Connecting tools: what Rango can look up live

Half of what stalls a meeting is not disagreement — it is a missing fact. Someone says "I'll check after," the topic dies, and the check happens or it doesn't. Tools exist so the check can happen inside the meeting instead.

Looking things up while you talk

Ask the agent to check something — "Hey Rango, what does their changelog say about SSO?" — and it runs the lookup while the conversation continues, then answers in the next gap. Web search works out of the box on deployments that enable it. The Tools section of your workspace shows what else your agent can reach and lets you connect more.

Connections are explicit

Nothing is connected by default, and the Tools page is the single place where what-can-reach-what is decided. Each connection is visible, per-workspace, and revocable. The agent can only look things up in tools you have deliberately given it — a lookup capability that arrived silently would be indistinguishable from a leak, so none do.

In-meeting versus in-chat

Connected tools serve both halves of the product. In a meeting, they back the "can you check?" moment. In Ask, they let a written question combine your meeting memory with a live fact — "compare what we promised in the kickoff with what their docs say now" is one question when both sources are reachable.

A practical starting set

• Web search on: it covers the long tail of "what does their site say?"
• Connect the tools your meetings actually reference weekly — the ones people currently screen-share to answer questions from.
• Skip everything else until a real meeting misses it. Connections you do not use are just surface area.

The test that matters

Next time someone says "I'll find out and get back to you," ask the agent instead, out loud, in the room. If the answer arrives before the agenda moves on, the tool earned its connection.