Kola reads the places you talk to people, and nothing else. Each account is connected on its own, and can be disconnected on its own.
Gmail
Outlook
Apple Mail
Google Calendar
Outlook Calendar
Google Contacts
Apple Contacts
Telegram
WhatsApp
Slack
LinkedIn
Instagram
Facebook
Kola reads the mailbox and the calendar together, so a name in a meeting and a name in a thread become the same person. Who attended, what was said, and when it went quiet all come from here.
Gmail
Mail and Google Calendar, connected with your Google account.
Outlook
Outlook mail and calendar, connected with your Microsoft account.
Apple Mail and Contacts
The mailboxes and the address book already on your Mac.
An address book only ever fills in blanks. A job title you typed three years ago is never allowed to overwrite the one Slack refreshed last week.
Most real relationships move to a messenger early. Kola reads those too, and knows that the person on Telegram and the person in your inbox are one person.
Telegram
Direct messages and groups, including topics inside a group.
Chats and groups, paired the same way WhatsApp Web is.
Slack
Your workspaces, the people in them, and the channels you share.
Ask ChatGPT or Claude about the people you know, and the answer comes from Kola.
Claude
A plugin for Claude Code and claude.ai, with skills for network search, meeting briefs and saving a contact.
ChatGPT
Connect your ChatGPT plan in Settings, under Providers, and it answers inside Kola with your records already attached. It needs the ChatGPT desktop app installed and signed in.
Which accounts can Kola read?
Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail, Google and Outlook calendars, Google and Apple Contacts, Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
Do I have to connect all of them?
No. Every account is connected on its own and can be disconnected on its own. Kola reads nothing you have not handed it.
How does it read LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook?
Through your own logged-in browser session, on your own machine. There is no scraping service in the middle.
Does connecting a mailbox send my mail anywhere?
No. Reading and indexing happen on your Mac. Three optional features do send data out, and they are named on the security page.
Can ChatGPT and Claude use it?
Yes. Kola runs a local MCP server on 127.0.0.1:47900, so launch Kola once and leave it in the background.
Ask an AI what Kola connects to
These open a chat with the question already typed, pointed at this page. It asks for a balanced answer, including where Kola is the wrong choice.
Kola starts reading in the background and fills itself in from there.
The part of your network you never exported.
Kola reads these through your own logged-in browser session on your own machine. There is no scraping service in the middle and no copy on a server.
LinkedIn
Your connections, your messages, and the posts a person has been writing lately.
Instagram
Who you follow, and how those accounts overlap with each other.
Facebook
Your friends list, and the public details on each profile.