Power up your workday with the Slack Platform

With Slack's AI-ready platform, developers, IT teams and citizen builders can experiment with flexible tools in a trusted environment. Enterprise-grade security and an open API makes it easy to write custom apps and workflows with modular, reusable, elements that can be updated, swapped, and shared.

Customise your how you work with the Slack Platform.

Customisability is at the heart of the Slack platform. Our API, security features, and admin controls flex to fit the unique ways your organisation works, while offering endless custom solutions and experimention options with your favorite tools and a centralised view of your entire tech stack.

Connect, simplify, and assemble automations with Slack API.

Customise your work experience using modular, shareable, and reuseable building blocks.

Slack API helps developers get more out of their code with reusable building blocks, functions, triggers, and workflows. With modular architecture, it’s easy to maintain, reuse, and replace code as business requirements evolve, so you can stay on the cutting edge of your industry.

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Go from idea to deployment faster with tools that simplify the most tedious parts of the process. Design interfaces using stackable UI components, create prototype app interactions, and edit code as you go. With Block Kit, your work just... works, on any device.

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Streamline the development of your work by deploying code directly into Slack without switching between tasks. Hosting code on Slack eliminates team overhead and ensures apps are inherently secure by automatically meeting security and compliance standards already integrated into the platform.

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Enterprise grade security for every industry.

Consider all your compliance and security needs met: The Slack platform comes with enterprise-grade security built in.

Industry-best practices and frameworks lead the way at Slack. Our platform is regularly audited against standards like ISO27001, SOC 2, and more to help you manage threats, keep data safe, and meet your compliance obligations. Additionally, Slack can be configured to maintain compliance with industry specific standards such as HIPAA, FEDRAMP, FINRA 17a-4, and GDPR.

Security is our top priority at Slack, and that starts with ensuring your data is only accessible by the people and devices you trust. With features like single sign-on, domain claiming and support for enterprise mobility management, rest assured that only the right people and approved devices can access your company’s information in Slack.

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By default, Slack encrypts data at rest and data in transit for all of our customers, and we protect that data with tools like Slack Enterprise Key Management, audit logs, and integrations with top data loss prevention providers. Slack also offers governance and risk-management capabilities to meet your organisation’s needs, including (but not limited to) global retention policies, custom terms of service, and support for eDiscovery.

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Admin controls at scale, for every detail of your business.

Centralise your IT team's governance, and gain the confidence of always-on reliability and transparent analytics.

Slack enables you to govern your organisation from a single dashboard. There you will discover centralised admin tools that provide a comprehensive view of your organisation, which allows you to maintain granular control across workspaces, channels, and members.

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Companies around the world trust Slack as their home for collaboration—more than 750,000 of whom use the platform every day for messaging, file sharing, video/voice calls, app integrations and so much more. Using Slack means you get the kind of peace of mind that comes with a 99.99% uptime service level agreement.

Leverage analytics and gain rich insights into how your organisation uses Slack. By learning more about the messages, channels, and users in your organisation, you'll better understand how your company is using Slack—and how they can unlock even more possibilities from our AI powered platform for work.

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Slack Platform FAQ

Slack AI brings generative AI directly into your Slack experience. It’s built on a trusted foundation, meeting the same security and compliance that customers have come to expect from Slack. By grounding Slack AI in your conversational data, you’ll get more value from your collective knowledge, extracting insights vital to your business. Plus, it’s simple and intuitive to use where you’re already working, whether you want to summarise threads, pull highlights from channels or get answers right from your search bar.

The functionality of Slack AI is available in Slack as part of any paid plan. It’s built on the open, extensible nature of Slack’s platform, which allows you to connect apps, systems, and data to create AI-ready workflows and truly customise your productivity platform.

Generative AI is a natural fit for Slack because of its native conversational user experience. Thousands of developers are building generative AI apps in Slack because it’s where the conversations, knowledge and data in your company come together.

Slack is designed to give your internal developers, IT teams, and builders choice and flexibility within a trusted environment. The platform comes with enterprise-grade security built in, to meet your compliance needs and regulatory requirements like FINRA, HIPAA, and FedRAMP.