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Launched September 10: describe what you want to Slackbot and it pulls context from the surrounding conversation plus connected apps like Google Drive and Salesforce to generate interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations and microsites inline. One demo builds a sales pipeline dashboard by deal stage with a sortable opportunity list from Salesforce. Available to all Slack customers including free-tier workspaces wherever Slackbot is enabled, with live data support arriving in October (iTechPost). Every lightweight internal-dashboard tool now competes with a free feature inside the chat app the team already has open.
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Slack Code shipped August 20. You tag a coding agent in a conversation, it opens a project-specific channel, and the whole team watches the work happen: diffs, live HTML previews, feedback the agent picks up mid-run, approval gates before anything ships. Each channel keeps an...
Launched on Product Hunt July 7 (#2 in Sales/AI/CRM), founded by an ex-Datadog operator. Hang up a call and it's already summarized notes, updated Salesforce records, drafted follow-up, and set the next step, plus a cross-platform meeting recorder and a Slack bot (Product Hunt...
Vendors are putting agents where users already are instead of shipping new destination apps, Salesforce's Add to Slack, Workday's Sana AI inside Microsoft Copilot, Shopify's Agentic Storefronts exposing millions of merchants to ChatGPT and Copilot Checkout (Shopify). The moat...
SaaStr's July 21 post argues against the "give agents a Postgres database and let them rip" position with four failure modes: 20+ agents each reinvent business rules without shared logic, downstream billing/BI/marketing need a canonical record, humans still need pipelines and...
Marc Benioff said "the UI is the AI" out loud, on the record, about his own product. Then Salesforce released the thing that makes it true. Claudeforce went live for pilot customers on August 26. The centerpiece is "Salesforce in Claude," a Claude Cowork plugin carrying 37 pre...
Block launched Buzz on July 21. Free desktop app for macOS, Windows, Linux. Built on the Nostr protocol with cryptographic identities. Dorsey described it as "model-agnostic, decentralised, self-sovereign and open source," created explicitly "to reduce our dependency on slack...
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