Guru vs Theta Lake for Slack

Theta Lake seamlessly integrates with Slack to automate everything from comprehensive capture to long-term compliant archiving, eDiscovery, supervision, and risk detection. With more than 65 built-in policy detections, Theta Lake empowers organizations to identify and mitigate data loss, security, acceptable use, and compliance risks in what was shared within any Slack conversation, with the option to create custom detections as well. Existing supervision practices typically only focus on the text within Slack collaboration, which leaves a blind spot when it comes to files, audio recordings, video recordings, or any other rich media shared through this channel. Theta Lake helps organizations take a holistic approach to review, analyzing 100% of shared content to identify potential data loss or compliance risks. Powered by state-of-the-art deep learning and AI, Theta Lake points reviewers to a specific event within a message thread that requires further investigation. Slack conversations and all attachments are reviewable in their native threaded format, including 1:1, group, and team channel instant messages. Each conversation is issued a risk score, all participants are identified (even inactive participants), and any policy detections on the content are flagged for reviewers. Additionally, reviewers can view messages that have been deleted and edited by the participants across any conversation and channel, as well as directly remove content from the conversation within the Slack channels. This includes risky URLs that could pose a security threat or any content that violates acceptable use and conduct policies. Use Theta Lake as your archive of record and securely preserve Slack content within our SOC2 Type 2-certified, SEC 17a-4 compliant archive. Specifically designed for collaboration platform storage, Theta Lake enables legal and compliance teams to perform rich eDiscovery and legal hold case management across messages and content shared. Alternatively, Theta Lake offers a range of integrations with legacy archives to incorporate Slack with existing email retention.

Guru is the AI Source of Truth for Slack—connecting your company’s knowledge and automatically keeping it accurate so people and AI can rely on it with confidence. Guru securely connects Slack conversations with your company’s documents, tools, and systems to deliver cited, permission-aware answers directly in Slack. As questions come up in channels or threads, Guru surfaces accurate answers grounded in verified company knowledge—so teams can move faster without guesswork, pings, or outdated information. What makes Guru different is automated knowledge quality at scale. Knowledge Agents don’t just connect information—they continuously evaluate it. Using verification rules, usage signals, and transparent decisioning, Guru automatically identifies outdated or unreliable content, flags or hides it, and highlights what can be trusted. Every improvement happens once and benefits everyone who relies on that knowledge. Guru also works natively with Slackbot through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Connect Guru's MCP server to Slackbot and your team can search company knowledge, get cited answers, and take Guru actions like creating and updating content, all without leaving the Slackbot experience. The same permission-aware access model applies, so everyone sees only what they're allowed to see. Built for modern AI workflows, Guru provides a governed knowledge layer that powers Slack search, AI assistants, and AI-driven workflows with real-time company context. Answers are always sourced, permission-aware, and kept up to date automatically—giving teams and AI tools confidence in every action they take. Behind the scenes, Guru captures and improves knowledge from across your workspace. Conversations, decisions, and updates in Slack can be transformed into trusted, reusable content and maintained automatically over time—without manual review cycles. Key capabilities include: • Instant, cited answers delivered directly in Slack • Native Slackbot support via MCP for knowledge search, answers, and content actions • Automated verification that identifies outdated or inaccurate knowledge • Permission-aware access that respects your existing security model • AI-assisted capture of knowledge from Slack conversations • A shared, continuously improving source of truth that powers people and AI With Guru, teams bring trusted, continuously improving knowledge into Slack—so people and AI always have accurate context. Disclaimer: This app uses AI to generate responses. AI-generated outputs may occasionally be inaccurate.More ways to use Guru in SlackAutomate with Workflow BuilderWorkflow Builder* lets you transform everyday processes into automations, without writing a single line of code. Add third-party tools like Guru to workflows to manage work and processes from Slack, and use templates to get started quickly. Learn more about automations Templates available for Guru: New Guru cardFill out a form in Slack to create a new Guru card *Workflow Builder is only available on paid subscriptions