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Guru's Slack integrations

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Knowledge Agents in Slack

Slack is where work happens. Guru brings trusted knowledge directly into that workflow.

When a question is asked in an enabled channel, Guru’s Knowledge Agent responds in the thread with:

  • Cited, permission-aware answers
  • Fully unfurled responses
  • Support for conversational follow-ups via @guru
  • Visibility and logging in the AI Agent Center

Slack becomes more than a messaging app — it becomes a collaboration surface powered by your AI Source of Truth.

Answers grounded in real company context

Knowledge Agents combine:

  • Verified company documentation
  • Structured knowledge from connected systems
  • Role-based and permission-aware access controls
  • Live Slack conversation context when relevant

This ensures responses reflect what’s happening now — without sacrificing governance, security, or auditability.

Your team gets fast answers. IT gets centralized oversight.

Turn Slack conversations into verified knowledge

Important decisions happen in Slack — but conversations disappear.

Guru helps teams capture high-value Slack threads and convert them into structured, governed knowledge that improves future answers across your entire AI ecosystem.

With Knowledge Agents and automation workflows, teams can:

  • Draft knowledge from Slack threads
  • Route it to subject matter experts for verification
  • Publish it as cited, trusted knowledge
  • Improve every future AI answer automatically

Instead of Slack being a knowledge graveyard, it becomes a living input into your AI Source of Truth.

Every correction or verification made once in Guru propagates everywhere — in Slack, in Guru, and across AI chat tools and agents connected via MCP.

Search Slack content anywhere

Slack can also serve as a governed knowledge source inside Guru.

Search approved Slack channels from:

  • The Guru web app
  • The browser extension
  • Knowledge Agents
  • Other connected AI tools

Slack conversations become part of your broader knowledge ecosystem — without breaking permissions or creating parallel AI pipelines.

Secure data control

Guru respects all existing Slack and Guru permissions.

Knowledge Agents access only the Slack messages a user is authorized to see. Permissions are inherited directly from Slack, ensuring least-privilege access across every workflow.

All activity is governed centrally in Guru, with visibility in administrative tools such as the AI Agent Center.

Your Slack data is never used to train third-party models. Learn more on our security page.

Why Guru for Slack?

Other tools search Slack.
Guru governs the knowledge behind it.

With Guru, you:

  • Connect Slack to all your company’s knowledge
  • Deliver cited, permission-aware answers in the flow of work
  • Capture undocumented knowledge automatically
  • Improve knowledge continuously through verification workflows
  • Power every AI tool with the same trusted company brain

Slack becomes smarter.
Your AI tools become trustworthy.
Your knowledge gets better over time.

Single Sign-on (SSO)

Connect Guru to thousands of apps with Slack

Security đź”’

Your privacy matters. Your data is never used to train, nor retained by, third-party LLMs and your team’s AI model is unique and privately trained only in your Guru instance. Learn more on our security page.

One Search, Endless Sources

Guru is an enterprise AI search solution that connects all your company's scattered information from various apps, chats, and documents, making it easy to find the answers you need without switching between multiple platforms.

Someone searching for "What's the status of the database migration?" and Guru returning an instant AI answer based on content from Asana and Slack.

Personalized answers, in your workflow

By understanding natural language questions and considering context such as user roles, search history, and current projects, Guru generates personalized answers while preserving source permissions right in their workflow.

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Continuous Improvement

Train Guru’s AI by reviewing the questions team members are asking and the answers Guru provided to improve answers over time. As employees use Guru, it transforms disparate information into a single, evolving source of truth, creating an effortlessly built wiki and intranet.

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An AI assistant for every employee

With Guru, every employee has their own AI assistant that anticipates and delivers the information they need before they even ask, empowering teams to achieve more with the power of accessible, contextual knowledge.