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Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, microsites, and other tools directly inside a chat. With Slackforce Surfaces, you can describe to Slackbot what you need, and it will use AI to gather information from relevant conversations and connected apps, like Google Drive or Salesforce, to create it.Once Slackbot creates a Surface, you can share it with colleagues and pin it to channels, allowing other people to view it, interact with it, and leave comments. In one example shared by Slack, a user asks Slackbot for help creating an arcade-themed visualization of AI token usage. The AI assistant then generates an interactive dashboard showing token usage across different divisions, such as sales, design, and engineering.“You’re not exporting your data to some other tool to make sense of it, you’re asking Slackbot to build the dashboard, the deck, the report right where the conversation already is, and your whole team can act on it together,” Ryan Gavin, Slack’s chief marketing officer, tells The Verge in an email.This update comes just months after Slack overhauled Slackbot to make the tool more like an AI assistant, allowing it to summarize information across channels, sort through messages, and find time to schedule meetings. It also added collaborative vibe coding channels last month.It seems like there are many other ways to use Surfaces, too, like building a live dashboard for a customer support queue that other workers can view, or creating a weather-themed financial forecast that pulls in data from connected apps. Slack notes that the feature will only pull information that you’ve given its AI tools permission to access.Slackforce Surfaces is available to all customers — including those who use it for free — with Slackbot enabled in their workspace. 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Slack has introduced a new capability that allows users to utilize Slackbot to vibe-code interactive charts and reports directly within chat environments. This feature enables users to instruct Slackbot to build custom tools simply by describing the desired output. The mechanism relies on the AI to gather necessary information from relevant conversations and connected applications, such as Google Drive or Salesforce, to construct these interactive visualizations and reports, which Slack refers to as Slackforce Surfaces. Upon creation, these Surfaces can be shared with colleagues and pinned to channels, allowing other team members to view, interact with, and comment on the generated content. For instance, one reported example involved a user requesting an arcade-themed visualization illustrating AI token usage across various organizational divisions, demonstrating the potential for immediate, collaborative data visualization.

This approach fundamentally shifts the workflow away from exporting data to external tools for analysis; instead, users can command the AI to generate the necessary dashboards, presentations, or reports directly where the conversation is taking place, facilitating collective action among the team. Ryan Gavin, Slack’s chief marketing officer, commented that this functionality allows the team to build these elements in real-time, enabling collaboration directly within the existing context of the chat. This evolution follows previous updates where Slackbot was enhanced to function more effectively as an AI assistant, capable of summarizing information across channels, sorting messages, and scheduling meetings, and further incorporated collaborative vibe coding channels.

The feature's operation is governed by data security and access protocols; Slack explicitly notes that the AI tools can only access information that the user has granted permission for. Slackforce Surfaces is being rolled out to all customers, including those utilizing the free tier, with Slackbot fully enabled in their workspace, and this functionality is expected to be available with live data starting in October. This integration demonstrates an advanced application of generative AI within workplace communication, transforming how information synthesis and data reporting are executed in a collaborative setting.