Integration

Specs and decks live in Drive. Cognia makes them queryable.

Engineering specs, customer decks, post-mortems, financial models. Drive holds the long-form. Cognia gives them the same Q&A interface as Slack and GitHub.

Try freeConnect Google Drive

What gets captured

●Google Docs (text, headings, comments)
●Google Slides (slide text and speaker notes)
●Google Sheets (cell text, sheet titles, named ranges)
●PDFs (extracted text, layout-aware where possible)

Setup

  1. 1

    Open Admin → Integrations

    Find Google Drive.

  2. 2

    OAuth with the right scope

    We request drive.readonly. You can scope it to specific folders post-install if you don't want full-drive access.

  3. 3

    Pick a starting folder

    The first index covers everything in scope. For most teams, scoping to a 'Engineering' shared folder is the right starting point.

  4. 4

    Test the answers

    Ask 'where's the data residency one-pager?' or 'what's our latest pricing model?'. Answers come back with the document and the cited section.

Example questions

cogniahq.tech /agent · Google Drive
ask Cognia:What did the SOC 2 auditor flag in last year's report?
Returns the audit findings PDF, the remediation tracker, and the Slack thread where the team triaged the findings.
1Google Drive sourcegoogle_drive
2linked memory meshgraph edge
cogniahq.tech /agent · Google Drive
ask Cognia:Where's the latest pricing comparison spreadsheet?
Surfaces the canonical sheet, who edited it last, and the summary tab.
1Google Drive sourcegoogle_drive
2linked memory meshgraph edge

FAQ

Does Cognia respect Drive sharing permissions?
Yes. We index documents the connecting user has access to. If a doc is restricted, it's not indexed.
What about shared drives vs My Drive?
Both are supported. Shared drives are usually the better target since they outlive any one user.
Are scanned PDFs supported?
OCR is best-effort. Native digital PDFs work well; scanned ones are hit-or-miss.

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