Gemini for Business

• Delegating a quarter-end financial review that pulls data from BigQuery and Sheets and returns a model and slide deck
• Preparing for a sales meeting by gathering CRM history, email threads and competitor research, then drafting follow-up notes
• Setting up a coworker agent for a team, such as an events coordinator that drafts launch-readiness documents when @mentioned in Chat
• Asking plain-language questions of governed warehouse data and saving the resulting query as a reusable report
• Running a long research or analysis job overnight on a cloud machine and reviewing the finished output the next morning (multi-step background tasks are in early access)
• Rolling out one agent to a workforce while capping AI spend per project and charging costs back to departments

Google's pitch is consolidation. Instead of a separate assistant in every SaaS tool, you deploy one agent that carries memory, skills and permissions across Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack and systems of record. It is the governance layer, not the chat, that makes this credible: agent identities, attributable audit logs, sandboxed code execution, gateway policies and hard per-project spend caps. Those answer the questions that usually stall enterprise agent rollouts. The catch is timing and transparency. The most distinctive pieces, including delegated background tasks, Claude routing and the desktop and mobile apps, are early access, and Google has not said what the new agent costs on top of existing editions. Evaluate it now if you already run on Google Cloud or Workspace and want a single governed agent. If you are standardized on Microsoft 365 or need to self-host, compare it with suite-native or privately deployable options first.

About Gemini for Business

Gemini for Business is the name Google Cloud's product page now uses for the offering that is still sold, documented and billed as Gemini Enterprise. Gemini Enterprise launched in October 2025, and on October 9, 2025 Google Agentspace became a feature of it. At Gemini at Work on October 8, 2026, Google introduced the Gemini agent inside it: a single agent that answers questions, handles knowledge work, creates images and media, and writes and runs code. You give it an objective rather than step-by-step instructions, and you can also schedule tasks or have it respond to events. Google describes it as cloud-resident: lengthy jobs run on their own secure machine in Google Cloud and keep going after you log off, and the agent keeps session, semantic, procedural and episodic memory across devices and channels. For multi-step jobs it can create temporary sub-agents, each with its own identity. Google also describes coworker agents that hold a persistent team role, with their own @agents email address, Workspace account, calendar and Drive. Reusable skills and tools can be published to company-wide registries, and custom tools connect through MCP. The product page lists more than 100 integrations, including Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Confluence, Notion, Jira, GitHub, Salesforce, HubSpot, ServiceNow and BigQuery, and data stays where it lives under each user's permissions. Governance is the main selling point: every agent has its own identity and least-privilege permissions, every action goes into an audit trail attributed to the agent, code runs in an Agent Sandbox, and traffic passes through Agent Gateway policies. Admins can also set a hard spend cap per project in the Cloud Billing Console, and the agent pauses when it is hit. Routing picks between Gemini models and Anthropic's Claude models for each job. It is not the same product as the consumer Gemini app or Gemini Spark, and it is not the developer-facing Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (the evolution of Vertex AI, now shown as "Gemini platform"). That platform is bought separately on pay-as-you-go billing, and agents built on it or with ADK can be published into Gemini for Business. The tradeoffs: several launch features are still early access, including multi-step background tasks, the mobile and desktop apps, and third-party model choice. Google has not announced separate pricing for the new agent. The Business edition is listed from $21 per seat per month, but Standard and Plus seat prices are not published on Google's pages.