Know how you already know them
Email relationship contextis the part of a RunDossier briefing that comes from your own inbox. When you connect Gmail, RunDossier searches your correspondence with the person you're meeting and surfaces how you already know them — who introduced you, how you met, and what you have discussed — then folds it into the dossier. It is the context a public profile can never give you, because it is personal to you.
What it surfaces
LinkedIn tells you who a person is professionally. Your email tells you your history with them — the difference between a cold opener and a conversation that continues. RunDossier pulls three things out of that history:
How you met
The origin of the relationship — the thread where you first connected, or the event or referral that started it — so you can pick up where you left off instead of reintroducing yourself.
Who introduced you
If a mutual contact made the introduction over email, RunDossier surfaces it. A named connection is the warmest possible opener, and it is easy to forget who made it.
Past topics and commitments
The subjects you have actually discussed and anything left open — a proposal you sent, a follow-up you promised — drawn from the correspondence itself.
Why almost nothing else does this
Contact-data tools like ZoomInfo, Apollo, and Lusha sell emails and phone numbers. Personality tools like Crystal Knows sell inferred profiles. AI note-takers transcribe the meeting after it happens. None of them can tell you how you know the person, because that lives in your inbox, not in a database they can buy. Email relationship context is the piece RunDossier adds that the others structurally cannot.
It is also optional. Gmail is a connection you choose to make — if you don't connect it, dossiers simply omit the email relationship section and rely on LinkedIn and web search instead.
How your email is handled
Reading someone's inbox is a serious responsibility, so the privacy posture is deliberately conservative:
Analyzed in real time, never stored
When you generate a dossier, RunDossier searches your inbox for that one person, analyzes the relevant messages to extract relationship context, and discards the email content. The message bodies are never written to our database.
Per-user OAuth, scoped to you
You connect your own Gmail account through Google OAuth. The connection is scoped to your account only. In Slack, email context is per-user and private — even though workspace billing is shared, no one else sees your correspondence or its context.
Encrypted tokens
The OAuth tokens that authorize the Gmail connection are encrypted at rest. You can disconnect Gmail at any time, which stops all future email analysis.
For the complete details, see our privacy policy.
Walk in knowing your history
Connect Gmail and your next dossier will remember how you know them, so you don't have to.