Slackbot Builds Dashboards in Real Time | Tech News

0:00It's September 10th. Welcome to Tech News today, powered by AI, on Quarry with the story. So Slack is rolling out this new thing called Slack for Surfaces. Basically, you can tell Slack about what kind of tool you need, like a report, a poll, or even a dashboard, and it'll use AI to build it for you right. There in Slack. It pulls info from your chats and connected apps, so you don't have to go digging around everywhere. Think about it. Instead of exporting data to another program, you just describe what you want, and Slackbot whips it up. Then, you can share with your team, pin it to channels, and everyone can see it, mess with it, and leave feedback. They showed an example where someone asked for a visualization of AI token usage, and Slackbot made this cool interactive dashboard showing how. Different departments were using it. This is a pretty big upgrade, especially since they just made Slackbot more of an AI assistant a few months back, letting it summarize stuff and schedule meetings. Now, it's stepping up to actually create things for you. It's all about keeping the workflow where the conversation is happening, making it easier for everyone to get on the same page and act fast.

1:10They're saying you could use this for all sorts of things, like a live dashboard for customer support tickets, or even a financial forecast that pulls. In real-time data, and don't worry, Slack is clear that it'll only access information you've given it permission to use. It's about streamlining how you get insights without leaving your workspace. This Slack 4 surfaces feature is available to everyone, even free users, as long as Slackbot is turned on, you'll be able to start using it with live data in October. It's a pretty neat way to turn your conversations into actionable tools.