Canonical page: https://usethem.ai/alternatives/slack-ai/ > Looking for a Slack AI alternative? Evaluate Them AI by turning a supplied conversation into an owned decision, reviewed company memory, and a reusable skill. Slack AI alternative # Keep the decision after the thread moves on. Them AI helps you turn a decision from chat into company memory with sources, an owner, and review status. Bring the relevant notes into a room, review what should be kept, and give the next person a record they can check. [Join the waitlist](https://usethem.ai/alternatives/slack-ai/#next-step) [See Them AI in a workflow](https://usethem.ai/alternatives/slack-ai/#them-workflow) Mac-only for now. Free during the beta (invite-only). Image: A prepared reply and a workflow waiting for human approval in Them AI Why choose Them AI ## A summary catches you up. A decision needs an owner. Choose Them AI when the decisions made in chat need to outlast the thread. Keep each decision with its source, its owner, and a review status, then turn the useful method into a skill that people and connected agents can reuse. [See how rooms, memory, and skills work together](https://usethem.ai/rooms/) Image: People and AI teammates keeping the reasoning from a conversation as company knowledge A workflow in Them AI ## A decision made in a thread becomes a record you can trust. A question gets settled in a busy channel: which onboarding checklist is current and who owns it. Weeks later a new teammate searches, finds three partial threads, and asks again. Knowledge room Shared room You, with your team Which of these onboarding checklists is current? Them AI, with company context Onboarding checklist v3 is current. The knowledge owner maintains it, and it changed in the access-request thread when the old form was retired. The two older copies in the channel predate that change and should not be used. Example source Example onboarding checklist Review with **Knowledge owner** After approval: Current onboarding checklist and its owner Image: Company memory in Them AI with record owners and review status Company memory with record owners and review status. 01 **Bring the thread into a room** Copy the permitted conversation notes into a room with the people who made the call. Add the current checklist and ask for an answer grounded in those sources. This does not require a live chat connection. 02 **Keep an owned decision** Record the current checklist and its owner as a draft memory, citing the thread and the document. Review the record before approving it as company knowledge. 03 **Reuse the method** Write the steps for updating and retiring a checklist as a skill. Once approved, a connected agent can retrieve the skill and the record through MCP when the question comes up again. [Explore a related knowledge workflow](https://usethem.ai/use-cases/knowledge/) Evaluate the fit ## Test the workflow, not just the feature list. Use the same question and source material in each tool you evaluate. Check the answer, the review step, and what a second teammate can reuse. What to check when evaluating Them AI | What matters | Them AI | What to test | | --- | --- | --- | | The record your team keeps | Rooms hold the shared work alongside your chat tools. Company memory gives a decision a source, an owner, and a draft, approved, or rejected status, so the record outlives the thread. | Supply a conversation and two checklist versions. Can the next person find which checklist is current, why it changed, and who can confirm it? | | A method another agent can use | Skills preserve a way of working as reviewed steps. Compatible external agents can retrieve approved skills through MCP and run the work in their own tools. | Use the checklist-review skill on a different process. Does it ask for the current source and owner rather than reusing a previous team's answer? | | Access from other AI tools | An MCP feed with a scoped agent key lets a compatible client retrieve company memory and skills and post into rooms. Client-scoped feeds restrict which approved records the agent can retrieve. | Test with the actual key and MCP client you intend to use. Confirm the permitted records, authentication method, and where the final message will be sent. | Common questions ## Working with Them AI. ### Does Them AI replace Slack? No. Slack stays where the conversation happens. Them AI keeps what a conversation should leave behind: decisions with sources, owners, and review status, and skills that people and connected agents can reuse. A Slack bridge for rooms is planned and not part of the current beta. ### Can my existing AI tools use Them AI knowledge? Compatible external agents can retrieve approved company memory and skills through MCP and post into rooms. The MCP client must support bearer-key authentication. Configure a key and its retrieval scope; the agent continues to run in its own tool. ### How should my team start with Them AI? Join the waitlist with your business email. Choose one recurring question and notes every workspace member may read. Have the owner approve the current answer, then ask a new teammate to find it without the original thread. Check that the old checklist does not appear to be equally current. Before you evaluate ## What to know about the current beta. AI teammates are built and trained in Them AI. They use their assigned room and approved shared company memory by default. Grant access to additional rooms explicitly. Human access is organization-wide, so only add material every workspace member is authorized to read. External agents connect through MCP and run in their own tools. The client must support bearer-key authentication. Client-scoped MCP feeds retrieve that client's approved records plus approved company records, excluding other clients. A workspace-scoped key can also retrieve room conversations, including unapproved content. Native memory version history is not available in the current beta. Keep change notes and previous source versions in your existing document system. The beta is Mac-only, free, and invite-only. [Read the current access boundaries](https://usethem.ai/rooms/#boundaries) ## How to use this guide Written by Them AI. Updated September 14, 2026. This is a guide to evaluating Them AI, not a feature inventory for Slack AI. Use your current requirements to check both products. Slack AI is not affiliated with Them AI, and this page does not establish an integration between them. More evaluation guides: - [Them AI and Dust](https://usethem.ai/alternatives/dust/) - [Them AI and Grok Bot](https://usethem.ai/alternatives/grok-bot/) - [Them AI and Buzz](https://usethem.ai/alternatives/buzz/) Bring one real workflow ## Try it on work your team already does. Choose one recurring question, bring the source material, and name the person who will review the answer. Start there, then decide what is worth repeating. Mac-only for now. Free during the beta (invite-only). Have a workflow in mind? [Plan a pilot with us.](https://usethem.ai/contact/#design-partner)