Slack AI
AI-powered search and summaries inside Slack
Slack AI adds channel summaries, thread recaps, and semantic search directly into Slack. It synthesizes conversations across channels so you never miss important decisions, even after time away.
Editor rating is our overall editorial judgment of the tool, out of 5. It is not a test score and not a user-review average. Ratings have not been re-scored since the tool was listed here. The reasons are in Best for and Pros & cons below.
You can use this without coding, but there is some setup before it is useful.
Best for
Pros & cons
✓ Pros
✗ What this won't do
Use cases
Catching up on missed channel activity
Summarizing long decision threads
Finding past discussions quickly
Onboarding new team members
Check your plan
AI in Slack comes with all paid Slack plans. Which features you get depends on the plan, so check the plan table in Slack's AI guide.
Summarize a channel
Open a channel or direct message, click the three dots icon at the top and choose Summarize channel or Summarize conversation. Pick an option, and the summary appears when it is ready.
Check the sources
Click the More details icon to see which messages the summary used. For a daily catch-up, click Recap in the sidebar to get a new summary every morning.
If huddle notes are missing
AI notes in huddles work for members, not guests, and not in huddles with people from other companies. To start them, click AI notes: Off in the huddle, then Start AI notes & transcription.
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