What is Hana?
Hana is a Google Chat assistant that transforms scattered conversations into actionable workflows. It integrates natively into Google Chat, allowing teams to summarize threads, assign owners, set follow-ups, answer questions with evidence, and remember decisions without leaving the chat interface. The tool retrieves relevant chat history, documents, and workspace context to provide grounded answers and next steps.
Key features include thread summarization, decision tracking, owner assignment, follow-up creation, and evidence-based replies. Hana works inside Google Chat, where users mention @Hana to trigger actions, while a separate dashboard allows admins to connect data sources, manage rollout, and monitor usage. This separation ensures that regular users stay focused on conversations, while workspace owners control configuration.
Use cases include recovering missing context from long threads, clarifying past decisions, assigning action items after meetings, and creating reminders or polls. For example, a user can ask, "@Hana summarize this thread and tell me the next step," or "@Hana what did we decide about this, and who owns it?" Hana then returns a summary, owner, reminder, or task directly in the chat.
Technical details: Hana requires no credit card and offers quick setup. It is rated 4.72/5 from 18 reviews on Google Workspace Marketplace. The tool learns from connected sources and provides visible outputs that persist beyond a single session. Day 1 evaluation involves starting from a real message, recovering context, and turning answers into follow-through. Success is measured by the ability to move from a chat message to a defined next step within the same workflow.
Use Cases
Key Features
thread summarization decision tracking owner assignment follow up creation evidence based replies chat history retrieval document integration workspace context action item assignment poll creationWho is it for?
Google Chat users, team leads, project managers, workspace admins, remote teams, decision, makers
