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Use the Gmail lead finder to import contacts with HoneyBook AI

How to have HoneyBook AI pull potential clients from your Gmail account, so your inbox never buries an opportunity

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When you connect your Gmail account, HoneyBook AI can identify potential leads that live in your email inbox. These opportunities will be automatically imported to your Contacts page, allowing you to bring all your relationships into HoneyBook in near real-time.


Adjust Gmail lead finder settings

Turn on

From your settings

  1. Make sure you’ve connected your Gmail account to HoneyBook

  2. From the navigation menu, select your company logo > Company settings

  3. Under "Lead management," ensure Gmail lead finder is turned on

Turn off

From your AI preferences

  1. From the navigation menu, select your company logo > Company settings

  2. Under "Lead management," turn Gmail lead finder off


How Gmail lead finder works

When you first turn it on

When you turn Gmail lead finder on, HoneyBook AI will look through your past 3 months of communication history and pull in any identified leads.

Ongoing monitoring

When Gmail lead finder is kept on, HoneyBook AI will continuously monitor for new relationship activity. If it identifies a new lead, you’ll receive:

How leads are imported

  • The lead won't receive any communication, nor will they be notified that they’ve been identified as a lead and added to your HoneyBook Contacts page

  • The lead will be added to your HoneyBook Contacts page with their email address, name, and last interaction date

    • The contact source will be set as Gmail. This is how you can tell the lead came from the Gmail lead finder tool.

  • A conversation summary generated by HoneyBook AI will be added to the contact notes as well as the original Gmail thread (not visible to the lead)

From here, consider using AI-powered email drafts to quickly follow up with the lead and further nurture the relationship right from HoneyBook. When you get started working with them, be sure to create a project.


Still have questions? Feel free to send us a message by clicking the Question Mark icon on any HoneyBook page. Our team is always happy to help!