Claude in Slack is retiring August 3. Here's a soft landing.

The Bob team · July 17, 2026

On August 3, 2026, Anthropic retires the original Claude in Slack app. That's not a rumor and it's not a knock — products evolve, and Anthropic has newer ways to use Claude. But if your team relied on that app, you're choosing what's next in the next couple of weeks.

What teams actually loved about it

Here's what we think made it stick — and it was never the specific app. It was that help lived where the work already happens. No new tab, no dashboard, no "let me export this and paste it somewhere." You asked in the channel; the answer landed in the channel.

That idea is right. It deserves to go further.

What further looks like

Further looks like this: you don't ask a question and get an answer — you hand over the task and get it done. The pipeline digest was already in the channel when you woke up. The deck exists and it's in the thread. A ticket closed at 2am and the right people already know. You @mention once; the work comes back finished, with a receipt showing exactly what it cost and what it touched.

What Bob is

Bob is an AI employee for Slack. He works like a capable colleague:

• Schedules himself in plain language. "Every weekday at 7:30" is the whole setup — no cron, no dashboard.
• Stays quiet when there's nothing worth saying. A scheduled check that finds nothing posts nothing.
• Reacts to events from your other systems. A ticket closes, a deal moves, a form comes in — Bob can pick it up and act.
• Asks before touching anything that matters. Sensitive actions pause for an Approve/Deny button in the thread.
• Itemizes every task. Each run ends with a receipt: what it cost, how long it took, what it touched.

And if he gets it wrong, you don't pay

Hiring anyone — human or AI — is a risk. So we removed it: if Bob gets a task wrong, the redo is on us. You never pay for a mistake. And there's no seat minimum — no five-person floor to justify to anyone. You pay for work done.

An honest note on fit

If what you want is a chat assistant bundled into your existing plan, Anthropic's newer offerings may be the right home — we've written an honest comparison if you're weighing that path. If what you want is an employee — one who finishes the job and shows you the bill — that's what Bob was built to be.

Add Bob to Slack. He's working in about 90 seconds.