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The Gong and Outreach integration is two one-way pipes, and both of them move finished calls
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Every claim below read off help.gong.io and support.outreach.io on October 10, 2026, and quoted rather than summarised · By the Objeq team
What moves, in which direction, and who pays for it
| Outreach → Gong | Gong → Outreach Kaia | |
|---|---|---|
| Who documents it | Gong, in its own help centre | Outreach, in its support portal |
| What the doc says it does | "Connect Gong to Outreach so that Gong can retrieve calls directly from Outreach" | "Outreach Kaia can import existing call recordings from Gong through a direct API connection" |
| Plan or package needed | "Available on: Any Gong plan" | "The Amplify package is required", plus both products already enabled |
| Who switches it on | "Who can use this: Tech admin" | An admin holding a Gong Admin API key |
| Backfill | "automatically imports the last 90 days of calls" | "existing" recordings, with no window published in the article |
| Field level detail | Call outcome, call purpose, inbound or outbound, stereo or mono | The recording itself, all of them or only those from "active Outreach users" |
| What it refuses | Voicemail calls, "short calls (under 30 seconds)", "call attempts", "non-recorded calls" | Nothing stated, but see the governance line below |
| How people are matched | On the "Email" field | Host recognised as an Outreach user, or not |
| Anything during the call | No | No |
Both columns are the vendors' own published words, read 10 October 2026. Green marks the easier side of that row only.
Pipe one: Outreach to Gong, cheap to turn on and selective about what it takes
This is the direction most teams mean when they search for the integration. A rep dials from Outreach, and the call plus its metadata should end up in Gong where the analysis lives. Gong documents it as a direct connection rather than a middleman, and it says so in a sentence worth keeping:
"Connect Gong to Outreach so that Gong can retrieve calls directly from Outreach."
"This is more reliable than going through a third party and makes troubleshooting easier."
"Who can use this: Tech admin" · "Available on: Any Gong plan" · it "automatically imports the last 90 days of calls".
What comes with each call: "Imports the call outcome" · "Imports the call purpose" · "Indicates whether the call is inbound or outbound" · "Indicates if the call is recorded using stereo or mono".
Gong, help.gong.io on the Outreach API integration, read 10 October 2026.Two things in there are more useful than they look. The 90 day backfill means the integration has a history on day one, so you can connect it on a Monday and look at last quarter's calls on the Tuesday. And stereo or mono is not a trivia field: a mono recording mixes both voices into one channel, which is what makes talk ratio and interruption numbers unreliable. If your Outreach dialler records mono, Gong will still ingest the call and the speaker level metrics on it will be softer than they look.
And four kinds of call that never arrive
Gong's compatibility list marks these as not supported, and this is the line that explains why the two systems never reconcile:
Not imported: "short calls (under 30 seconds)" · "call attempts" · "non-recorded calls" · "voicemail calls".
User identification relies on the "Email" field matching.
Gong, help.gong.io on the Outreach API integration, read 10 October 2026.For an SDR desk that is most of the day. Dials that rang out, voicemails left, the eleven second call where the gatekeeper hung up: all of it stays in Outreach and none of it lands in Gong. So if the reason you are wiring these two together is activity reporting, you are about to build a report that disagrees with itself. Count activity in Outreach, where the dialling happens. Use Gong for the conversations that actually occurred. And check the email addresses match in both systems before anyone asks why a rep's calls vanished.
Pipe two: Gong to Kaia, and the one sentence to read twice
The other direction is an Outreach feature, not a Gong feature, and the gate on it is a package name rather than a toggle.
"Outreach Kaia can import existing call recordings from Gong through a direct API connection."
"The Amplify package is required."
"Your organization must already be enabled for both Outreach Kaia and Gong", and you need a Gong Admin API key before setup.
You choose between "Sync all recordings" and "Only sync recordings from active Outreach users".
Outreach, support.outreach.io on syncing Gong recordings to Kaia, read 10 October 2026.Now the sentence that should decide your sync setting, published by Outreach itself:
"Recordings synced from Gong whose host is not recognized as an Outreach user will be treated as public, since Kaia's current governance model has no other way to restrict access to them."
Outreach, same article, read 10 October 2026.Read it against a real company. People leave. Contractors run calls. Customer success and support sit in Gong and have never had an Outreach seat. Every recording hosted by one of those people arrives in Kaia as a public recording, and nobody gets a warning, because the governance model has nowhere else to put it. Outreach is being straight with you by printing this. It is still a decision you have to make before the first sync rather than after it, and the mitigation is in the same article: sync only recordings from active Outreach users. Credit where it is due, a vendor that publishes its own worst paragraph is a vendor worth reading closely.
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The live half of this pair belongs to Outreach, not to Gong
People searching for this integration are often really asking a different question: once both tools are connected, does anything help the rep while the call is happening. The honest answer has two halves.
Gong does not claim the live minute. We opened the Gong Enable page the same morning, looking for an in-call claim, because finding one would have changed this page. The features named there are AI Call Reviewer, Coaching Inbox, AI Trainer, AI Coach, Lessons, Dry Run, Initiative Tracking, Coaching Metrics, Team Insights and Market Insights. The only sentence on it with the word "live" is "Practice every upcoming customer meeting through live AI role-play before it happens". That is a rehearsal.
Outreach Kaia does claim it, with content cards that surface during the conversation. What Outreach documents around that is the gate:
"Only users who have been assigned a Kaia license will have their calls joined by Kaia."
