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Cy. An AI coworker that works from Slack(neonblue.ai)
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Tried something similar with a Slack bot wired to Linear last quarter, team of four. The handoff is where it broke for me: it would open a PR but tag the wrong reviewer and drop half the context from the thread it was summarizing. Does Cy keep the Slack thread linked to whatever it ships, or do you end up re-explaining the task in two places? That second part is what quietly ate my afternoons.
most of my "AI coworker" ended up being a 200-line retry-and-dedupe wrapper around the actual model call
We pushed a redline turnaround from two days to about four hours on a 60-page commercial lease using Spellbook last quarter. The catch nobody mentions: every clause it flags still needs a human to confirm against the actual jurisdiction, and a junior associate caught two hallucinated statute cites that would have been embarrassing in front of the client. Slack-native would help our intake, since half our matter requests already start as DMs from the partners. I just would not let it touch anything that goes out the door without sign-off.
Slack-as-interface means every task gets squeezed into a chat thread, and design work is the worst fit for that : a creative director reviewing layouts needs to point at the third comp's kerning, not type "make it tighter." The handoff you skip by living in Slack is the handoff where the actual feedback happens.
We pulled the same trick for contract intake; routing requests through Slack instead of a separate portal cut the back-and-forth a lot. Last quarter I had Slack threads kick off first-pass NDA redlines, and our turnaround on those dropped from two days to about four hours.
Slack-native is the part everyone copies and the part that bites you: I shipped a bot where every threaded reply fired a webhook, and a coworker @-mentioning it inside a 40-message thread re-sent the whole history as context every time. Show me how Cy handles dedup and thread state before I trust it to "work from Slack," because that plumbing is 80% of the actual product.