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What is Slack AI?
Slack AI is the collection of AI features integrated into Slack — one of the most widely used business communication platforms in the world. Slack AI helps users summarize missed conversations, answer questions based on channel content and navigate more quickly through large workspaces with many conversations.
How does Slack AI work?
Slack AI works on the content of the user's own Slack workspace. When an employee returns from vacation or a weekend, they can ask Slack AI for a summary of the relevant conversations: "Summarize the key updates in #productteam from the past 5 days".
The Search Answers feature answers questions based on all message history in the workspace: "What was decided about the product launch?" or "Where can I find the onboarding documents?" The AI provides an answer with source references to the specific messages.
Core features
- Conversation Summaries — summarize channel history
- Thread Summaries — summarize long threads
- Search Answers — answer questions via workspace content
- AI writing assistance — improve or rewrite messages
- Channel Recaps — daily summaries of busy channels
Advantages
- Dramatically less time needed to keep up with conversation histories
- Makes knowledge work accessible via Q&A
- Integrated into the familiar Slack interface
Disadvantages
- Paid as an add-on on top of Slack Business+ or Enterprise Grid
- Privacy considerations with AI processing of internal messages
Pricing
Slack AI is available as an add-on for Business+ ($12.50/user/month extra) and Enterprise Grid subscriptions.
Who is it for?
Slack AI is ideal for teams that use Slack intensively and struggle to keep up with all conversations in busy workspaces with multiple channels.
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