Add Dash to Slack

Dash lives in your Slack. Adding it takes about a minute and one OAuth approval from a workspace admin. Once Dash is in, you can ask it to do work like any other teammate.

What you need

• A Slack workspace you can install apps into (or an admin who can approve)
• A work email
• One spare minute

Install

1. Go to dashpup.ai/install. Click Add to Slack.
2. Slack will ask you to choose the workspace where Dash should live. Pick the workspace and click Allow.
3. If you are not the workspace admin, Slack will send the request to your admin. Most admins approve in under an hour. While you wait, you can keep reading.
4. Once approved, you land in the Dash dashboard, your workspace is provisioned, and Dash is ready to chat in Slack.

Your first ask

Dash doesn’t post unprompted, so nothing happens until you say hi. Kick things off in a DM:

Hi Dash. What can you do?

Dash will reply with a short summary of what it can help with, including which tools you have already connected and which ones it would like to add.

You can also @mention Dash in any channel where it’s a member. Try:

@Dash what is on my plate today?

If Dash has access to your calendar and a few tools, it will summarize your day. If it does not have access yet, it will tell you which connection it needs to answer the question.

Common questions on day one

My admin has not approved yet. That is normal. Slack admins see Dash as a new app pending approval. You can nudge them with the link https://dashpup.ai/install or share this help article.

Dash is in my workspace but not in my channel. Type /invite @Dash in any channel to add it.

Dash should NOT be in a channel. Type /kick @Dash in that channel. Slack stops sending Dash events for that channel the moment it’s out, so it can’t read or post there again unless it’s re-invited.

What’s next

• Connect your first tool so Dash can pull real data.
• How approvals work so you know what Dash will and will not do on its own.