Google Chat

Google Chat works like Slack — link a group space to a feature, and what is said there becomes its memory. SeamTrail never reads direct messages.

Early access

Google Chat works like Slack: the SeamTrail app in your group spaces.

What it does

  • Memory: what people say in a group space linked to a feature becomes that feature's memory, like a Slack channel's messages. When you link a space, SeamTrail reads its last week first.
  • Your people: everyone on the feature is added to the feature's spaces.
  • A space for a feature: a feature's Admins and Managers can create a new space for it, with its people, in one step.
  • Notes to a person: when someone needs to know something (for example, a decision of theirs was replaced), SeamTrail can send them a direct message from the app, if Slack is not connected.

What it never does

  • It never reads direct messages — between people, or to the app. If you write to the app directly, it only answers with where to go; what you wrote is not kept.
  • It reads only the group spaces it has been added to, and only once a space is linked to a feature in SeamTrail.

Set it up

  1. Your Google Workspace admin installs the SeamTrail app for your company (Google Workspace Marketplace), and approves its access once.
  2. An org Admin or Manager opens Settings → Tools → Google Chat → Connect. There is no sign-in: the app works as itself.
  3. Add the SeamTrail app to a space in Google Chat.
  4. In the feature, click + Add → Google Chat space, and pick the space. You can link only a space you are in.

How it works

  • SeamTrail reads linked spaces every few minutes.
  • The app has its own access, approved by your Workspace admin: post in spaces it is in and send a person a note (chat.bot); read a space's messages, create spaces and add people (chat.app.messages.readonly, chat.app.spaces, chat.app.memberships).
  • SeamTrail never asks anyone for their own Chat permissions, which could reach their private chats.

Not yet

  • The daily digest and drift alerts still post to Slack only.
  • The agent does not answer inside Chat (it does not in Slack either): ask it in SeamTrail or in your AI assistant.

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