"Kaia respects your Outreach Voice recording settings. If you auto-record, Kaia will automatically join."
"Kaia for Voice functionality (transcription, note-taking, content cards, action items, analytics, and recording) is only available with Outreach Voice."
"Other features of Kaia (e.g., Content Cards, Smart Meeting Assist, Custom Topics, etc.) are only supported in English."
"Only your Reps can currently see the Live Kaia experience."
On video calls: "Outreach Kaia is currently compatible with the following platforms: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, WebEx", and "the Zoom meeting host must be in the meeting and grant recording permission to Kaia".
On the one-sided recording variant: "This feature only functions when a user has a Kaia Live license applied to them via the Subscriptions page. The Orchestrate license is required."
Outreach, Kaia live meeting assistant in Outreach Voice FAQ, Outreach Kaia meetings FAQ and one-sided call recording, all read 10 October 2026. Gong, gong.io Gong Enable, read the same day.Count the names you have to buy before a single word appears on a rep's screen during a call: a Kaia licence, Outreach Voice for the Voice feature set, Orchestrate for Kaia Live on one-sided calls, and Amplify if you also want the Gong recordings in there. That is four package names, in two products, for one live sentence. Add the mechanics: the assistant joins the meeting as a participant, and on Zoom the host has to be present and grant it recording permission, so a buyer who declines the bot removes the feature from that call.
Where this leaves you, and where Objeq fits
If you already run both products, open the pipes. They are well documented, the Outreach to Gong side costs nothing extra on any Gong plan, and 90 days of backfill on day one is a genuine gift. Just set the Kaia sync to active Outreach users only, and stop counting dials in Gong.
What neither pipe does is help the rep in the moment the deal is actually lost. Both of them carry calls that have already finished, to tools that score them afterwards. The only live help in the pair is Kaia's, and it is behind a licence stack, English only, visible to reps only, and dependent on a host letting the assistant into the room.
That gap is the whole reason Objeq exists, and you should read this paragraph as the bias it is. It does one thing: it reads the browser tab the call is playing in and writes the next line on the rep's screen while the buyer is still talking. Nothing joins the meeting, so no participant list changes and no host has to approve anything. The price is printed on the pricing page, $99 a seat for Starter and $149 for Pro, flat, with no package to add before the live part works. It runs in Hebrew end to end, which is why it was built. And what it does not do is long: no dialler, no sequences, no forecasting, no CRM writes, no analytics across hundreds of calls. It replaces neither Gong nor Outreach. It sits next to both of them in the one minute they both skip.
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What we did not verify, said out loud
We read vendor documentation, not a sandbox. We did not price the Amplify, Orchestrate or Outreach Voice packages, because Outreach does not publish a dollar figure for them on the pages we opened, so treat "four package names" as a procurement question and not as a quote. The Kaia platforms article lists Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and WebEx as compatible and does not split that list into live versus after the call, so we are not claiming which platforms carry the live content cards. Outreach does not publish a backfill window for the Gong to Kaia import the way Gong publishes 90 days for the other direction. And none of this is tested against your tenant. If either vendor changes a line, this page is wrong until we read it again, and the date at the top is there so you can tell how stale it is.
Questions people ask next
Is Outreach Kaia the same thing as Gong?
They overlap on conversation intelligence and they are not interchangeable. Kaia sits inside the Outreach execution layer, next to sequences, the dialler and meetings, and it has a live meeting assistant with content cards. Gong is broader and deeper after the call, across the whole revenue motion. If you are picking one, the deciding factor is usually which layer you want to own the recording, plus the licence stack on the Kaia side. The head to head we keep updated is Gong vs Outreach.
Will my Outreach dial activity show up in Gong?
Partly, and the missing part is predictable. Gong's doc lists four categories it does not import: calls under 30 seconds, call attempts, non-recorded calls and voicemail calls. Connected conversations arrive with outcome, purpose, direction and channel metadata. So activity totals belong in Outreach and conversation analysis belongs in Gong, and anyone comparing the two counts will find a gap that is working as documented.
Do I need the Amplify package for both directions?
No. Amplify is named in Outreach's article for the Gong to Kaia import. The other direction is Gong's own integration and its doc says "Available on: Any Gong plan", set up by a tech admin. So you can get Outreach calls into Gong without buying anything new, and getting Gong recordings into Kaia is the side that costs a package.
Why would synced recordings become public in Kaia?
Because Kaia decides access from the host identity, and a Gong recording can have a host who has no Outreach seat. Outreach's own sentence: recordings "whose host is not recognized as an Outreach user will be treated as public, since Kaia's current governance model has no other way to restrict access to them". Pick "Only sync recordings from active Outreach users" unless you have checked every host in Gong.
Does either tool talk to the rep during the call?
Kaia does, inside its own live meeting assistant, gated by a Kaia licence, English only, visible to reps only, and with the assistant joining the meeting. Gong does not claim it anywhere we read; its one live feature is role-play before the meeting. If the live minute is the thing you are buying, compare on real-time call coaching rather than on integration diagrams.
Sources, all opened by us rather than quoted from a summary: Gong on the Outreach API integration, Outreach on syncing Gong recordings to Kaia, Kaia live meeting assistant FAQ, Outreach Kaia meetings FAQ, Outreach on one-sided call recording and Gong Enable, all read 10 October 2026. Objeq's own prices are on our pricing page. Related: Gong vs Outreach, Objeq vs Outreach, Salesloft vs Outreach, sales coaching software comparison.