Google Cloud launched a work agent on October 8, and businesses get it before any consumer release. At Gemini at Work 2026, the company introduced the Gemini agent as one place where you hand over an objective. It plans the work, uses skills and tools, connects to the systems a company already runs, and brings finished work back into the documents, the inbox, and the developer environment you use. Google has not published a consumer price, because that version comes later.
Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud's CEO, drew the line this way: you give it "objectives, not instructions." Sundar Pichai said Gemini has more than a billion monthly users, and that nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 already use Gemini Enterprise. Google is starting with those customers so it can work through security, scale, and performance before the same agent is offered more widely.
What changes the shape of this product is that the agent can have its own Workspace account. It gets an email address, a calendar, and a Drive, and it can show up in the company directory. Colleagues add it to a chat or mention it the way they would a teammate. When it takes an action, the audit trail is attributed to the agent rather than to the person who assigned the job. A bot that only lives inside your login and borrows your name can't leave that kind of trail.
It also has to reach the software the company already pays for. The Gemini agent connects to Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Jira, and Git, along with data systems such as BigQuery and Snowflake, and it can reach MCP servers inside or outside the network. By default the agent picks a model for the job. You can override that and choose one yourself, including Anthropic's Claude, with open-source and other private models planned later. Early testers included the sportswear brand On, Shopify, and PayPal.
You can open it from an iPhone or Android phone, a Windows or Mac desktop, the command line, Workspace, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, or Slack. The permissions and the spend controls stay on the enterprise side. Google is adding real-time spend caps so a project can hit a hard limit and the agent pauses until someone resumes it, which is the brake a finance team expects.
Set next to consumer agents such as Meta's Muse or ChatGPT's Dots, this one is built to sit in the org chart first, with its own identity and a cap on what that identity can spend. If you're the person who will be asked to turn it on, decide whether you're ready to give an agent a name in the directory and a limit on the bill.
