Allow ChatGPT to access third-party tools to bring your work into your chats
July 17, 2025 · Last updated on August 7, 2025
Connectors
Connectors let ChatGPT access your third-party tools like Google Drive, SharePoint, or GitHub so you can bring your work into the conversation. Search files, pull data, and generate insights from your organization’s data and content. Check out available connectors here.
Why is useful at work
Connectors bring the knowledge you need into ChatGPT, without leaving your workflow. This saves time, reduces context switching, and makes everyday tasks more efficient. With access to your internal context, ChatGPT can provide responses that reflect how your organization works.
Connector types
Connector Type
Description
Great for
Example prompts
Chat Search Connectors
Fast, ad-hoc searches that surface relevant files and content directly in chat. Links let you jump into original files.
Everyday tasks like synthesizing, iterating, or quickly finding files.
Locate last week’s product roadmap in Box, then summarize the top three milestones. Use the roadmap file dated July 14 2025. Present the summary as three concise bullet points.
Deep Research Connectors
Power complex queries across many sources. Results are designed to cite sources and include both internal and web data.
In-depth work like retros, code reviews, or competitive analysis.
Summarize everything we shipped in the last two sprints across PR descriptions, design docs, and spec files. Draw only from internal documents created in the last 30 days. Deliver a release note with headings for Frontend, Backend, and Docs, and cite each source inline.
Build and connect your own data sources via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Developers and admins who need to connect third-party tools or internal systems.
Query our internal CRM [via custom connector] to list the top five customer pain-point themes from Q2 feedback notes. Return a markdown table with columns Theme and Frequency.
Getting started
Go to Settings → Connectors.
Click Connect next to your app.
Complete the authentication and permissions flow.
The connector now appears in Tools during chats.
Note: Your organization’s admin controls whether connectors are available to you. If you don’t see the option to connect an app, check with your admin. As with all business data on your ChatGPT Enterprise or Team workspace, Data accessed through connectors is not used to train OpenAI models by default.
Using connectors in a chat
Start a new conversation.
Go to Tools → choose Connectors
Pick your connected sources.
Ask your prompt.
Tip: Include folder names or key file info for better results: “Check my Box folder called Client Contracts Q3.”
Examples for your role
Role
Best Connector Type
Ready‑to‑use prompt
Marketing
Chat Search
Search our Google Drive › Campaign Assets 2025 folder for the latest ‘Summer Launch Creative Brief,’ then list three key messaging pillars.
Product
Deep Research
Across internal PRDs, design docs, and Jira tickets from the past 30 days, summarize new features scheduled for the next release. Organize by Frontend, Backend, and Docs and cite each source.
Finance
Synced (Google Drive)
Using the synced Q3 Budget vs Actuals spreadsheet, calculate variance by department and highlight any line over budget by > 10% in a Markdown table.
Sales
Custom (CRM)
Query our CRM to pull the top five open deals closing this quarter. Return a table with Account, Deal Size, Stage, and Next Step.
Engineering
Chat Search
Find GitHub PRs merged in the last week that mention ‘database migration’. Summarize any follow-up tasks and link to the PRs.
HR
Synced (Sharepoint)
Explain our PTO carry-over policy using the synced Employee Handbook (May 2025 revision) in fewer than 100 words, formatted as an FAQ answer.
IT
Deep Research
From Jira tickets and Confluence pages created in the last 14 days, list recurring root causes of Sev 1 incidents and suggest two preventive actions per issue, with citations.
