At Gemini at Work on October 8, Google announced a universal agent that can plan work, use tools, produce documents and code, and operate across business systems. The ambition is finished work inside existing applications rather than a response in an isolated chat window.
For a small consultancy, the relevant questions are access boundaries, undo mechanisms, cost controls and whether the agent can bridge proposals, meetings and source code. Google emphasizes administration and policy management.
Action: read the architecture announcement and use it as a checklist for your own agent experiments. The new universal agent is in private preview, not a generally available app to install today.