studio is also accessible in the same tools and apps you normally use. If you do need help getting started, you can always check out these YouTube videos, refer to the Studio Help Center page, or join the Workspace Discord channel.
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To get started, make sure you have the right kind of Workspace or AI account, and that Studio is set up at your organization. Any of the following plans qualify:
- Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus
- Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
- Google AI Pro for Education
- Google AI Ultra for Business
If Studio is ready, head to the Google Workspace Studio page. Make sure you’re signed in with your Workspace account and then click the Get Started button. You can then try to design your first agent from scratch or use one of the built-in templates.
Some agent tasks you can try
As a few template examples, you could ask for a daily summary of unread emails from Gmail, get notifications about emails from key people, label emails that have action items, highlight certain emails for follow-up, send email summaries and action items after meetings, or get news headlines summarized each day.
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Otherwise, you can add your own tasks for an agent to carry out. You might create an agent to automatically add email attachments to Google Drive, to request team updates each week, to write email replies using information from a specific document, or to be notified when you’re mentioned in a Google Chat conversation.
When will you actually be able to use Studio? That depends on your organization and your release schedule. For companies on the rapid release track, admins will see Studio in the Admin console, and employees will get access starting December 3. For those on the scheduled release track, admin console settings will begin to roll out December 3, but user access won’t kick off until Jan. 5, 2026.
