Jared launches as proactive Slack employee
Jared is an autonomous AI agent designed to function as a "social employee" within Slack and other team tools. By monitoring conversations and connecting to over 10,000 apps, it proactively manages research, task tracking, and reporting without requiring manual prompts.
Jared shifts AI from a reactive tool to a proactive team member by "reading the room" and self-assigning work based on workspace activity.
- –Autonomous task discovery: Identifies needs like meeting summaries or invoice flagging without being asked.
- –Massive integration surface: Leverages 10,000+ connections to act across Notion, GitHub, and HubSpot.
- –Instant organizational context: Ingests Slack and document history to provide informed answers from day one.
- –Proactive vs. Reactive: Solves the "blank prompt" problem by injecting itself into workflows where it can add value.
- –Positioned as a junior hire: Priced at $100/month to compete with human administrative and research roles.
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64d ago
2026-03-24
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64d ago
2026-03-24
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