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Slack Daily Digest Bot: AI Channel Summaries You Can Chat With

Build a Slack daily digest bot that summarizes your channels every morning using AI. It reads overnight messages, extracts key decisions and action items, and posts a summary your team can ask follow-up questions about. No coding required.

Problem: Lots of Conversations, Difficult to Follow Everything

In today's fast-paced working environment, Slack has become an essential tool for team communication. With numerous channels and constant streams of messages, it can be overwhelming to keep track of every conversation. Important updates might be missed, and staying informed can feel daunting.

Solutions: Slack Daily/Weekly Digest Using Generative AI

To tackle this problem, you can integrate AI assistants built on advanced models such as OpenAI Assistant/GPTs, Anthropic Claude, or Google Gemini. These AI-powered assistants can be seamlessly integrated into Slack using Runbear. By setting up a daily or weekly trigger, these assistants can summarize conversations and provide a digest that keeps everyone on the same page.

How It Works

Your AI assistant automatically summarizes daily or weekly conversations. Team members can ask follow-up questions within the thread to get more details.

Benefits

  • Do Not Miss the Context: With AI-generated summaries, team members can quickly catch up on important topics without sifting through endless messages.
  • Help Team Members Be on the Same Page: Everyone gets the same information, ensuring cohesion and reducing misunderstandings.
  • Save Time to Follow Up: Instead of spending time reading through all messages, you get a concise digest that highlights key points and decisions.

Additionally, you can ask the chatbot questions about the conversations!

How-to Guide: Build an Assistant for Daily/Weekly Digest

You can choose between a) building an assistant from scratch, or b) purchasing prebuilt solutions like Slack AI, c) or building one optimized for your needs using building tools like Runbear.

Follow the guide below to build your own with Runbear in just 10 minutes—no coding required.

Building an AI Assistant

  1. Sign up for Runbear, visit the "New Assistant" page, and select your power: OpenAI Assistant/GPTs, Anthropic Claude, or Google Gemini.
  2. Turn on the Power-up Plugin, Slack Search, which helps you query the Slack conversations.
  3. Setup Slack Integration: Follow Runbear's process to connect your Slack workspace.

Setting Up a Scheduled Message

You can use Slack reminders to configure daily or weekly scheduled messages! Simply type /remind [#channel] [what] [when] in your Slack channel to set it up effortlessly.

Take a look at this example—it schedules the message to be posted at 8 AM every weekday!

Other Scheduled Job Use Cases

Scheduled Jobs can do more than publish recurring summaries. A useful job checks for a specific signal, stays quiet when nothing needs attention, and only nudges the person who needs to decide.

  1. End-of-day recognition nudge — Surface meaningful employee contributions and prepare a Matter kudos draft for a manager to review.
  2. Stalled request sweep — Check open customer requests on a schedule and privately nudge the owner before the customer follows up.
  3. Weekly KPI watch — Review connected metrics, flag meaningful changes, and deliver a short decision-ready summary.

Use case example - End-of-Day Recognition Nudge with Matter

Near the end of each workday, Runbear reviews approved work channels, not private DMs, for clear examples of employees helping customers, supporting teammates, resolving incidents, or completing important work.

When it finds a meaningful contribution, Runbear sends the manager a private Slack DM with the employee, the company value demonstrated, the original evidence, and a drafted kudos message. The manager reviews the suggestion and sends it through Matter using /give kudos. If there is no meaningful contribution that day, Runbear sends nothing.

Company values are defined by each Matter customer. The value and employee scenario below are illustrative examples of how the workflow could look.

Illustrative Slack direct message from Runbear to a manager: an example company value, the contribution it found, a drafted Matter kudos message with source links, and a reminder to send it with the /give kudos command.

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