Google Smart Compose saves time while maintaining quality communications with your customers.

Google recently announced a new feature that could be a major time saver for busy small business owners and contractors. The new Smart Compose feature will help Gmail users write better, faster emails from scratch.

Smart Compose represents the natural evolution of the tech juggernaut’s “Smart Reply” feature, which it rolled out last year. But whereas Smart Reply offered only a few one to two phrase turnkey suggestions for a quick email reply (for instance, you might choose between suggested succinct responses such as “That sounds good” and “I’ll get back to you later”), Smart Compose feels more akin to smartphones’ predictive text functionality.

The feature will run in the background, suggesting phrasing learned by artificial intelligence, neural networks honed over billions of emails and attuned to your own writing patterns, suggesting phrases and sentences as you type. To accept, the writer will click the tab key each time. To reject, they’ll just keep typing and the suggestion will disappear.

Though Smart Compose is still a work in progress, it could be very useful to contractors who work in the field but want to quickly compose a response to a client inquiry quickly and professionally.

It could also help employees stuck in meetings or conferences multitask without overly dividing their attention. Who among us wouldn’t prefer to email more efficiently without sacrificing quality?

Smart Compose is being rolled out over the coming weeks to Gmail users, with G Suite customers soon to follow in the next few months. To try it, you must have the new Gmail interface enabled; under the main settings menu, enable “experimental access” to toggle Smart Compose on. Not a fan? Toggle it off to disable the feature.