Salesforce has officially launched a significantly enhanced version of Slackbot, an AI assistant embedded within Slack.
The company first previewed this upgrade at the Dreamforce conference in October 2025.
Originally focused on simpler tasks like displaying notifications, the new Slackbot dramatically expands the tool's automation capabilities. According to Salesforce, it will save users time by reducing the effort required to locate business information.
Employees can upload lengthy documents, such as a marketing strategy, and ask the tool to extract specific data points or generate a high-level summary. Slackbot can also retrieve information from multiple files simultaneously. For instance, users can request it to summarize a collection of customer feedback spreadsheets shared by colleagues.
Slackbot can enrich the data it finds within Slack with details from external applications. At launch, the tool integrates with Salesforce, Google Drive, Box, and several other services. Before pitching a new product to a key client, a salesperson could have Slackbot pull account health details from Salesforce's CRM platform.
Beyond retrieving information from existing files, the tool can create new content. Salesforce states that Slackbot is capable of generating meeting notes, employee onboarding guides, and more. Additionally, it can automate task scheduling by interfacing with an employee's calendar software.
Slack CTO Parker Harris told CNBC that Slackbot is powered by Anthropic PBC's Claude series of large language models. The most powerful LLM in the series, Claude 4.5 Opus, debuted in November, setting records on over six benchmarks at launch, including two that measure the capabilities of LLM-driven AI agents.
AI agents are a major focus of Salesforce's roadmap for Slackbot. Future versions of the tool will integrate with Agentforce, a suite of automation features embedded within its cloud platform. Agentforce enables companies to build custom AI agents to accelerate tasks like creating sales presentations.
If an organization deploys multiple AI agents within its Salesforce environment, employees need to find the most suitable one for a given task. Future iterations of Slackbot will automatically identify the best tool for a specific job, serving as a unified operational interface. Salesforce notes the tool will support not only Agentforce but also third-party AI agents.
Slackbot employs a set of AI safety features called Slack AI Guardrails to mitigate hallucination risks. This technology also helps protect against prompt injection attacks, phishing links, and other cybersecurity threats.
"Salesforce is Slackbot's first customer, and I see AI fundamentally changing how we work," said Andy White, Senior Vice President of Business Technology at Salesforce. "Our teams are saving hours each week previously spent searching for information, gathering context, and getting answers."
Slackbot is included in Slack's Business+ and Enterprise+ tiers.
