Connect Slack to Exa
When something happens in Slack, Notis takes the next step in Exa. Describe what you want in plain English, or start from one of the examples below.
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Ways Notis can move work from Slack to Exa
Turn market questions into cited briefs
When a team channel raises a market or industry question, ask Exa for a concise answer with sources and share the findings in the automation run report.
Research competitors mentioned in a DM
When a Slack DM mentions a competitor worth checking, use Exa Search to find current public information and return relevant results in the run report.
Explore alternatives customers mention
When a channel message names a product alternative or replacement, have Exa search for public product information and relevant comparisons.
Explain industry changes raised in Slack
When someone flags a regulation, policy, or industry change in a channel, ask Exa for a sourced explanation and key implications to review.
Request a research brief with a reaction
When a teammate reacts to a Slack message with your agreed research emoji, have Exa answer the question or investigate the topic with citations.
Pull useful details from shared links
When a public article or document URL is posted in a channel, have Exa retrieve its text and highlights for a concise review in the run report.
Research vendors raised in team chat
When a Slack channel message proposes a vendor, use Exa Search to find public information that can support a lightweight initial review.
Get context for a decision in a DM
When a Slack DM asks for background on a decision topic, ask Exa to return a concise sourced answer that can inform the next conversation.
Map a new channel's topic landscape
When a Slack channel is created, have Exa search for a small set of foundational public sources about its stated topic for the team to review.
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Slack to Exa. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Slack triggers
Exa actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Generate an answer
Generates a direct, citation-backed answer to a clear natural language question or topic using exa's search, adept at both specific answers and detailed summaries for open-ended queries.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create Import
Tool to create a new import to upload data into a webset. use when you need to initialize an import before uploading the data file.
New Channel Created Trigger
Triggered when a new channel is created in Slack.
Create a Monitor
Tool to create a new monitor. use when you need to schedule automated updates for a webset without manual runs.
Channel Message Received
Triggered when a message is posted in a Slack channel (public, private, or multi-party IM). Does NOT match direct messages.
Create Webset
Tool to create a new webset with search, import, and enrichment setup. use when you need to configure and seed a webset in one call.
Direct Message Received
Triggered when a new direct message (DM) is sent to a user in Slack. Catches all DMs across all DM channels.
Delete import
Tool to delete an existing import. use when you need to permanently remove an import by its id.
Message Reaction Added
Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.
Delete webset
Tool to delete a webset. use after confirming the webset id to permanently remove the webset and all its items.
Message Reaction Removed
Triggered when a reaction is removed from a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.
Find similar
Finds web pages semantically similar to a given url using embeddings-based search, optionally retrieving full text, highlights, or summaries for results.
Reaction Added Trigger
DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_MESSAGE_REACTION_ADDED` instead. Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack.
Get contents from URLs or document IDs
Retrieves configurable text and highlights from a list of exa document ids or publicly accessible urls.
Four ways to start an automation.
A trigger is the event that kicks a workflow off. Notis supports four kinds: an event in a connected app, an inbound webhook, a recurring schedule, and soon, your own database.
Integration triggers
Fire when something happens inside a connected app. New Notion page, Stripe charge, Linear issue: any of 1,000+ apps can start a workflow.
Webhook triggers
A unique URL per workflow. Anything that can send an HTTP POST can start an automation, including no-code tools that speak webhooks.
Recurring triggers
Cron-style schedules run a workflow on the clock. Daily standups, hourly syncs, business-hours-only digests: the workhorse of Notis.
Database triggers
Watch a row, query, or threshold in your own database and fire the moment the data changes. Row inserted, value crosses a limit, query starts matching.
Classic automation breaks. AI adapts.
Same triggers and actions, smarter middle. AI handles the fuzziness that breaks traditional Zapier-style workflows the moment a field gets renamed.
Describe it. Notis builds it.
Skip the visual builder. Tell Notis what you want, in plain English. It writes the workflow, you review and deploy.
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NEW“When a row gets added to the Q4 OKRs Notion database and the status is Blocked, send a Telegram message to the owner with a summary of what's blocking, and ping me if there's no reply within 24 hours.”
Notis built this automation:
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- Full run history with inputs, outputs and traces
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Whatever starts the workflow, the platform underneath is the same: a thinking brain, full visibility, and you in control.
AI in the middle
Every step can include an LLM call: summarise, classify, extract, rewrite.
Full observability
Every run, every step, every input, all replay-able from Mission Control.
Human in the loop
Pause for approval. Notis pings you in chat with one-tap approve.
Self-healing
When an API changes shape, Notis adapts the parser. Less midnight fire-fighting.
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