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Somi AI — Get instant answers to all your questions on Slack
Somi seeks to answer all of your workplace questions. Try asking it to summarize an entire slack channel or answer a specific question! Somi will answer as accurately as it can based on the contents in the slack channel.
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@paola_german That's a great question! Somi only has access to the channels that you add it to and cannot access messages it is not supposed to. Additionally, it does not store any messages and all messages are queried again whenever a Somi command is run. Additionally, Somi uses ephemeral messages which are only available to the user who runs the command. Let us know if you have any other suggestions!
UPDATE 🚀: We've received feedback about difficulties using Somi, To use Somi bot, you’ll first need to invite it into the channel. You can simply mention @Somi and click on invite to channel!
🙌🏼 Hello Product Hunt community!
I'm excited to announce the launch of Ask Somi, an artificial intelligence Slack bot that answers any workplace questions you have.
💡 We want to change how people extract information in organizations. As knowledge workers, we process increasing amounts of information as our organizations grow, but we have not changed the techniques we use to gather information. We think that AI can improve this process. We're building an AI tool as our first project that integrates into workspaces.
Somi will land first on Slack and comes with 2 commands:
🪄`/digest` command gives you a summary of all the conversations or a summary on a specific topic within a time window in a slack channel.
🙋🏻♀️`/asksomi` command allows you to ask any question, and Somi will answer as accurately as it can based on contents in the slack channel.
⏩ In the future, we want to expand to other workspaces (Confluence, Microsoft Teams, etc.).
🚀 I hope you find our product helpful and would love to hear your feedback!
Thank you for checking out Ask Somi 🙌🏼
P.S. Somi is free to install and no credit card is required. Since we're still in beta, we will be limiting installs to the first 50 users.
@hubert_chan1 We're so excited to share this product with everyone! Our philosophy is that AI will be commonplace soon, and we want to apply this technology in a useful context.
Getting our first batch of users and feedback are critical to helping us understand the problems face so we can reiterate and improve on our product. Any feedback will be greatly welcomed!
@andrei_nedelcu hey Andrei! We chatted during the launch of (https://theresanaiforthat.com/?r...), as mentioned, here is the product! Hope you get to test it!
Hello everybody just wanted to give the team a quick shoutout and say thank you very much! Today, our Slack bot, Somi AI, was featured in the Product Hunt Daily newsletter (https://www.producthunt.com/news...). We're in good company—they even compared us to other Slack bots!
@richard_gao2 we absolutely do! Thank you for your support Richard! hope you got to test out Somi AI
@daniel_seetoh Thank you for the comments! We're happy to hear that you saw the value of Somi in time-sensitive situations. It's an intriguing use case that we have seen before and would love to try out, maybe work something out like a live feed feature to give people who have just joined the channel quick status updates. What do you think? @zenghoulim
💡 Bright idea
Very interesting! Sounds like some ChatGPT-esque mechanics at work here. I can see this being used in incident channels where people being added in at a later stage have to catch up on 100-message threads quickly. Am curious about how the output will look when summarizing threads vs a bunch of individual pings.
@charliethang Thanks Charlie! You're right -- we're using Instruct GPT (a sibling version of Chat GPT3). Yeah, that's a great point! It's on our roadmap to summarize only threads since we know lengthy discussions happen in there!
I spend soooo much time digging through messages trying to figure out what decisions were made, who made them, and when they were made. Somi sounds awesome for this - can’t wait for it to be expanded across other platforms!
Loving this so far! I'm excited to see use cases for feeding conversation summaries into documentation (e.g., Slack → Somi → Notion) at some point. Some other feedback:
- My company tends to hash things out in threads. It would be helpful to have Somi's functions work in a thread, especially /digest
- Choosing the digest's level of detail – I noticed in many cases that the summary was too high-level. It helps me decide whether or not I should read the thread, but it would also be cool to have a digest that, for instance, walks me through the discussion and how a decision might have been made.
- Is there a way to have Somi repost the results publicly? Something to cut out the added step of copying the results + pasting to Slack for others to see
@osmind_dan Thank you very much for your feedback Dan! Yes, I love the idea about feeding conversation summaries into documentation, or the 'e2e' process of idea to reality.
- (Somi in threads) That makes a lot of sense as well, @zenghoulim we'll probably be able to figure this one out pretty soon!
- (High-level digests) I agree, digest is pretty much a high-level summarization based on the time range defined. Have you tried /asksomi, that could be a good way to find out more about a specific discussion within a channel!
- (Public results) Another helpful feedback! Definitely will be added to the roadmap! We were debating about this when building Somi! Thank you for the product idea!
This looks amazing. Congrats on the launch 👍. Looks useful. Will give it a try soon.
"Congratulations on the launch of Somi AI! Here's to transforming workplace conversations!"
@usamaejaz thank you very much! We're excited to have introduced Somi AI and are aware of how it could change how people communicate at work. But we still have a long way to go! We have our sights set on expanding the integration to new platforms and add new features!
Can the product also analyze images/videos on the channels/groups or text only so far?
@umurcan_yilmaz1 Great question! It's only text today but multi-modality is something we are thinking of in the horizon!
I was just recently complaining about the search function in slack and Microsoft teams when you need to find an old message. This is a great idea!
Wow! This is going to be game changing for me. I feel like this is going to save me so much time when I need to get caught up on what is going on in a discussion. Congratulations on the launch! Can’t wait to try it out🙌
Congrats to the team for the launch of Somi! I can definitely see how Somi can be a valuable addition to improve workplace productivity and efficiency in communication. My team and I use slack extensively and it can be rather challenging to constantly keep up with discussions and conversations across multiple channels. Great features for a launch, excited to see what the team builds on next for Somi!
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