Salesforce Announces the General Availability of Slackbot – Your Personal Agent for Work

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• Slackbot is saving at least 90 minutes per day; it can create a canvas for a meeting in 17 seconds at higher quality than manually possible

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• Slackbot respects roles, permissions, and access controls, surfacing only information users are authorized to see, with interactions remaining private and data handled in accordance with Slack's security and compliance standards

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• Salesforce teams are saving several hours per week using Slackbot by eliminating time spent hunting for information and getting answers.

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• Slackbot saves approximately 30 minutes per day by eliminating context switching and serves as a virtual teammate with business context beyond any external tool

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• Slackbot can summarize decisions and next steps from large volumes of missed messages.

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• Slackbot is generally available for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers starting January 13, 2026

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• Slackbot can summarize decisions and required actions from a backlog of 30-40 messages

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• Slackbot acts like a brilliant always-available colleague who understands the business, enabling users to stay in Slack and keep moving without switching apps.

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• Slackbot is the front door to the Agentic Enterprise, powered by Salesforce, bringing AI grounded in company data, workflows, and Slack conversations into the flow of work.

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• Salesforce teams are saving several hours per week previously spent hunting down information, finding context, and getting answers

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• Slackbot saves approximately 30 minutes per day by eliminating context switching.

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• Slackbot acts as a second brain providing information and context about work, people, and company operations

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• Slackbot understands Xero's world without requiring long briefs because so much work happens in Slack.

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• Slackbot will soon become the best way to collaborate with Agentforce and third-party agents as a conversational UI that can trigger actions and orchestrate workflows

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• Slackbot will become the best way to collaborate with Agentforce and third-party agents in the future.

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• Slackbot saves at least 90 minutes per day and can create a canvas for a meeting in 17 seconds.

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• Slackbot requires no installation, no training, and no new management; it is built directly into Slack.

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• Slackbot is like a brilliant colleague who is always available and already understands the business, enabling users to stay in Slack without switching between apps

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• Billions of workplace conversations happen in Slack every week.

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• Slackbot respects user permissions, roles, and access controls and only surfaces information the user is authorized to see.

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• Slackbot serves as a second brain providing memory and context for work and company operations.

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• A large media company used Slackbot to run a full operational analysis on two high-volume scheduling channels in minutes, surfacing cancellation rate patterns that would historically have taken weeks to compile manually

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• A large media company used Slackbot to run a full operational analysis on two high-volume scheduling channels in minutes, surfacing patterns that would have taken an employee weeks to compile manually.

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• Slackbot understands context from day one without requiring lengthy briefings because so much work happens in Slack

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• Slackbot isn't just another copilot or AI assistant. It's the front door to the Agentic Enterprise, powered by Salesforce, bringing AI grounded in company data, workflows, and Slack conversations right into the flow of work

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• Slackbot is generally available for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers starting January 13, 2026, with phased rollout through January and February.

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