Your AI agent for team chat just got a lot more useful. CoChat now works as a Slack AI bot and Discord AI bot, and can delegate tasks to specialized AI sub-agents — all from the same conversation.
Your AI, Where Your Team Already Talks
Context switching kills momentum. You’re deep in a Slack thread, hit a question that needs research or analysis, and now you’re copy-pasting between tabs. That workflow is broken.
CoChat’s new Slack and Discord bot integration fixes this. Mention CoChat in any channel or DM, and it responds directly — with full access to your automations, connected tools, and conversation history. No tab switching. No copy-pasting. The AI assistant Slack integration (and Discord equivalent) keeps your work in the platform where your team already communicates.
How It Works
- Connect CoChat to your Slack workspace or Discord server from the integrations page.
- Mention @CoChat in any channel or direct message.
- CoChat processes your request using your existing automations and tools, then replies in-thread.
It runs on CoChat’s automation engine under the hood, so anything you’ve already configured — connected data sources, tool integrations, custom prompts — works automatically through the bot.
What You Can Do With It
Run quick analyses mid-discussion instead of scheduling follow-ups
Ask CoChat to pull data, summarize documents, or answer questions — directly in Slack or Discord
Trigger automations from a channel message
Get AI-assisted answers in team threads without anyone leaving the conversation
Task Delegation to Sub-Agents
Delegate Tasks to AI Sub-Agents
The second feature shipping this week: task delegation to specialized AI sub-agents.
When you send CoChat a complex, multi-step prompt, it can now break the work apart and delegate tasks to independent sub-agents — a researcher agent for live web search and current data, or a general agent for writing, analysis, coding, and planning. These agents run in parallel, preserving your main conversation’s context window while executing work independently.
Why This Matters
Single-threaded AI conversations hit a wall with complex requests. You ask for competitive research, a summary, and a draft email — and the model either loses context or produces shallow results across all three.
Sub-agent delegation solves this. Each agent gets a focused task, runs it with full depth, and returns results to your main conversation. You get better output on each piece without sacrificing quality on any of them.
Example Use Cases
- Research + write: “Research the latest pricing trends in our space and draft a blog post about it” — the researcher agent gathers current data, the general agent writes the post using those findings.
- Parallel analysis: “Analyze our GitHub issues from this week and summarize our Slack discussions” — both tasks run simultaneously, results come back together.
- Complex planning: “Look up competitor positioning, then build a feature comparison table” — delegated sequentially, each step feeding the next.
How CoChat Compares to OpenClaw
If you’ve used OpenClaw to connect AI to Slack or Discord, CoChat’s new integration covers similar ground — with key differences.
OpenClaw is an open-source, self-hosted AI gateway. You deploy it yourself, wire up your LLM connections, and manage the infrastructure. It gives you full control and works well if you have the DevOps bandwidth to maintain it.
CoChat takes a different approach. The Slack AI bot and Discord AI bot are fully managed — no self-hosting, no infrastructure to maintain. You connect your workspace and it works. Beyond that, CoChat adds capabilities OpenClaw doesn’t offer out of the box:
- Automation engine: The bot integration runs on CoChat’s automation system, so you can trigger complex workflows from a Slack mention — not just LLM calls.
- AI sub-agent delegation: Break complex tasks into parallel workstreams handled by specialized agents. OpenClaw routes to models; CoChat delegates to purpose-built agents.
- Built-in tool integrations: GitHub, PostHog, Ahrefs, PubMed, and more — connected natively, not through custom middleware.
- Memory and context: CoChat remembers past conversations and user preferences across sessions, so the bot in your Slack channel has real context about your work.
For founders and small teams who want an AI agent in their team chat without managing infrastructure, CoChat is the managed OpenClaw alternative that ships with more out of the box.
Get Started
Both features are live now for all CoChat users.
- Slack / Discord integration: Head to your integrations page to connect your workspace. Setup takes under two minutes.
- Sub-agent delegation: Just use CoChat as you normally would. When your prompt benefits from delegation, CoChat handles the routing automatically.
If you’re not on CoChat yet, start here.
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