💡 Use ChatGPT from Slack 💬

Published almost 2 years ago • 1 min read

Important: Hal9 enables startup founders to launch their AI-powered product in 30 days. Hal9’s startup plan includes Hal9 Onboarding (design, development, infrastructure, and maintenance) and our Hal9 Platform (compute, storage, llms) starting at $2K / month. Hal9 Onboarding is capped by hours per month and Hal9 Platform capped by compute seconds per month. Details at hal9.com/plans.

You can now use ChatGPT, or your own custom AI coworker, directly from Slack -- All you have to do is click "Add to Slack" from hal9.com. Here is a quick demo:

In addition, we've open sourced our Hal9 coworker. You can look at the code that powers Hal9 from: github.com/hal9ai/hal9 under the apps/ folder. Hal9 is capable of answering question, generating images, analyzing CSVs and even building simple websites!

Creating AI Coworkers

In Hal9, there are two ways of creating AI coworkers: from our website or from code.

Creating AI coworkers from our website is very straightforward. All you have to do is name, describe and optionally upload data. Once created, you can make it your default Slack experience from hal9.com/settings.

Creating an AI coworker in seconds with Hal9

For advanced AI assistants that connect to services, databases, build websites, create analytics dashboards and the like. You can write code and deploy from your computer or services like GitHub.

Creating advanced AI coworkers form code using hal9.com/docs

Here is an example of a Hal9 AI coworker generating a website from Slack.

Creating websites with Hal9's AI coworker from Slack

If you have any questions, feel free to click reply or schedule time to chat with us from hal9.com!

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