Slack integration for Founder OS: what it reads and how to connect
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The Slack connector counts how many messages each channel received in the last day and reads who is in the workspace. It never keeps what anyone wrote: messages are counted, and nothing else about them is stored.
Connected tools are part of Founder OS, which is on Pro Plus. Idea validation is on every plan, including Free. See every tool Founder OS reads.
What Founder OS reads from Slack
- Channel names, and how many members each has
- How many messages each channel received in the last 24 hours
- Member names and job titles
What it leaves alone:
- The text of messages: they are counted and nothing else is kept
- Direct messages and group direct messages
- Files, bots and deactivated accounts
How much each sync reads
- The first 10 channels the app is in, and up to 200 messages a channel: a busier channel is counted as at least 200
- Up to 30 members
- The last 24 hours, read again on each sync
A sync runs when you connect, once a day after that, and whenever you press Sync.
Where the records are used
- Ask and the decision log: people in the workspace, and messages across the synced channels in the last 24 hours
How to connect Slack
Press Continue with Slack and approve read access in Slack’s own screen. No key changes hands, and disconnecting later also ends the access in Slack.
Or connect with a key you create:
- Create a Slack app for your workspace.
- Add these bot scopes: channels:read, channels:history and users:read.
- Install the app, then copy the Bot User OAuth Token. It starts with xoxb-.
- Invite the bot to the channels you want it to read.
Invite the app to each channel you want counted. A channel it has not been invited to is not read.
Slack documents this kind of key in its own guide, and you connect your account under Slack’s terms.
Access and security
- Approval in Slack asks for channels:read, channels:history, groups:read, groups:history and users:read. The grant is checked, and one that includes anything beyond reading is refused.
- A key is the bot token of a Slack app you create with the read scopes in the setup steps.
Every request to a connected tool is checked on our server, and anything that is not a read is refused before it leaves. It cannot move money, send a message or change a record. Keys and tokens are encrypted with AES 256 in GCM mode before they are stored, are never shown again, and are kept out of our logs. Disconnecting deletes the key and every record imported from the tool, in one step. For a tool you approved, we also ask the tool to end our access. The security page sets out the rest.
Questions
- Can StartupDeckAI read our Slack messages?
- Slack’s history permission is what lets an app count messages, and it does expose their text to the app. Founder OS counts the messages in the response and stores only the number. The text is never stored.
- Does it read private channels?
- Only the ones you invite the app to. It sees nothing in a channel it has not been invited to, public or private.
- Does it read direct messages?
- No. Only public and private channels are requested.
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