# Google Drive

> Turn Google Docs, Sheets and PDFs into candidate notes and role briefs in OpenATS.

Where Google Drive is set up, a candidate’s **Notes** have **Add notes from Google Drive**, and a role has **Client brief from Drive** and **Kickoff notes from Drive**. Pick Google Docs, Sheets or PDFs in Google’s picker; OpenATS opens only the files you pick.

*Integrations · Last updated 2026-11-11*

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## Add a file

1. On a candidate, choose **Add notes from Google Drive** under **Notes**.
   On a role: **Client brief from Drive** or **Kickoff notes from Drive**.
2. Google asks once for permission to open the files you pick. Approve it.
3. Pick one or more Docs, Sheets or PDFs.

On a candidate, each file becomes a note that starts “From Google Drive: {title}”, with a link back. On a role, each file is something the kickoff brief is written from, every line quoted from the document.

Docs are read as text, Sheets as a table (the first sheet), PDFs like resumes. Text addressed to an AI is left out, and the people handling the candidate are told.

## When a file changes

**Check Drive for changes** offers **Refresh from Drive** for any file edited since. A changed file is added again as a new version; an unchanged one isn’t read again.

> **Note:** OpenATS asks Google only for the files you pick, not your whole Drive, and doesn’t keep Google’s access: it’s used for that one request.

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Still need help? Write to the OpenATS team at https://openats.ai/support (or support@b150.ai). We reply by email.

Source: https://openats.ai/docs/integrations/google-drive
OpenATS help center: https://openats.ai/docs