Connecting your assistant’s email: what those Google warnings mean

Setting up email is the one part of this process where Google will try hard to scare you off. You’ll see warnings like “Google hasn’t verified this app” and a link that literally says “unsafe.” This is normal and expected. Here’s exactly what you’ll see, when, why Google shows it, and why it’s safe in your case. Please read this before you start.

The short version: You are creating your ownprivate app, in your own Google account, used by exactly one person — you — to connect your own assistant to your own inbox. Google’s warnings are aimed at public apps that thousands of strangers might use. Because yours is private to you, the warnings don’t apply the way they sound — and there is no one to be “unsafe” toward but yourself.

What you’ll see, and when

After you click Connect Google and choose your assistant’s Gmail account, Google shows, in order:

  1. “Google hasn’t verified this app.” A full-page warning. There’s a small Advanced link — click it, then click “Go to launchmy.ai (unsafe).” Yes, it really says “unsafe.”
  2. The permissions screen — “launchmy.ai wants access to your Google Account.” Check both boxes (send email, and read/compose/send), then Continue. Both are required for two-way email.
  3. Google may later email you a note that a non-verified app has access to your account. That’s just a record of what you did — it’s expected.

Why Google shows these warnings

Gmail access is a “sensitive” permission. Google offers a formal verification process — a lengthy review, and often a paid third-party security assessment — for apps that will be published to the general public so that many strangers can sign in. That process exists to protect people from handing their inbox to a shady company they’ve never heard of.

Your app isn’t that. It’s a private, one-person app you just created. You don’t need (and shouldn’t pay for) public verification — so Google marks it “unverified” and shows the warnings. The warnings are about verification status, not about anything being wrong or dangerous.

Why it’s safe in your case

  • It’s your app. You created the project in your own Google account. You are the developer and the only user.
  • Only you can use it. The login credentials work only for your assistant’s Gmail. No one else can sign in through it.
  • It’s your own inbox and your own server. The access connects your assistant — running on the server you own — to the mailbox you made for it. Nothing goes to a third party.
  • We don’t keep your secrets. LaunchMy.ai uses the Client ID and secret once to complete the connection, pushes the login down to your server, and then discards them. We never see or store your Google password.
  • You can undo it anytime. Revoke access in your Google Account under Security → Third-party access, or use the Reconnect / disconnect controls in your dashboard.

The bottom line

Clicking past “unsafe” here is you granting your own software access to your own email. That’s why it’s safe to continue — and why we walk you through each warning so none of it catches you off guard. When you’re ready, head back to the chat and follow the steps.