Gemini Handbook
Gemini Handbook
Google Workspace:
A powerful and
easy way of working
with generative AI
A guide on how generative AI
and Google Workspace are
transforming work for the better
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Table of contents
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Executive summary
In a nutshell, generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that
helps humans create content, such as text and images. It
Google’s AI Principles
represents a new era of work, and the world is rapidly shifting to 1. Be socially beneficial
embrace it. As it transforms how people do things, it's boosting
2. Avoid creating or
creativity, productivity, and collaboration like never before. reinforcing unfair bias
Business leaders across industries and around the world 3. Be built and tested
recognize that they need to quickly develop plans for adopting for safety
Google Workspace is at the forefront of AI, having decided long 6. Uphold high standards
of scientific excellence
ago that the most effective way to deliver AI features was not to
bolt-on tools in a complementary manner, but to be an AI-first 7. Be made available for
uses that accord with
product instead. Along the way, we have used AI to block 99.9% these principles
of spam and phishing attacks on Gmail, provide summaries of
Read more about
long texts on Google Docs and conversations in Google Chat, Google’s AI Principles.
and help people write over 180 billion times in the last year alone.
We’ve tested Gemini features extensively with thousands of users, who leveraged these tools to
help them get things done at work and in their personal lives — including with client outreach
emails, job postings, project plans, time-saving summaries, and more.
Gemini can:
What is AI and how AI, or artificial intelligence, is a broad term that encompasses
is it different from a wide range of technologies that enable machines to mimic
generative AI? human cognitive functions. Generative AI is an advanced
subset of AI that focuses on the ability to create and modify
content, such as text, images, and other content.
How it works
Currently, most generative AI models are primarily language-driven, meaning people can use simple,
conversational language in their interactions with the models.
Generative language models learn about patterns in language by being exposed to enormous
amounts of training data — with text in many different formats being used in many different contexts.
Given a text prompt, these models predict what comes next through inference, and are used to create
text-to-text content to help people write, summarize, and respond in apps like Gmail and Docs.
Generative image models produce new images using techniques like diffusion, which means the
model learns by deconstructing a large number of images into noise, and then mapping noise back
to images. Given a prompt or related imagery, they resolve noise into a correlated image, creating
text-to-image content that can help people in Google Slides and Google Meet.
Two techniques that help people guide both of these types of models toward useful output are
prompting and fine-tuning.
Gemini can immediately and positively impact how teams and individuals do
day-to-day work. As an example, think of a sales team prospecting customers
in a new region. With Gemini, this team can now use AI-generated transcripts
from Meet video calls with potential customers to automatically create custom
sales pitches for each prospect, using the transcriptions of their conversations
as prompts. In that scenario, the team would save many hours they would have
spent writing documents, and be able to focus on what really matters – closing
the deals.
These are some of the many ways Gemini for Workspace can help teams work
and collaborate better, and create additional value for organizations. In the next
section, we’ll look more closely at six Gemini use cases to make work better.
Help me write
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Say goodbye to writer’s block and build sharper, more useful documents
2 Help me organize
Organize and act on your data faster than ever
3 Help me design
Convey your artistic vision from a simple prompt
5 Help me connect
Have better calls with enhanced video, audio, and custom backgrounds
1 Help me write
Help me write is ideal for creating content from scratch. This feature is perfect for when it feels
daunting to stare at a blank page. You can use the Gemini side panel to provide a prompt about your
topic and let Gemini create an initial draft for you. It can also help refine existing content, adjusting for
length, tone, and style.
Help me write
Hey Team,
Best regards,
Insert
2 Help me organize
In Sheets you can use Gemini’s side panel to create a custom template by simply describing what
you're trying to accomplish and Gemini will generate a table that helps you get organized. Gemini
classifies data by understanding the context of that data in a cell and labeling it. This frees you up for
more critical tasks than manual data input.
Gemini
Hello Amal
How can I help you today?
3 Help me design
With create an image, you can easily create original images for your presentations. Sourcing relevant
images can be expensive and time-consuming, but now you can create unique and compelling visuals
with simple text prompts in the Gemini side panel.
Gemini
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Inspiration
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5 Help me connect
Gemini in Meet enhances the inclusiveness and interactivity of video calls. This allows distributed teams,
hybrid workers, and frontline workers to stay connected, collaborative, and efficient.
Generate a background
A magical forest
Illustration
Angelique Moss
Sales
Imagine a sales leader has learned that a potential customer is looking to change providers and
has to bring the team together to get a proposal created on the same day. With Gemini, the team:
• Defines roles and responsibilities in a Meet call. They then receive a transcript of the meeting.
• Uses the Gemini side panel to organize the transcript per action item owners in Docs, create a
project tracker in Sheets that references specific Drive files, build a deck in Slides, and draft the
email to initiate the engagement with the customer in Gmail.
