# Slack

> Connect Slack to OpenATS Cloud: link channels for OpenATS to learn from, and get Scout’s items and answers in direct messages.

An admin connects Slack from **Settings → Integrations → Slack** with **Add to Slack**, then turns on the channels OpenATS should read. Scout sends each person their items (drafts, approvals, questions) as direct messages with buttons, and answers questions when you message it or @mention it. It never posts in channels on its own.

*Integrations · Last updated 2026-11-11*

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## Connect Slack

1. An admin opens **Settings → Integrations → Slack** and chooses **Add to Slack**.
2. Approve OpenATS in Slack.
3. Turn on the channels OpenATS should read.
   Each channel has its own switch. A channel that’s on is linked, and OpenATS reads its last 90 days.

Everyone else sees **An admin can connect Slack.** until it’s connected.

## Channels

- **Link a channel to a specific client or role** (or a department, or the whole workspace) so what’s said there is tied to it.
- **Turn on client channels automatically** links new client channels as they appear. It’s off to begin with.
- **Include my private channels** lists your private channels too.
- **Turn all on** links every channel in the list.

What’s said in linked channels feeds what OpenATS learns about how your team hires. Messages from bots are skipped.

## Scout in Slack

Scout matches people by their email address and sends each person their own items as direct messages, with buttons to act on them: drafts to approve, automated emails, questions to confirm, handoffs and alerts. Turn yours on or off with **Send my Scout items to Slack**.

Message the bot, or @mention it, to ask a question: it answers read-only. In a shared conversation it answers only from what everyone in it may see.

> **Note:** A draft that mentions pay or an offer is only approved in OpenATS, never from Slack.

## Disconnect

Turning a channel off deletes what OpenATS kept and learned from it. Disconnecting Slack stops OpenATS reading Slack and deletes everything it learned there.

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Still need help? Write to the OpenATS team at https://openats.ai/support (or support@b150.ai). We reply by email.

Source: https://openats.ai/docs/integrations/slack
OpenATS help center: https://openats.ai/docs