Outlook + Kipwise Agent
Connect Outlook to Slack. Search and read messages, manage drafts, and work with events on your own calendar. Nothing is sent without your approval.
Outlook in Slack: read, draft, schedule
Your inbox, triaged in a thread
Ask what needs a reply and the agent reads your Outlook inbox. Ask it to draft the answer, read the draft, and approve before anything is sent.
@Kipwise what needs a reply today?
Three emails need a reply today:
- Priya Nair: asks for the signed order form
- Acme Finance: a question on invoice 1042
- Dana Whitt: can the Friday review move?
draft a reply to Priya: the signed order form goes out tomorrow
Draft saved in your Outlook drafts:
Hi Priya, thanks for the nudge. The signed order form goes out tomorrow morning. Best, Hollie
Ready when you are.
Send this draft to Priya Nair?
Send this draft to Priya Nair?
✓ Approved by Hollie BrandtSent to Priya.
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Move a meeting without opening the calendar
Ask to move, add or cancel an event. The card names the event and the new time, and the calendar changes once you approve.
@Kipwise move my 3pm to 4pm
Ready when you are.
Move “Roadmap review” from 15:00 to 16:00 today in your Outlook calendar?
✓ Approved by Hollie BrandtMoved “Roadmap review” to 16:00.
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Looking for a Slack for Outlook add-in or an Outlook calendar app for Slack?
Kipwise Agent is not an Outlook add-in. It works in Slack: ask it to search and read your Outlook mail, draft and send replies, and list, create or move events on your Outlook calendar, with an Approve card before anything is sent or changed. It connects to work or school Microsoft accounts, and some organisations need an administrator to approve the app first.
On Google Workspace instead? The Google Calendar Slack integration works the same way, with Gmail alongside.
How it works
Kipwise Agent is a Slack app. Outlook is connected per person from inside Slack, so the agent only ever uses your own mailbox and calendar. Personal Outlook.com accounts and work or school Microsoft 365 accounts both work.
- Ask the agent about your email or calendar in any channel or DM, for example @Kipwise Agent find the latest email from Acme in Outlook.
- Click “Connect Outlook” in the agent’s reply and sign in with Microsoft. The link is personal to you and expires in five minutes.
- Done. The agent finishes your request straight away. Teammates connect their own Outlook the same way; nobody shares a token.
Work or school accounts
Some organisations only let an administrator approve a new app. If Microsoft shows “Need admin approval” when you connect, ask your Microsoft 365 admin to approve Kipwise Agent. Kipwise is a verified publisher with Microsoft; the administrator approves the app once. Personal Microsoft accounts connect on their own. Shared mailboxes are not supported.
What you can ask
- Search Outlook messages and read a message, including its text, recipients, attachment list, date, and link.
- List your drafts, create a draft or reply draft (optionally reply-all), update a draft, or delete a draft after you confirm its exact subject.
- Ask Kipwise Agent to send a draft. It is sent only after you approve the Approve/Deny card in Slack, which shows the recipients, subject, and message.
- List events in a date range, create an event on your own calendar, or update an event’s subject, time, or description.
- Delete an event after you confirm its exact subject. Events with other attendees are left alone, so nobody is invited, notified or cancelled on.
Inviting attendees, shared mailboxes, other people’s calendars, and attachment uploads are not supported.
Permissions and data
- The agent asks Microsoft for sign-in, your basic profile, read and write access to your own mail (
Mail.ReadWrite), sending mail as you (Mail.Send) and read and write access to your own calendars (Calendars.ReadWrite), plusoffline_accessso it does not ask you to sign in again for every request. Nothing else. - Nothing is sent without your approval in Slack. The Approve/Deny card shows the recipients, subject, message and attachments.
- Microsoft enforces your own access on every call.
- Access tokens are stored encrypted and used only while answering your request.
Support
Questions or problems: support@kipwise.com or the Kipwise help center. See also our privacy policy and terms of service.
