Justin Kan

Dashworks for Slack - The AI search assistant for work, now in Slack

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Dashworks is the ultimate AI search assistant for your work. Simply add it to a Slack channel, and it will respond to questions with precise, helpful answers from information buried in your wikis, chats, and other work apps.

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Prasad Kawthekar
Hi there PH, excited to be back 👋 Thanks, Justin! Today, we’re excited to introduce Dashworks for Slack. You can try it free for 30 days by signing up in the next 24 hours. Since sharing Dashworks on PH last year, a Slack app has been our top request. Slack is where questions are asked, and information is exchanged, so this was a natural surface for Dashworks, and we wanted to get it right. With advancements in conversational AI, we believe we’ve finally found the ideal user experience to make this happen.

How it works

1. Add Dashworks to Slack 2. Connect data sources from our library of 40+ turnkey integrations like Notion, Confluence, Google Drive, Github, and Jira. 3. Invite Dashworks to a Slack channel. Please take a look at the Use cases section below for suggestions. 4. That’s all there is to it! Dashworks will now monitor the Slack channels for new questions it can answer and proactively respond with relevant information. Dashworks respects document permissions in connected data sources, so you’ll only get responses using documents you can access.

Use cases

Dashworks can answer questions about your product, customers, internal policies, and any other topic it finds in your connected data sources. Here are a few ways you can use it: 👨🏻‍💻 Accelerate developer tasks like fixing bugs by finding answers buried in Slack chats, GitHub PRs, Jira comments, and Confluence pages 👶 Make it easier for new hires to get up to speed by finding answers themselves, reducing managers' workloads. 🛃 Enable customer-facing teams to answer product questions without interrupting product and engineering managers. 🔁 Handle repetitive HR and IT questions about company policies, software, and equipment.

