Your Data Sources
Your Data Sources is the home for linked accounts and external systems that can be used inside Alfrada workflows.
What It Does
- shows available providers by category
- lets you connect and remove linked accounts
- supports multiple accounts where a provider allows it
- exposes connection state such as connected, auth required, or not connected
- makes connected capabilities available inside conversations once the relevant tool is enabled
Why It Matters
Without connected data sources, Alfrada works with chat, uploads, memory, history, and public tools.
With connected data sources, it can work inside the systems your team already uses. In practice, that means Alfrada can move from discussing work to operating on the underlying tools and accounts that hold the work itself.
This is where the product becomes materially more useful.
Once linked, Alfrada can work across categories such as:
- Google Workspace: Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides
- Microsoft: Outlook and Teams
- Communication and collaboration: Slack and Zoom
- Social and distribution: LinkedIn and Facebook
- Development workflows: GitHub
That changes the role of the agent. Instead of only generating advice, it can search, draft, create, organize, update, or coordinate work inside connected systems when the tool is available and the account is linked.
Examples of what that can look like:
- search Drive for a file, pull it into the workflow, and generate a new output from it
- draft or reply to email with Gmail when connected
- create or update a Google Doc, Sheet, or Slides deck from session work
- use calendar context to shape planning, scheduling, and follow-up
- move from a research session into a GitHub, Slack, or LinkedIn workflow when those accounts are linked
The page is also operationally useful because it gives you one place to see what is actually connected, how many accounts are attached, and whether any provider needs re-authentication.
Good Uses
- bring calendar or email context into planning workflows
- connect storage so work can reference documents directly
- create outputs in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides from work already done in chat
- support collaboration and automation across external tools
- connect the systems where the work actually needs to land, not just where it starts
Good Hygiene
- connect only the systems you actually use
- give accounts readable names
- disconnect stale accounts
- review provider availability before building a workflow that depends on it
- remember that connected capability still depends on the relevant tool being enabled
- use Safety Center settings to decide which connected actions should always ask before proceeding
Linking a data source
A useful demo should show how to find a provider, connect an account, confirm status, and then use the connected capability inside a live session.