One partner for your Google Workspace and the AI that runs on it

You’re the IT department, and you didn’t apply for the job

Your business runs on Google Workspace. When someone new starts, you set up their email. When someone leaves, you try to remember which shared folders they had. When an AI tool asks for access to Drive, you click yes and hope. None of it is your real job, and it all lands in the evening, after the real work is done.

Why Google Workspace on its own isn’t enough

Google Workspace is a strong base for a small business. Email, files, documents, and spreadsheets all live in one account, and Google keeps it running. Google has added Gemini to many plans, so AI turns up inside the apps too.

But Google keeps the service running, and your setup is still yours to manage. Google won’t notice that a contractor who left last year can still open your client folder. It won’t tell you which AI tools have been given access to your Drive. And it won’t keep the AI helpers you built last spring working when something changes. That needs someone who knows your business.

How we look after it

We start by mapping how you work (the industry calls it process mapping), including who uses which parts of Google Workspace and which jobs could go to AI. Then we tidy what we find: old accounts, wide-open sharing, and apps with more access than they need.

From there, we set up AI helpers (the industry calls them agents) on the jobs that eat your week. We work with Saltbush Studio, a six-person design agency in Fremantle, where an AI helper drafts twelve Friday client updates from the project board. The director adds a personal line to each, and the job now takes under an hour. We still haven’t connected the separate app the studio uses for hours, so the updates can’t say if a job is over budget. Read the Saltbush Studio story.

Each month, we look after it all within your package time. People come and go, sharing stays tidy, and your AI helpers keep working. On Small Team and Growing Team, we also meet once a month to review what’s next.

When this is the right call, and when it isn’t

It suits a team of one to ten that runs on Google Workspace and wants AI working on real jobs, with someone looking after both. It’s the same help a bigger company gets from its tech team, at a fixed price.

If you only need a one-off fix, like setting up email for a new domain, a package is more than you need. And if your business runs mostly on Microsoft, see the AI & Technology Partner for Microsoft 365 instead.

Where to go next

See the wider AI & Technology Partner service, the packages, or read about Google Workspace. See how we work with marketing and creative agencies and not-for-profits. When you’re ready, get your AI Starter Plan.