[Digital Today reporter Yoonseo Lee (이윤서)] Online collaboration platform Slack has presented a way to use ChatGPT integration to compile team chats into weekly reports.

On June 4 (local time), IT outlet TechRadar reported that the feature can be used inside Slack for drafting, generating replies and summarising conversations, as well as writing weekly reports that include project status and next action plans.

The key is to use ChatGPT not as a conversational tool but as a channel-level work-organising tool. If users install the ChatGPT app in a Slack workspace and connect their account, they can call AI directly within the app. But that step alone makes it difficult to summarise an entire conversation thread immediately, and it requires copying the content into a separate ChatGPT chat window.

To create a report based on a channel’s full conversation, users must invite ChatGPT directly into that channel. Users can type '/invite' in the message input box and then add ChatGPT from the app list. Once ChatGPT joins the channel, it can read recent conversations and generate a draft weekly report.

Keeping prompts simple at the start is more effective. For example, users can add conditions to exclude small talk while including information on who is responsible, or specify the report format to standardise the structure of the output. But if users enter complex instructions all at once from the outset, some guidelines may not be reflected or results may be inaccurate.

On Slack Pro and higher plans, the process can be automated as a workflow. After setting scheduled run conditions and adding a step to send a message to a channel, users can set it up to summarise the last 5 days of conversations in a specific channel at 4 p.m. every Friday and send it to the '#weekly-updates' channel.

There are also conditions to check before adopting it. The free plan allows integration with up to 10 third-party apps, but paid plans are needed for actual app deployment and use. Slack paid subscriptions start at $3.26 per user per month on an annual billing basis. ChatGPT also supports Slack integration and automation features only on paid plans, requiring a premium plan that starts at $20 per month.

Users also need to check workspace limitations. Slack allows ChatGPT to be connected to only 1 workspace at a time. To run weekly reports across multiple workspaces, users must disconnect the existing workspace and reconnect it to another workspace.

The integration shows that AI use in Slack is expanding beyond sentence generation and conversation summarisation into support for team operations. As channel conversations can be converted into a weekly reporting system, remote collaboration organisations or teams with many channels can reduce repetitive status reporting work. But with both Slack and ChatGPT requiring paid subscriptions and workspace connections limited to 1, the scope of actual use is expected to vary depending on an organisation’s collaboration methods and automation needs.