Connect Gmail and
Planful with AI

Automate financial communication workflows between email and your planning platform. Stop manually emailing budget reports, chasing approvals via inbox, or copying forecast data from email threads into Planful.

No code required
Live in minutes
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What you can automate today

Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.

Auto-distribute monthly variance reports and board packages via email

When Planful completes a consolidated financial report or variance analysis, automatically generate and send formatted emails to executives and board members. Include PDF attachments, commentary, and links to drill-down views without manual export and send.

Email alerts when budget submissions are overdue or pending approval

Monitor budget workflow status in Planful and send personalized reminder emails to department heads when submissions are late or stuck in approval queues. Include direct links to their outstanding tasks and submission deadlines.

Capture budget adjustment requests from email and route to Planful

When department heads send budget change requests via Gmail, parse the email content, extract requested amounts and justifications, and create corresponding adjustment entries or approval workflows in Planful. Eliminate manual re-entry of emailed requests.

Send forecast reminder emails based on Planful calendar deadlines

Automatically notify budget owners via Gmail when rolling forecast submission windows open in Planful. Include personalized deadlines, links to their assigned scenarios, and prior period actuals for reference.

Log executive feedback from email replies into Planful commentary fields

When executives reply to financial report emails with questions or feedback, automatically parse their responses and append commentary to the relevant scenarios, accounts, or reports in Planful. Maintain audit trail of email-based discussions.

Trigger scenario modeling requests from incoming stakeholder emails

When business leaders email requests for what-if analysis or scenario planning, automatically create new scenario versions in Planful with the requested assumptions and notify the FP&A team. Track modeling requests without spreadsheet chaos.

Live in four steps

No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Gmail and Planful with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.

02

Describe what you want

Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.

03

Review and activate

Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.

04

Let it run — and iterate

Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.

Built for data-driven teams

Redbird understands both Gmail's communication patterns and Planful's financial data structures to automate the reporting and approval workflows that connect planning cycles with stakeholder communication.

AI that speaks both email protocols and financial planning schemas

Redbird maps Gmail message metadata, attachments, and thread context to Planful's entities, dimensions, accounts, and workflow states. Parse budget figures from email bodies and route them to the correct scenarios. Extract approval decisions from replies and update submission statuses. Generate email content from Planful reports with proper formatting, hierarchies, and drill-down links without custom scripting.

Email parsing & routing
Financial report formatting
Workflow state sync
Dimension mapping
10×

faster than manually emailing reports or chasing budget approvals via inbox

No manual export-attachment-send cycles or copying email requests into Planful forms

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Gmail and Planful simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.

Trigger-based alerts

Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either Gmail or Planful.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.

Bidirectional sync

Push data from Gmail into Planful, or from Planful back into Gmail. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.

Full audit trail

Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.

Triggers & actions for every team

Start automations from any email event or Planful planning cycle, and route data exactly where your finance and communication workflows need it.

Gmail
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

New email received matching filter

Trigger when emails arrive from specific senders, with subject line patterns, or containing budget-related keywords.

Trigger

Email attachment received

Detect when emails contain spreadsheets, PDFs, or other file types that may contain financial data.

Trigger

Reply received in thread

Trigger when stakeholders respond to previously sent financial reports or approval request emails.

Action

Send formatted email

Compose and send emails with dynamic content, attachments, and recipient lists based on Planful data.

Action

Add label to email

Automatically categorize and organize budget-related emails with Gmail labels for tracking and reporting.

Action

Create draft email

Generate pre-written draft emails for finance team review before sending to executives or stakeholders.

Planful
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Budget submission completed

Trigger when a department completes their budget input or submits for approval in a planning cycle.

Trigger

Variance threshold exceeded

Detect when actual vs. plan variance crosses configured thresholds in any dimension or account.

Trigger

Report finalized

Trigger when consolidated financial reports, board packages, or forecasts are marked complete and ready for distribution.

Action

Create or update scenario

Generate new planning scenarios or update existing versions with data extracted from email requests.

Action

Add commentary to account

Append notes and explanations from email threads to specific accounts, entities, or scenarios in Planful.

Action

Update workflow status

Change approval states, submission statuses, or task completion based on email-based decisions and confirmations.

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Planful

Ready to connect your stack?

Stop manually bridging email and financial planning. Connect Gmail and Planful to automate report distribution, budget approvals, and forecast communication across your finance workflows.

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