Exploring

Intro Bots for Slack & Teams

We're exploring recurring intro bots for Slack and Teams — Donut-style, but matched by goals rather than at random. If you run a workspace community, tell us.

EventIntro's matching engine powers event and cohort networking today. We're exploring recurring intro bots for Slack and Teams as a next step — if this is your problem, tell us about it below and help shape what we build.

Who this is for

Operators of Slack or Teams communities running (or wanting) intro rounds.
Teams using random-pairing bots and wishing the pairings were smarter.
Anyone who wants Donut-style intros matched by fit, not by coin flip.

Donut proved the format; the pairing is the gap

Random-pairing intro bots showed that people genuinely want recurring introductions inside their Slack or Teams community. Their limit is right there in the name: random. EventIntro already matches people by what they're working on, so the obvious move is a bot that runs the same weekly ritual but pairs members by fit instead of by coin flip — which is what we're exploring here.

Why smarter pairing matters in a channel

A random weekly intro is a pleasant lottery; most pairings go nowhere and members quietly opt out. Matching on goals and offers turns that ritual into introductions people actually follow up on — the same upgrade EventIntro brings to a room, delivered where a distributed community already lives. Building and maintaining the integration itself is the work we haven't committed to yet.

Help decide if we build it

If you run a Slack or Teams community, tell us how you handle intros now — a random bot, a manual thread, nothing at all — and what you wish it did. Demand is what decides whether we build the integration, and early respondents get first access.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a Slack or Teams bot today?

No shipped integration yet — this page gauges whether to build one. Random-pairing bots like Donut prove the format works; the gap we'd fill is matching the pairs by goals and offers instead of at random, using the engine that already does exactly that for events.

How would this beat a random-pairing bot?

Random pairing is pleasant but hit-or-miss. Matching members on what they're working on turns the weekly intro from a nice gesture into a genuinely useful introduction — the same upgrade EventIntro brings to in-person events, delivered in the channel where the community already lives.

What's the ask?

Tell us about your workspace and how you run (or want) intros. Demand here decides whether we build the integration, and early respondents get first access.

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