What’s next

Dashworks for Slack is just one step toward our vision of making humanity omniscient. Over the next few months, we’ll collaborate closely with early adopters of Dashworks for Slack (hopefully you!) to make the work assistant more capable Please share any feedback you may have! We’d love to hear from you. 🙌
Will Tebbe
@prasadkawthekar Impressive! Congrats on the launch of Dashworks. I am always a fan of creating more efficiency inside of Slack and I love that the responses can be tailored to your channel specifically. We are actually about to launch our own product, SphereOne, and we would love for you to check it out when it comes out!
Zach Schwager
@prasadkawthekar @ahad_babu1 Thank you for the positive feedback!
Zach Schwager
@prasadkawthekar @shahibur_rahman1 Thank you for the shout out, let me know if I can help you and your team :)
Zach Schwager
@prasadkawthekar @will_tebbe I look forward to checking it out, also let me know if I can support you in any way!
Zach Schwager
@prasadkawthekar @pinki_sarkar Thank you, let me know if there is anything specific I can help with.
Justin Kan
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Dashworks is essential for modern teams. Think ChatGPT tailored to you and your company. Excited to see where they're headed—a personal work assistant deeply integrated with your entire tech stack. PS: their roadmap is 🔥
Zach Schwager
@justinkan You got it. Thank you for the support!
John Smith
Hey mates! Well done on getting Dashworks for Slack on the Product Hunt! I've only got one inquiry. What do you think sets it apart from other similar products?
Prasad Kawthekar
Hey @new_user_126293be17! Our focus is on ease of setup for admins and ease of use for end users. We're doing this in primarily two ways: - Point-and-click integrations with 40+ data sources, with more added every week. - Intelligent search that works out of the box with no additional configuration needed - Accessible within your team's existing workflows. You can access Dashworks on the web, from your browser's new tab or address bar using our browser extensions, and now in Slack
Zach Schwager
@new_user_126293be17 John - Prasad said it well, just let me know if you want to jump on a call and I am also happy to walk you through!
Majdi Rabia
I can already see my team using this for onboarding, thanks ! If I understand correctly, it takes data from all sources (Notion, Trello, Confluence, etc) and fine-tune a LLM for this new dataset ?
Prasad Kawthekar
@majdi_rabia onboarding is a great use case! Let me know how I can support you as you try it out. Yes, that's about right! The only difference is that we don't fine-tune model weights yet, and instead provide relevant content to the generative model in the prompt.
Zach Schwager
@majdi_rabia Awesome - let me know if I can help support you in any way. 50 hours are typically lost on searching for each new hire.
Leo Chen
Congratulations 🎉 Cool assistant , Dashworks will definitely boost my productivity. Can't wait to add it to my Slack workspace.
Prasad Kawthekar
@leo_chen8 great to hear. Let me know if you've any feedback or questions after adding it to your Slack!
Zach Schwager
@leo_chen8 love to hear that, let me know if there is anywhere I can lend a helping hand.
Mehdi Rifai
Congrats on the launch! Great tool 🔥. Curious to know which AI model it is based on?
Prasad Kawthekar
@mehdi_rifai we currently use OpenAI's GPT-3 model.
Zach Schwager
@mehdi_rifai Excited for you to give it a go, please let me know if I can assist.
Zach Schwager
@prasadkawthekar @mehdi_rifai glad to hear it! Nobody here carries a quota, so if you need some help, just reach out, and I will make it a personal priority to make sure you get assistance.
Raj Pandey
The fact that Dashworks can search through wikis, chats, and other work apps is fantastic. It's a one-stop-shop for all my work-related queries.
Prasad Kawthekar
@raj_pandey3 precisely. Did you have some use cases in mind that you'd like Dashworks to solve?
Zach Schwager
@raj_pandey3 @prasadkawthekar you got it! any places you would like to see us go next?
Anil Matcha
Congrats on the launch, great product
Zach Schwager
@matcha_anil Thank you, look forward to seeing your upcoming launch!
Daniel Dinh
Pretty sick launch. The slack integration is such a logical step - the habit to ask in Slack is just so hard to break. Count me in.
Prasad Kawthekar
@beinglong thank you! 🫡 ❤️
Zach Schwager
@beinglong Thanks Daniel!
nuric
Congrats on your Slack extension launch 🚀 I really like how the conversational aspect of the AI has been brought into a conversational context that is Slack. It makes the overall process smoother and easier to access for teams already on Slack. Searching through company intranets and knowledge is something I'm personally involved with through what we do at Semafind and I can relate to the problem Dashworks is trying to solve, especially with the Slack extension 💬 Perhaps you can elaborate a bit more how the AI is involved in the process. Do you use, for example, GPT to generate answers after a search has been done? It would be nice to be transparent about the AI models and pipelines to make sure people are aware of any potential biases and limitations when using your product.
Prasad Kawthekar
@nuric great! I'd be glad to exchange notes. I'm at prasad @ dashworks.ai. Your hunch is spot on, we provide relevant search results as context to the generative model in the prompt to get the final answer.
Zach Schwager
@nuric appreciate the support, and will keep an eye out for your launch!
Ferruccio Balestreri
Congrats on the launch Prasad! Great seeing the progress you're making with Dashworks 🙌
Prasad Kawthekar
Thanks, @frcbls! Huge fan of June. Congrats on the launch!
Zach Schwager
@frcbls Love the support and shout out!
ZHENG Haibo
@prasadkawthekar Congrats on launching Dashworks for Slack! It is helpful for developer tasks like bug fixing, assisting new hires to reduce manager workload and customer-facing teams answering product questions. Good jobs on Dashworks.
Zach Schwager
@prasadkawthekar @oe_zheng thank you for the great feedback, let me know if you need any help getting unlocked across the whole platform?
David Glass
I'm curious what the most common question is that people ask the assistant? Do most questions align on a few topics or is there a long tail distribution?
Zach Schwager
@david_glass It really depends most on the org. New hires tend to have the most questions initially. Anything else I can help with?
David Glass
@zach_schwager I assume logistical questions are pretty common for new hires, but it would be really cool if y'all can find a way for it to answer cultural questions about the company and its best practices
Zach Schwager
@david_glass Hi David, we actually can, as long as that information is somewhere in your org's documentation. Slack is just the newest feature, the platform itself contains a lot of power across all of your documentation. Happy to assist if you would like a hand.
Brijesh Marvaniya
Congratulations guys on your launch 🥳🍾🤘🏻 Good Luck 👍🏻
Prasad Kawthekar
@brijesh_marvaniya thank you! ✨
Zach Schwager
@brijesh_marvaniya Thank you - let me know if I can help?
Redge G.
Imagine a customized version of ChatGPT for your business. I'm looking forward to where they're going - a digital assistant that works across all of your devices.
Zach Schwager
@redge_gumapac Yes, we are designed to empower you! let me know if I can help?
Bill Worsley
I’m probably not the only leader that spends their days answering repeat questions on Slack, not because of anything wrong with my team, but because there hasn’t been any better way to get answers. Dashworks is a game changer for saving time and making my team more efficient.
Prasad Kawthekar
@billdubya certainly, repetitive questions in Slack are the unfortunate reality of remote work. We're trying to fix this. Thanks for checking us out, and please let us know if you've any feedback!
Zach Schwager
@billdubya Bill, you are definitely not alone, just give me a shout if I can help!
Jonathan Long
Great product - saves loads of time and ensures our organization can perform at its best.
Zach Schwager
@jonathan_long Awesome feedback, any place I can add support?
Zach Schwager
@jonathan_long love to hear that - just know I am always on standby!
Tanish Ganeriwal
amazing product to use
Zach Schwager
@tanish_ganeriwal Thank you - let me know if I can assist.
Prasad Kawthekar
@tanish_ganeriwal, glad you had a positive experience. Open to any questions or feedback you may have
Neha Verma
I love how easy it is to add Dashworks to a Slack channel. It's a simple and effective way to access information quickly and efficiently.
Prasad Kawthekar
Thanks, @neha_verma12. Which use cases did you have in mind for Dashworks?
Zach Schwager
@neha_verma12 Great feedback, let me know if you need a helping hand.
Manpreet Singh
The AI technology behind this product is truly impressive. It's amazing how accurately it can find the information I need, even when I'm not sure what I'm looking for.
Zach Schwager
@manpreet_singh29 As a front end user, sometimes it feels like magic to me too. Please let me know if I can assist.
Prasad Kawthekar
Thanks @manpreet_singh29, glad to hear you'd a positive experience.