Make Slack messages safer and inclusive with Dost.When you add Dost to your Slack channels, Dost will guide you to use inclusive language in your messaging with suggestions and educational material. Every time a user posts a message that contains unconscious bias, microaggressions or non-inclusive language, Dost surfaces the learning moments by offering suggestions to make it more inclusive. Promote inclusive workplace messaging, collaboration and communications across your organization with Dost.Dost Features1. Educate: If you post a message that can be made more inclusive, Dost sends you a personal 1:1 message (nudge) with feedback on the non-inclusive language and educational material to learn more about the issue.2. Suggest: Dost provides you with alternative suggestions you can use to make your messages more inclusive.3. Customize: You can customize Dost’s dictionary, criteria and response messages based on your brand guidelines.4. Inform: Dost sends you a “Digest” which informs you on how you are doing in creating inclusive communications and the trends.5. Learn: You can give feedback to Dost when it doesn't do a great job in identifying non-inclusive messages, so Dost learns and becomes better.6. Celebrate: When a user consistently posts messages that use inclusive language and follow the brand guidelines, Dost celebrates this by sending an occasional applause.

Privacy & Security

Dost means ‘friend’. The purpose of Dost is primarily to guide you to create inclusive communications by friendly 1:1 suggestions. Dost will NOT police your language or your freedom of expression.1. Dost does not access or store any user information and user identification data.2. Dost does not store any of your messages.3. Dost’s responses are visible only to you, no one else, not even the admin. 4. No individual’s data is accessible to the admin.Frequently Asked QuestionsQ1) Is there a free trial?
Once you install Dost on your workspace, you automatically start with Dost’s free plan.
On this plan, you can add Dost to a single channel on your workspace and access all of Dost’s amazing features for free, for life. If you want to use Dost on more channels, please upgrade to the paid plan.Q2) Does Dost store our messages?
No. Dost does not store any of your user information or your messages. Dost processes the message for inclusive language in real-time and discards the message once the analysis is complete.Q3) Does Dost work only on text messages?
Dost works on text and images. We are also adding support for video messages in Q4 2022.Q4) How do we know Dost is working for us?
Dost sends you a Digest which contains data and trends on how you are doing on making your communication inclusive. Aggregated metrics are also shared with the leaders in the organization, so they can track how effective Dost is at an organization level.Q5) Do you have a free version for public communities on Slack?
Please send us an email at info@ishield.ai to discuss continued free access for public communities on Slack.Why Dost?
Companies need to focus on inclusion as the goal, and diversity is the result --thus flipping the focus to actual behaviors (Josh Bersin). Inclusive behavior is reflected in the internal and external communications of an organization and represents their values.
Companies that consciously invest in inclusive communications reap accelerated gains of increase in belonging and brand loyalty (AIMM, Google, Microsoft, Facebook). Whereas, if unchecked, the cost of errors can be severe leading to high rates of attrition.