Slack as the Natural Home for AI Work Agents (Full Transcript)
[00:00:15] Speaker 1: Slack is where I work with all my team all the time.
[00:00:18] Speaker 2: It's important for Wordsmith to be in Slack because that's where work happens.
[00:00:22] Speaker 3: Slack is the place where people are working and you have multiplayer conversations.
[00:00:27] Speaker 4: That's where you work and we don't want to take you out of where you work.
[00:00:30] Speaker 5: You interact with these agents with conversation. So Slack felt like the perfect solution.
[00:00:39] Speaker 3: The advantage of multiplayer vibe coding is that my whole team can contribute to the idea.
[00:00:46] Speaker 2: One of the really magic things about our integration into Slack is that in a context that's required to answer questions in the future is already in there.
[00:00:52] Speaker 4: There's so many different ways that you can build custom agents inside of Slack.
[00:01:00] Speaker 1: We don't have to build a new interface here. There's already one. It's just called Slack.
[00:01:04] Speaker 6: You just inherently understand it. Now you've just got this extra person that lives in there and is able to pick up those tasks for you at the touch of a button.
[00:01:12] Speaker 7: I think we're honestly just at the beginning, scratching the surface of what agents can do in Slack.
[00:01:18] Speaker 1: A future that we'd love to build is one where things are just happening in Slack.
[00:01:22] Speaker 8: Managing all the agents that are performing work, I couldn't imagine doing it from anywhere else but Slack.
- Slack is already where work and team conversations happen, so agents should live there too.
- Embedding agents in Slack reduces friction and avoids building or learning new interfaces.
- Conversation history in Slack provides valuable context for future questions and tasks.
- “Multiplayer” collaboration enables teams to co-create ideas with agents in shared channels.
- Slack supports many ways to build and manage custom agents, and the space is still early with significant room to grow.