Installing the Chrome Extension

Five minutes, three steps. The GAiGE needs the browser extension installed: without it no pulses appear, and your personal dashboard stays empty.

Step 1: Add the extension to your browser

1. Open Chrome or Edge (any Chromium-based browser works, including Brave and Arc)
2. Go to the listing for The GAiGE:
   • Chrome: Chrome Web Store
   • Edge: Microsoft Edge Add-ons
3. Click the Add to Chrome button (or Get on Edge)
4. 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 in

1. Click the G icon in your toolbar
2. Click Sign in
3. A new tab will open asking you to authenticate
4. Use the same email address your organisation invited you with, usually your work email

After you sign in, the extension popup will show your name and the AI tools your organisation has assigned to you. That's the confirmation it's working.

Step 3: Turn on page pulses

This is the step people miss, and it's the one that decides whether pulses reach you.

1. Click the G icon
2. Press Enable page pulses
3. Chrome asks whether The GAiGE can read and change data on all sites. Choose Allow

That permission is what lets the extension draw a pulse on the page you're already working on. It's optional, so the extension ships without it and asks you here.

With it on, a pulse appears in the bottom-right of whatever page you have open when one comes due. With it off, the extension can still tell you a pulse is waiting, but only inside its own popup, and pressing Start there says it can't open on the current page.

If Chrome doesn't show the prompt (it sometimes suppresses it), the popup gives you a Turn it on manually link with the steps.

What happens next

Pulses arrive on a schedule your organisation sets, not when you visit a particular website. The standard 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 {tool} today?", and the whole thing takes about thirty seconds.

What if a pulse doesn't appear?

The four usual reasons, most likely first:

• Page pulses are off. Without that permission the extension can only list pulses in its own popup. Open the popup: an amber "Page pulses are off" banner means this is your answer. Step 3 above fixes it.
• Nothing is due yet. Pulses run on a cadence, not on visits, so there's genuinely nothing to see between fires. The standard 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 popup looks like in each case: Why hasn't a pulse appeared?

Browser support

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 (your AI tool usage on mobile won't be measured)

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?

At install time the extension asks for very little: storage (to keep your pulses and answers on your own machine), alarms (the once-a-minute timer that checks whether a pulse is due), and access to The GAiGE's own site and API.

The broad one, read and change your data on all sites, is separate and optional. That's the Enable page pulses prompt in step 3. The extension needs it because a pulse can appear on any page you happen to have open, and Chrome has no narrower way to say that.

What it does with that access is draw a card in the corner of the page. It reads nothing from the page, and no address you visit is ever sent to us. See What data is collected and how it's used for the full version.

Uninstalling

Right-click the G icon → Remove from Chrome (or Remove from Microsoft Edge). That's it. We can't reinstall it without you doing it again. Your data so far stays in the platform until your admin removes it (or you ask for it to be deleted).

Related: What's a pulse? · Welcome: what is The GAiGE? · The extension popup: what each button does