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title: "Connect your services"
description: "Sign in to OpenWork and connect the accounts your agent can use"
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**OpenWork Cloud organization setup.** This path requires an OpenWork Cloud sign-in and an organization that has made services available to you. To stay local, keep using OpenWork for free and [add a custom MCP server](/start-here/connect-your-stack/add-an-mcp-server) to your workspace. Admins can manage team connections with [Connectors](/cloud/share-with-your-team/shared-mcp-connections).
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Use `Settings` > `OpenWork Connect` for services your organization makes available,
including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Slack, Notion, and Linear. This
is the recommended setup for everyday integrations.

## Before you start

Connect requires signing in to an OpenWork account and joining an organization
that has Connect enabled. This is separate from signing in to an LLM provider
such as ChatGPT.

1. Open the OpenWork desktop app.
2. Click `Sign in`, or open `Settings` > `OpenWork Connect` and choose `Sign in`.
3. Complete sign-in in your browser and return to OpenWork.
4. Choose the OpenWork organization you want to use if prompted.

If Connect is not available for your organization, ask an organization admin
to enable it.

## Connect an account

1. Open `Settings` > `OpenWork Connect`.
2. Find the service under `Needs your sign-in`.
3. Click `Connect` and approve access on the provider's sign-in page.
4. Return to OpenWork. The service moves to `Ready to use` automatically.

Some connections are managed by your organization. If a service is not
listed, ask an organization admin to publish it from the OpenWork Cloud
`Connectors` page and grant you access.

## Ask your agent to use it

You do not need to know an MCP server name or tool name. Ask for the outcome
you want, for example:

- “Summarize my five newest emails.”
- “Find the Q3 launch page in Notion.”
- “What meetings do I have tomorrow?”

The agent searches the live capabilities available to your signed-in account,
then executes an exact match. If an account still needs attention, it should
send you back to `Settings` > `OpenWork Connect` with the action to take instead of
telling you to add an MCP server.

## Connect, connectors, and connections

- **Connect** is the member-facing page in the desktop app for signing in to
  services and checking connection readiness.
- A **connector** is an MCP service your organization adds on its own, without
  wrapping it in a plugin. Organization admins publish connectors from the
  OpenWork Cloud `Connectors` page and grant member or team access.
- A **connection** is your own signed-in instance of a connector — one
  connector, instantiated per user with that user's account.
- The **MCP Gateway** is the hosted endpoint that lets external MCP clients
  use capabilities from an OpenWork organization. See
  [OpenWork MCP Gateway](/cloud/run-in-the-cloud/cloud-mcp).
- **Add an MCP server** is the advanced path for a custom or local server that
  your organization does not provide through Connect.

If you are building a custom integration, continue with
[Add an MCP server](/start-here/connect-your-stack/add-an-mcp-server). If you
are an organization admin, see
[Sharing MCP connections with your team](/cloud/share-with-your-team/shared-mcp-connections).