Guru vs Astrix

One of Slack's greatest features is the ability to build and integrate internal and external applications on top of it. With thousands of integrations for Slack available online, employees increasingly connect third-party apps to their organization's Slack account to increase productivity and streamline processes. However, each connection grants powerful access keys to a third-party app vendor that may not be trusted. Once those keys fall into the wrong hands, private conversations could be exposed, and passwords or tokens shared within private channels may be accessed. With Astrix, you can leverage Slack’s third-party connectivity while preventing supply chain attacks. Astrix Security Platform provides you with a host of features that ensure your company’s Slack usage is secure and that your organization's sensitive data remains protected. Holistic visibility: Discover connections of internal and third-party applications to your organization’s Slack account, as soon as they emerge. Real-time threat detection: Get alerts only on risks that expose you to supply chain attacks, data breaches, and compliance violations due to over-privileged, unnecessary, and malicious third-party connections. Rapid remediation: We take the load off the security team by automating remediation workflows, integrating with your daily IT service management tools, and enabling end-users to resolve security issues in the process. Lifecycle management: Monitors every third-party app from the moment it connects to your Slack and adjusts security controls when any significant change occurs to keep your attack surface minimized.

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surfaces accurate answers grounded in verified company knowledge—so teams can move faster without guesswork, pings, or outdated information.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 Using verification rules, usage signals, and transparent decisioning, Guru automatically identifies outdated or unreliable content, flags or hides it, and highlights what can be trusted.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