Slack users can now ask Slackbot to create an interactive dashboard, poll, report, presentation or small website directly inside a conversation. The new Slackforce Surfaces feature gathers information from chats and connected services, then builds a shareable interface without requiring the user to export data to another tool.
A Surface can be pinned to a channel, where colleagues can view it, interact with it and leave comments. Slack demonstrated the feature with a request for an arcade-themed dashboard showing AI token use across sales, design and engineering. Other suggested uses include tracking a customer-support queue or creating a forecast from data held in connected applications such as Google Drive and Salesforce.
The release expands Slackbot’s recent shift from a message helper into an AI work assistant. It already summarizes channels, finds information and helps schedule meetings. Surfaces adds code and interface generation, but keeps the result within the workspace where the underlying discussion is happening.
Slack says the feature only draws from information that a user has permitted its AI tools to access. Workspace administrators will still need to consider whether those permissions are appropriate for generated, broadly shared views. Slackforce Surfaces is available to all customers, including free plans, when Slackbot is enabled in the workspace.