Slack + Google Sheets
Your sheet holds the list, Slack is where your team hears about it. Watch sites, stock and contract dates, and get pinged about the leads worth calling.
Popular ideas
Connect Slack to ChatGPT or Claude
Get the right message to the right channel at the right time. New leads, failed jobs, changed pages and daily digests show up where your team already talks, without anyone copying them over. Describe what you want to your AI assistant, check what it will do, and it keeps running with your laptop closed.
Try asking
Create a ClickRuntime automation: every weekday at 8am, check these blogs and news sites, summarise anything new in a few bullet points, and post it to #news in Slack.
Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.
Ideas
What you can automate in Slack
Alerts the moment something breaks, digests your team actually reads, and leads that reach sales while they're still warm. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
DailyAI
Get a daily news digest in Slack
Each morning your team gets a short summary of what's new on the sites and blogs you follow.
See how it worksThe moment it happens
Post new orders and sign-ups to Slack
When something happens in your shop, app or form, the details land in the right channel straight away.
See how it worksHourly or daily
Get alerts about security issues that affect you
When a serious vulnerability is published for software you use, your security channel hears about it the same hour.
See how it worksThe moment it happensAI
Get error alerts with a plain-English explanation
When one of your jobs or systems fails, #ops gets the error and a one-line guess at the cause, without the same error twice in an hour.
See how it worksEvery 5 minutes
Know the moment your website goes down
Your team hears in Slack when the site stops responding or slows down, and again when it's back.
See how it worksHourly in market hoursAI
Follow your stocks and crypto in Slack
During market hours you get a short update on the tickers you care about, with a heads-up on big moves.
See how it worksEvery 20–60 minutes
See new job listings as they're posted
Jobs that match your keywords show up in a Slack channel, each one only once.
See how it worksThe moment it happensAI
Send your best leads to sales straight away
Every contact form message is scored, and the promising ones reach #sales while they're still warm.
See how it worksDaily
Hear about new releases of the tools you use
When a library or tool you depend on ships a new version, your dev channel gets the release notes link.
See how it worksWeeklyAI
Get a weekly summary of what your team discussed
Every Friday you get one email with what was decided, who worked on what, and what's still open across your busiest channels.
See how it worksDaily
Post a morning briefing to Slack
Your team starts the day with the weather, a reminder or anything else you'd like in #general.
See how it worksMonthly
Find Slack channels nobody uses anymore
Once a month you get a list of channels that have gone quiet, so you can archive them.
See how it worksEvery 10 minutes
Get told when someone mentions a keyword in Slack
When anyone mentions a customer, a competitor or a word like "outage", you get the message and a link to it.
See how it worksWeekly
Share a weekly report file in Slack
Every week a fresh spreadsheet lands in the channel, ready to open, with nobody having to build it.
See how it worksEvery 30 minutes
Make sure no question goes unanswered
Questions in your help channel that nobody answered after 2 hours get a nudge to the right people.
See how it worksTwice a dayAI
Run your daily standup in Slack
Everyone gets asked for their update in the morning, and the team gets a summary with blockers by lunchtime.
See how it worksWeekly
Back up a Slack channel every week
Each week you get a spreadsheet of everything said in a channel, by email.
See how it worksEvery 5 minutes
Welcome new members when they join a Slack channel
Every 5 minutes, people who joined a Slack channel since the last check get a welcome message in that channel that mentions them and links the pinned guide.
See how it worksOn a schedule
Post the most-reacted Slack messages of the week
Every Friday, the five messages with the most emoji reactions in a Slack channel are posted back to that channel with links.
See how it worksEvery 30 minutes
Get an email when someone joins your Slack workspace
Every 30 minutes, new members of a Slack workspace are emailed to the admin with name, email, title and whether they are a guest.
See how it works Your own logicAny other automation you can describe in words
Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Slack, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.
See how to build your ownBuild your own
Build any Slack automation you can describe
The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Slack should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
For example, ask your assistant
Every morning at 9, read yesterday's messages in #support and post a short summary of open questions nobody answered.
When a new row is added to my Leads sheet in Google Sheets, post the name, company and deal size to #sales in Slack, but only if the deal size is over $5,000.
When an email with an invoice attached arrives in Gmail, save the PDF to my Invoices folder in Google Drive and post the vendor and amount to #finance in Slack.
Works with
Slack with the apps you already use
Keep your team in the loop on what happens in your spreadsheets, inbox, docs and CRM, without anyone posting updates by hand.
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Slack + Gmail
Send the right email and tell your team at the same moment, like a confirmation to a customer while sales hears about the enquiry.
Popular ideas
Slack + Google Drive
Files arrive, people need to know. Finance files invoices into Drive with a note in Slack, and HR sets up a folder and a welcome post for every new hire.
Popular ideas
Slack + Notion
Notion holds the plan, Slack keeps it moving. Teams get their open tasks each morning, deadlines from a database before they slip, and meeting notes filed with a summary posted.
Popular ideas
Slack + Airtable
Airtable runs the process, Slack runs the conversation. Form entries become records with a heads-up, and reminders go out for tasks that are due.
Popular ideas
Slack + HubSpot
Sales hears about what matters without living in the CRM. New high-quality leads, deal changes and call summaries are posted to the right channel.
Popular ideas
Slack works with hundreds of other apps
Name any of them when you ask your assistant, and your automation connects them. Over 248 apps are ready to go, and anything with an API works too.
- Stripe
- GitHub
- Shopify
- Typeform
- Google Calendar
- Telegram
- Jira
- Trello
- Asana
- Linear
- Zendesk
- Intercom
- Discord
- Zoom
- Dropbox
- Calendly
- Mailchimp
- WordPress
Beyond chat
Have Slack work when you're not in the chat
Connecting Slack to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.
Instant
Post new orders and sign-ups to SlackThe moment it happens
On a schedule
Get a daily news digest in SlackDaily
Watches for changes
See new job listings as they're postedEvery 20–60 minutes
Setup
Connect Slack
You connect Slack through your own Slack app, created in your workspace in a few minutes. You choose its name and permissions, and it only posts to and reads the channels you invite it to.
Slack
Team chat
- At api.slack.com/apps, create a new app from scratch in your workspace.
- Under OAuth & Permissions, add the bot scopes the automation needs, such as
chat:write,channels:readandchannels:history. - In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Slack and enter your app's details, then install it to your workspace.
- In each channel the automation should use, type
/invite @your-app-name.
FAQ
Questions about automating Slack
What can ClickRuntime see in my Slack?
Only what your own Slack app can see: the channels you invite it to, with the permissions you gave it. There it can post, read messages and reactions, and upload files. With the users:read scopes it can also look up people by name or email to mention or message them.
Why do I create my own Slack app?
Your workspace stays in control. The app lives in your workspace, you pick its scopes, and you can remove it at any time from Slack. Apps a workspace builds for itself also avoid Slack's stricter rate limits on reading channel history for third-party apps.
Can it read messages, not just post?
Yes, in channels it has been invited to. That's how keyword alerts, weekly channel summaries and standup round-ups work.
How many messages can one automation send?
Up to 50 per run and 2,000 per workspace per day, with up to 40,000 characters per message. That's far more than a team would want to read.
Do I need AI for Slack automations?
No. Alerts, uptime checks and event posts run without it. Summaries, digests and lead scoring use the AI that comes with every ClickRuntime plan, so you don't need your own AI key.
Is this a Slack connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Slack data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Slack while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Slack event.
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