AI Tools That Work With Slack

Tines

Freemium

Workflow automation platform for security and operations teams

4.5 (1)

Tines is a workflow automation platform used by security and IT teams to build and run processes across sensitive systems without writing code.

Best for: Security, IT and operations teams that need auditable no-code automation across sensitive systems with human approval gates built in.

Linear

Freemium

Fast issue tracking built for software teams

4.5 (1)

Linear is issue tracking and project planning for software teams, built around keyboard-driven speed and a strict, opinionated workflow.

Best for: Product and engineering teams roughly 5-500 people that ship on cycles and want a fast, keyboard-driven tracker with strong GitHub/GitLab integration and light-touch AI triage.

ChatGPT

Freemium

The world's most popular AI assistant

4.5 (1)

OpenAI's AI assistant for writing, research, coding, image generation and voice chat. Free plan; paid Go, Plus and Pro plans add higher limits and newer models.

Best for: Anyone wanting one AI subscription covering writing, research, images, voice and agents — the default first purchase, with a second tool for document-sensitive work.

Claude

Freemium

The most thoughtful AI assistant

4.4 (1)

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on the web, desktop and mobile for writing, analysis, coding and working with documents.

Best for: Knowledge workers, researchers and developers whose work involves long documents, careful prose, or codebases — and who value not having things invented on their behalf.

Modal

Freemium

Run AI workloads serverlessly in Python

4.4 (1)

Modal runs Python code on cloud CPUs and GPUs without managing infrastructure, used for AI inference, training and batch data jobs.

Best for: Python-first ML engineers and small teams with spiky GPU workloads — inference bursts, batch jobs, agent sandboxes — who want GPU economics without GPU operations.

PostHog

Freemium

Product analytics platform with built-in session replay and feature flags

4.4 (1)

PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform that combines event analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing and error tracking in one tool for product and engineering teams.

Best for: Engineering-led product teams that want analytics, session replay, flags and error tracking in one open-source platform and are willing to configure event design and sampling deliberately.

Wiz

From $500/mo

AI cloud security platform for enterprises

4.3 (1)

Cloud security platform providing complete cloud visibility, vulnerability management, and misconfiguration detection with AI.

Best for: Enterprise multi-cloud security and DevSecOps teams that want the strongest graph-based cloud risk visibility available and can commit to enterprise-scale budgets and contracts.

Ramp

Free

AI corporate cards and spend management

4.3 (1)

Corporate card and spend management platform with AI that categorizes expenses, detects overspending, and suggests savings.

Best for: US startups and SMBs that want free corporate cards with real spend controls and are ready to pay for AI that enforces policy and codes the books.

Fathom AI

Freemium

Free AI meeting recorder and note-taker

4.3 (1)

Fathom joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls to record, transcribe and summarise them, and can push the summary into a CRM.

Best for: Individuals who want free, unlimited AI meeting notes, and sales or customer success teams that want call summaries written into their CRM without revenue-intelligence pricing.

Perplexity AI

Freemium

The AI-powered answer engine

4.3 (1)

Perplexity is an AI answer engine that searches the web and returns written answers with citations to the sources it used.

Best for: Researchers and knowledge workers who need current, citable answers to complex questions and are willing to pay for Pro once research is a daily job.

Retool

Freemium

Build internal tools with drag-and-drop

4.3 (1)

Retool is a platform for building internal tools, pairing a drag-and-drop UI builder with code, connections to databases, APIs and LLMs, and cloud or self-hosted deployment.

Best for: Engineering-led teams building internal tools and admin panels on top of real production databases and APIs who want speed without giving up JavaScript escape hatches.

Storylane

Freemium

AI interactive product demo builder

4.3 (1)

Storylane lets go-to-market teams build interactive product demos and demo hubs that prospects click through themselves, alongside conversational AI agents that qualify inbound traffic.

Best for: Mid-market SaaS marketing and sales teams who want prospects clicking through HTML-fidelity product demos instead of watching videos, and can fund the $500/month Growth tier once demos become a pipeline channel.

Metabase

Freemium

Open-source BI with AI query assistance

4.3 (1)

Metabase is open-source business intelligence software with a semantic layer, so questions asked in natural language resolve against defined metrics and the underlying query stays inspectable.

Best for: Small and mid-size teams wanting self-hostable, easy-to-use BI where AI answers are inspectable and governed by their own metric definitions.

Rippling

From $8/mo

Unified HR, IT, and Finance platform for mid-market companies

4.3 (1)

Rippling runs HR, IT and finance off one employee record, covering payroll, benefits, device management, app access and spend, so a single change flows through all three.

Best for: US-heavy mid-market companies (roughly 50–5,000 employees) that want HR, payroll, IT provisioning and spend management to run from one employee record instead of three or four stitched-together vendors.

Fin

From $0.99/mo

AI customer agent from Intercom

4.3 (1)

Fin is Intercom's AI customer agent, resolving support, sales and ecommerce conversations across channels on its own site at fin.ai.

Best for: Support organizations with a decent knowledge base that want to automate first-contact resolution across channels and pay per resolved outcome rather than per seat.

OpenHands

Free

Open-source AI software development agent

4.2 (1)

OpenHands is an open-source AI software-development agent that reads a repository, writes and runs code and iterates on a task the way a developer would.

Best for: Engineering teams that want autonomous coding agents they can host, govern, and swap models or agent implementations behind — without committing to a closed vendor.

Windmill

Freemium

Open-source workflow automation for developers

4.2 (1)

Windmill is an open-source platform that turns scripts in Python, TypeScript, Go and other languages into workflows, internal apps and scheduled jobs. It is aimed at developers who prefer code over drag-and-drop builders.

Best for: Engineering teams who want code-first internal tools, workflows and APIs on infrastructure they control, with no per-execution billing.

Ashby

From $150/mo

Applicant tracking and recruiting platform with AI-powered sourcing

4.2 (1)

Ashby combines applicant tracking, interview scheduling, recruiting CRM and analytics in one system, aimed at teams that want reporting without stitching several tools together.

Best for: Tech companies from startup through mid-market that hire continuously and want sourcing, ATS, scheduling and funnel analytics in one system instead of a stitched-together tool stack.

Chroma

Free

Open-source vector database for AI applications

4.2 (1)

Chroma is a vector database for AI applications. Store and query embeddings efficiently.

Best for: Developers building RAG pipelines, agent memory and semantic search who want the simplest possible start locally and an affordable managed path later.

Orca Security

From $500/mo

Agentless AI cloud security

4.2 (1)

Agentless cloud security platform that uses AI to detect risks, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations without installing agents.

Best for: Cloud security teams at mid-market to enterprise scale that want comprehensive multi-cloud visibility and risk ranking without deploying agents on production workloads.