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Slack is where your team works. Now it’s where your agents work too

Not a pilot. Slack is now a native home for AI agents—Salesforce ships autonomous workflows directly into the platform 300M+ teams rely on daily.

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The KeyNews take

Why it matters

Salesforce is embedding autonomous agents into Slack's core workflow layer, making AI execution native to where teams already collaborate. This shifts agents from experimental tools to production infrastructure for enterprise teams.

The key facts

5 to know
  1. Slack integrating AI agents as native capability

  2. Deployment across 300M+ daily active users

  3. Agents execute workflows directly within Slack (not via external APIs)

  4. Published April 15, 2026 — indicates 2026 product roadmap maturity

  5. Salesforce positioning agents as team productivity layer, not standalone tools

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