We’ve all been there: You start your day with unread messages scattered across channels. You know a decision was made, but where? Was it in the #project-alpha channel? A huddle? Maybe it’s buried in a slide deck from last Tuesday.
The “work of work” — searching, summarizing, and catching up — takes more time than the jobs we were hired to do. You need a trusted, always-on colleague that answers questions instantly and acts on your behalf.
Today, we’re launching Slackbot as a personal AI agent for every employee to do just that. What used to be your friendly neighborhood notification-helper is graduating to become your personal, context-aware AI agent for work.
The all-new Slackbot understands your work, anticipates your needs, and acts as the intelligent partner you’ve always wanted. Starting now, you can stop hunting for information and start focusing on the work that matters.
Let’s dig into how it works and why it’s different from all the copilots and assistants on the market today.
Your personal AI agent for work, built into Slack
Slackbot is your deeply personal AI agent for work, built natively into Slack for every employee, with no setup or training required. What makes it different is simple: Slackbot starts with your context. And that context is what’s missing from the other tools out there.
Most AI tools are like interns who haven’t read the brief yet, and you have to spend half your time catching them up. Slackbot is the teammate that was in the meeting with you. When AI doesn’t understand your conversations, priorities, or how your business runs, it just creates more work.
Context is the key
Because it lives inside Slack, Slackbot understands how you and your team speak and how decisions actually get made. It’s informed by your messages and files, but it sees only what you can see, always respecting the permissions already in place. This context makes Slackbot more accurate and helpful, so you can move from “hunting” to “doing” instantly.
Slackbot isn’t just another AI assistant. It’s an intelligent, active partner that brings clarity and momentum to the work you’re already doing in Slack.
“AI has raised expectations in our personal lives, but work is fundamentally different. To truly be useful at work, AI needs context: an understanding of your conversations, your tools, and how decisions actually get made. With Slackbot, we’ve built an intuitive, deeply native experience inside Slack that people can trust to help them move work forward, not just answer questions.”
How it works
There is nothing to install, nothing to learn, and nothing new to manage. You simply start a conversation with Slackbot, and it understands what you’re asking and the context behind it.
It uses your actual work to create personalized briefings, clarify complex conversations, draft content in your voice, and surface insights you might otherwise miss. It can prepare you for meetings, help you navigate cross-functional complexity, and transform scattered inputs into clear, actionable outputs — all while staying grounded in the information you already have access to.
When you ask it a question, Slackbot evaluates the people you collaborate with, the channels you’re active in, the files and canvases you share, and the systems connected through enterprise search. It draws from signals like recent conversations, calendars, and shared documents and project decisions. Slackbot combines all of this into a complete understanding of your projects and team and then uses AI to synthesize insights, generate content, and structure information in ways that match your style and workflows.
The result is an experience that feels intuitive and personal: an AI agent that understands your role, your preferences, your projects, and the flow of work across your organization.
See Slackbot in action
Slackbot is a hands-on partner that helps you transform information into action. Here are three core capabilities that show how Slackbot accelerates everyday work.
1. Skip the catch-up, get to the decision
Slackbot can instantly synthesize information from across your channels, calls, canvases, and connected tools to provide clear, contextual insights. Whether you’re prepping for a customer call, aligning stakeholders before a big decision, or making sense of a fast-moving project, Slackbot surfaces the key themes, risks, opportunities, and next steps you need. By turning scattered messages and documents into meaningful intelligence, Slackbot helps you focus on what matters instead of having to piece together the story yourself.
“Slackbot is saving me, at bare minimum, 90 minutes a day. I ask it to create a canvas for a meeting tomorrow, and in 17 seconds it’s better than I could ever do. It tells me next steps, saving time and money.”
2. A head start on every draft
This is the end of the blank page. Slackbot creates first drafts effortlessly in your voice and style, transforming raw inputs into polished outputs. It can create customer emails, meeting talk tracks, briefs, blog outlines, onboarding guides, summaries, and more — pulling relevant information directly from your channels and files. Because it understands your role and the tone of your team, Slackbot produces content that is natural and on-brand. Instead of starting from a blank page, you start with a well-structured draft tailored to your needs, ready to refine and share.
“Slackbot is my brilliant colleague whose status is always green/available and is working right next to me in Slack. Instead of switching between multiple applications and windows and losing my train of thought, I can ask Slackbot questions and have it conduct research and create content without ever leaving Slack, the place I am working all day. It’s transformed how efficiently I move through my day — no context switching, no friction.”
3. Analyze files
You no longer have to read a 40-page deck at 4:45 p.m. on a Friday to understand the project’s status. From transcripts and spreadsheets to PDFs and long-form documents, Slackbot can analyze files deeply and instantly. Ask Slackbot to extract insights from sales call recordings, summarize complex reports, identify trends in customer feedback, or find specific data points inside large files. Slackbot cross-references file content with your other Slack conversations and connected systems to give you richer, more contextual answers. You spend less time searching and more time deciding, acting, and delivering.
“Slackbot has been an absolute chaos tamer for our team. It’s not just for simple tasks; it’s like having a virtual assistant, with far more context based on our business than any external tool.”
Slackbot + enterprise search + native AI: a new level of productivity
Slackbot is part of Slack’s larger AI ecosystem, working seamlessly alongside enterprise search and native AI capabilities to create a unified, context-driven environment for modern work. It delivers a conversational search experience that mirrors how people think and find information in the AI era — through natural language and following the flow of your questions.
Slackbot has taken the beloved Slack search bar and supercharged it. With Slackbot, search becomes your thought partner. It reasons with you, adapts to your style, and even runs your next steps. Slackbot understands all of the context around your work, and when that context changes in real time, so do the answers, recommendations, and next steps it provides. With Slackbot, we’re moving from “Help me find information” to “Help me identify, plan, and act,” all from this new chat experience.
Slackbot brings the power of AI and search together in a single conversation. Native AI handles your “in the moment” needs, like summarizing a long thread or translating a message, while enterprise search finds files and data scattered across your apps and drives. Slackbot leverages both to help you move work forward, just by asking.
Trust and security are built-in, not bolted on
Enterprise AI only works when trust comes first.
Slackbot is built on the same foundation of trust as Slack itself. It’s protected by Slack AI Guardrails, a multi-layered safety framework designed to keep your data secure. It respects roles, permissions, and access controls, and only surfaces information you are authorized to see, with clear citations that show where information comes from.
Your interactions remain private to you. Your data is protected and handled in accordance with Slack’s security and compliance standards. Real-time safeguards detect and defuse issues like prompt injection, unsafe content, or phishing attempts, while strict permission checks ensure that Slackbot only accesses data that users are already authorized to view within Slack.
This is enterprise-grade trust and security that customers expect, delivered through a personal, conversational experience.
This is just the beginning
Over time, Slackbot will become even more capable. As Agentforce and other third-party agents are introduced across your organization, Slackbot will become your ideal way to work with all of them.
Because it already understands your context, your priorities, and the way you work, Slackbot will become the place you turn first. You will not need to hunt for the right agent or tool. You’ll just ask Slackbot, and it will coordinate the work across systems and agents behind the scenes, while you stay focused on what matters.
Ready to meet the all-new Slackbot?
Slackbot will be made available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers through a phased rollout beginning today and continuing through January and February. To get started, find the Slackbot icon just to the right of the search bar at the top of your workspace. Then simply strike up a conversation.
Check out all of Slackbot’s new features and join us for a webinar on January 29 to see how a personal AI agent can change every employee’s workday. To find the right plan for your team, get in touch with Sales now.