Your campaign mailbox
Your Google connection
Press Club helps founders earn press coverage. With your permission, our Google connection supports media outreach from your own Gmail or Google Workspace mailbox. You can keep reading and replying in your existing email client. Our service combines manual campaign work with AI-assisted pitch and reply drafting.
Current Google workflow availability
Automated mailbox intake and tracking of replies you send from your own email client continue. Reply classification, message-content notifications, contact history, and AI-assisted reply drafting in Slack have been restored for campaign operations. Authorized operators can review, edit, regenerate, and approve replies for sending through Slack. Staff access to Google content through the campaign Inbox remains restricted under our current access policy. Automated Calendar processing remains paused. You can keep reading and replying directly in your existing email client.
Restoring the Slack reply workflow is an operational change. Our review of specific-message consent and historical staff access is still in progress; this change does not establish Google approval or verification. The remaining restrictions do not delete records or copies already retained by Press Club.
What mailbox access includes
Gmail read-only permission covers messages in your mailbox. Incoming messages that do not match an existing campaign may also be received and retained by Press Club. We also read sent messages to record replies you send directly in your email client and keep campaign response tracking up to date.
Press Club sends campaign materials to OpenAI to help prepare pitches. We also send received reply text to OpenAI to classify reply intent for notifications. To prepare proposed replies, we send reply contents, related thread and contact history, and campaign context to OpenAI. Slack notifications let authorized Press Club operators review sender and subject details, message text, related history, proposed replies and, where available, attachments. Operators can edit or regenerate a draft and approve it for sending through Slack under the workflow you arrange with our team. Staff access to Google content through the campaign Inbox remains restricted.
How we use your connected mailbox
- Review your outreach. You review the journalists and messaging for your campaign with the Press Club team before outreach begins.
- Send approved messages. Gmail sending access lets Press Club send campaign pitches, follow-ups, and replies from your connected mailbox as part of the outreach workflow you arrange with our team. Authorized operators can review a proposed reply in Slack, edit or regenerate it, and approve it for sending. Sending replies from Google mailbox content through the campaign Inbox remains unavailable under our current access policy.
- Track your own replies. Read and reply directly in your email client. Gmail reading access supports automated intake, and sent-message reconciliation records your manual replies in the campaign ledger. Reply classification and Slack notifications with contact history and suggested drafts help the Press Club team follow up. Staff access to Google content through the campaign Inbox remains restricted.
Our Privacy Policy describes the Google permissions, data use, storage, sharing, and retention for the service. Our Terms of Service explain how our campaigns work.
Other Google permissions
- Account identity (openid, userinfo.email). Identifies the Google account and email address you choose for a connection.
- Read-only Calendar (calendar.readonly). Reads event details and attendees to detect and track interview bookings when enabled. Automated Calendar processing is currently paused.
- Specific files (drive.file). Creates and updates campaign media-list spreadsheets that Press Club creates or that you authorize for use with the app.
The mailbox permissions are gmail.send and gmail.readonly. Each connection requests the permissions needed for that feature; Google shows the requested access before you authorize it.
Separate owner-review sign-in
A separate owner-review flow is being tested with limited availability. Its Google sign-in requests account identity only. Signing in does not connect Gmail or authorize staff access. A separate decision is needed for the selected messages in that review flow. This limited test has not launched as a production staff-access service.
Get help with your connection
To arrange a mailbox connection for your campaign or ask about requested permissions, contact [email protected]. Google shows the requested permissions when you authorize access.
Revoke access or request deletion
You can remove Press Club's access in your Google Account connections. Revoking Google access stops future authorized access to your Google account. It does not itself delete data already retained by Press Club. To ask us to stop your campaign, delete connected account credentials and associated mailbox data, or export your data, email [email protected].