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Stop switching between Slack and your analytics dashboards. Mention the bot in any Slack channel, ask a business question, and get an AI-powered answer from Databox in seconds - without leaving Slack. Who's it for Marketing and growth teams** who want instant data answers during standups Managers** who need quick metric checks without logging into dashboards Anyone using Slack** who wants to query Databox data conversationally How it works @mention the bot in Slack with a business question Slack Trigger captures the message and passes it to the AI Agent AI Agent queries Databox via MCP in real time Answer is posted back to the same Slack channel Requirements Databox account** (free plan works) OpenAI API key (or Anthropic) Slack account with a custom Slack app (setup guide in the sticky notes) How to set up Setup takes around 15 minutes. The main step is creating a custom Slack app: Go to api.slack.com/apps - create an app - add app_mentions:read and chat:write scopes Copy the Bot Token (xoxb-) and Signing Secret - add as a Slack API credential in AlekSystem Click Databox MCP Tool - set Authentication to OAuth2 and authorize Add your OpenAI API key to the Chat Model node Activate - paste the webhook URL into Slack Event Subscriptions Invite the bot to your channel with /invite @BotName
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