Slack
What founders, operators, and investors are saying about Slack, tracked by Signal Headquarters. Every line below is attributed to a named speaker.
Sentry, Datadog, and Slack are the primary alert sources being wired to background agents acting as first responders on production issues, making them key integration targets for agentic workflows.
“The easiest and most common use case I see across everyone is S sur use cases. the idea that whether we have our alerts in Slack or Data Dog or wherever they're going, we want the agent to be the first responder on that.”Cole Murray · 28 May 2026
Product managers are now directly generating pull requests by prompting through Slack, bypassing the traditional issue creation step entirely and shifting who contributes code.
“I'm seeing a lot of teams where the idea of who's actually contributing code is starting to change. And in a lot of cases, the PM, if there's just a quick bug fix, the PM is not creating an issue anymore. The PM is just prompting through Slack and the pull request is then being created.”Cole Murray · 28 May 2026
MangoMint onboards new sales hires by teaching them to mute 55 Slack channels, treating aggressive notification reduction as a core productivity discipline rather than a personal preference.
“I teach them how to mute 55 Slack channels.”Marchelle Mooney · 25 Mar 2026
Marchelle Mooney explains MangoMint's async-first culture as a deliberate default: reps are expected to work intensely when on and to fully disconnect when off, with notifications off being the encouraged norm rather than the exception.
“We work when we work. And if you aren't working, go ahead and set your notifications off.”Marchelle Mooney · 25 Mar 2026
Claude Code used by a product leader at Descript to synthesize Notion and Slack activity into content clip ideas, illustrating an emerging agentic workflow for creators.
“Hey Claude Co-work, look across everything I've done in notion and Slack over the last week and can you come up with like six ideas for clips that I can make about my thoughts on the AI space?”Laura Burkhauser · 6 May 2026
SaaStr now has more daily Slack check-ins with AI agents than with human team members, a concrete signal of agent integration into daily operations.
“We now have more daily check-ins on Slack with agents than humans, which is the future here today.”Jason Lemkin · 15 Apr 2026
Salesforce and Slack are worth watching after new terms of service reportedly bar customers from training AI models on their own Slack data, a significant restriction on enterprise AI workflows.
“They're telling They're saying that you can't train on the data that's in there.”Brad Gerstner · 6 Jun 2025