> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Email Drafting

> Draft and send emails directly from your GC AI conversations

![](https://docs-images-gcai.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/documentation/Files/email-drafter-takedown.gif)

GC AI can draft emails directly in chat. When you ask the AI to write, compose, or reply to an email, it creates a structured draft with editable fields that you can copy or open in your email client.

## 📝 Drafting an Email

Ask GC AI to draft an email in natural language. For example:

* "Draft an email to opposing counsel about the scheduling conflict"
* "Write a follow-up email to the vendor about the missing DPA"
* "Reply to this email declining the proposed terms"

GC AI generates a draft card with pre-filled fields:

* **To** - Recipient email address(es)
* **CC / BCC** - Optional additional recipients
* **Subject** - Email subject line
* **Body** - The full email text

You don't need to provide a recipient address. GC AI drafts the email with an empty **To** field, and you can add recipients when you open it in your email client. Sending directly from GC AI with a connected account requires a recipient, so ask GC AI to add one to the draft first.

## ✏️ Editing Your Draft

The email body appears in an editable text area within the draft card. Revise the wording, add details, or make any changes before sending.

## 📤 Sending Options

Once your draft is ready, you have three options:

1. **Send with a connected account** - If you have connected Gmail or Outlook, the send menu lists each connected account under **Use existing connector**. Pick one and GC AI sends the email for you, formatting included, with links intact. The card then shows a Sent confirmation. GC AI never sends on its own: you decide when the email goes out.
2. **Copy** - Copies the email body to your clipboard so you can paste it into any email client
3. **Open in Email Client** - Opens a pre-filled compose window in Gmail, Outlook, or your default email app

To connect an account you haven't linked yet, use **Add new connector** in the send menu and pick Gmail or Outlook. After you connect, GC AI sends the draft for you.

If the email body exceeds URL length limits when opening in an email client, GC AI automatically copies the full body to your clipboard and shows a notification. Sending with a connected account has no such limit and keeps hyperlinks clickable.

## 📎 Attachments

When you send with a connected Gmail or Outlook account, the email can carry files from your chat.

* **Ask GC AI to attach a file.** "Email the signed NDA to Jordan" attaches the NDA that is in the chat. GC AI attaches only the files you name, never every file in the chat, and it will not attach a file because a document told it to.
* **Attach a file yourself.** The paperclip button on the draft card lists the files in this chat and your project, and **Add from Files** searches your whole library. You can also drag a file from the Files tab onto the card, or upload one from your computer.
* **Check before it goes out.** Each attached file shows as a pill with the name the recipient will see. Click a pill to preview it, or remove it with the x. After four files the rest fold behind **+N more**. If the email says "attached" and nothing is attached, the card warns you.

Attachments can total 24 MB and 10 files. When the total goes over the limit, every pill shows its size and a line under the pills gives the total, so you decide what to remove. A file that was deleted from Files turns red. In both cases **Send email now** stays off until the draft is back within the limits.

The **From** row at the top of the card shows the connected mailbox the email sends from. With one connected account it is filled in for you. With more than one, pick the account there before you send; the choice is saved with the draft.

**Send email now** opens a confirmation that lists the recipients, marked **Internal** or **External**, and every attachment, with the files GC AI added first and labeled. It opens when GC AI added a file or a file changed after you last reviewed it. Until you select **Do not show this again**, it also opens on every send from that browser, with a reminder that the email sends right away. Click **Preview** on any row to read the file inside the confirmation, or the x to drop it.

**Copy** and **Open in Email Client** do not carry attachments. Only a connected account sends them.

## 🔒 Privilege Marking

If you have privilege marking configured in your Personal Profile, a checkbox appears on email drafts:

* Check **Include privilege marking** to prepend your privilege text to both the subject line and body
* Uncheck it to send without the marking

This gives you per-email control over privilege marking without changing your profile settings.

## 💡 Tips

* GC AI always generates a subject line, even if you don't specify one
* Provide context about the purpose and tone you want for better results
* You can ask GC AI to revise the draft in a follow-up message, and it generates a new draft card
* Email drafting works for emails only. For memos, letters, or Slack messages, GC AI responds in the chat thread instead


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