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Slack AI
Slack's overhauled Slackbot (powered by Anthropic's Claude) brings meeting intelligence, channel summaries, enterprise search, message drafting, and workflow automation directly into the messaging app you already use at work. Salesforce claims users save an average of 97 minutes per week.
The free path: Free plan (limited AI, 90-day history).
Pricing
Free plan (limited AI, 90-day history). Pro: $7.25/user/month (annual). Business+: $12.50/user/month (full AI features). Enterprise Grid: custom pricing. The old $10/user/month AI add-on has been discontinued; AI is now bundled into all paid plans.
As reported in our 4 Apr 2026 issue.
Try it in 3 steps
- Catch up instantly: Open any channel you've been away from and click "Summarize." Slackbot condenses days of messages into bullet points highlighting decisions, questions, and action items.
- Search smarter: Ask Slackbot a natural language question like "What did the design team decide about the homepage last Tuesday?" It searches across channels, DMs, files, PDFs, and connected apps like Google Drive.
- Let it join your meetings: Enable meeting intelligence in Huddles or connect Zoom/Google Meet. Slackbot will transcribe the call and post a summary with action items in the relevant channel.
Where we covered it
- 4 Apr 2026, Tool of the Week: Your Slack Just Got a Brain
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