Slack offers a set of generative AI tools built right into your workspace or Enterprise organisation so that you and your team can be at your most productive. AI features in Slack use your conversation data to create an intuitive and secure AI experience tailored to you and your organisation.

Feature availability

The AI features available to you in Slack depend on your subscription: 

Feature	Pro	Business+	Enterprise+
Conversation and thread summaries	✓	✓	✓
Huddle notes	✓	✓	✓
AI search		✓	✓
Recaps		✓	✓
Translations		✓	✓
File summaries		✓	✓
Workflow generation		✓	✓
Summarise channels workflow step		✓	✓
Enterprise search			✓

Note: Starting 17th July 2025, customers who did not purchase the Slack AI add-on will have access to conversation and thread summaries and huddle notes. To use other AI features, customers will need the new version of Business+ or the new Enterprise+ subscription. 

Summarise channels and threads

Save time by getting up to speed more quickly across channels, threads and direct messages (DMs). Whether you’re joining a new channel, returning from time off or catching up on a fast-moving discussion, AI can summarise conversations in seconds.

Summarise channels and DMs

In channels and DMs, you can summarise just your unread messages, the last seven days or a custom date range (desktop only).

Summarise threads 

Note: Summaries can take longer to generate for larger time frames or message histories. We’ll notify you when your summary is ready, so feel free to take a break or move on to other work in the meantime.

Search for answers

Ask a question in your own words and get a concise answer based on relevant knowledge already in Slack. Try asking questions that start with 'how' or 'what' or keywords such as a project name to get started.

Tip: If you're on an Enterprise subscription, an Org Owner or Admin can enable enterprise search to include content and information from other sources (like Google Drive, GitHub and more) in search results.

Recap your day

Get caught up after some time away from Slack with a customised summary of your unread channels. With recaps, you can get automated daily summaries for channels that you’re interested in keeping tabs on, but don’t want to interrupt you throughout your workday.

• When you set up your recap for the first time, Slack will recommend a few channels that you visit often, but don’t tend to participate in, that you might want to include in your recap.
• Once you review which channels to include and turn recap on, you can mute those channels to keep your sidebar tidy, or unmute the conversations that you'd like to continue keeping a closer eye on.
• You’ll get a new recap every morning with what you’ve missed from the previous day.

Read your daily recap

Tip: You can also add conversations to your recap by right-clicking them in your sidebar on desktop and selecting Add to recap.

Manage your recap

You can add or remove conversations in your recap anytime and decide which channels should be muted.

Summarise files

When you share certain text-based file types (.pdf, .docx, .pptx and .xlsx) in channels or DMs, Slack will automatically summarise the file. If you don’t see file summaries, reach out to an owner or admin for help as they may have restricted access to the feature.  

• Summaries are only available for files that are accessible to everyone.
• A summary will appear below the file with a   Summarise icon.
• File summaries are provided in the same language as the file, regardless of your language preferences.
• To view a more detailed summary, hover over the file and click   View summary.

Manage your file summaries

You can decide whether to display file summaries. If you turn file summaries off, they won’t be generated for any files you add to Slack, and you won’t see summaries for others’ files.

Translate messages

Use AI to automatically translate messages in Slack written in another language. Get started by setting your translation language, then select a message to translate.

Set your translation language

Translate a message

Once you’ve set a translation language, you can translate messages in Slack. Translations are only visible to you, so other people will always see the original message.