Slack AI

Slack AI is the AI layer inside Slack. It summarises busy channels and threads, answers plain-language questions using your workspace history and recaps what you missed while away. Teams drowning in messages use it to find decisions instead of scrolling for them.

Key features

• Channel and thread summaries covering a day, a week or a custom range.
• AI search that answers questions in sentences and cites the source messages.
• Daily recaps of the channels that matter most to you.
• Huddle notes that capture spoken decisions and turn them into shared text.
• Workflow and agent building blocks for automating routine requests.
• Enterprise-grade privacy: your data is not used to train external models.

Who it is for

• Managers rejoining after leave who need the decisions, not the noise.
• New hires searching institutional knowledge buried in old threads.
• Support and engineering teams triaging incident channels.
• Any company where Slack has become the real system of record.

Pricing

Slack AI is available on paid Slack plans, included on higher tiers and offered as a paid add-on for some plans. Free workspaces do not include it, and pricing is per active user per month.

Why people choose Slack AI

Anyone comparing AI tools for team communication picks Slack AI when their history already lives in Slack: the answers come from real internal conversations rather than the public web. That makes it less of a chatbot and more of a company memory, which is why it saves the most time in workspaces with long message histories.