Slack AI

Unlock team productivity with intuitive, secure, and tailored generative AI in Slack.

by salesforce · Team Messaging

Executive Summary

Slack AI is a built-in generative AI toolkit designed to streamline workflows and boost productivity for teams of all sizes. It helps users quickly find information, summarize conversations, and automate tasks by leveraging an organization's internal Slack data. Its key business value lies in reducing information overload and saving time, differentiating itself by being natively integrated into the familiar Slack environment and prioritizing data security by not training LLMs on customer data.

Use Cases

  • Quickly catching up on missed conversations and threads after time off or joining a new channel.
  • Finding specific information and answers from vast amounts of Slack data and integrated apps using natural language queries.
  • Automating routine tasks and workflows, such as generating project updates or meeting notes.
  • Improving incident response coordination by rapidly summarizing chaotic channels for new team members.
  • Enhancing cross-cultural communication through instant message translation.
  • Onboarding new team members by providing quick summaries of past discussions and key decisions.

Features

Visibility

  • AI-Powered Search: Enables natural language queries to find answers from Slack messages, files, and integrated content, providing conversational summaries.
  • Conversation Summaries: Quickly generates summaries of long threads or channel activity, allowing users to catch up on discussions efficiently.
  • Channel Recaps: Provides daily or custom-range recaps of key highlights from accessible channels, customizable by the user.
  • File Summaries: Automatically summarizes text-based files (PDFs, documents, spreadsheets) shared in channels or DMs.

Intelligence

  • Intelligent Q&A: Answers specific questions by drawing information from the workspace's collective knowledge, citing sources for accuracy.
  • Message Translation: Translates messages into various languages, facilitating communication across global teams.
  • Message Explanation: Provides explanations for messages, including images and PDFs, to help users understand context.
  • AI Workflow Builder: Automates repetitive tasks within Slack using natural language commands and AI-powered steps, such as summarizing channels for updates.
  • Custom AI Assistants & Agentforce: Allows for the creation and integration of custom AI assistants and Salesforce-centric Agentforce for automating actions and tasks within Slack.

Support

  • Help Center & Guides: Comprehensive online documentation and guides for using Slack AI features.
  • Developer Documentation: Resources for developers to build custom AI assistants and integrate AI features into Slack apps.
  • Customer Support: Access to Slack's customer support channels for assistance with the platform and its AI features.

Technical Specifications

Architecture
Cloud-native SaaS, integrated into Slack's platform
Deployment
Cloud/SaaS
Authentication
SSO, SAML 2.0, MFA, OAuth 2.0
API Available
Yes
MCP Server
Yes

Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • GCP

AI/ML Stack

  • NLP
  • Machine Learning
  • LLM
  • Generative AI
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Security & Compliance

Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA

Encryption: AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit

Pricing

Model
Per user/month add-on
Starting Price
$10/user/month (as of April 2024, in addition to base Slack plan)
Target Customer
Mid-market to Enterprise
Contract Type
Monthly or Annual (based on Slack plan)
Free Trial
No (credit card required)

Ratings & Reviews

G2: 4.5/5

About salesforce

Salesforce, Inc. is an American technology company best known for developing cloud-based software for customer relationship management (CRM) and related business applications delivered through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription model. Its major product is the AI-powered Customer 360 platform, which includes customer data cloud services, marketing, automation, integration, commerce, and artificial intelligence.

Founded: 1999 · Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States · Employees: 10000+ · Public