Ask First: Your Teammates Check Before They Change Things

Ask First is live. It lets a Teammate pause and ask you before it makes a change, so you keep a say over anything you would not want done without a look. You see what it wants to do, and you tap Allow or Deny.

We built it because the useful things a Teammate can do are also the things you want a say in: sending an email to a customer, putting an event on a calendar, updating a record in your CRM. Looking things up should never slow a Teammate down. Changing things is where you may want a hand on the wheel.

What it looks like

Say you ask your sales Teammate to follow up with a lead, and you have Ask First on for Gmail. The Teammate stops before sending. The chat shows a card with the details of the change and two buttons, Allow and Deny. Tap Allow and the email goes out. Tap Deny and nothing is sent. If nobody answers within five minutes, the request expires.

You can answer wherever you talk to your Teammates: dashboard chat, Telegram, Slack, Discord and Teammates MCP.

Where you can use it

In every chat

When a Teammate wants to make a change that you have set to ask first, you get the approval card in the conversation, whether that is New chat in the dashboard, Telegram, Slack, Discord or a message sent through Teammates MCP.

In your integrations

Teammates connect to Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, HubSpot and 1,000+ other integrations. Each connection belongs to one Teammate. For any connection you can turn on Ask me before changing anything in its settings.

With that on, these actions wait for your Allow:

• sending an email
• creating an event
• updating a record

Looking things up is never held for approval.

How to turn it on

1. Open the settings of one of your Teammate's connections.
2. Turn on Ask me before changing anything.
3. Ask the Teammate to do something that changes data, and answer the card wherever you chat with your Teammate.

Availability

Ask First is live on every surface and for integrations. The setting for integrations is off by default, so a connection behaves as it did before until you turn it on. It is per Teammate and per tool: you can require approval for Gmail on your sales Teammate and leave a read-mostly tool alone.

There is no extra charge. The Pro plan is $100 per month, flat, for any number of people, with model usage billed on top at provider list rates.

FAQ

Q: Does Ask First slow down lookups? A: No. Looking things up is never held for approval.

Q: What happens if I do not answer? A: The request expires after five minutes.

Q: Can I use it on some tools and not others? A: Yes. It is per Teammate and per tool.

Q: Where can I answer a request? A: Wherever you talk to your Teammates: dashboard chat, Telegram, Slack, Discord or Teammates MCP.

Try it

Turn on Ask me before changing anything for one connection and ask your Teammate to send you a test email. If you are new, you can start here and have a first Teammate running the same day.