Otter now lets you search your work apps like Gmail and Jira in one place

Otter is making a move that feels overdue but welcome: it now lets you search across your enterprise tools alongside your meeting transcripts. Starting today, you can connect Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, Jira, and Salesforce accounts and query them all from one search bar. Microsoft Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Slack support is on the roadmap.

This isn’t just another feature drop — it’s Otter acknowledging that the average knowledge worker doesn’t live inside a single app. You jump between email, documents, tickets, and meeting notes constantly. The friction of context-switching is real, and Otter’s bet is that unifying search across those silos saves more time than yet another AI assistant that only works inside one tool.

I’ve been testing this for a few days, and it works better than I expected. The search results merge meeting highlights with relevant emails and docs in a single view. It doesn’t feel revolutionary, but it does feel practical. That’s higher praise than it sounds.

Of course, the real test will come when Microsoft integrations land. Most enterprises live inside Outlook and Teams, not Gmail. Otter knows this, which is why they’re getting those connectors out the door quickly. The question is whether the search quality holds up when you’re querying across a SharePoint site with thousands of files.

Security-wise, Otter says data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and they don’t use your connected app data to train models. That’s the minimum these days, but worth stating given how sensitive enterprise search can be.

Is this a game-changer? Not exactly. But it’s a solid step toward making AI assistants actually useful in the messy reality of how people work. If Otter nails the Microsoft integration and keeps search latency low, this could be a genuinely sticky product. If not, it’s just another search bar you’ll ignore.