I built Slacklane because useful team knowledge is often scattered across documents, websites, and Slack conversations. Finding an answer can mean searching through several places or asking someone to explain something they’ve already answered before. I wanted teams to be able to ask questions where they already work and get answers grounded in sources they can actually check. Slacklane started as a way to “chat with your documents,” but the idea grew as I spoke to more people. A conversation with a potential customer made something click: finding existing knowledge was only half the problem. Teams also needed a simple way to capture new knowledge as it emerged. That led to Save to Brain, which lets teams turn useful Slack messages into shared knowledge, with optional approval before they become available in future answers. A lot of Slacklane has been shaped this way, through real conversations and testing. That feedback influenced everything from making answers feel more natural, to improving retrieval, to simplifying onboarding. Slacklane is also fully BYOK (Bring Your Own Key). Teams choose their AI provider and stay in control of their model usage and costs. This launch is really about getting Slacklane into more teams’ hands, seeing how it fits into their everyday work, and continuing to build around what they actually find useful.

Slacklane

Turn company knowledge into instant answers inside Slack.

Turn company knowledge into instant answers inside Slack.