<aside> 🎯 In this guide, you will learn how to create an assistant that summarizes the communication channels you want, over the timeframe you want. It can also answer questions.

Especially helpful when coming back from vacation 🌴, or on your day-to-day when you just want a brief update on channels without having to go through the details.

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Step 1: Create the assistant

<aside> 📄 Template You can use the @slackScanner or @teamsScanner template to get started.

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<aside> 💡 Pro Tips

• You can use the instructions as they are in the template.
• If you want, you can also make the assistant slightly more relevant by adding some context about who you are and what you are interested in.
• slackScanner is best used for Slack, and teamsScanner is best used for Microsoft Teams. </aside>

Step 2: Let the assistant extract information

In this use case, we’ll want to use the extract data tool.

1/ Select the data sources

Connect the Slack channels that you want recaps from. The assistant will loop through all of it to extract the information it needs.

2/ Add a description, a schema, and a timeframe

This will tell the assistant what information it needs extract while looping through all of the documents in the data sources.

• Add a simple description (e.g. Discussions from existing topics)
• Choose the timeframe by choosing how long you want to scan over (weeks, days, etc.)
• Generate the schema from instructions, it will use those to tell which format to extract the information