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Connect your Gmail (no-code walkthrough)

Send Karibu outreach from your own Gmail address — for inbox placement and reply rates that are 3-5× higher than shared infrastructure. This walkthrough takes ~15 minutes of clicks, then a 24-hour wait.

Why you need this

When a travel agent in Chicago opens your email and the From address says founder@safarisbymary.com, their brain reads "real person from a real safari company". When it says noreply@karibu-sends.com, the same brain reads "another vendor pitch — archive". The single biggest lever on your reply rate is sending from your own address.

Gmail's OAuth flow is how we get permission to send mail as you without ever seeing your password or reading your inbox. The setup is fiddly because Google built the console for developers, not founders — that's what this walkthrough is for.

Screencast coming soon
Connect your Gmail in 15 minutes — full screencast~14 min

Before you start

You'll need all of these in front of you:

  • A Google account you control (the one you want to send mail from)
  • A phone or laptop you can switch back and forth between (we will show you screenshots)
  • ~15 minutes of uninterrupted time
  • Karibu open in another tab — keep this article visible the whole time
Tip from operators who have done this
Set a 20-minute timer and don't switch context until you're done. Each interruption costs 2-3 minutes re-finding where you were in the Google Cloud Console (it's nested deep).

Step-by-step walkthrough

Tick each step as you go. Your progress is saved in this browser — you can close the tab and pick up later.

Walkthrough progress
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  1. In a new tab, go to console.cloud.google.com and sign in with the Google account you want to send mail from.

    Use your business Google account
    Sign in with the same Gmail address you plan to send outreach from (e.g. you@yoursafarico.com) — not a personal address.
    Screenshot reference: Cloud Console landing page with the blue project selector top-left

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