Q&A AI Assistant in Slack

In this first lesson, you’ll put together the simplest kind of assistant in Slack—a Q&A bot. The idea is pretty straightforward: whenever someone posts a message in your channel, the assistant grabs it, sends it to AI, and then posts whatever the AI says back into Slack. It’s not fancy, but it’s the starting point for everything else we’ll build.

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Here’s what you’ll set up:

• Trigger: The Slack Message Reader node so your flow wakes up whenever there’s a new message.
• Ask AI: Send that message straight into an AI model with a prompt like “Answer this user’s question.”
• Reply: Use the Slack Message Sender node so the answer shows up back in the channel (ideally in the same thread).
• Publish: Flip the switch so your flow is live and ready to respond automatically.

That’s it—you’ve got yourself a crude Q&A bot. It’s not going to change your business, but it’s the first building block. From here, we’ll make it smarter, so it only speaks when it should and actually uses your own context to give useful answers.