Guru vs Runlayer

Runlayer lets your team's agents work in Slack easily and securely. Once connected, an agent can read and send messages, follow threads and channel history, search the workspace, work with Canvases, and look up users. Actions use the connecting person's Slack identity and permissions. Runlayer can also provision Slack apps for your agents, giving each its own presence and enabling natural teammate collaboration. Runlayer pairs this access with centralized control. Admins decide what each agent can reach and who can use it. Runtime scanning catches risky tool behavior before it reaches Slack, and agent actions are recorded in Runlayer's audit trail.

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surfaces accurate answers grounded in verified company knowledge—so teams can move faster without guesswork, pings, or outdated information.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 Using verification rules, usage signals, and transparent decisioning, Guru automatically identifies outdated or unreliable content, flags or hides it, and highlights what can be trusted.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