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The Drive AI connects to your Google Drive and organizes it in place: it reads your documents, then moves, renames and files them into folders, and can edit Google Docs and Sheets. Nothing is copied out of Google Drive to do this. Every change is shown before it’s made and can be undone. Connected Google Drive comes with Max, Team, Business and Enterprise.

What you need

  • A plan with connected drives: Max, Team, Business or Enterprise. See Plans & Pricing.
  • Your Google account connected in Settings > Integrations > Google Drive. Any member except a viewer can connect their own.
  • For shared drives: an owner or admin adds each Google Shared Drive once. Each member then reaches it through their own Google account, with their own permissions. See Personal drives and shared drives.

How it works

1

Connect Google Drive

Open Settings > Integrations > Google Drive and click Connect Google Drive. The agent builds a catalog of your drive. When the account shows Agent: ready, it can find every file.
2

Ask the agent

Open your drive under Connected in the left sidebar, go to the folder, and ask, for example “Sort these invoices into folders by vendor and year, and rename each one with the date and vendor.”
3

Check and apply

The agent shows a card with every move and rename. Click Apply N changes, or tell it what to do differently. Click Undo on the card to reverse it later.
4

Keep it organized

To file new files as they arrive, set up a workflow with a File Uploaded trigger on a Google Drive folder. To go through a folder on a schedule, use On a Schedule. See Triggers.
You can also use the agent from Chrome’s side panel while you’re on the Google Drive page. See Browser extension.

What the agent can do in Google Drive

  • Find files by name, and by content using Google Drive’s own search.
  • Read Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and text files.
  • Move, rename, copy, create folders and move files to Google Drive’s trash.
  • Edit Google Docs, Google Sheets and plain text files in place. The earlier content can be restored with Undo.
  • Save files it makes, such as a summary PDF or a spreadsheet, into a Google Drive folder.
  • Move or copy files between Google Drive and The Drive AI or another drive, as one change. See Move files between drives.
It acts with your own Google permissions. If you can only view a file, the agent can read it but not change it.

What it can’t do

  • It doesn’t read images stored in Google Drive.
  • It can’t edit Slides decks or Drawings. Open those in Google Drive.
  • It can’t move a file someone else shared with you out of their folder. It can copy it into a folder of yours instead.
  • Search may miss words that only appear in a scan.

Compared with Gemini in Google Drive

Google’s own Gemini in Drive can also suggest where files should go. For what each one does, side by side, see The Drive AI vs Gemini.

Connected drives

Everything about how the agent works in a connected drive.

Google Drive integration

Connecting, importing and exporting.

Organize SharePoint and OneDrive

The same for Microsoft 365.

Preview, approve and undo

How every change is shown and reversed.

Google Drive on thedrive.ai

What The Drive AI does in Google Drive, at a glance.