Five minutes, three steps. With the extension, you see what the organisation has decided about an AI tool on that tool's own website, and your pulses show in your browser's toolbar when they are due. You can also answer every pulse in your AI Adoption Portal.
Step 1: Add the extension to your browserLink to this section
- Open Chrome or Edge (any Chromium-based browser works, including Brave and Arc)
- Go to the listing for The GAiGE:
- Chrome: Chrome Web Store
- Edge: Microsoft Edge Add-ons
- Click the Add to Chrome button (or Get on Edge)
- When your browser asks you to confirm the permissions, click Add extension
Once it's installed, you'll see a small G icon in your browser's toolbar. If you can't see it:
- Click the puzzle-piece icon (top-right of Chrome or Edge)
- Find The GAiGE in the list
- Click the pin icon next to it so it stays visible
Pinning is recommended. You'll occasionally want to click it.
Step 2: Sign inLink to this section
- Click the G icon in your toolbar
- Click Sign in
- A new tab opens for you to sign in
- Use the same email address your organisation invited you with, usually your work email
Once you're signed in, the panel shows your organisation's name and anything waiting on you. That's the sign it's working.
Step 3: Allow it on all sitesLink to this section
This is the step people miss, and it decides whether pulses reach you on the page you're on.
- Click the G icon
- Under Pulses and notices, press Allow on all sites
- Choose Allow when your browser asks
Until then, your pulses wait in the panel under Waiting on you, and you can answer them in your AI Adoption Portal. If you press Start first, the panel says "To show pulses on this website, allow The GAiGE on all sites." If your browser doesn't ask, or you said no, it says "Access to all sites is still off."; press How to turn it on for the steps.
That permission is what lets the extension show a pulse on the website you're already on, and show what your organisation has decided about an AI tool when you open the tool's website. It's optional, so the extension starts without it and asks you here.
What happens nextLink to this section
Pulses arrive on a schedule your organisation sets, not when you visit a particular website. The AI Pulse comes round three times a week per tool, at moments spread across the week and held inside working hours. When one appears it asks "Did you use ChatGPT today?", and the whole thing takes about thirty seconds.
What if a pulse doesn't appear?Link to this section
The four usual reasons, most likely first:
- The GAiGE isn't allowed on all sites yet. Without that permission, your pulses wait in the panel under Waiting on you. Open the panel: if Allow on all sites still shows under Pulses and notices, that's your answer. Step 3 above fixes it.
- Nothing is due yet. Pulses come on a schedule, not when you visit a website, so there's nothing to see between them. The AI Pulse is three times a week.
- You haven't been assigned the tool. Your admin assigns people to specific tools. No assignment to ChatGPT means no ChatGPT pulse. Ask your admin to add you.
- You already answered this one. Once you've answered, that pulse waits for its next scheduled moment.
Full detail, including what the panel shows in each case: Why hasn't a pulse appeared?
Browser supportLink to this section
The extension works in:
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge
- Brave
- Arc
- Most other Chromium-based browsers
It does not currently work in:
- Firefox
- Safari
- Mobile browsers. You can still answer your pulses on a phone, in your AI Adoption Portal.
If you regularly use a non-Chromium browser, mention it to your admin. They can decide if it matters.
What permissions is it asking for?Link to this section
When it's added, the extension asks for:
- Storage, to keep your pulses and answers on your own machine
- Alarms, for the once-a-minute timer that checks whether a pulse is due
- Tabs, to compare the address of each tab you open with your organisation's list of AI tools. Your browser describes this one as "Read your browsing history". The extension checks each page's address on your device; the address never leaves your device
- Scripting and activeTab, to put its own card on the page you're on
- Access to thegaige.com and api.thegaige.com, The GAiGE's own site and API, to sign you in and send your answers
The broad one, which your browser calls read and change all your data on all websites, is separate and optional. That's the Allow on all sites step in step 3. The extension needs it because a pulse can appear on any website you happen to have open, and the browser has no narrower way to say that.
What it does with that access is put a pulse or a notice on the page, and it reads nothing there. See What data is collected about you for the full version.
UninstallingLink to this section
Right-click the G icon → Remove from Chrome (or Remove from Microsoft Edge). If your IT team installed it for you, it can't be removed this way; ask them. Your answers so far stay in The GAiGE until your admin removes them, or you ask for them to be deleted.
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