• Uses Vids to quickly produce a custom video that introduces the team and sets up the proposal.
• Moves from internal chat to compelling outreach in a few hours instead of days.
Earl Johnson
Gemini helps sellers quickly generate different types of sales materials, freeing up their time
to focus on strategy and relationship building:
• With help me write, sellers managing multiple accounts can use Gemini in Gmail to write
customized outreach, follow-up emails, and cold emails so they can focus on relationship
management instead of drafting manually.
• With simple prompts, Gemini helps sellers create sales presentations in Slides, sales
scripts and customer pitches in Docs, explainer videos in Vids, customer trackers in Sheets,
and more. This allows them to reallocate precious time to sourcing and closing deals.
Help me write
4 Create
Sellers can also individually use Gemini as a personal assistant to help track their work
better. With summaries in Meet and the side panel in Docs, Sheets, and Gmail Gemini can:
• Help individual sellers organize their work by creating custom trackers in Sheets. They
can ask Gemini to create tables for leads, negotiation status, pipeline, revenue, and
other information relevant to their individual workstreams.
• Summarize hours-long sales calls on Meet. Simply take the transcript and ask Gemini
to summarize it in the side panel of Docs. Sellers can then use the content of the
summary to prompt Gemini to create follow-up messages in Gmail within minutes of
the call ending. This helps sellers keep track of all customer conversations, removes
the need for note-taking, and saves time on email writing.
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Gemini can help sales teams make every potential customer feel seen with customized RFP
responses. With the side panel in Docs, Gmail, Sheets, and Slides, Gemini can generate
unique RFP responses and proposals:
• Use Gemini in Slides to create customized imagery for slide decks to respond to
customers' RFPs. Create an image can create specific visuals that are relevant to
each customer’s industry and needs, which can help add a special touch and build
the relationship.
• Use Gemini in Sheets to structure and organize customers' public data, such as the
latest earnings, business priorities, and competitors, making it easier to learn about
the customers. Then use Gemini’s help me write in Docs to write sales scripts and
pitches that tie the customer's needs to available solutions.
Create an image
Photography
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air quality
3 sensor
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Marketing
Imagine a social media team with a short window to jump on the latest social trend. With Gemini:
• Copywriters, designers, and channel owners can use a Google Meet call to
brainstorm and make decisions. They then get a transcript of the meeting.
• The team can use Gemini in Docs to organize the transcript per action item owners,
who can then prompt Gemini to create a project tracker in Sheets, several versions
of copy in Docs, and visual concepts in Slides for the posts.
• To help the team move fast, Gemini can provide summaries of email threads in Gmail,
so everyone stays on top of communications and knows what to do next.
• With Gemini, the team can go from first chat to first post in hours instead of days.
Summary
Gemini in Docs helps marketers quickly generate large amounts of marketing copy and find the
winning messages faster.
• With the Gemini side panel in Docs, copywriters can generate large volumes of high-quality
copy for digital ads, meta content for SEO, social post captions, and email campaigns.
• Simply tell Gemini what you’re looking for and let it start writing for you. For example: write
250-character paid social copy about home insurance for millennials, or write a five-step
email nurture cadence for Gen-Z free-trialers of a subscription service.
• Marketers can now spend more time on high-impact work, such as deploying tests and
experiments, and measuring results to find the highest performing content mix faster and
yield better performance across channels.
Social Copy:
Create
With create an image in Slides, Gemini can generate visual concepts in an instant, helping creative
teams move faster and at lower cost.
• Teams can generate visual concepts for mood boards, digital ads, print ads, out-of-home
billboards, and many other formats by prompting Gemini in Slides (e.g. pickup truck driving
on Highway 1), reducing creative development costs while speeding up campaign timelines.
• With simple prompts in the side panel of Docs, teams can use Gemini to expand keyword
lists for search campaigns, create copy for infographics, and write blogs, thought
leadership pieces, campaign briefs, and performance reports.
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• After an important conference or webinar, teams can use Vids to create a recap video
with key takeaways.
• Teams can grow output without growing costs, helping improve the budget's ROI.
Jamie Snyder
Hi Team, we are preparing for our PR event...
Gemini
Rosa Onneto
Great idea, Julian Pesky is a great resource for proj....
Hello Julie
How can I help you today?
Oliver Ramirez
Anne Warren and Sesy Posh were at the con....
Summarize this email
in more detail
Suggest a reply
Provide atomore
this email
detailed summary
of this email
Use the power of integrated Workspace apps and Gemini to go from an email thread
to a large-scale customized email campaign in a few hours.
• Marketing teams can use Gmail to ask Sales for recommendations on who to
invite for an upcoming event. Gemini can summarize the email thread with the
suggested names.
• Then, Gemini can automatically create a list of guests in Sheets, and be used to
write customized invitations in Docs for each individual invitee. This saves time
and increases the likelihood of positive RSVPs.
