Slack can now vibe-code interactive charts and reports inside chats

Slack is adding a feature called Slackforce Surfaces that lets teams create interactive visualizations and mini-apps directly inside chat. Instead of exporting data to a separate BI or presentation tool, users can tell Slackbot what they need and the assistant will assemble dashboards, polls, reports, presentations or small microsites from relevant conversations and connected services. The AI assistant will draw on messages and files across a workspace and from linked apps such as Google Drive or Salesforce to populate a Surface. Slack demonstrated an arcade-themed dashboard that visualized AI token usage by division — for example, sales, design and engineering — showing how Surfaces can combine context from channels with external data sources. Once generated, a Surface can be shared with teammates and pinned to channels so others can view it, interact with controls, and leave comments. Slack says the tool will only pull data that its AI features have been granted permission to access. The company also made clear that Surfaces are available to all Slack customers — including free workspaces with Slackbot enabled — and that live-data capabilities will roll out in October. The launch follows recent upgrades to Slackbot that made it more of an AI assistant, able to summarize channel content, search messages, and help schedule meetings; Slack also added collaborative “vibe coding” channels last month. Slack’s marketing chief framed Surfaces as a way to keep analysis and action where conversations already happen, so teams don’t have to move data into external tools to build dashboards or reports.