Slack is bringing AI-generated, interactive artifacts into the middle of the conversation. A new feature called Slackforce Surfaces lets a user describe what they need to Slackbot and have it build the thing — a dashboard, a poll, a presentation, a microsite — without leaving the chat, The Verge's Emma Roth reported.
According to Slack, the assistant pulls context from relevant conversations and from connected apps such as Google Drive or Salesforce, then generates an interactive Surface that colleagues can view, interact with, comment on and pin to a channel. In one demo Slack showed, a user asks for an "arcade-themed visualization of AI token usage"; Slackbot returns a dashboard breaking token consumption down by division — sales, design, 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," Slack chief marketing officer Ryan Gavin told The Verge.
Slack frames the feature as general-purpose rather than analytics-only: a live dashboard for a customer-support queue, a weather-themed financial forecast fed by connected apps, a running poll inside a channel. The Verge notes the launch is available to customers with Slackbot enabled, including free-plan users.
The release extends a fast push to turn Slackbot from a helper into an agentic layer of the workspace — a rebuilt Slackbot earlier this year for cross-channel summarization, message triage and meeting scheduling, and collaborative vibe-coding channels that put AI agents in group chats last month. The bet behind Surfaces is that the artifact matters less than where it is made: if the dashboard and the discussion about it live in the same place, the loop between analysis and decision gets shorter.
