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Slack Integration

Connect Slack to ClosedLoop AI and product intelligence surfaces automatically from your team’s channels. Feature requests, bug reports, and customer pain points are extracted from Slack conversations, scored by business impact, and merged with intelligence from all your other sources.

What Gets Imported

DataDescription
Channel messagesMessages from selected public and private channels
Thread repliesFull conversation threads for context
User profilesNames, emails, and roles for speaker attribution
ReactionsEmoji reactions for sentiment context
Slack messages are aggregated before AI analysis to provide conversation-level context rather than analyzing individual messages in isolation.

Connection Method

Slack uses OAuth 2.0 for authentication. ClosedLoop AI installs as a workspace-level app, so you only need to authorize once per Slack workspace.

Setup Guide

  1. In ClosedLoop AI, navigate to Integrations in your dashboard
  2. Find Slack in the integrations list and click Connect
  3. You’ll be redirected to Slack’s authorization page
  4. Select the workspace you want to connect
  5. Review the permissions and click Allow
  6. You’ll be redirected back to ClosedLoop AI — the integration is now active
After connecting, choose which channels ClosedLoop AI should monitor:
  • Customer feedback channels — e.g., #customer-feedback, #feature-requests
  • Support channels — e.g., #support, #bugs
  • Product discussion channels — e.g., #product, #roadmap
ClosedLoop AI only reads messages from channels you explicitly select. It does not monitor all channels or direct messages.

OAuth Scopes

ClosedLoop AI requests the following Slack scopes:
ScopePurpose
channels:readList public channels
channels:historyRead messages in public channels
channels:joinJoin public channels for monitoring
groups:readList private channels the app is added to
groups:historyRead messages in private channels
users:readRead user display names
users:read.emailRead user email addresses for attribution
users.profile:readRead user profile information
team:readRead workspace information
reactions:readRead emoji reactions on messages
bookmarks:readRead channel bookmarks
pins:readRead pinned messages

Configuration

  • Sync frequency — Messages are imported automatically
  • Channel selection — Choose which channels to monitor at any time
  • Historical import — Backfill recent message history from selected channels

What to Expect

Once connected, ClosedLoop AI will:
  1. Import messages from your selected channels
  2. Aggregate conversations — related messages and threads are grouped for context
  3. Analyze with AI — extract feature requests, bug reports, and pain points, each scored by business impact
  4. Surface insights — Slack intelligence appears alongside all your other data sources, feeding into opportunities and MCP queries
New messages are automatically processed shortly after they appear in your selected channels.

Connect Slack

Set up your Slack integration in the ClosedLoop AI dashboard