• Similarly, email marketing managers can use Gemini to create 1:1 personalized
nurture, upsell, or follow-up emails for hundreds or even thousands of contacts
across different customer datasets in Sheets.
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Customer service
• Help me write in Docs lets customer support professionals specify text tonality,
check grammar, and adjust outputs to meet the organization's standards for
consistency and clarity.
• Customer service teams can use combinations of auto-respond and help me write
in Gmail to align all emails to a more formal or casual tone of voice across external
communications, based on the organization, so customer service representatives
don’t have to worry about writing style.
Tone Formal
Casual
Summarize
Bulletize
Elaborate
Shorten
Retry
Refine
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Gemini can also help customer service representatives handle high volumes of inbound requests in
less time, decrease response time, increase the number of resolved cases, and ultimately increase
customer satisfaction.
• Customer support reps can use Gemini to organize and summarize inquiries with the side panel
in Docs to get to the core of the customer’s request, then generate answers that can be refined
as needed. This saves time and helps cases get resolved faster. It can also help keep FAQs up to
date, and teams can use Vids to answer customer questions that are better explained visually.
• For support provided over email, Gemini can help answer more inquiries by writing complete
responses to be reviewed by the customer support representatives. That can help decrease
response time and increase the average number of resolved issues per representative.
Patricia Kitz
Help me write
Dear Customer,
Best regards,
Insert
Customer service teams can use Gemini’s features to structure data for ease of reading and learning.
• With Gemini, customer service teams can use the side panel in Sheets to structure and organize
customer questions and support cases by topic, then use the insights to write solutions for
future similar cases via the side panel in Docs.
• Customer service representatives can share the insights from the organized data with team
members, as well as use the insights to update FAQs and provide feedback to product teams so
they can improve the organization's products and services.
• Teams can even answer FAQs with explainer videos that they create with Vids.
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Sales scenario
A four-person sales team with an average sales quota of $50K per seller per month
generates $200K in revenue/month. If, like many sellers, they are spending half of their time
on administrative tasks like sending prospecting emails, taking and cleaning up meeting
notes and action items, customizing pitches, and sending follow-up messaging — and if
Gemini cuts the time those tasks take in half — then Gemini can free up 25% of each seller’s
time. If they repurpose that work to focus on selling, that could translate into an additional
$50K in revenue/month, or the equivalent of one additional full-time seller.
Marketing scenario
A marketing team writes, localizes, and proofs all marketing copy for demand generation campaigns, but
they are spending so much time working on the copy that they don’t have time to tune it for different
channels and drive prospects to the content via social media. If they can use Gemini to generate, proof,
and translate twice as much copy via the side panel in Docs, then half of the marketing team could focus
on driving that content to the right prospects, which could conservatively give them a 20% increase in
the number of inquiries from prospects for the same cost. If the value of the pipeline they were
generating was $600K/year (or $50K/month), this would result in an additional $120K in pipeline
generated by the team. If that pipeline has a 40% close rate, that’s $48K in additional revenue.
Your data is your data. The content that you put into Workspace services (emails, documents,
etc.) is yours. We never sell your data, and you can delete your content or export it.
Your data stays in Workspace. We do not use your Workspace data to train or improve the
underlying generative AI and large language models that power Search and other systems
outside of Workspace without permission.
Your privacy is protected. Interactions with intelligent Workspace features, such as accepting
or rejecting spelling suggestions, or reporting spam, are anonymized and/or aggregated and
may be used to improve or develop helpful Workspace features like spam protection, spell
check, and autocomplete. This extends to new features we are currently developing like improved
prompt suggestions that help Workspace users get the best results from Gemini features.
These features are developed with strict privacy protections that keep users in control. (See below
for more detail on additional privacy, security, and compliance commitments we make
for business customers).
Your content is not used for ads targeting. As a reminder, Google does not collect, scan,
or use your content in Workspace services for advertising purposes.
Your interactions with Gemini stay within your organization. Gemini stores any prompts
or generated content alongside your Workspace content and does not share them outside
your organization.
Your existing Workspace protections are automatically applied. Gemini brings the
same enterprise-grade security as the rest of Workspace, automatically applying your
organization’s existing controls and data handling practices, such as data-regions policies
and Data Loss Prevention.
Your content is not used for any other customers. None of your content is used for model
training outside of your domain without permission.
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Gemini unlocks a
new and powerful
way of working
Gemini for Google Workspace enables teams to connect, create,
and collaborate from anywhere, on a variety of devices, using the power
of generative AI. It helps people get more out of work by boosting
productivity, enabling new skills, and freeing up time for more impactful
work. All of this is done in a smooth and easy-to-use way, without the
need for code, new interfaces, or multiple buttons and steps.
To learn more about how Gemini for Google Workspace can benefit your
team or organization, contact sales today.